My Whispering Hollow Build

Anavarin’s Whispering Hollow Unboxing notes: Beautiful packaging Thick wood, this sucker is gonna be solid! A very nicely crafted rolled scroll or letter, complete with aging and bound in twine/vines. Vibrant printing on the wood panels. A fairly extensive cluster of lighting, multicolored single bulb and LED strips. THICK acrylic for the dust cover Beautifully made instructions - full color, 3D rendered. A potent smell of MDF off-gassing when I opened it. This is probably due to it being a freshly packaged unit. Some people may dislike it, I don’t mind it. A good mix of textures, foliage and two small deer figures (packaged like little jewels!). First few steps had no surprises, stay tuned!

All is great, but whew…still kinda smelly! Confused… K1 is the bottom of the kit, but the graphics are of a forest taken from the side. It does not make sense. It’s getting covered by landscaping so it probably won’t matter. However I am realizing that something about the pond is not right. The acrylic pond appears to just sit on top of the music box. However that let the pond “float around” and it is not secured to anything. If it were to tip the kit, the pond would fall inside and be stuck. I emailed Anavarin and am asking a few folks who have started to work on it as well for their advice. I need to figure this out before I get too far.