beckyg
2006-10-29, 11:13 PM
When life gives you styrofoam balls, make Beholders (or call a doctor).
http://www.wildlife-fantasy.com/photos/beholders_close-up_scary1.jpg
I was running a D&D campaign with Beholders in it, and to my surprise, Wizards of the Coast has not made any freakin' Beholder figurines! (Not that I could find, anyway.) They're only one of the most trademark monsters in the system, so why would we want to go and do something like make some figures of them - especially when we could make a fiendish gnoll warlock instead. Everyone knows there are just dozens of them running around. 9_9
Anywho, I corrected this shortcoming by making my own out of styrofoam balls, brown paint, pipe cleaners, googly-eyes (yes they move) and my trusty glue gun (also useful for making drool). The mouth I grabbed from one of my many pics of Cthulhu type monsters and printed them out and glued them on.
Here you can see that I used homemade stands to put them on (courtesy of my husband). I placed an unpainted figure there for scale. The Beholders are about the right size in comparison to the human figure.
http://www.wildlife-fantasy.com/photos/beholders_scale1.jpg
The finale of my campaign had a Beholder "Hive Mother" in it. They're bigger and nastier. Mine also happened to be a lich, but that's niether here nor there. ;-)
Hive Mother
http://www.wildlife-fantasy.com/photos/beh_hive_mother1.jpg
Hive Mother in scale.
http://www.wildlife-fantasy.com/photos/beh_hive_mother_scale2.jpg
http://www.wildlife-fantasy.com/photos/beholders_close-up_scary1.jpg
I was running a D&D campaign with Beholders in it, and to my surprise, Wizards of the Coast has not made any freakin' Beholder figurines! (Not that I could find, anyway.) They're only one of the most trademark monsters in the system, so why would we want to go and do something like make some figures of them - especially when we could make a fiendish gnoll warlock instead. Everyone knows there are just dozens of them running around. 9_9
Anywho, I corrected this shortcoming by making my own out of styrofoam balls, brown paint, pipe cleaners, googly-eyes (yes they move) and my trusty glue gun (also useful for making drool). The mouth I grabbed from one of my many pics of Cthulhu type monsters and printed them out and glued them on.
Here you can see that I used homemade stands to put them on (courtesy of my husband). I placed an unpainted figure there for scale. The Beholders are about the right size in comparison to the human figure.
http://www.wildlife-fantasy.com/photos/beholders_scale1.jpg
The finale of my campaign had a Beholder "Hive Mother" in it. They're bigger and nastier. Mine also happened to be a lich, but that's niether here nor there. ;-)
Hive Mother
http://www.wildlife-fantasy.com/photos/beh_hive_mother1.jpg
Hive Mother in scale.
http://www.wildlife-fantasy.com/photos/beh_hive_mother_scale2.jpg