Quick and easy Oozes and Gelatinous Cube.
Nov 21, 2013 0:51:52 GMT
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Post by indigo777 on Nov 21, 2013 0:51:52 GMT
Moving topics over from old forum. Originals here:
dmscraft.freeforums.net/thread/806/quick-easy-oozes
dmscraft.freeforums.net/thread/849/gelatinous-cube-miniature
Oozes
First I drew some circles the size I wanted the oozes to be. Then I filled the circles with various globs of hotglue and experimented with layers of glue to make several oozes.
This is one of the first oozes I made.
To make the tendrils I put a large glop of glue on a base of cooled hot glue and pulled the glue gun away slowly as I blew air on the glue that came out of the nozzle. This cooled the glue further away from the nozzle into a solid structure to support the new glue coming out. As the glue guns trigger goes as far as it can the amount of glue coming out lessens and you get a natural taper off until you get a fine spiderweb like line of glue coming off the end of the tendril. Clip off the line at the length and thickness you want the tendril to be.
I learned a lot from it especially how not to paint them. On this one I painted it solid gray. Big mistake. Now I paint the oozes with paint washes rather than solid paint in order to keep the clearness of the hotglue so light would go through the ooze. I coated the wash with a thick glossy clear coat of paint to keep them looking slimy.
Here's some newer ones.
Large Gray Ooze.
Green Slime
I tried a little experiment as well. I wanted to make an Angler Ooze. An Angler Ooze is an ooze that lures in bugs and players by mimicking candle light/campfire light. It has a central rise of bio-luminescence and two tendrils on either side of the light to snatch bugs with.
In order to make it I used a cheap LED Tealight that flickers like a candle. The tealights separate very easily from the top piece with the fake plastic flame. This leaves you a nice open LED to coat in hotglue while the battery and switch are encased safely in the bottom piece and will stay easily accessible. I used the same method as before to make the ooze except I placed the tealight in the middle of the circle before glueing. I tested the leds reaction to the glue as well. After 10 minutes of it being on covered in glue I can safely say the flickering LED does not get hot at all so the glue doesn't melt lol.
My players are constantly wary of strange lights in the distance expecting the classic Will-Of-the-Whisps, I hope this strange light throws them off a bit.
Finished Angler Ooze
Edit: Added the pics of the black pudding from further down thread into this post.
Gelatinous Cube
To make this I built a 1 brick tall 1 and 7/8ths by 1 and 7/8ths of an inch square frame out of legos and placed a dice container in the middle.
I made sure to coat all the legos and dice container with petroleum jelly so the glue would not adhere to the frames.
I then applied hot glue around the container until I reached the top of the first layer of bricks.
I then put another layer of bricks on top of the lego frame and applied hot glue again to fill up the frame.
I then repeated this over and over until I had an almost 2 inch tall cube of glue with a hollow center.
When the glue had dried I flipped the mold over and applied a layer of glue over the top of the dice cube making the gelatinous cubes top.
Once this was cooled I removed the entire frame of legos from the cube. Sadly I had to cut the Gelatinous cube in half on one side to remove it from the dice container and the dice container broke in the process. The gelatinous cube was easily hot glued back together though.
To finalize the cubes shape I applied another layer of hot glue over the gelatinous cube similar to how I make oozes, doing this for the top and four sides of the cube. This added a nice continuous coating to the cube and sealed up spots the hot glue had not reached while it was in the mold.
I added globs of glue on to the top of each side of the cube and and let them run down the cube to give it an organic ooze appearance. I ran the hot glue guns tip over the bottom of the cube to flatten it out so it stood evenly. It measured about 2"x"2x"2 give or take 1/8th of an inch in some places. This was what it looked like when done.
The cube is hollow and able to fit over miniatures. Here it is flipped over to show the cavity holding 4 medium sized creatures.
I gave the cube a spring green colored paint wash to bring out the details and give the cube its infamous green color. Then coated the cube in a thick clear coating of paint to make it look slimy.
To finalize the Ooze I plan to add an LED to the inside to make it glow. Here it is with an LED flashlight illuminating it from behind.
This miniature ended up being more costly than I had thought it would have been. In the end it took 22 miniature Glue Sticks worth of glue to make it (about $2.50 worth of hot glue) and I lost a dice container in the process lol. I'm extremely happy with it though. Its strong and flexible so I don't see it ever breaking in play. And even though it took an insane amount of glue it is still 20 times cheaper then the $60.00+ the WOTC Gelatinous Cube sells for.
dmscraft.freeforums.net/thread/806/quick-easy-oozes
dmscraft.freeforums.net/thread/849/gelatinous-cube-miniature
Oozes
Here's some quick oozes I made using hotglue.
First I drew some circles the size I wanted the oozes to be. Then I filled the circles with various globs of hotglue and experimented with layers of glue to make several oozes.
This is one of the first oozes I made.
To make the tendrils I put a large glop of glue on a base of cooled hot glue and pulled the glue gun away slowly as I blew air on the glue that came out of the nozzle. This cooled the glue further away from the nozzle into a solid structure to support the new glue coming out. As the glue guns trigger goes as far as it can the amount of glue coming out lessens and you get a natural taper off until you get a fine spiderweb like line of glue coming off the end of the tendril. Clip off the line at the length and thickness you want the tendril to be.
I learned a lot from it especially how not to paint them. On this one I painted it solid gray. Big mistake. Now I paint the oozes with paint washes rather than solid paint in order to keep the clearness of the hotglue so light would go through the ooze. I coated the wash with a thick glossy clear coat of paint to keep them looking slimy.
Here's some newer ones.
Large Gray Ooze.
Green Slime
I tried a little experiment as well. I wanted to make an Angler Ooze. An Angler Ooze is an ooze that lures in bugs and players by mimicking candle light/campfire light. It has a central rise of bio-luminescence and two tendrils on either side of the light to snatch bugs with.
In order to make it I used a cheap LED Tealight that flickers like a candle. The tealights separate very easily from the top piece with the fake plastic flame. This leaves you a nice open LED to coat in hotglue while the battery and switch are encased safely in the bottom piece and will stay easily accessible. I used the same method as before to make the ooze except I placed the tealight in the middle of the circle before glueing. I tested the leds reaction to the glue as well. After 10 minutes of it being on covered in glue I can safely say the flickering LED does not get hot at all so the glue doesn't melt lol.
My players are constantly wary of strange lights in the distance expecting the classic Will-Of-the-Whisps, I hope this strange light throws them off a bit.
Finished Angler Ooze
Edit: Added the pics of the black pudding from further down thread into this post.
Gelatinous Cube
Decided to make a Gelatinous Cube miniature out of hot glue using a similar method to how I create oozes.
To make this I built a 1 brick tall 1 and 7/8ths by 1 and 7/8ths of an inch square frame out of legos and placed a dice container in the middle.
I made sure to coat all the legos and dice container with petroleum jelly so the glue would not adhere to the frames.
I then applied hot glue around the container until I reached the top of the first layer of bricks.
I then put another layer of bricks on top of the lego frame and applied hot glue again to fill up the frame.
I then repeated this over and over until I had an almost 2 inch tall cube of glue with a hollow center.
When the glue had dried I flipped the mold over and applied a layer of glue over the top of the dice cube making the gelatinous cubes top.
Once this was cooled I removed the entire frame of legos from the cube. Sadly I had to cut the Gelatinous cube in half on one side to remove it from the dice container and the dice container broke in the process. The gelatinous cube was easily hot glued back together though.
To finalize the cubes shape I applied another layer of hot glue over the gelatinous cube similar to how I make oozes, doing this for the top and four sides of the cube. This added a nice continuous coating to the cube and sealed up spots the hot glue had not reached while it was in the mold.
I added globs of glue on to the top of each side of the cube and and let them run down the cube to give it an organic ooze appearance. I ran the hot glue guns tip over the bottom of the cube to flatten it out so it stood evenly. It measured about 2"x"2x"2 give or take 1/8th of an inch in some places. This was what it looked like when done.
The cube is hollow and able to fit over miniatures. Here it is flipped over to show the cavity holding 4 medium sized creatures.
I gave the cube a spring green colored paint wash to bring out the details and give the cube its infamous green color. Then coated the cube in a thick clear coating of paint to make it look slimy.
To finalize the Ooze I plan to add an LED to the inside to make it glow. Here it is with an LED flashlight illuminating it from behind.
This miniature ended up being more costly than I had thought it would have been. In the end it took 22 miniature Glue Sticks worth of glue to make it (about $2.50 worth of hot glue) and I lost a dice container in the process lol. I'm extremely happy with it though. Its strong and flexible so I don't see it ever breaking in play. And even though it took an insane amount of glue it is still 20 times cheaper then the $60.00+ the WOTC Gelatinous Cube sells for.