Sorry, I’m in a gnome pun frame of mind. You see, tomorrow (or tonight at midnight actually if you want to be all picky) the Geocaching Australia Moveable Cache Race begins. Moveable caches are different to normal caches in that when you find one, you grab it, take it with you and hide it somewhere else. Ordinary caches you find, sign the log and leave where they are.
For reasons best known to themselves, the GA community settled on Gnomes as the theme for this years race. I have bored my friends to snores with Gnome discussion, ideas, purchasing, contemplation – I expect they are quite glad to hear that all my gnomes for the race are now placed and therefore I don’t need to decorate or ponder any more of them. So, allow me to introduce you to five of my six gnomes for the race:
This is “The Gnome Who Sold the World”. I had to do a Bowie gnome as soon as someone mentioned his song “The Laughing Gnome” and this one was the easiest. He’s not the best painted thing, but I think the general idea is there.
Don’t disagree with me, I shall weep! WEEP!
This is Batgnome. He was originally The Dark Gknight, but Matt sent me a picture of his most bestest Batman, so I repainted to try and match the comic book version because I love my boy even when he’s nerding out all over the place.
The Ghost of Caches Past! In the light he’s just white and a kind of puke green/yellow from the glow in the dark paint (which is totally noxious stuff and I hope I never decide to use it again), but in the dark he’s all glowy. This is the best shot I could get of him, my camera just about cried. He’s a bit brighter than this if he’s had enough light on him. I’m pretty pleased with his hollow eyes.
Kimognome! Entirely because “Kimono” ends with the “no” I could use for Gnome. Yes, that is supposed to be a kimono. No, I don’t know what I was thinking. Shut up.
And last but not least in this post, Incognitgnome. Yes, I did superglue my fingers together while putting this one together, but I think he was worth it 
From the back he’s just leaves, with a tiny little hint of red from his cap to give away his location – I want to be sneaky, not cruel!
The one I haven’t posted here (because the pics are still on the camera and I’m lazy) is just plain white, the idea being that instead of signing a log book, people will sign the gnome.
Once the listings are live (tomorrow) I’ll add a page here so you can see how they’re going – because you care. YOU DO.
What kind of paint are you using? It doesn’t wear away does it?
I used acrylic for all the gnomes except the glow in the dark gnome, which was a spray paint. It does fade and probably wears away but a coat of sealer would stop it wearing (probably wouldn’t stop it fading though).
[...] Back This is the Gnome Who Sold the World, a Gnome I decorated and released for the 2010/2011 Moving Cache Race. He was hidden by the Living and Learning Centre in Panton Hill, but after 2 “Did Not [...]