Thunderdrum & Jesters Folly

The miniature thunderdrum/thunder drum is just under an inch high. Its real life counterpart is 14" in the photo where the two are pictured together. The little one is made with a bead, opaque plastic & jewellery wire all wrapped up to create a coil & not as simple as it sounds! I was inspired to make this after meeting Jesters Folly (ha! Link <-- ) two highly entertaining, utterly bonkers showmen at the Lightwater Valley Christmas Fayre 2013. They had unusual musical instruments & various bits & did juggling. They played the didgeridoo for me & other instruments. Mental guys in a truly brilliant way!

Close Up of the Treasure Pile

The Goblin has been busy hoarding & gathering his treasures. Close ups of the treasure pile, the area of missing treasure is because once in place in the scene it butts up against the treasure chest :-)

The Huge Treasure pile & the Guardian Dragon

Two full shots of the Dragon on the huge pile of treasure :-D The treasure is made of the various bits I'd posted about previously, the Crowns, swords, shield, jewelled plates, chalices, goblets, gold fimo coins & gold & Silver coins from the haberdashery department at Boyes which were on braiding. Will do a separate post with closer detail of the treasure pile. Really happy with how it's all worked out :-)

Crowning the Dragon

On the top of the Huge pile of stashed goblin treasure is the dragon. Considering himself superior to his goblin owner he is wearing a small Elfin crown on his head :-)

The dragon was originally a red childs Papo toy & he got a makeover from me, as did his jewelled crown which was dull brass & is now glitter gold :-)

Hob, the Goblin made by miniaturo-mango

Introducing the Goblin for the Goblin Treasure House whose home is so near completion. I am seriously not talented enough to do figures, some of my elfin critters come out more like transvestites on a bad hair day...... This little guy, Hob is made by the exceptionally talented miniaturo-mango on eBay. All I've done is to add a bunch of keys to his belt, the rest is original. I've stone painted his stand & added gold & silver coins to the base :-) His home is almost finished :-)

Treasure Chest

Part of the Goblin Treasure House scene is the Treasure chest which is packed with valuable gems & jewellery :-)
The chest was bare wood then stained. The gold studs were dots of PVA glue then gold paint carefully placed over the top. The hanging lantern over the end is a broken silver ring of mine with a  'ruby'  added to the centre :-) Quite damn chuffed with the treasure chest :-)

And then there was light....

Quite damn chuffed with how the lighting suddenly worked out in the Goblin Treasure House. The lights are a 2m metal wired micro rice bulb system (actually submersible!) which has 20 lights spread out & the Goblin Treasure House scene is in a lantern with glass panels on each side, & the glass is secured like that of a picture frame, small folding pieces of metal. Suddenly in designing the hidey hole for the battery box I got hit with a Different idea to that which I'd worked on all along. Instead of immediately running the wire up the side to the roof & having the lights shine down, I have run the wire Around the bottom of lantern using those metal pieces to tuck the cable behind! Then run it up the side & around the Top of the glass panels using the metal clips again. From there it then coils twice around 3 hooks hanging from the ceiling & this sudden idea out of the blue has meant that the scene will be lit from the bottom, from above, then right down on. I'm still gobsmacked at how the 'urk' of the last 2 weeks suddenly became a 'fuck me I'm a genuis' big grin result :-D