@thingone and the Carrion Crawler (mini figure painting - watercolor & fingernail polish)

in #art5 years ago

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T-Rex 0 - Carrion Crawler 1

I had to kill a few hours in American Fork (yes, that is the name of a town) with the things while our car was getting worked on. The Gamer's Inn game store was in walking distance, and I figured the things would love it. I was right.

Gamer's Inn is a nice game store, with a large selection of board, card and specialty games, a smaller selection of pen & paper RPGs, and several spacious and comfortable playing areas. Everyone was friendly and bonus points for a real chain mail shirt :) I have now immortalized this fine establishment on the Steemit World Map.

The things loved and wanted pretty much everything in the store. They are obsessed with monsters, and dragons, and spaceships, and superheroes, so... they were pretty much in heaven. Once we got to the wall of D&D mini figures though, it was clear @thingone really needed one. He wanted one so bad. He has been reading my monster manuals (D&D monster books) and already plays with my collection of (prepainted plastic) minifigures, but he had never seen unpainted minis. The idea of picking one out and painting it absolutely tickled him pink.

After carefully examining every single one of the dozens and dozens of minis, and reviewing what each creature was and what it did, he wanted the carrion crawler. It has paralyzing poison you see, and he is fascinated with poison and venom. And, it has tentacles. The tentacles really sold him. The eyeball doesn't fall far from the eyestalk <3 A carrion crawler basically looks like a giant centipede with paralyzing tentacles around its head.

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We do have some acrylic paints but decided to let @thingone use his water colors. He picked out the base color and decided to go green.

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After getting a good base coat on, he asked me to take over. I went purple for the tentacles and legs and added some blood and gore dripping down its front and into a pool of blood in front of it.

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The watercolors yielded an interesting look on the relatively non-porous mini, almost like a translucent glaze.

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I probably would have been happy to call it done at this point, but the next day @dillemma suggested that I do some translucent fingernail polish coats on top. Once she mentioned that she had sparkly glittery fingernail polish that could go on, @thingone was sold. Do it dad! Glittery carrion crawler! Okay here goes with the fingernail polish :)

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I used a translucent sparkly gold over the darker green sections in the folds of the body, and a shimmery white coat with an ice blue sheen over the lighter green areas. Sparkly purple for the tentacles of course :)

Several coats of the shimmery white/blue and gold over the green watercolor really gave the back of the carrion crawler a complex iridescent sheen. Okay good call with the fingernail polish mom! @thingone is liking how this is going :)

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The sparkly sheen doesn't really come through in photos so I took a video clip (this is shortly before I called it finished, I still hadn't put the sparkly purple fingernail polish on the legs yet):

And the finished Carrion Crawler :)

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I love that you call you kids thing one and two. Tho not quite the same, my friend named her cats Saba & Tage. Cause when they get together its Sabotage!

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LOL that is good - that should pretty much be default names for two cats. Also, now I have the beastie boys song in my head. Sabotage!

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that sir is bad ass. thing one really knows how to dress a monster in the finest of frocks. the glitter nail polish trick will soon become standard D&D fashion in the cool circuits. you should just make a glitter paint line now and market it to the Gamers Inn.

It looks so much better in person than I could capture in picture or video. It really has a crazy pearlescence. I totally want to buy a dragon mini and paint it with watercolor and fingernail polish now!

doooo eeet!!

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