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Post by indigo777 on Sept 11, 2014 0:32:49 GMT
AKA a Metroid from the Nintendo game series of the same name. I'm running a one shot gaming session soon and decided to make it a tribute to one of my favorite Nintendo games Metroid. Basically an exploration dungeon crawl, with a Dire T-rex that fires its spikes, a Purple Dragon that breaths fireballs, and an Elder brain in a jar for the bosses, with a few battles along the way. Anyway I found myself in need of a Metroid miniature so went to work. Here's the results: -The Metroid is a 1/2 inch clear acrylic bead with the bottom half dremeled away with a sanding bit then shaped with a smaller sanding bit to the shape of a metroids carapace. -I drilled and dremeled several holes in the carapace to give some internal structure to the creature. Then painted these red along with the bottom of the carapace. -When the paint dried I plugged the drilled holes with hot glue and used the hot glue gun tip to spread a thing layer of hotglue over the surface to give the carapace some texturing. - I found some old Zoids model kit teeth in my crafting bin and cut those to size and glued them into the carapace to make the metroids big and small fangs and painted them Ivory white. - I finished it off with a dry brushing of neon green paint and a heavy coat of Pledge with future shine. - Finally I attached it to a base with a clear sprue from an old model kit for a stand. I didn't glue the mini to the top of the stand so that if the Metroid succeeds on its grapple check I can pop it off the stand attach it to most miniatures heads like so:
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2014 0:29:01 GMT
truly a work of art my friend. Nice job!
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Post by DarthTaco18 on Sept 12, 2014 2:43:07 GMT
LOOK OUT THE METROIDS ARE HERE!!!
Now if only I had finished that game...
Looks awesome though
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Post by beetlewing on Sept 12, 2014 6:08:57 GMT
Awesome job.
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dmzane
Paint Manipulator
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Post by dmzane on Sept 12, 2014 8:49:05 GMT
LOOK OUT THE METROIDS ARE HERE!!! Now if only I had finished that game... Looks awesome though One of my first games to beat lol. Fantastic job on the mini.
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sydneysykkness
Cardboard Collector
"I would like a hand tossed sausage." *Party member laughs* "I'M ORDERING PIZZA!!!"
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Post by sydneysykkness on Mar 10, 2015 19:33:09 GMT
LOOK OUT THE METROIDS ARE HERE!!! Now if only I had finished that game... Looks awesome though DarthTaco I thought the same thing
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Post by voduchyld on Mar 12, 2015 12:50:17 GMT
as a metroid fan, i think it's WAY TOO COOL! I want one too
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Post by michka on Mar 16, 2015 6:36:37 GMT
I never played the game, but now I want to. I also want to make one of these and throw it at a Star Trek landing party.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Mar 16, 2015 8:59:33 GMT
mishka, all metroid games are awesome. though my favorites are...
Metroid - Fusion Metroid - Prime Metroid - Other M
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