Making a mountain of flesh. IMG heavy-ish

[uncledog]

Living landscape. Cannot get enough of that disgusting stuff.
Let's start out.

I used:
Great stuff (R) expanding foam
jiffy pots
wax paper
paints

Quick checklist visual:


Grab a jiffy pot and cut out the bottom, once the bottom is cut out, roll it slightly inward.

Lay down wax paper, cover at least five inches from where you will be working, this stuff expands.
Lay out your pots, downside up and begin using the great stuff with a VERY light touch to the nozzle... wear gloves and protective gear. This stuff is sticky, like cold napalm.

Then, build up. Feel free to express yourself.

Do 'em all. Once again, feel the art (art? uh.. sure!)

Spritz them with a bit of water, it helps it cure faster. Please wait at least 8 hours, or it can get VERY messy.

Once they have cured, peel them off the wax paper (they come off so nicely) and prep for priming (I use a rattlecan black flat primer).
Prime them puppies.

After the primer sets, I hit it with some dark red, just a dusting of color.

Wait for it to dry and add in touch ups and highlights, I am poor at this, but you've seen Sire Scotty's vids.
I made an extra large one (I hate the paintjob) and added horns and tongues by using air dry model magic, then painting.

The berserker doesn't like it much....

If they get eaten by the flesh mounds, you can just set the mound on the mini!

All of this lead to "flesh mound surfing" (I still hate surfing Legolas from the movies)


That's it. Real simple, fairly cheap (the expanding foam goes for less than five bucks and I have over half the can left. Yes, I use a nail to keep the great stuff... great) and
easy to make. Happy crafting.

[dodobot]

Very reminiscent of Oblivion and the inside of Daedric spires. Cool.

[uncledog]

Thank you very much, I didn't notice that until I read what you typed. Cool!

[Cyan Wisp]

Bloody disgusting. In a good way! They remind me of intestines or a giant's haemorrhoids, but I'm not familiar enough with either to say for sure.

[DungeonMasterRandom]

Very cool, as dodobot said, very much like the Daedra in Oblivion. Just as a side note, love pic heavy posts. Not sure about everybody else but thats my opinion. 

[tauster]

In one word: Awesome!

Looks like your method will help me to get some great additions to my Mother and Torog terrain set.
I always wanted to experiment with expanding foam, but your post finally pushed it from 'somewhere in the middle of my to-do list' to 'do it this weekend!'

[adrianmcknight]

This really makes me want to run an encounter where the players get swallowed by a ridiculously massive creature. Maybe a giant whale swallows a ship they are traveling on whole, and they have to escape (And fight a bunch of undead pirates that were swallowed long ago). In fact, that. Exactly that.

Awesome meat piles sir. I will steal these

[runningwolf]

Oh yeah for the awesomeness.... Sort of reminds me of the feel of the poop demon from Dogma. Different paint scheme and there are a ton of different critters there for the taking.

[uncledog]

RunningWolf: Totally. I like that I cannot control the expanding of the foam. Each 'blob' is unique and allows for (as Bob Ross would say)happy accidents.
I remember the $&*! monster of Golgotha, haha, hadn't thought of that!

AdrianMcKnight: A cavernous spray could be done, I'd build it in cardboard, spray the concave side, let it cure, turn over and hit the converse. Might need to make it pretty open though, like cut a lid out for hands moving minis and visibility?

Tauster: I'm glad that you got the push, it's really fun to work with and super light!

DungeonMasterRandom: Thanks, I have troubles explaining techniques, so I rely on visuals.. I'm usually pretty image heavy when I 'tutorial' stuff.

Cyan Wisp: Remember that scene in "Evolution" (with David Duchovny and Orlando Jones) when they take the fire hose up the macroscopic unicellular lifeform? Yeah, total haemorrhoids!

Thanks for the kind words and encouragement all, I'm glad I finally came in and starting participating.

[waynekarrion]

There's a post either here or on the facebook group where a guy is running an adventure inside a Sarlaac, so he built flesh tiles. They are very cool, and would lend to these ideas very well. I suggest you find them, and if you aren't a member of the facebook group, well what are you waiting for?

[uncledog]

Expanding foam is great, especially if you are willing to go BIG!


^ this is about three feet wide, a H-Ween prop "Intestinal octopus"

Or go odd, throw in ping pong balls and make this:


I have an odd idea or two about making a "table liner" out of this stuff for gaming, less dice on the floor and a spiffy, nasty slime running around the table.

[uncledog]

WayneKarrion: I'll be sure to look that up. I'll also be hitting the FB page! Thanks.

[tauster]

This is getting ever more awesome! That green ...thing in the corner of the wall and ceiling, with hanging eye-studded tentacles - wow!

I got a can of foam this morning and can't wait for my two new critters to harden.

[edit]

...done!

Wow, I didn't expect the foam to double in size while hardening. Lesson learned; my next critters will be a tad smaller. At least I hope so.

You're right about having only a small degree of control over the results - this is something new and cool!

[Deleted]

Dude!
You totally have to make a basketball sized Beholder using that ping pong ball technique... hell I might do that myself!
It would sell like a hot cake.

[uncledog]

Tauster: I'll check it out right away! I found that having a really light trigger touch helps with the size, as does wetting the fresh foam right away for a faster cure. I should have wet the surfaces down first, then foamed, then wet the foam. Less expansion and less peeling upwards in the tentacle things.

AJ: I think a beholder wall hanging would be spiffy, but for a true 3d.. oh yeah, armatures! I may have to do some small scale tests... but that is an awesome thought! Cool things about the foam, it can be carved after a few days or so (sometimes the inside is still liquid for a while)!

[uncledog]

O.k. after mulling it about in my head, I figured I can pull off a basketball sized beholder. It's going to take a while, as some of the methods are going to tax me, but I'll try to have images and a documented tutorial up once it is done (probably before I paint, as my paint skills are lacking).

So, off to the drawing board for me, hoping to make this a full 3d build!

[tauster]

Jun 7, 2014 15:24:32 GMT uncledog said:

Tauster: I'll check it out right away! I found that having a really light trigger touch helps with the size, as does wetting the fresh foam right away for a faster cure. I should have wet the surfaces down first, then foamed, then wet the foam. Less expansion and less peeling upwards in the tentacle things.

AJ: I think a beholder wall hanging would be spiffy, but for a true 3d.. oh yeah, armatures! I may have to do some small scale tests... but that is an awesome thought! Cool things about the foam, it can be carved after a few days or so (sometimes the inside is still liquid for a while)!

The beholder idea is awesome. And tentacles with armatures even more - this opens up a whole new can of worms so many possibilities!


Concerning the wetting: I've made a 2nd batch this afternoon (pics here) and this time didn't spray any water over it. The result: It takes a bit longer to cure, but it expands way less than before. I think it almost kept the size it had when it came out of the can. Another lesson learned...

[uncledog]

Odd, I found that water keeps it smaller for me, but it may be how thin I lay it down. I love a good mystery.
So far, I have the ball for the body made, it's curing as it is rather thick... may take a few days. The eyestalks didn't turn out the way I wanted, so I am going to have to remake a few. The eyes, aside from the big one are curing as well. Let us hope it turns out good.

[tauster]

I'm toying with the idea of applying the foam over a curved surface by laying something under the baking paper; after it hardened, I could use it as a kind of organic bridge that spans over an underdark chasm. Though I'm not sure my players will have the guts and step on such a bridge...

[uncledog]

Well, we all know how... fearful and suspicious PCs can be. Throw something scarier behind them and they will either cross it or die. Not a fan of railroading, but every now and again, it's worth it.