The Thing Project: Update 6/1-15

[steders]

I need to start my Thing project, this is very inspiring. Might even buy some of manics snow troopers!

[Commander Vyper]

I would Pete, got both sets last week, bloody lovely well worth it, also double up for winter geared colonial marines to face off against all those aliens you've got!

[Lowtardog]

I need to start my Thing project, this is very inspiring. Might even buy some of manics snow troopers!

Is this project 289#

[Commander Vyper]

Is this project 289#

Please! Don't be so silly!


389 I'll have you know...

[Anpu]

A few new pictures for the project, rec-room furniture and two more Things.











Next up, hopefully some more human inhabitants of  antartica, and the start of the station itself.

[Cherno]

Good work, nice to see a thing based on a female (?) for a change.
The arcade machines are great as well, now you need a chess computer so MacReady can pour his whiskey into it after he loses yet another round

[manic _miner]

 Nice update.Love the furniture and the two new Thing pieces.Female one looks great.

[aggro84]

The furniture and accoutrements are really cool.
They are very reminiscent of the movie. 

[steders]

Is this project 289#

Very possibly

I demand you post some WIPS and 'how tos' on your thing thingys. The lady thing, is it all green stuff? What was the basic model you started with? How do you do the teeth? And the tendril/stuff shooting out of the mouth?

OR Just put the whole project in a box and post to me, you know you want to

[Mason]

More great stuff, Anpu!
 

I really love catching your updates, all the lovely new gribbliness, and those arcade machines are the Dogs Doodahs!
 

[Anpu]

Thanks for the comments everyone.  
@steders I'll try to make some WIP:s in the future... I am not very good at sculpting so I use a lot of parts from plastic kits and leftovers from other minis as well.
This is the original model for the female thing. Harwood Hobbies LC05 - Re-Animated Horror

First I carved away all the stitches. The mouth was added with greenstuff like a rim over the torso.
The teeth were cut-off teeth and spines from leftover chaos hounds used for the dog things, I just inserted them into the greenstuff rim and arranged them with a sculpting tool as I wanted it to look. The tendrils are greenstuff rollled into shape and then put together and left to set before trimming the base and gluing it into the mouth, for this one, after basecoats were applied. I also added a left arm cut from a GW corpsecart corpse left hanging by bits of greenstuff. To the right arm I added a row of teeth from a chaos hound and some greenstuff to cover the bandages the model had there, I left it a bit lumpy to simulate the mutating flesh of the thing.
Here are a few WIP things just after transformation after being discovered.
Parts for the first one GW imperial Guard, ghoul left arm, dryad right arm, tentacle arm for neck and maxmini head.


Here is a GW undead head and torso, dryad arms and mantic ghoul legs for some crouching menace, rising from the floor after being left for dead or something.

@Mason The arcade machines are from blackcat bases, pimped with some homemade transfers.

[steders]

Thanks for that!! Going to give it a go.
Or I can just pm you my home address!

[Lowtardog]

Thanks for that!! Going to give it a go.
Or I can just pm you my home address!

Hoi goat boy what happened to your Slaine project been a googling and a surfing and notice you mentioned it a few times over the years

[Anpu]

Here is another large Thing WIP


This was done with inspiration from Thib-0 and with chaos spawn parts, a chaos hound head and heads from an old ettin, as a pause in between working on my fallout stuff.

[manic _miner]

 Very nice conversion.Really captures the feel of the movie creatures.Looking forward to seeing it with some paint on.