FutureForge online Hobbit Hole C (I think)

Camera problems again so this is a bit of a jump

and some pics have been lost.

We've also been off line for about ten days

due to a collision between a car and the internet box

on the Fosse Way (A429) just outside the village.

Or, as Bilbo might have put it,

"Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!"

I'm stuck till some new windows arrive

from the excellent folks at FutureForge online.

Sawing the tubes at different angles

has always been tricky.

The penny has just dropped

that I should carve the hills at 45degrees

and cut the window tubes all the same.

 

FutureForge online Hobbit Hole B (3)

 

I'm none too happy with the loaves on the table

as some are huge.

The Greenstuff efforts on the left are an attempt

to have them about the same size.

As you can see from the 'pots' on the right,

the Hobbit potter is even worse than the Hobbit baker.

I tried for a 'park bench' for the front of the house

made from skewers.

I'll try again using cocktail sticks

making it altogether smaller.

Now the loaves are roughly equal

and the 'scrap' ones have ended up in a bottle cap 'bin'.

I've finally settled on the third 'roof' by the door.

I changed the supports too

as I thought there would be no reason for using those huge logs.

FutureForge online Hobbit Hole B (2)

 

I've been unhappy with the heavy wooden roof

simply to cover the goods leaving the back door.

I figured I could make a frame and use material to cover it.

Here's the frame to stretch a scrap of tights over it.

Still not too happy but perhaps I'll stop there.