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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: Mr. Peabody on July 11, 2014, 12:06:38 AM
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Need help finding a suitably interesting Lagoon Terror for the Perilous Island campaign. Have been hitting the local dollar-shops, but the plastic / rubber toy selection has been lacking.. :'(
I'm open to suggestions, but am hoping to find something with tentacles that I can lop off and use on separate bases...
By 'good value' I mean worth-the-money for something that may not get a lot of table-time. That's why I'm drawn to the idea of an assortment of separate tentacles that could be used, singly or in groups, for other scenarios and settings.
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Take a look here, some interesting pieces, reasonably priced.
http://www.achesoncreations.com
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Then again, if what you really want is tentacles, why not just make them out of modelling clay?
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Then again, if what you really want is tentacles, why not just make them out of modelling clay?
Yup. that's what Mila did. She made a creature out of Scupley.
There a post around here with a WIP pics, I'll see if I can find it.
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Here's the one I made --
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=52360.0
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I have the one from Thomarillion:
(http://paintoholic.nl/images/monster.jpg)
And the shot from LPL3:
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/3/577_28_06_09_9_31_54_2.jpg)
Now, I don't see the monster in Thomarillion's catalogue anymore, but the tentacles are still available:
http://www.thomarillion.com/index.php?seite=katalog&modell=tentakel&pos=1&sprache=gb_
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Here's mine. ;)
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Good leads everyone, thank you. :D
Very impressed with the Sculpy effort! Will have to look into that.
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Need help finding a suitably interesting Lagoon Terror for the Perilous Island campaign. Have been hitting the local dollar-shops, but the plastic / rubber toy selection has been lacking.. :'(
I'm open to suggestions, but am hoping to find something with tentacles that I can lop off and use on separate bases...
By 'good value' I mean worth-the-money for something that may not get a lot of table-time. That's why I'm drawn to the idea of an assortment of separate tentacles that could be used, singly or in groups, for other scenarios and settings.
This is why I always go by the dollar section in target. ;)
Here's my 'Good Value' monster thats crude but effective.
I put this together for a D&D game awhile back, but still have for whenever.
I got these a few years ago at a cost per oct of $1 each.
Print out of Tolkien horror scrounged on google.
Lopped off tentacles and hot glued to pennies.
(http://imageshack.com/a/img840/6334/28xe.jpg)
(http://imageshack.com/a/img840/5018/74p2.jpg)
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Maybe head down to your local craft store like Michaels or Hobby Lobby, here in the U.S.? They have all kinds of plastic animals, dinosaurs, fantasy creatures, etc. find likely body parts and lop them off and base them up. For example, there is a hydra with multiple heads you could use...
Don't forget your 40% off online coupon!
Mike Demana
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Amalric, that's exactly the sort of thing I want to do...
Unfortunately our local Michaels, dollar and craft shops (where I live in Canada) have been a bust. Which is why I started this wee thread. I remain undaunted and I think the other suggestions that have come in will only serve to help anyone else travelling down this path.
We all need a quality Lagoon Terror in our collections! ;D
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I was looking at modifiying one of these:
http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Bones/latest/77183
(http://www.reapermini.com/graphics/gallery/4/77183_w_1.jpg)
Chuck
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HEY! That might work just on its own. That's a doughty terror, right there.
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I like that one!
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I got these a few years ago at a cost per oct of $1 each.
(http://imageshack.com/a/img840/6334/28xe.jpg)
(http://imageshack.com/a/img840/5018/74p2.jpg)
Sweet, I'll take a dozen of those!
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Sweet, I'll take a dozen of those!
Geez Dave...
Don'tcha know nuthin'??
Unit of measure is clearly 8
You may order in multiples, or fractions, of same...
or didja mean the ENTIRE beastie?
Rather than simply the sucker encrusted individual appendages...
Valerik
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VIII beasties plz....
Then my friends call all have their own personal Terrors.
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If I found them today, I'd by them all up and hawk them here to you lot.
:D
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Found a very good candidate, albeit one with fewer tentacles. But it is a quality piece, loaded with detail....
The Schleich Krokodil (http://www.schleich-s.com/en/GB/toys/wild_life/crocodile/)
This beast is 7" long... It could believably make short work (two bites?) of the average 28mm mini and comes very nicely painted.
(http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/04/00/50/86/14/0400508614378_500X500.jpg)
Perhaps not enough tentacles, but a convincing terror all the same. :D And at under $10.00, you can't go wrong.
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Very nice!
That should put the fear of the water into the characters.
It reminds me of one of those history channels shows called Super Croc or something like that. It was about croc fossils of enormous sized crocs, like the one you just got.
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I wanted a Kraken sea monster for my pirates but I didn't want to spend a fortune on it so I bought some cheap toy dinosaurs at the swap meet and cut their tails off. From Evergreen plastic I cut out discs for suckers and attached them. I then stuck the tails in Milliput bases and painted them. Later I decided I'd like a head for my monster and I found two good options: the Star Wars' sea monster toy found for a dollar at the swap meet and Reaper's Desert Thing. I posted the results awhile back and it can be seen at leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=42541.0
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DAMN! That is a wicked great beast! :-* :-* :-*
Also a brilliant and deceptively simple idea!
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I just had a look at a dollar store octopus on my wife's desk at work and the tentacles would be perfect. I'll head down today and see if they still have them.
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I haven't seen any in the Dollar Stores near for ages. Must have been a run on Octopuses.
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We almost bought the same one for the Perilous Island Lagoon Terror. Another one we almost went with was their "giant" crab. lol lol
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Dave,
I got the Giant Crab. I cut the pincers off and mounted them on pennies. I'm just not convinced that the head/body works.