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[dreamflower]

Thanks to coneygoil I finally am able to post some pics of my recent projects.

 

 

Here is polymer!Frodo, from several views.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is my model of Bag End.  I used $40.00 worth of styrofoam, resin eggs, polymer clay, grapevine wire, floral picks and the odds and ends off broken silk flowers, 4 bags of reindeer moss, a bag of polished pebbles, and a bag of fake dirt sold for model RR sets, and 140 hot glue sticks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The back is still a bit unfinished, but I don't want to completly cover it, as I would lose the kitchen window that way.  The veggies in the garden, the front and back steps, the well and the bird bath (and robin) and the mushrooms are all poly clay.  The windows and doors are painted with acrylics.

 

 

So now *I* have spammed with pics!

Comments

[coneygoil.livejournal.com]

I sure hope that looks all right, Barbara! I left the purse and shoes off b/c the purse pics were too small and the shoes pics were way blurry. You wouldn't have been able to tell much of 'em. Sorry I couldn't get those up :(

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

These are so cool! I could never make anything like that.

[dreamflower]

's okay! I'm glad to get these up! Finally! I'll try to do some different purse and shoes pics later. I've got to work this weekend. And I *really* have to get the dress finished before the wedding. That's why I've not posted v. much fic this week. I wrote some at work today on post it notes, LOL! But not sure how soon it will be up.

I can't say how ever so grateful I am to get these pics up! Thank you so much dear!
((((hugs))))

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

Bag End is splendid! All of the little flowers and trees remind me of my grandfather's model railroad. He did all of the landscaping for it and your Bag End made me think of it. It looks so lovely. Makes me want to move in. The Frodo is wonderful too. The eyes are great.

[periantari.livejournal.com]

wow *very* nice~! so cool you have the time to do this. =)
thanks for sharing :)

Frodo is very cute. :) :)

[lily-the-hobbit.livejournal.com]

Wow... that looks amazing!!!

[dreamflower]

Sure you could, if you really wanted to try. You just have to learn a few techniques.

[dreamflower]

I looked at some model RR stuff while I was working on this, but the only things I ended coming away with were the fake dirt and the bucket in the well. I might have used some trees and bushes, but I had already made the trees and I had plenty of "dead flowers" (read "broken silk flowers", LOL!) and greenery picks for the leaves and bushes.

I'm glad you like Frodo. I was very pleased with his hair, feet and eyes. I had trouble with his hands, but luckily they are hidden by the book.

[dreamflower]

Well, I started Bag End when my computer was down. I had to do *something* hobbity! It took a good while.

Luckily I *make* time for polymer clay--what with teaching classes on it, I have to keep in practice myself.

[dreamflower]

Thank you very much! I had loads of fun putting it together.

[slightlytookish]

Wow! I saw polymer Frodo the last time you posted pictures of him, but Bag End is just gorgeous! The tree and the flowers and the fence, and the little door! Everything is so detailed and beautiful. And a wishing well too! Wow. Can I go live there? :D

[dreamflower]

Well, sure--if you're about an inch tall! *grin*

I'd been saving up "dead flowers" as we call broken florals at the store, for a long time, and I picked up a ton of greenery picks at 90% off after Christmas a couple of years ago, so I was pretty set for the trees and flowers. The trees were not difficult to make, but they were *hard* to make, in that they took a lot of physical strength to twist the wire. I had to use two pairs of pliers.

I had fun making the little well. The little bucket actually cranks up and down!

[gamgeefest.livejournal.com]

I love Bag End! And polymer Frodo is so cute! Why can't the Shire be a real place? Why can't we be hobbits? *sigh*

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Oh, WOW! That Bag End of yours is just amazing! I wish I could do things like that.

*stares in awe*

And yay for your first picspam! ;)

[azur-infinie.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are wonderful! I'm so impressed, and I love all the little details! How long did they take you to make them?

Thank you for sharing these pics! I'm a great fan of picspam :)

[dreamflower]

Thank you. *blushes*

It was fun, though a lot of work.

[dreamflower]

You mean it isn't and we aren't? *grin*

I'm glad you like Bag End. I'm rather fond of it myself...

[dreamflower]

Polymer!Frodo took about two days, since he had to bake in stages; and then when his hands broke off, I had to redo those, so add on another couple of hours to that on another day.

Bag End took me a little over a month. But I've been gathering the stuff and planning it in my head for a couple of years. The hardest part was covering the little resin egg houses with the styrofoam. The second hardest part was hot-gluing all the pebbles that line the road, the paths and the edges of the flower beds. The trees were not that difficult--making the trunks took only about 20 minutes apiece, but the hard part on that was taking apart the little greenery picks and applying the leaves. Some of them are wired on and some are hot glued. I had loads of fun planning out the flowers and plants. The daisies on top of the hill were some of the few flowers I bought (the rest were scavenged from the store's floor.) I had to re-make the bird bath, as the first one was (A) too large and (B) fell apart. I wish it had been bigger--it is of course just a small part of the actual smial. I plan to hang a mirror behind it, to give the illusion that it is larger.

[obeliamedusa.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeeeeee!!! *stares* Those are so nice!! I love polymer Frodo, and exterior Bag End. Is that on a particular scale?! My Bag End is dollhouse scale, which I suspect is bigger than yours, but... what kind of styrofoam is that and where did you get it? :P I am starting to think about how I can build a hill around my Bag End.

[dreamflower]

I didn't really make it to any particular scale; I think that some of the details, such as the well and the vegetable garden and the roses are a bit large for the rest.

I got the styrofoam at Michael's of course, which is where employee discounts come in handy, LOL. If you look a the back, you can see that the bottom base styrofoam is a different kind than what I used on the "hill". The bottom styrofoam was expensive, a large block of the rather hard kind, which was good and sturdy for the base. The upper styrofoam is the sort usually sold for floral arrangements called "dry foam"; it has a denser texture and is very easy to carve and cut with nothing more than a kitchen knife; it's also a lot less expensive, but only comes in blocks of about 3x3x6. However, you can buy it in bulk packages of about 8 blocks for around 2 bucks, and as I said, it is easy to cut.

If you look closely, you can see the little doors, roofs and chimneys sticking out on two sides where the windows are painted. Those were the little resin "easter egg houses" that I covered first with the styrofoam and then with the reindeer moss. I carved out the "dry foam" to fit around them, hot glued it in place, and then covered the whole structure with the moss. The moss is very forgiving and covers easily all the little cracks and crevices and softens the corners. So if you want to build a hill around your Bag End, that would probably work for you as well. I can also tell you how to do the trees, if you are interested.