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Offline PhilB

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Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« on: March 27, 2016, 05:15:33 PM »
I've been playing a Pathfinder Adventure Path called Rise of the Runelords for a year and a half now, and we've just gotten up to the epic battle with Black Magga, a funky sea monster type critter which looks something like a cross between the Locj Ness monster and a giant octopus. But how to represent it at my gaming table?


I've been agonizing over this dilemma for months. Finally broke down and ordered a plastic elasmosaurus and octopus off Amazon. I was worried about how to get them in the right shape, but some guys on the Pulp board gave me good advice.



Step 1) After 2 minutes in boiling water, the figures were quite pliable, and after being plunged in cold water, held their new shape quite well.



Step 2) A few slices with the Dremel, and everything was suitably dismembered.



Step 3) The elasmosaurus head was superglued to an old CD, and the 8 tentacles to standard 1" washers - so that they can be moved, or even used separately.



Step 4) I decided to throw caution to the winds and do my standard black spraypaint as undercoat.



After a quick paintjob, it looks OK. Thought of going for a more involved scale effect, but chickened out. Maybe later.



Here is Black Magga with a sample victim...


Offline Hobby Services

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2016, 05:47:01 PM »
Nice work.  Take it the individual tentacles can maneuver around during combat rather than just being part of the head/main body's reach melee attacks?  Are they tipped with eyeballs in the concept art?  How does that happen?  "Well son, when an Eye of the Deep, a sea serpent, and an octopus get involved in a drunken three-way..."

Seems like it'd be easy to do a single-piece conversion using the same parts and some putty.  Not useful for fighting opponents on the surface, but be nifty in Deep Wars or some other aquatic combat game.
« Last Edit: March 27, 2016, 05:49:05 PM by Hobby Services »

Offline Elbows

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2016, 05:49:02 PM »
Very cool, nice execution. 
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Offline Rob_bresnen

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2016, 07:44:05 PM »
That is awesome work.
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Offline Garanhir

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2016, 09:48:21 PM »
I love that.
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Offline barbaric splendor

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2016, 10:55:05 PM »
Awesomely creative!

Offline Bodvoc

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2016, 03:28:55 PM »
Nifty work.
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Offline Michka

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2016, 12:28:48 AM »
Brilliant work on the Black Magga. Your solution is amazing, and accurate. Great painting too. When I ran that scene last year I cheated it into a whole bunch of tentacles. One of the tentacles had an eye on the end of it, because I thought it would be creepy. I like your version much better. 

Offline PhilB

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2016, 12:43:09 PM »
Yes, it turned out quite well, and I suspect the tentacles will get more mileage than the central lochness monster part.

Also, I'm now looking at the central part of the octopus, from which I severed all the tentacles. If I cut it off about 1/3 level, at an angle, to make a waterline, then sculpt a kind of beak-like maw, it could be a watcher-in-the-waters critter... using the same tentacles.

Looks like the dremel is going back into action!

Offline DeafNala

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2016, 02:48:10 PM »
That is a FANTASTICALLY IMAGINATIVE creation, BEAUTIFULLY modeled, painted, & based. WONDERFULLY WELL DONE!
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Offline Vermis

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2016, 03:32:18 PM »
The black magga's looking great, but...

it could be a watcher-in-the-waters critter... using the same tentacles.

Looks like the dremel is going back into action!

Ach, no! That thing was dreadful.  :P I'd say go book-Watcher and just use the tentacles you've already painted up. They'd be brilliant for it.

Offline Hobby Services

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2016, 08:28:57 PM »
The black magga's looking great, but...

Ach, no! That thing was dreadful.  :P I'd say go book-Watcher and just use the tentacles you've already painted up. They'd be brilliant for it.

The real trick would be converting the tentacles so they end in Mickey Mouse gloves holding gardening shears. 

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Offline ZeroTwentythree

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2016, 05:37:03 AM »
I'm not familiar with the source material, but I love the look of the critter!

Offline The Bibliophile

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2017, 05:40:56 PM »
Can I ask who made the original dinosaur and octopus?
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Offline Duke Donald

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Re: Pathfinder's Black Magga homebuilt
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2017, 07:03:54 PM »
Cool!

 

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