Graboid now with painted tongues.
If I had lots of Rock Soldiers to spare, I could have used their arms for the tongues and not had to paint anything. But you can only use the upper arm pieces to repeatedly connect more arms together. Therefore for each tongue I could only use one forearm and hand. What figures did I have a lot of? Leonardo Samauri, as well as a few Halo covenant figures, all of which I would have no orher use for.
As I stated in the previous post, I had to use a turtle torso to connect the three arms to. The 7th, 8th, and 9th pics show the inside of the Graboid mouth, where you can see how they come together. I had to have the torso as low as possible, to have the tongues come from down inside the mouth, and allow enough space inside the mouth to scrunch up the tongues for when the jaws are closed.
Now for the paint: 1st I test painted a couple arm pieces. My choice of paint for this project was spray paint. But with that test piece, I found out that the arms needed to be taped down to something, as this spray paint blasted out with so much force that it moved the piece around. So when painting the arms that I was going to use for tongues, I attached all three to a spare turtle torso, and duck taped it to some cardboard. To limit the number of times painting, I twisted and articulated the arms in such a way to get it all painted at once, or as much as possible. I believe the next day I sprayed them again after moving some joints in different directions. In the end, there was still some green showing, but it wasn't a big deal. Now came a tricky part:
Splattering some red paint. For this, I was still using spray paint, but I didn't want full coverage. If you have ever used spray paint, you know that there is a mist of paint, well you want the very light mist to fall on the tongue pieces. To do this I stared the paint spray off to the side of the arms/tongues, then swiping very quickly across and about a foot to 1.5 feet away, letting a soft mist land on the pieces, then doing this carefully a few more times, until the coverage was as desired. A few times I had to get the orange back out, because the red got too solid, and needed to then respray red again. This combination of orange and red got me close to the dirty orange-red color of the tongues as seen in the Tremors movies.
The two figures seen in this pictures are my pop-n-swap customs of Burt and Heather Gummer. To be better, I would need to paint a thin mustache on Burt.
Well, there it is, as I stated in the last post, I'll probably post another time. This time showing the inside of the Graboid body.
Thanks for viewing and reading.
-- AiasOileus
If I had lots of Rock Soldiers to spare, I could have used their arms for the tongues and not had to paint anything. But you can only use the upper arm pieces to repeatedly connect more arms together. Therefore for each tongue I could only use one forearm and hand. What figures did I have a lot of? Leonardo Samauri, as well as a few Halo covenant figures, all of which I would have no orher use for.
As I stated in the previous post, I had to use a turtle torso to connect the three arms to. The 7th, 8th, and 9th pics show the inside of the Graboid mouth, where you can see how they come together. I had to have the torso as low as possible, to have the tongues come from down inside the mouth, and allow enough space inside the mouth to scrunch up the tongues for when the jaws are closed.
Now for the paint: 1st I test painted a couple arm pieces. My choice of paint for this project was spray paint. But with that test piece, I found out that the arms needed to be taped down to something, as this spray paint blasted out with so much force that it moved the piece around. So when painting the arms that I was going to use for tongues, I attached all three to a spare turtle torso, and duck taped it to some cardboard. To limit the number of times painting, I twisted and articulated the arms in such a way to get it all painted at once, or as much as possible. I believe the next day I sprayed them again after moving some joints in different directions. In the end, there was still some green showing, but it wasn't a big deal. Now came a tricky part:
Splattering some red paint. For this, I was still using spray paint, but I didn't want full coverage. If you have ever used spray paint, you know that there is a mist of paint, well you want the very light mist to fall on the tongue pieces. To do this I stared the paint spray off to the side of the arms/tongues, then swiping very quickly across and about a foot to 1.5 feet away, letting a soft mist land on the pieces, then doing this carefully a few more times, until the coverage was as desired. A few times I had to get the orange back out, because the red got too solid, and needed to then respray red again. This combination of orange and red got me close to the dirty orange-red color of the tongues as seen in the Tremors movies.
The two figures seen in this pictures are my pop-n-swap customs of Burt and Heather Gummer. To be better, I would need to paint a thin mustache on Burt.
Well, there it is, as I stated in the last post, I'll probably post another time. This time showing the inside of the Graboid body.
Thanks for viewing and reading.
-- AiasOileus