Vikotnik's-a-makin'-a-Krakin' (Pictures of finished paint job 27-08-2013)

[Limaike]

Vikotnik's-a-makin'-a-Krakin'...

out of bacon?

No? Nevermind, it's still very, very cool! Looking forward to the next leg.

[DeafNala]

EXCELLENT START! The thing that I most admire about your miniatures is the WONDERFUL expressive personalities they all possess. How you will achieve this with a Kraken will be a process worth following closely. Egro, keep up the FINE WORK!

[Centaur_Seducer]

Vikotnik's-a-makin'-a-Krakin'...

out of bacon?

No? Nevermind, it's still very, very cool! Looking forward to the next leg.

I'd love to see him make one out of bacon!

[Dr. The Viking]

I'd love to see him make one out of bacon!

If you want bacon I don't think vik's your man... maybe fakon?

[Centaur_Seducer]

If you want bacon I don't think vik's your man... maybe fakon?

That's the whole idea

[vikotnik]

Thanks again for the enthusiasm, guys!

Dr Zombie: Åcon was the reason I started this thing. I was just not able to finish it in time for this year. Should I not be able to attend next year, I will make sure that the other Dr. has the beast at his disposal to harrass you lot!

AndyM, yup, that thing is unbelievable. They have a documentary on how they did it on Massive Voodoo. Stunning. The ship has been built totally from scratch...

DeafNala, thanks for the nice words! I can only return the compliment as it always is over-the top stuff with lots of character like yours that keeps one inspired!

Ah, and those two Scandinavians in the back, stop jabbering!

Meanwhile I adjusted the pose of the tentacles a bit in order to make it more plausible. I have temporarily stuck the first resin-tentacle to the tile to show you guys where this is going:



Man, imagine that there will be eight of them in different poses!
Sadly, I forgot to place my standard scale-reference miniature next to it so far, but in the next photos I won't.

Before I go to bed, I will start adding some texture to the head...
More to follow soon.

[Admiral Benbow]

Before I go to bed, I will start adding some texture to the head...
More to follow soon.

Sleep is overvalued. We need new pictures, man!
 

[Zafarelli]

Sleep is overvalued. We need new pictures, man!
 

Yes, I'm a bit disappointed, too. Now that he collected all 8 tentacles yesterday in the evening, I had expected to see them all bent in wriggling shapes by now

[Dr. The Viking]

He's probably still up fondling them... and have forgotten why! 

[vikotnik]

He's probably still up fondling them... and have forgotten why! 

Folks, as soon as Zafarelli gave me seven straight tentacles on Friday night, my thoughts really went astray.

When I saw this,



I immediately thought of this:

 

I spent the evening playing around with the sculpt of the head, refining it here and there and adding more skin texture still. Nothing to show as I am using up my skin-coloured Sculpey with this project. As this stuff is a bit transparent, it photographs like hell. Well, the amount I have will be used up when I finished this and after that, it's the brilliant grey stuff again. The next sculpts will photograph better, promised! 

On saturday, I finally bent the tentacles in

wriggling shapes

and cut them to the desired lengths:


There are some leftovers I somehow do not want to throw away but have no use for whatsoever. If you drop me a PM, I'll send them to you just for fun:


I spent Saturday night finishing the sculpt and finally baked it this afternoon. Here are some pictures, hope you like them:










In a game, the tentacles would have to be stuck to the gaming surface with blue tack or something similar. Each tentacle would then be used as a single miniature with individual stat as Dr. The Viking thought out a while ago. Thing is, I don't even know if I would use this one in a game!

Next will be some rather boring steps of casting and stuff. I will come back as soon as there is something that can be shown again.
Hope you liked this, stay tuned for more...!

 

[Dr. The Viking]

Send me one of the surplus bits for a fishmonger's stand 

[Turbo-Ben]

I immediately thought of this:

 

Although all your pics look very cool - I really love this on!

[Andym]

Surely basing the tentacles and the head separately would be less fiddly for a game than Blu tac? I'm sure you could make some really cool, choppy waves as if they're bursting out of the water! Treat the different parts as characters of a 'squid' crew. Each with its own hits and stuff!

[Bugsda]

That's just stone cold genius, can't wait to see it with a coat of paint 

[Machinegunkelly]

Have you thought about hollowing out the skull to get some very weak LED in behind the Eyes to make them glow? Oh, and jolly najs work. Unbelivably well sculpted.