Making A Death Tyrant/Beholder skull from Halloween skull.
Oct 20, 2018 23:06:30 GMT
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Post by indigo777 on Oct 20, 2018 23:06:30 GMT
The Death Tyrant is a undead Beholder raised by a necromancer, powerful wizard, or beholder lich to serve it. The death tyrant’s central eye emits a cone of pure negative energy that prevents magical or regenerative healing and any creature that dies under its gaze rises as a zombie under its control.
Tools Needed:
-Dremel, Hand drill, or cordless drill on low speed.
- xacto knife and/or wire snippers.
- Oven if using sculpey.
-Clay modeling tools or end of a brush and toothpick
Materials needed:
- A quality Halloween skull around the size of a Ping Pong ball. I used the Hide and Eak 12 pack of skulls available at Target for 3 dollars. Other stores such as Walmart carry them as well in their own brand. Whichever skull you choose pick one that is pretty solid in construction the plastic needs to be thick enough to hold up in an oven at 275 degrees if you go the Sculpey route.
- Sculpey or other oven bake clay; or epoxy clay of your choosing Milliput, green stuff etc... The clay must be able to survive being drilled into though.
- Aluminum foil
For Death Tyrant skull you also need these:
- Small Clear red plastic beads. I used a dollar pack of various red beads from Walmart.
- Large clear red plastic beads. The dollar tree carries a Princess Jewelry costume set of beads that are perfect for this for 1 dollar. Craft stores also carry a higher quality bead for a little more.
- Clear plastic coated twisty tie commonly found in packaging. If can not be found use paper clips bent to shape and coat in thin layer of hot glue.
Directions:
Step 1:
Drill and cut the eye sockets of the human skull until you get a nice oval shape. You are trying to make the skull Cyclops like with one giant eye socket. Keep shaping the eye until it can fit the large clear red plastic bead comfortably. Don't be afraid to chop the nose off the skull too.
Step 2:
Stuff the hollow skull with rolled up balls of aluminum foil until nearly completely full. You don't want the aluminum foil rattling when you shake the skull.
Step 3:
Using the modeling clay of your choosing. Fill the back of the empty eye socket with clay pressing it into the aluminum foil to make a good anchor point. Shape the clay into a single hollow eye socket on the front of the skull, you can do this easily by pressing 1 finger into the clay filled eye socket and moving it side to side in the clay. Make sure the large clear plastic bead still fits comfortably inside the eyesocket. Fill in the nose if you chopped it off. Cover the nostrils in clay to flatten the face out and fill the nostrils if you didn't cut out the skulls nose, beholders don't have nostrils. Fill in mouth of the skull with clay and use the toothpick or modeling tools to shape the teeth into broken and decayed fangs. Bake the skull in an oven according to the clay's directions or let dry if using epoxy.
Step 4: Once the clay is dry mark 10 spots spaced around the skull for where you want the eyestalks to go. Drill a small hole in each spot you marked, these will be holes used to anchor the clay to the plastic skull. Mark these holes in someway. Now decide if you want your beholder to have horns. if so mark and drill out a hole for each horn you want. I went with 14 holes on mine, 6 horns on each side of the head and 2 in the back for a total of 14. If you make horns make sure you mark the eyestalk holes in some way to make sure you don't mix them up with the holes for horns.
Step 5:
Making the eyestalk sockets.
Pinch off some clay and roll it into 10 small balls of clay of equal size. Press each ball of clay halfway into the eyestalk hole till it spreads evenly around the hole. You basically want the bottom half of the ball of clay to spread out flat onto the skull, this will also send a peg of clay into the holes you drilled anchoring it to the skull. Using sculpting tools or the round end of a brush make a divot in the top of the ball and slope the edges of the ball to make an eyestalk socket. Bake the skull in an oven according to the clays directions or let dry if using epoxy before making the horns.
Step 6:
Making the horns.
If making horns pinch off some modeling clay and make some American Football/Rugby shaped balls of clay. Press the ball of clay into each horn hole similar to previous step. Pinch the clay or use modeling tools to shape the top of the football into a triangular/ 3 sided pyramid shape, 3 flat sides leading up to a point, meld the base of the horn into the eyestalk sockets if needed. Shape the base flush with skull. Using a toothpick or modeling tools scrape out straight gashes along the surface of the horns. Feel free to take chunks out of the horns for battle damage. Bake the skull in an oven according to the clays directions or let dry if using epoxy.
If you are only making a beholder skull you are now done. Paint your mini and enjoy. If you are making Death Tyrant proceed to Step 7.
Step 7:
Giving your Death Tyrant some eyes.
Grab your beads and twisty ties/paper clips. Cut your clear twisty tie/paper clip to 2 inches in length. Make 10 of these. Place a drop of hot glue or super glue at one end of the twisty tie/ paper clip and thread the small clear red bead onto the end. If using paper clip coat from the base of the red clear bead to within 1/4 inch of the base of the paper clip. You now have a ghostly eyestalk with a "glowing" red eye on it.
Step 8:
Using a small drill bit, drill a hole slowly in the center of each eyestalk the size of the base of your eyestalk.
Step 9:
Paint your skull.
Step 10:
Put some super glue on the base of an eyestalk and insert the base of the eyestalk a decent ways into the holes you drilled in the eyestalk sockets.
Step 11:
Place the large clear red bead into the skulls main frontal eye. Your Death Tyrant is now finished.
Tools Needed:
-Dremel, Hand drill, or cordless drill on low speed.
- xacto knife and/or wire snippers.
- Oven if using sculpey.
-Clay modeling tools or end of a brush and toothpick
Materials needed:
- A quality Halloween skull around the size of a Ping Pong ball. I used the Hide and Eak 12 pack of skulls available at Target for 3 dollars. Other stores such as Walmart carry them as well in their own brand. Whichever skull you choose pick one that is pretty solid in construction the plastic needs to be thick enough to hold up in an oven at 275 degrees if you go the Sculpey route.
- Sculpey or other oven bake clay; or epoxy clay of your choosing Milliput, green stuff etc... The clay must be able to survive being drilled into though.
- Aluminum foil
For Death Tyrant skull you also need these:
- Small Clear red plastic beads. I used a dollar pack of various red beads from Walmart.
- Large clear red plastic beads. The dollar tree carries a Princess Jewelry costume set of beads that are perfect for this for 1 dollar. Craft stores also carry a higher quality bead for a little more.
- Clear plastic coated twisty tie commonly found in packaging. If can not be found use paper clips bent to shape and coat in thin layer of hot glue.
Directions:
Step 1:
Drill and cut the eye sockets of the human skull until you get a nice oval shape. You are trying to make the skull Cyclops like with one giant eye socket. Keep shaping the eye until it can fit the large clear red plastic bead comfortably. Don't be afraid to chop the nose off the skull too.
Step 2:
Stuff the hollow skull with rolled up balls of aluminum foil until nearly completely full. You don't want the aluminum foil rattling when you shake the skull.
Step 3:
Using the modeling clay of your choosing. Fill the back of the empty eye socket with clay pressing it into the aluminum foil to make a good anchor point. Shape the clay into a single hollow eye socket on the front of the skull, you can do this easily by pressing 1 finger into the clay filled eye socket and moving it side to side in the clay. Make sure the large clear plastic bead still fits comfortably inside the eyesocket. Fill in the nose if you chopped it off. Cover the nostrils in clay to flatten the face out and fill the nostrils if you didn't cut out the skulls nose, beholders don't have nostrils. Fill in mouth of the skull with clay and use the toothpick or modeling tools to shape the teeth into broken and decayed fangs. Bake the skull in an oven according to the clay's directions or let dry if using epoxy.
Step 4: Once the clay is dry mark 10 spots spaced around the skull for where you want the eyestalks to go. Drill a small hole in each spot you marked, these will be holes used to anchor the clay to the plastic skull. Mark these holes in someway. Now decide if you want your beholder to have horns. if so mark and drill out a hole for each horn you want. I went with 14 holes on mine, 6 horns on each side of the head and 2 in the back for a total of 14. If you make horns make sure you mark the eyestalk holes in some way to make sure you don't mix them up with the holes for horns.
Step 5:
Making the eyestalk sockets.
Pinch off some clay and roll it into 10 small balls of clay of equal size. Press each ball of clay halfway into the eyestalk hole till it spreads evenly around the hole. You basically want the bottom half of the ball of clay to spread out flat onto the skull, this will also send a peg of clay into the holes you drilled anchoring it to the skull. Using sculpting tools or the round end of a brush make a divot in the top of the ball and slope the edges of the ball to make an eyestalk socket. Bake the skull in an oven according to the clays directions or let dry if using epoxy before making the horns.
Step 6:
Making the horns.
If making horns pinch off some modeling clay and make some American Football/Rugby shaped balls of clay. Press the ball of clay into each horn hole similar to previous step. Pinch the clay or use modeling tools to shape the top of the football into a triangular/ 3 sided pyramid shape, 3 flat sides leading up to a point, meld the base of the horn into the eyestalk sockets if needed. Shape the base flush with skull. Using a toothpick or modeling tools scrape out straight gashes along the surface of the horns. Feel free to take chunks out of the horns for battle damage. Bake the skull in an oven according to the clays directions or let dry if using epoxy.
If you are only making a beholder skull you are now done. Paint your mini and enjoy. If you are making Death Tyrant proceed to Step 7.
Step 7:
Giving your Death Tyrant some eyes.
Grab your beads and twisty ties/paper clips. Cut your clear twisty tie/paper clip to 2 inches in length. Make 10 of these. Place a drop of hot glue or super glue at one end of the twisty tie/ paper clip and thread the small clear red bead onto the end. If using paper clip coat from the base of the red clear bead to within 1/4 inch of the base of the paper clip. You now have a ghostly eyestalk with a "glowing" red eye on it.
Step 8:
Using a small drill bit, drill a hole slowly in the center of each eyestalk the size of the base of your eyestalk.
Step 9:
Paint your skull.
Step 10:
Put some super glue on the base of an eyestalk and insert the base of the eyestalk a decent ways into the holes you drilled in the eyestalk sockets.
Step 11:
Place the large clear red bead into the skulls main frontal eye. Your Death Tyrant is now finished.