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Post by ogrestamp on Oct 13, 2015 8:22:48 GMT
So I went down to The Dollar Tree the other night and picked up a pack of these scorpions. They looked like they were the right size and a dozen for a dollar, I could really have fun killing a party for so cheap The packet says Night Creatures and there were a couple other packets there as well, like giant flies (really giant flies for DND) and some rats and such. But these looked cool and I don't have any scorpions. Well, tonight, I got the urge to paint them. It was awesome, painting and watching a couple baseball playoff games. I found this strangely therapeutic. Here is what I did. The common red with orange highlight scorpion. Err, scorpions. After this, I got bored with making them all the same color, so I did some variations. These have a more cave-like albino look to them. They could easily blend into the cave wall surface until it was too late. Lighting's a little bad but this guy has a beige look to him with some dull yellow highlights. Lighting again is bad. This guy is quite lime green, the color of moss. I figured an outdoor scorpion would like a little camo when hanging out near those sylvan forest pools. This is my bronzed scorpion. He could cover as either a metallic scorpion, a construct or as a really expensive statue. Now this guy is my favorite. They way the light hits his tail and pincers, it gives it a transparent look to it, which scorpions actually have. But that just a nice purple paint on the pincers and some red on the tail with a nice coat of varnish. A very cool project to do while watching a ball game and I get to wreak havoc amongst my party for less than a dollar.
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Oct 13, 2015 8:49:36 GMT
Yeah I picked up a pack of glow in the dark ones a couple of weeks ago. Need to paint them up.
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Post by sadric on Oct 13, 2015 8:57:13 GMT
I had the sam scorpions for 1€, but in transparent/glow in the dark. I paint some red-brown with bright highlight- desert scorpions. The other is a dark blue with light blue highlight+a little bit silver for a nice shine. I imagine they hunt in jungle undergrowth. Or dark caves. In the picture above you see that I cut the sideway tail and reglue it with hotglue for a more upright, menacing position. In the next picture is a detail of the reglued tail. A little bit messy but on the table nearly invisible. I tried it with hot water, benidng and icewater dippinng, but it didnt hold the form. And I bought this centipede, too.
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Post by ogrestamp on Oct 14, 2015 6:46:45 GMT
Sadric, those are some really cool eyes on that dark scorpion. I like that look. I did see some centipedes there, I think I must get them now. When you reglued the tail, did you have any problems?
I am not a good painter. I know this. At best, I am a pedestrian artist, but with those scorpions, I had some mojo going that I don't usually have. Since I have a day off tomorrow, I think I will try to pick up some centipedes. I did see some giant flies there as well. They seemed a tad too big but I am now wondering what they might look like with no wings, or a different type of wing?
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Post by sadric on Oct 14, 2015 8:53:24 GMT
The brown scorpions have four green eyes, too. But they arent visible in the pics. The centipdes are very twisted and bended. I tried to straighten them with a hotglue spine. In the picture above of the detail you see in the background a centipde filled with hotglue. The hotglueing of the tail went fine. I dont use only a dot of hotglue but covered the underside of the tail with hotglue, because I feared that a dot didnt hold it. I have to see how it looks after using, tearing and storing it the next week/months. picture of the centiped where you see the twisted body. After filling the hollow body with hotglue This picture of a sloppy tail I hide. In original it didnt look so ugly. And I really like the raised tail way more then the low sideways of the original cast. I would get the fly's, too. I didnt see flies in my dollar store, but the other creature where 1€-Even if it didnt work out it is only a €. If the flies are so large maybe you could cut the head of from two or three of them and glue them together like a centipede, ad some hotglue tentacle at the first head and get something that looks like a carrion crawler. Boah, I have to search for this flies and trie it myself. Look for my armored worm video where I frankenstein a maggot and a ant in similiar ways.
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Post by sadric on Oct 19, 2015 8:18:39 GMT
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Post by ogrestamp on Oct 20, 2015 5:10:41 GMT
That's so cool. I love that jungle scorpion. And the dessert scorp with the grass tuft in front of it is amazing as well.
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Post by sadric on Oct 20, 2015 8:29:44 GMT
I really wasnt sure if I should add a base. They didnt need it, without the base I simply could put them on whatever terrain or battlemap I have and it is good. But the bases change same from simple cheap painted halloween toys to a real miniature. So I add the base.
The grass tuft is cut from a really, really, cheap IKEA christmass tree ball made from this fibre. I intended to make trees out of them but didnt have the time, so I cut some of it for grass tufts and similiar things.
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