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Post by michka on Apr 6, 2015 16:18:48 GMT
Yep, I'm sticking with my Erol Otis comment. Purple was the best choice.
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Post by tauster on Apr 6, 2015 17:51:58 GMT
Grafting a hand* on a tentacle? Now that's brilliant!  * I have several bags with miniature bitz... and suddenly several hand-related ideas pop up... *evil grin* |
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Post by DnDPaladin on Apr 6, 2015 20:58:55 GMT
that purple floumph definitely has it going.
keep going i wanna see more.
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Post by tauster on Apr 7, 2015 17:17:31 GMT
I tried some pink/purple drybrushing, but that looked wrong, so I went with pure white. I hope it wasn't too much; the Flumph looks quite bright now. I'll probably leave it as is and call it a day with this specimen, unless my curiosity gets the better of me and I do a deep purple washing. with flash  without flash (much more true to the real color tone)  from behind   Peek under the skirt  Not sure whether to paint the third one purple as well - I'd love to try another color scheme but have no idea what might work. Apart from that, there's the initial one to repaint. You know the one that looks like animated vomit...  |
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Post by deafnala on Apr 7, 2015 20:50:14 GMT
UBERCOOL once more! Have you thought of adding eyes to the upper stalks/tentacles? I'm an eyeball adding type.
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Post by dragon722 on Apr 8, 2015 4:32:35 GMT
Being on its side like that makes it a whole new monster to me  . Awesome job dude and very inspiring |
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Post by michka on Apr 8, 2015 5:28:20 GMT
Some ideas for the next one... This wouldn't be very Flumff-like, but if you did one in flesh tones with spatters of deep red you'd have a real horror of a creature. There's something to be said for going for the full-on splatter-movie look.
Another way to go would be green. Maybe start with black primer. Wet-brush a medium green over the whole thing, then wash it with a darker green, or even an ink wash. |
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Post by tauster on Apr 8, 2015 17:10:36 GMT
UBERCOOL once more! Have you thought of adding eyes to the upper stalks/tentacles? I'm an eyeball adding type. I won't sculpt eyepalls on, but I'll try painting them on. I'm not good with eyes, so I'm a bit hesitating. Painting eyes has been on my to-learn list for a long time now...  Some ideas for the next one... This wouldn't be very Flumff-like, but if you did one in flesh tones with spatters of deep red you'd have a real horror of a creature. There's something to be said for going for the full-on splatter-movie look.
Another way to go would be green. Maybe start with black primer. Wet-brush a medium green over the whole thing, then wash it with a darker green, or even an ink wash. Flesh and green? Sounds cool! As soon as my other, still-secret tentacle-related project is done, I'll try both ways!  |
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Post by deafnala on Apr 8, 2015 20:47:56 GMT
UBERCOOL once more! Have you thought of adding eyes to the upper stalks/tentacles? I'm an eyeball adding type. I won't sculpt eyepalls on, but I'll try painting them on. I'm not good with eyes, so I'm a bit hesitating. Painting eyes has been on my to-learn list for a long time now... I was thinking more about using jewelry beads; that's what I use for my Mushrooms & Trees...usually. You can see the result on my avatar. |
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Post by tauster on Apr 9, 2015 20:41:23 GMT
So, after those two little tentacle'd diversions, let's return to the major project. I pick up where I left Mashaaf a week ago...  ...and glue on the ...whatchacallit? Arms? Scythes? ... appendages!  Yep, those look about right. It was quite tricky getting them not to interfer with each other, as they are not really parallel to each other. I also basepainted Mashaaf's ...hmmm... rear end flaps? You know, the pointy bits that will protect the critters butthole:  I figured from the original build that, if I glue them on first, then getting in the creatures butt with a brush might be difficult. Wait.  Does that sound as wrong to you as it did to me?   Anyways, I apologize for any rudeness. However I'm not liable for bad pictures in your minds. It's your dirty imagination after all, not mine! Long story short here's the basepainted rear ends, plus the front end a.k.a. mouth:  I intended to glue in the rocks on the back, but the evening is already over. |
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Post by deafnala on Apr 9, 2015 22:20:27 GMT
That is the stuff of NIGHTMARES from HELL!...as a veteran insomniac I can enjoy such Thingies with impunity. GREAT AND TWISTED WORK!
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Post by tauster on Apr 10, 2015 18:12:17 GMT
The second half of my entry for this month's Miniatures CraftWar: The RoberSome wooden bits... Subtract the thicknes of the side walls, bottom and top boards from the wardrobe's backside and cut out (or saw) a smaller square that will fit inside.  Then made a wardrobe similar to DMG's tutorial.  Cut the tin can lid to the size of the smaller wooden square and glue it on. Glue neodym magnets in the corner of the wardrobe. The goal is to have a magnetic piece that can be put on the back wall vertically.  Texturize the back wall with hotglue. Alternatively, you could have scraped the wood before you glue all together.  Glue tentacles on the wooden side of the smaller square (NOT on the metal side!) and texturize with hotglue.  ...there you go!  I decided to go for a magnetized wardrobe, plus a tentacle piece with scrap metal on the backside, which I can use as a generic spellmarker or creature out of wardrobe-context. Gives me more usability bang for my crafting buck. I didn't take shots from painting the tentacles, but it's pretty similar to what I did with the flumph recently. Wardrobe painting (again, see DMG's tutorial. It's totally easy.) Basepainted black, then a heavy washing of brown:  Washing with watered-down yellow-brown.  Drybrush white later. I didn't take separate shots as this was the last step. You'll see the result in next posting. |
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Post by tauster on Apr 10, 2015 18:12:34 GMT
A dinner with Lady Forscale
Lady Forscale knew that something was wrong as soon as she entered the abandoned dining hall. No trace of the inhabitants, and the whole room looked strangely empty. The only furniture left was a large, wardrobe in one corner with wide-open doors and the hall's tables, most of them were turned over build a barricade of sorts.
There was not much time to speculate about what had happened here. Probably it was similar to what happened now: The stone floor heaved and morphed into a giant .... thing. The thing had a face, but most importantly, it had a giant maw.  Her well-honed instinct made Lady Forscale jump on the last standing table and tumble behind the barricade.  At least she knew new why the inhabitants had overturned the tables. A few heartbeats later she learned another thing: The reason why the barricades hadn't saved the inhabitants.  A tiny sound and the raised hairs on her neck alerted her, but it was too late:  Out of the wardrobe exploded a wall of tentacles that greedily stretched towards her, and flowed out on the floor. It engulfed and strangled the good lady, and ripped her apart limb from limp. It squeezed and squeezed, and absorbed every drop of liquid, then threw the bits and pieces that had been Lady Forscale over the tables towards it's comrade, who skillfully snapped them from the air and gulped them down.  Only moments later it was again quiet in the dining hall. It would stay quiet, probably for months - until the next dinner walked into the abandoned dining hall, which was neither abandoned not had ever stopped being a dining hall.
I apologize for the ugly purple splotch on the Rober: I made the mistake of using a color for the basepaint that is easily washed away and when I applied a final washing (ironically with the same color), in some placed all color layers washed off. I will probably overpaint it and try to blend it in, but that can wait for later. More important was to get this whole thing out of the door than to polish it to perfection.
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Post by michka on Apr 10, 2015 18:32:17 GMT
Awesome!!! This turned out fantastic. I love the story you made. Since I'd just read the making-of post above, I knew this wasn't going to work out well for our hero, which just built the tension. Very Hitchcock. Well made and well done!
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Post by tauster on Apr 10, 2015 18:37:46 GMT
Glad you like it! After all, you're kind of a father (or mother?) of the Rober. The adventures of Lady Forscale end rarely lucky. As rarely as the stories about Sir Gneld of the Four Scales and happily (for him). But that is ust fate: For every group of lucky adventurers, there are those who are nearer to Beshaba's bosom than Tymora's. |
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Post by deafnala on Apr 10, 2015 18:50:13 GMT
GREAT STUFF, tauster. The Wardrobe is an INSPIRATIONAL piece; AND worked WONDERFULLY in the sad demise of her Ladyship. ...you could do a Possessed Psycho Shower from HELL!...or not.
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Post by tauster on Apr 10, 2015 19:06:23 GMT
Again: Glad you all like it! Actually it's a totally easy build. The main point I like is that it's modular: It can be used as a regular wardrobe piece for dungeon deco and then made very quickly into ... a Rober. Also, the tentacle piece can be a spellmarker or a monster. It could also be combined with other pieces to let the tentacles come out of something else. A well would be a good example. I got the idea when I realized that, if I'd build a tentecle'd wardrobe out of one piece, it might be damaged during storage. I'm not sure the modular version is less prone to damage, but that was what got me coming up with making it two pieces. At the moment I'm fighting the urge of making more tentacle projects. Not very successfully, I guess - the fourth batch of greenstuff tentacles is already hardening and waiting for being forged into bad dreams, terror and madness. |
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Post by SpielMeisterKev! on Apr 10, 2015 21:24:15 GMT
Howdy,
Is THIS the END of Lady Forscale? Stay tuned, for the next EXCITING episode of... Tauster's Tentacles!
In COLOR,
Kev!
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Post by tauster on Apr 12, 2015 17:05:46 GMT
Howdy, Is THIS the END of Lady Forscale? Stay tuned, for the next episode of... Tauster's Tentacles! In COLOR, Kev! Lol, certainly not THE end of her, but definitely ONE end. Lady Forscale will have many more opportunities to die horribly have exciting adventures! I am one important step down the road towards finishing my Giant Mashaaf, as today I finally textured her* skin. I procrastinated that for some time now because I was in awe of the disgusting wonderfully flowing flesh between the embedded stuff in the original, and wasn't sure how well I could imitate that with hotglue. Turned out that it was easier than I thought. It took me several hours to get around the whole body, but I took all crafting materials outside, so I could work on Mashaaf and my neck-sunburn at the same time. Yay for multitasking! * For some reason I think of this abberation as a her...Long story short, here's some WIP shots!  Materials used: - large and small stones, all with some interesting features - lentils. Pressing them into the hotglue makes extremely cool 'sunken-in pustules'. That's the most important technique I learned today, and will definitely use in the future. Might as well work as eyes. - chickpeas: Wonderfully texturized little buggers! - some pistachio shells. They can make large, bulging pustules or even sunken-in eyes. - hotglue. Lots and lots of hotglue. I think I've used about 10 sticks (20 cm each) today, just for texturizing all over the body...  I glued a large stone at the beast's lower belly as a stand so that it doesn't lean on the scythe-arms which are not strong enough to support the weight. The stone makes it is a bit more upright than before, so now I don't need a base for it, which makes this monster much more versatile on various battlefields.  And that's how it looks at the moment:  Next steps: - finishing pre-painting the flesh-colored butt & mouth parts (see previous posting) and glueing them on (plus blending them in, texture-wise) - glueing on the mouth tentacles - painting the beast. That third point is, as was to be expected, the greatest obstacle for me. I don't want to do the while thing in the fleshy color scheme like Mother, so my next best idea is purple like the latest Flumph. The more colorful schemes that I posted before ( this and that) are simply out of reach for me skill-wise (plus they were probably done with airbrushes, so comparing with them is like comparing apples with ...whatever other fruits that are not like apples *g*). So barring any better idea (which are welcome as always!) I intend to go with purple for the organic flow-flesh, black basepaint with grey & white drybrushing for the stones and some still unknown but contrasting color combination for the various pustules. Those pustules... I think red might work well, but green-yellow could look sufficiently disgusting as well. I guess another testpiece is in order, plus taking a hard look at some Nurgle Minis! |
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Post by tauster on Apr 13, 2015 19:43:38 GMT
It's time for another distracting little side project! I got a large box of dried fruits a while ago (see here), and the Rumbia fruits are my favourite because of their scaly look. So I combined that with my other current obsession (a.k.a. TENTACLES!) and made me one more classic monster. ...btw: Roper, Flumph,... seems like all the cool classic monsters are somehow tentacle-based. Coincidence?  We start with a dried Rumbia fruit, some small wooden beads, a DIY jewellery glass bead (not on the 1st picture) and a small mountain of tentacles. We don't really need them all, but I want to have lots of choices. I guess that first picture gives away which monster this is going to be.  By now it should be obvious!  I glued the wooden beads to the greenstuff tentacles with superglue. Take care and don't get this stuff on your fingers! A first look from the not-yet finished creature. It's still unborn but already has that pissed-off look. I forsee another untimely end coming for Lady Forscale...  Take your time and experiment with which tentacle goes where. This will define the character of your beastie. I already love that squiggly look!  Staring contest. Who wins?  At that stage I realized that I totally forgot to give it a maw...  Not sure what I'll do about it... I like this critter quite a lot and really don't want to ruin it, so I'll probably practice on some testpieces. *sigh* ...or I just leave it as is. I like the look of this bugger - maybe it's one of those rare close-mouthed specimen? The one that's so haughty that it does neither speak to other life forms nor would it dream of eating one...? At last a quick 360 series:     As you can see on the 2nd pic, the creature as a little hole in the center of it's backside. This has already been there, but I didn't want to place an eyestalk there. If I'm making a maw, it's only logical that whatever the beholder eats will have to get out somehow...  Paintin's next! I'll probably go with purple. The flumph looked great in purple too. Can't go wrong with purple. purplepurplepurplepurple...
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. Awesome job dude and very inspiring
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