Thursday, June 11, 2015

Mind Eater: Bones II Figure

  This week I also completed the Mind Eater from the Bones II Dungeon Monsters set.  It's called an Intellect Devourer in my old D & D Monster Manual.  While I didn't see myself having much use for it as a 28mm monster, I thought a pair of them would look pretty cool as marauding Giant Mind Eaters to go with my 10mm "Bear Yourselves Valiantly" fantasy armies.  I was lucky enough to have a friend who was willing to give me the one from their set.  So, I prepped the figures in the usual way; soaking them in a dish of water with a couple drops of dish-soap added, then giving them a light scrub with a soft toothbrush, and then rinsing and drying.  Then, I glued them to a black-primed standard 3" x 1.5" BYV  sized metal base with Aleene's Tacky glue.
   I began by paitning the brain-like top portion with Americana "Shading Flesh", and the bottom legs with Americana "Zinc".
   When the paint was dry, I gave both figures a wash with GW "Agrax Earthshade" wash using a wet brush.
     When the wash was dry, I highlight the top portion by drybrushing with the base "Shading Flesh", and I highlighted the bottom portion by first drybrushing with the base "Zinc", and then doing finer drybrushing on the leg edges with Duncan "Slate Grey".
       I let the figures sit overnight, and the next morning I gave them a coat of Ceramcoat "Matte Varnish".  Later that afternoon I flocked the base. The next morning I sprayed the stand with Testor's "Dullcote" spray varnish.
    I'm happy with how this base of monsters turned out.  I think it will be a fun unit to deploy; perhaps as wandering monsters in the middle of a battle..
A unit of 10mm Wood Elves finds themselves visualizing all sorts of unpleasant things when faced with these unsightly terrors! 

4 comments:

  1. Hummm braiiiiiiiin...nice use of a pretty silly monster.

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    1. Thanks! Sometimes I like to embrace silly. :)

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    2. I certainly hope so in this case...I mean this is a brain walking on 4 legs we are talking about....;-)

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    3. Lol! Here's my favorite silly brain based project: Hitler's brain in a robot-
      http://onemoregamingproject.blogspot.com/2013/07/they-saved-hitlers-brain.html

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