DIY Hobbit Holes! Lord of the Rings Craft

[@TomJones0065]

Man, you speak of when you were a kid and Your Dad taking you to the Cinema to see the movie.. Geez I Feel OLD, I remember my 5th Grade Teacher Reading The Hobbit in Our Class. I WAS HOOKED.. I am 59 so they says something, and I have Books all the way back well over 250 books I have collected, and almost ALL the Lego Sets. Which I have Never Opened! I LOVE Your Work it is SO inspiring, I myself am Getting ready to jump into my NEW FUTURE and Dreaming up my Own Little Story. You SURE DO DESERVE MORE SUBS, I always forward these videos!! Thanks for what YOU DO!

[@MarkLewis...]

Well... It's not unusual to be loved by anyone.

[@SebMakesStuff]

Your collection gives me extreme envy! I don't know how you've kept Lego unopened tho, my brain isn't capable to thay haha.

[@TomJones0065]

@@SebMakesStuff Trust me, it has been hard. But I even have some VHS movies of the Hobbit Un Opened..

[@TomJones0065]

@@MarkLewis... are you making fun of my name! lmao

[@MarkLewis...]

@@TomJones0065 Making fun of... no. Making a funny reference... yes! 👍

[@ditzydonkey9762]

Bottlebrush tree! Love them

[@SebMakesStuff]

Yessss!!!!! Thankyou! That's been bugging me haha

[@Sahaak_Craft]

Watched with my partner and now they also want to make one of these! This build looks amazing and I love the explosion of color with all the tufts and little plants, I think that it's never too much in that regard 😁!

[@SebMakesStuff]

Ohhh yes do it! I would love to see how they come out. And for crafter like us it's so much fun getting our partners involved

[@markmongan]

Pot plants! Amazing!

[@SebMakesStuff]

They're my new favourite thing!

[@sw33n3yto00]

I admit, I consistently wait for the frogs. 🤣

[@SebMakesStuff]

They're my favourite part too!

[@jacobkristy6694]

Just found out about you through youtube shorts! Your videos are so nice, i really hope you get big!

[@FixitFingers]

When Seb goes OTT, he *REALLY* goes OTT.... with amazing results. 😃

[@SebMakesStuff]

Haha you know it mate! I love me some tiny plants

[@neriummothra]

I think I need to do another hobbit house. See if my skills got any better. lol You did amazing job on this one. Keep up the good job!

[@SebMakesStuff]

We can never have too many Hobbit Holes! Haha I'd love to see what you build

[@peachesthesordid8619]

I remember going to see the first LotR movie with both of my parents. My dad became obsessed with the leaf shaped cloak pins that the hobbits wore. At the time we made a lot of jewelry.

[@SebMakesStuff]

I love that! These movies are such a core memory for so many of us and I extra love that it inspired a creative venture. That's amazing

[@cerisekappes580]

I want to live there!!! ❤❤❤

[@SebMakesStuff]

Me too!

[@livanbard]

Very nice. For the wattle fence you would probably want wires instead of twine. But as you said a rope fence would be very nice too. With a bit of overgrown moss on it because hemp is a natural bed for the stuff.

[@carrie4910]

I just harvested some bottlebrush tree bits for pots too!

[@SebMakesStuff]

I'll be using these pots for soooo many builds going forwrds

[@carrie4910]

@@SebMakesStuff the little caps from the eucalyptus tree (i think thats the right tree) flowers are great too.

[@bhanun3333]

Such a beautiful build & loved the tiny pots 😊

[@SebMakesStuff]

Thankyou 😁 I cant wait to use the pots on more builds going forward

[@shawnmayo8210]

Well done both of you! I actually had my girlfriend watching this and she said what I was thinking, "Even she's in our robe!" So yeah. Good on you both!

[@SebMakesStuff]

Gotta stay comfy while crafting!

[@markmongan]

Don't quote me on my herb lore but I'd say those are bottle brush seeds. Just went out the front and grabbed some from my bottle brush. They are a little smaller than what you have but the idea is there and these will work brilliantly!

[@bigonminis]

Really well done! So fun to watch the process--thank you for sharing 😁

[@SebMakesStuff]

Thankyou kindly 😁

[@carrie4910]

These look amazing!!!

[@SebMakesStuff]

Thankyou kindly 😁

[@cemcicek179]

Only 188 views... Wtf ! I usually never comment but I post this comment to boost your algorithm ! Nice work man !

[@SebMakesStuff]

You got in early and helped the push! Glad I inspired a comment 😁

[@photogfrank2146]

I may just make a Hobbit hole to go with the Mirkwood-esqe haunted forest I'm building! Yours is awesome and beautiful! Your girlfriend's is beautiful too! I do like your tree better, though! Especially your roots! I love long clinging roots! Fantastic build and great video!

[@SebMakesStuff]

A haunted Hobbit hole.....h.mm now you've got my mind ticking. Haha yer I'm a big fan of big sprawling roots out the bottom of a tree. It makes it more fantasy to me

[@photogfrank2146]

@SebMakesStuff Since I started working on the Haunted Forest, it has grown into a one-shot, and I've come up with a few ideas! Werewolves, Goblins, and Hags for starters!

[@bradencorso7489]

Yes Seb - Love this! Are you an MESBG fan?

[@SebMakesStuff]

Cheers, I dont play meabg but it was got me started on the hobby journey all those years ago with the magazine. I really should give it another go tho, I love anything middle earth based

[@MarkLewis...]

I LOVE Hobbit holes! I entered into one once, but very unhobbit-like, their hole wasn't clean, they had a very dirty hole. They invited me to come on back, but... I'll never enter their dirty little hobbit-hole again! What?! Why is everyone looking at me like that?!

[@SebMakesStuff]

😂 I don't even know what to say, but you're best to avoid those dirty holes. A Hobbit should keep their holes clean and ready for visitors

[@MarkLewis...]

@@SebMakesStuff Right! I mean you never know who might come and enter your hole?! Please Hobbits, keep your holes clean!!!

[@wrongeden3420]

I bought some leds a while back to stick behind windows to make models look lively during an evening setting. Hiding the switch for it is hit or miss tho

[@SebMakesStuff]

Yer after we made these I was regretting not cutting out the inside to hide some lights. Maybe the next one

[@jaspasouter]

Seb you should make farmer maggots field

[@SebMakesStuff]

I do have plans for bigger farm feilds soon after the veggie patches came out so well. Farmer maggots feild will likely be its theme now haha

[@markmongan]

That polystyrene cutter you're using, is that a hot wire cutter or does it use vibration? Is it a power sword or a vibro blade? I always cutting polystyrene and back in my day you weren't allowed to have hot wires to cut polystyrene in Aus. Might've changed but I don't see why it would've. P.S. Have you seen those wire cutting tables folks have? Bit beyond me, think I'll stick with hand tools.

[@jeangrimoire623]

Not done until there are frogs!

[@SebMakesStuff]

Everything needs frogs!

[@bindair_dundat]

Wouldn't having a tree atop one's house risk roots burrowing their way inside?

[@SebMakesStuff]

Perhaps the roots are what held the mound up as they dug through it. Using the large root system as a supporting structure to build the house around....or they're just dumb and didn't think of the long term repercussions of their planting positions

[@markmongan]

Sorry, really feel like a noob here. What is modge podge? How is it different from pva glue? Looks thicker and stays wet for longer?

[@SebMakesStuff]

Im not exactly sure what the technical differences are, but Mod podge comes in a matte variety so it doesn't dry either that shiny finish that pva does. If you're going to paint over it that's probably not a problem. In my experience it also dries a bit quicker and more solid but that could have more to do with the cheap pva I get haha

[@markmongan]

@SebMakesStuff Makes total sense, thanks man. Yeah, painting over it so it's not a problem. When I used to do conversions and never owning green stuff I would use blue tack and cover it in super glue. Paint over it, looks fine. For terrain I mainly used polly filler. So many more tools nowadays :) so cool.

[@richardallen8506]

Isn't that a Eucalyptus tree? Or Gumnut? I think they're the same thing

[@SebMakesStuff]

Yer I think it's some type of eucalyptus. I feel like I should know the answer as a gardener and Australian haha

[@LostWhits]

bottlebrush

[@dela19900]

just out of curiousity, how thick is the XPS foam? in metrics if possible please

[@SebMakesStuff]

I believe it's 30mm. But I cut mine in half to get some more use out of it as we only needed one face.

[@jeffreykershner440]

Spilling the speed paints is a painful experience.

[@SebMakesStuff]

It was mt first speed paint spill, and it was bad... I'm used to it from the shades and inks, but watching the contrast speed over the table was an extra costly mistake to make. And messy haha

[@spacechimp5141]

wow no mask for all those fumes, you too are either brave or careless.

[@SebMakesStuff]

What makes you assume we aren't wearing masks? You can't see our heads during any of the hot wire cutting shots?