Sunday 7 July 2013

Snail Shell house

Long Long ago, giant snails roamed the world. Being slow  they were generally not considered a threat and therefore tolerated. Sometimes a snail of great Age (and size) would pass away. moving slowly  to the great cabbage patch in the sky and some enterprising individual would find the remaining Shell and move in.
A bit of work was necessary to carefully remove the central spiral "walls" but after this was done a cosy waterproof abode could be constructed.




1/87 bod from Prieser, the cat from an Outcast-Figures set (available at the Croeburn 1813 shop)





29 comments:

  1. Great work , and nice pics , lovely .
    Cheers .

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  2. Helix the hermit! Great vignette, Mr. Bods!!

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  3. This is really very good, top marks

    Ian

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  4. Wonder Paul. Perhaps the snail is it's true size by the human is "wee."

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  5. I'm totally fan of this vignette, congratulations !
    Regards,
    J-B

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  6. Inspired, lovely and creative work...congrats too!

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  7. Very good, lovely, congrats from me too!!

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  8. Whoa Paul, I love this! It's fantasy in its purest form. Creative, clever,brilliant!

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  9. yes totally agree with the others comments, too lovely!

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  10. incredible! what a good use of Giant snail shells, a very interesting idea.

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  11. Paul that is beautiful, such a wonderful piece of imaginative modelling.

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  12. Makes a nice change from sauteed in garlic and red wine.

    Inspiring work Sir...veeery clever.

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  13. A very curious and excellent scene Paul.

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  14. hola
    magnifico si señor
    un saludo

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  15. If you'd really like to paint up a red head, that would be grand. Scale doesn't matter. I'm doing 28mm and have no idea what Marzio is doing.

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    1. I´m definately in :-D I´ll source myself a 28 mm bodette at the Weekend.

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  16. Very original and unusual work! Thanks for sharing Paul!

    Greetings
    Peter
    http://peterscave.blogspot.be/

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  17. Absolutely genius idea !!

    and a beautiful little dio !
    I love !

    It could be a perfect "Hobbit-home"...

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    1. Thanks :-D
      I searched on the web after had the idea fro such a Thing bit apart from a couple of drawings and a Computer generated Thing there are no snail Shell houses.

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  18. I love it, great work....possibly a house that moves itself:P

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  19. Lovely! Your creativity knows no bounds. This just reminded me of you winning Michael's Easter egg painting contest. :-)

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