Monday 18 March 2024

New Hobbit Holes 15

 


A much more reasonable wall. 
It's one thickness of foam board coated with filler/glue.
The gate is hinged on garden wire,
thinner this time.


The wall is now capped with thin card.
I think I'm overdoing the aging wood idea.
A lime green gate to match the door would be better.
The garden is yet to be done.

Wednesday 13 March 2024

New Hobbit Holes 14

 


So, here's the completed Bee keeper's Hole.
Happy with the skeps, ladder, fence etc
but less so with the rows of Heather.


The next one has a wall in place of a fence.


Rather too big, don't you think.
Hobbits can't even see over it!

Start again!









Monday 4 March 2024

New Hobbit Holes 13

Delays caused by lots of little fiddly bits (chimneys, pottery, bee skeps, a fence and a gate, tables and benches, and a couple of doorsteps which appear in the next post. Much trial and error, mostly error.


Three different tube sizes for dormer windows.
Kitchen foil and grease proof paper ones seem about right.


One of the new holes is to house a seller of honey,
hence the bee skeps. 
They are made from thin silky thread
bound round a Greenstuff former.
Then a coat of Balor Brown washed with Agrax.
The other was to be a potter though not a very good one.
Then I realised he'd need a kiln
so the other hole will belong to someone else.


The bee skeps are now on small balsa benches
and two other benches are ready for the pots.
The fence is balsa though I'd prefer something more substantial.


It took me three goes to come up with a set of steps that I liked.
Coffee stirrers!


Top soil has been delivered.


For both.
The gate is an improvement. 
A substantial post allows for a garden wire 'hinge'.
The chimneys look OK with pots made of ball point pens.
The pots are perhaps a little large though.
I'm also not sure about the rows of clover.