Make your own Gelatinous Cube mini!

[BraveSirKevin]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dUvnPNxt2_U/Spld_Jp4DwI/AAAAAAAAALM/svH4vOFWvAc/s400/The+cube+cometh.png

Download and build your own Gelatinous Cube! (http://kevslounge.blogspot.com/2009/08/make-your-own-gelatinous-cube-miniature.html)


Spent years pondering this one... Ages before there was cheap Broadband Internet, Blogs, and Web 2.0… Long before there were readily available Colour Printers and Ink Jet Transparencies…

I never used Gelatinous Cubes in my games cos I never had a decent miniature to represent one. Now I do, and I'm giving it to all of you for free!:smallsmile: Let me know what you think of it.

[Sstoopidtallkid]

Easier method: Take water. Place in 10"*10"*10" cube container. Place in freezer. Wait. Congratulations, you now own a Gelatinous Cube mini, good for one session.

[Johel]

Easier method: Take water. Place in 10"*10"*10" cube container. Place in freezer. Wait. Congratulations, you now own a Gelatinous Cube mini, good for one session.

Better rush the battle, though. Or things could get...melty ? :smalltongue:

[Myshlaevsky]

BraveSirKevin, that is epic. Liking the fact some other group is still playing Mordheim, too.

[shadzar]

So that is what was taking your time away form thinking about the doors!

dl'ed

Kind of disappointed though. Didn't read the author of the thread and was thinking this was yet another laugh at the one WotC made; and turns out to be something useful instead. :smallbiggrin:

[Renegade Paladin]

Easier method: Take water. Place in 10"*10"*10" cube container. Place in freezer. Wait. Congratulations, you now own a Gelatinous Cube mini, good for one session.

Don't you mean 2"x2"x2"? A ten inch cube is Colossal+, not Large. :smalltongue:

[sentaku]

Easier method: Take water. Place in 10"*10"*10" cube container. Place in freezer. Wait. Congratulations, you now own a Gelatinous Cube mini, good for one session.

What wait? Jell-o is much better then an ice cube and more authentic also.

Proof:
http://www.cold-moon.com/images/Motivators/GMs/GelatinousCube.jpg

[woodenbandman]

What wait? Jell-o is much better then an ice cube and more authentic also.

Proof:
http://www.cold-moon.com/images/Motivators/GMs/GelatinousCube.jpg


Dude I love this. I just got an idea for my half black dragon boss. He has a room he calls the Jello Room, and he eats parts of the gelatinous cube within for dessert.

[Skorj]

You know, I've always just assumed that the entire Gelatinous Cube monster concept came from the earliest days of RPGs and minitures, where someone just happened to have jello cubes around as a snack and noticed that they were to scale with the minis.

It would never occur to me to use anything except a to-scale jello cube for this purpose. :smallamused:

[BraveSirKevin]

BraveSirKevin, that is epic. Liking the fact some other group is still playing Mordheim, too.

Thanks Myshlaevsky! :smallsmile: Yeah, Love Mordheim! :smallbiggrin:We only play one campaign a year now though, and we're in the middle of the 2009 season


So that is what was taking your time away form thinking about the doors!

dl'ed

Kind of disappointed though. Didn't read the author of the thread and was thinking this was yet another laugh at the one WotC made; and turns out to be something useful instead. :smallbiggrin:

Yeah... I've actually been working on a ton of different things. Got a stand alone set of Hazards and Obstacles coming out soon, a set of 1.5" tiles for the MKD crowd and a special Premium Add-On to the dungeon set for those who want to donate a little for my efforts. Should all be up sometime during september if my business gives me enough free time to do it all :) Not easy being your own boss, but nothing worth doing is!

And yeah! WotC's G-Cube is proof of that companies audacity... They somehow figure we'd pay for just any old crap they pawn off on us :) Thanks for your support Shadzar! Very much appreciated!


You know, I've always just assumed that the entire Gelatinous Cube monster concept came from the earliest days of RPGs and minitures, where someone just happened to have jello cubes around as a snack and noticed that they were to scale with the minis.

It would never occur to me to use anything except a to-scale jello cube for this purpose. :smallamused:

And all the other Jell-O Cube enthusiasts... Hell Yeah! :smallbiggrin: Though I'd not be surprised if chunks of the Cube mysteriously disappeared in the middle of combat :smalltongue: Had a similar problem in my last campaign featuring a Pizza Elemental and Bacon Golem.

[Keld Denar]

Speaking of pizza and gaming, I've found something that is very nifty for characters. Some delivery pizza comes with this funky little plastic tripod thingy in the middle of it. I guess its to hold up the middle of the box when you stack multiple pizzas on top of one another. Anyway, its just taller than the height of most medium based minis. That means that your flying wizard can sit up on his little sky-pizza-pod thing and fly around with impuny without regards to his more base landbound allies and foes. Just don't shake the table.

PS, awesome cube dude. Now I need to find a place to put an actual GC in an actual game. Lower the lights, put a glowy sword inside of the cube, and BAM, instant encounter that your players will NOT be expecting!

[Crow]

Does anybody have a pic of the WotC gel-cube?

[BraveSirKevin]

Speaking of pizza and gaming, I've found something that is very nifty for characters. Some delivery pizza comes with this funky little plastic tripod thingy in the middle of it. I guess its to hold up the middle of the box when you stack multiple pizzas on top of one another. Anyway, its just taller than the height of most medium based minis. That means that your flying wizard can sit up on his little sky-pizza-pod thing and fly around with impuny without regards to his more base landbound allies and foes. Just don't shake the table.

PS, awesome cube dude. Now I need to find a place to put an actual GC in an actual game. Lower the lights, put a glowy sword inside of the cube, and BAM, instant encounter that your players will NOT be expecting!

That Pizza Podium idea is awesome! :) Converted some of those into Tavern tables at one point, but I never thought of using them like that!

Always though a good place to put a GC is at the bottom of the Privy Pit, kinda like a medieval septic tank. The MM says they can't climb walls so It'd be pretty safe as long as it's a very deep pit. Sanitary too. :smallconfused: Just get some conniving Kobold prankster to convince them that he dropped a huge ruby down there and cackle maniacally when they go looking for it! :smallbiggrin: (better put an actual ruby down there though... or you're liable to get a few D20's lobbed forcefully in your general direction)

[BraveSirKevin]

Does anybody have a pic of the WotC gel-cube?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2194/1833082306_a4f06d1e2f.jpg?v=1194043457
Very uninspired... It's not bad, just not very interesting when compared to the images in the various MM's which always looked so cool.

[Crow]

Oh. Ew. It needs some debris in it or something.

It looks like one of those glass cubes that they make separators out of in some office buildings.

[Bagel]

http://homepage.mac.com/guyf/GenConIndy2005/P8205705.JPG

http://homepage.mac.com/guyf/GenConIndy2005/pictures.html
http://otherelectricities.com/swarm/vanishing2c.html

[Keld Denar]

It looks like one of those glass cubes that they make separators out of in some office buildings.

Hmmmm, this makes me want to petition the homebrew crew on the next forum down to stat up a Gelatinous Cubicle monster.

As someone who has worked in a cubicle, I gotta say that that would be FAR more frightening than a standard vanillia GC.

[Pika...]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dUvnPNxt2_U/Spld_Jp4DwI/AAAAAAAAALM/svH4vOFWvAc/s400/The+cube+cometh.png

Download and build your own Gelatinous Cube! (http://kevslounge.blogspot.com/2009/08/make-your-own-gelatinous-cube-miniature.html)


Spent years pondering this one... Ages before there was cheap Broadband Internet, Blogs, and Web 2.0… Long before there were readily available Colour Printers and Ink Jet Transparencies…

I never used Gelatinous Cubes in my games cos I never had a decent miniature to represent one. Now I do, and I'm giving it to all of you for free!:smallsmile: Let me know what you think of it.

That is pretty cool. Like it, and thanks for posting it.

However, it just not seems like much fun to me, and a bit to "empty" is the word I keep thinking.

Is there any kind of transparent puddy, clay, substance, whatever that would dray transparent? Preferably one I could mold with my 40K hobby tools, and use various bits and junk D&D minis to implant in?

Any help would be appreciated. Now I am itching to make one!

[Fiendish_Dire_Moose]

I already make my own, with delicious results.
Watch it wiggle, see it jiggle, roll for initiative.

[BraveSirKevin]

That is pretty cool. Like it, and thanks for posting it.

However, it just not seems like much fun to me, and a bit to "empty" is the word I keep thinking.

Is there any kind of transparent puddy, clay, substance, whatever that would dray transparent? Preferably one I could mold with my 40K hobby tools, and use various bits and junk D&D minis to implant in?

Any help would be appreciated. Now I am itching to make one!

2 part epoxy resin, or some variation on that. You need something catalyst based or you'll wait months for it to dry. You can either make a transparent plastic box like I have and slather it in resin, or you can pre paint the miniatures and cast a resin cube around them (which will forever trap the mini, so don't do this with any that you plan on keeping). Once the resin is dry you can sand it and smooth it with appropriate tools, but you'll want to work your way down to a really fine sandpaper (the wet variety) towards the end and follow that up with some heavy grade burnishing or you won't get that clean, polished look.

[Haven]

What wait? Jell-o is much better then an ice cube and more authentic also.

Proof:
[xIMG]http://www.cold-moon.com/images/Motivators/GMs/GelatinousCube.jpg[/IMG]

It's alive.

[Random832]

Anyone remember the product "Wonder World Aquarium"?

[BraveSirKevin]

No... What's that?:smallconfused:

[Random832]

No... What's that?:smallconfused:
It was a toy from back in the 90s - never had one, but from the commercials it looked like it was some kind of gel that looked just like water that you could suspend e.g. plastic fish in.

[Foryn Gilnith]

Google is your very best friend.
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:2XI4eTyMRKEJ:www.projectposner.org/case/2002/314F3d289+wonder+world+aquarium\&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=xNZ&q=%22wonder+world+aquarium%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g1
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090601135549AAbYIxg


PS: why is giantitp rated so high in Google search results? This thread is the seventh result for Wonder World Aquarium, and it's only had that text for a few minutes.

[BraveSirKevin]

I've never seen that, but I have seen something similar. I was at a wedding recently and they had bowls filled with that gelatinous substance with just a tiny bit of water as a decoration, so it's probably still readily available, but you'd still need some sort of transparent water proof container to hold it in place. Though I imagine it'd be great for suspending little debris for effect.

Hmmm... Perhaps the stuff they use to make Gel Candles would do the trick :smallconfused: