Topiary dinosaurs

[Wirelizard]

A couple of months ago, I got a couple of small plastic toy dinosaurs as a joke birthday gift. They're too small to use in 28mm gaming, really, and too badly formed to inspire, but they've been sitting on one corner of my desk, bothering me...

Tonight I should have been working on that damn yacht that's my Build Something entry, but I decided to stop those cheap dinosaurs from staring at me any longer instead. 



Behold the latest garden decorations of the mad 1920s millionaire Howard Fruge, seen here stalking his estate in full safari getup!

I used scrap foam bits for the bases, hotglued the dinos down, painted the whole thing dark green, then covered the dino bushes with dark green ground foam flock and the rest of the CD with a lighter mixed foam. The path is fine model gravel.

It's basically done; I'll do a second coat of dark flock over the topiary tomorrow to cover any gaps, maybe do a wash down the gravel to make it look a bit more weathered, and that'll be that. Pulp adventure flavoured park or garden decorations!

[white knight]

Years ago I had an idea for doing a hedge labyrinth, built from painted scrubber pads and flocked toys animals for topiaries. Then I forgot all about it until this moment. Now I want to do it again.

[Dewbakuk]

Years ago I had an idea for doing a hedge labyrinth, built from painted scrubber pads and flocked toys animals for topiaries. Then I forgot all about it until this moment. Now I want to do it again.

That's a fantastic idea! So, I now have an Egyptian Labyrinth built, a meso-american one planned, a cave complex in progress and a steampunk/Jules Verne "Space Hulk" esque underwater base slowly being worked on. Time to add a hedge maze!

[Tsune]

Great idea!! 

[Chairface]

Love it!

[argsilverson]

Very good idea!

[Hitman]

What a great idea. I have a pile of those little cheap dinos and couldn't figure out what to do with them. I like your idea a lot. I have a big Norman mansion from MBA which something like this would look perfect in front of. Mind if I "steal" your idea? Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Hitman
 

[former user]

very cute

where's Edward Scissorhands?

[Wirelizard]

where's Edward Scissorhands?

He got cut. 

There's a topiary rhino to keep the dinosaurs company now; photo in the morning.

This little scenery project seems to have struck a chord - lots of response here, TMP and other places I've posted it. Let's have an outbreak of random topiary across the gaming world!

[Sinewgrab]

I am so stealing that.

Great idea, Wirelizard. Bravo!

[General Roos]

Lovely garden creations! 

[Froggy the Great]

Let's have an outbreak of random topiary across the gaming world!

Here's my offering, using Tyranid heads:

[Wirelizard]

Those look great, Froggy - the one on the left looks somehow like a rabbit.



New topiary rhino on the bottom, on a smaller base instead of a CD, and another view of the dinos on the top, with a pair of Artizan's figures wondering exactly what sort of lunatic's estate they've wandered into. (I really need to do proper closeups of the batch of Artizan & Brigade figures I painted a few weeks ago; they turned out really nicely.)

[Bako]

He got cut. 

Ahahahahahh, that is soo weety.