Bones 4 Mossbeard; Out for a Stroll

[Disciple of Sakura]

I finally reached the point where I think I'm done with Mossbeard, the enormous ent from Bones 4. I wanted to go to town on his base, and almost immediately after recieving my package, went out to Michael's and bought some dollhouse/fairy garden deer, frogs, and mushrooms. I also ordered the Bones familiar pack #1 (77176) and some Tiny Terrain trees from Miniature Market. And then, I just didn't do anything with him for over a year. Finally decided to get him done. While assembling him, I decided to make use of his empty chest cavity to install a tea light so his eyes could glow, so I drilled right through his eyes and neck, and filled in the eyes with clear gel medium so the light would come through when illuminated. Used lots of grass tufts, lichen, and cuttings from am IKEA fake plant, and put some fairies I've had for over a decade into the base, too. I also modified the head so he was looking more directly forward, since he was largely looking down in the original. Hope you like him! 

 

 

Close Ups & Details of Base

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Deer at the creek

Fox, fairy, tree stump, mushrooms

Fox closeup

Fairy in flight

Bird flying off Mossbeard's head

Fairy Dragon on the enchanted stump.

Frogs on the river bank and Mossbeard's toe (3 in total)

Deer and second fairy

 

Head Details and Glowing Eyes

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Eyes lit up:

 

WIP photos

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Drilled out base figure (I used a power drill for a lot of it)

Tea Light installed

Forest critters painted up before attaching

Before decorative basing and lichen

Edited March 4, 2020 by Disciple of Sakura

[Glitterwolf]

Very creative!

I love all these little extras you put in!

 

 

[Darcstaar]

Congrats on finishing such a large model! Excellent conversions/additions.

[Kuroneko]

On wow! So much to love here! He looks amazing!

 

 

[Iridil]

So much wonderful detail! Outstanding base - inspirational!

[BananeDC]

Great one, good job on the base. Congrats !

[Disciple of Sakura]

3 hours ago, BananeDC said:

Great one, good job on the base. Congrats !

 

22 hours ago, Iridil said:

So much wonderful detail! Outstanding base - inspirational!

 

On 3/4/2020 at 5:22 PM, Kuroneko said:

On wow! So much to love here! He looks amazing!

 

On 3/4/2020 at 4:52 PM, Darcstaar said:

Congrats on finishing such a large model! Excellent conversions/additions.

Thanks very much. Truth be told, I originally planned on getting some railroad model trees and incorporating them onto his back, but after deciding to install the light, I have to be able to open up his torso, and I figured the manhandling would break the trees too often. I'm glad everyone likes the base so much. Hopefully the vegetation helps hide how cheap the deer look. 

On 3/4/2020 at 2:21 PM, Glitterwolf said:

Very creative!

I love all these little extras you put in!

 

 

Is that... Is that Putin?

[Limey72]

Yup this is excellent .

[Standifer]

The base is looks great and The eyes are a really cool touch! Great job!