The first two interior paintings in the hedgehog feeding station.
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As an aside, for anyone trying to figure out what the colour scheme is reminding them of but can't quite place it: Friends.
@babe I was literally just trying to place it, that's amazing
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A little over 2 weeks later and the Igel's Nest (hedgehog nesting box) is finished!
Undercoated in mold resistant stain blocking paint, made fully waterproof by 2-3 layers of enamel based paint, topped off with an acrylic based paint for colour and then covered with a few layers of polyvine varnish. This thing should now outlive me!
With a solid resin floor it also makes it easy to keep clean and won't be attractive to woodlice.
@babe this has nicer wall finish and floors than the ground floor of the house i live in :D
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I have no idea where they are, but I've got a bunch of videos from the feeding station before it was all done up, of cats desperately trying to evade a twig in the ground and failing miserably, while hedgehogs strolled in like nbd
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@bigpawedbear @babe "no big deal"
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@bigpawedbear @babe "no big deal"
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As an aside, for anyone trying to figure out what the colour scheme is reminding them of but can't quite place it: Friends.
WE'RE FINISHED!
The Urch Inn is now fully renovated, placed, plugged in and ready to start serving the local hedgehog population!
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WE'RE FINISHED!
The Urch Inn is now fully renovated, placed, plugged in and ready to start serving the local hedgehog population!
With god knows how many layers of paint and varnish, and resin floors throughout, this will now hopefully last long into the future.
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WE'RE FINISHED!
The Urch Inn is now fully renovated, placed, plugged in and ready to start serving the local hedgehog population!
@babe I love the effort of painting a little artwork the camera never sees, it's just for the hedgehogs
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With god knows how many layers of paint and varnish, and resin floors throughout, this will now hopefully last long into the future.
@babe Looking amazing :) !! can't wait to see them inside ^^
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Normally whenever I do anything with the hedgehog houses I get a 'THAT WON'T STOP A CAT!' guy turn up to be wrong at me
This time I actually designed the entrances myself, based around my understanding of cat anatomy which I only learned to stop them getting in the damn hedgehog houses. I am perfectly placed to 'well, actually...' and not a single such guy has emerged.
I am both thrilled we have moved past it but gutted for my unaired prepared argument
@babe I now wonder if I haven't seen such cat proof designs in la Hulotte (I'll have to check next time I'm at my parents, where we have the whole collections, of the journal most read in the (french) burrows)
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With god knows how many layers of paint and varnish, and resin floors throughout, this will now hopefully last long into the future.
@babe when hedgehogs achieve sentience in the next millenia they will be mightily confused about this artefact
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WE'RE FINISHED!
The Urch Inn is now fully renovated, placed, plugged in and ready to start serving the local hedgehog population!
@babe That is superb! Very nicely done indeed.
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WE'RE FINISHED!
The Urch Inn is now fully renovated, placed, plugged in and ready to start serving the local hedgehog population!
@babe I wish they were native in the US, I would love to see them roaming around!
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WE'RE FINISHED!
The Urch Inn is now fully renovated, placed, plugged in and ready to start serving the local hedgehog population!
@babe at first i wondered what you meant by plugged in. the way you've been approaching this, I half expected heating, and a cold water feed for drinking water. *smile* sounds great, I hope the hedgepigs come along, and that you get great footage on the camera. maybe put a sign outside for the cats, "oi moggies, I can see you. leave the hogs food alone."
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@babe at first i wondered what you meant by plugged in. the way you've been approaching this, I half expected heating, and a cold water feed for drinking water. *smile* sounds great, I hope the hedgepigs come along, and that you get great footage on the camera. maybe put a sign outside for the cats, "oi moggies, I can see you. leave the hogs food alone."
@bigpawedbear The camera and light are mains powered. Previously I just took them out to charge but I wanted to minimise the amount of work I needed to do with it
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@bigpawedbear The camera and light are mains powered. Previously I just took them out to charge but I wanted to minimise the amount of work I needed to do with it
@babe you have done amazing work. *smile* I do hope you get hedgehogs coming in and also, amusing film of cats unable to get in too. maiow!"
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WE'RE FINISHED!
The Urch Inn is now fully renovated, placed, plugged in and ready to start serving the local hedgehog population!
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WE'RE FINISHED!
The Urch Inn is now fully renovated, placed, plugged in and ready to start serving the local hedgehog population!
@babe This is lovely 😍