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GW Shelob, painted in a different way...

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Marchomer –

Last year I bought a GW Shelob miniature for a ridiculous price (about 5€ ~ 4£), because of some missing pieces like pedipalps and one half abdomen, but I asked to myself: "What does messyart do in these situations?"
So I finally put my hands on this spider, I ignored the pedipalps and I re-sculpted only the missing part of the abdomen with DAS and green stuff:

The painting consists in:
1. Grey undercoat, followed by a Bleached Bone and then Skull White drybrushing;
2. Gryphonne Sepia washing followed by a Devlan Mud washing (only in certain parts);
3. I paintend dozens of small dots with different colors (Terracotta, Skull White, Bleached Bone, Scorched Brown). The pattern of the common Wolf Spider has inspired me;
4. In the end I painted the details (eyes, junctures, teeth) with inks / acrylics, and washed some little parts with a little bit of Badab black and drybrushed some other parts with a little bit of Skull White;
5. I outlined the borders of any visible segment with Skull White;
6. Abundant transparent spray to protect the model;

As you can see I chose to don't add any base, this spider really don't need it!

Some time ago, I talked about some lost walls I've made to set up dungeon rooms during D&D sessions (in this topic). Well, I found them!

, and I re-painted and improved them too. These pictures show both a fake in-game battle and these walls.

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MortiS-the-Lost

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Arachnophobics Beware!

Stunning (and I guess paralyzing) work! You have my highest complements for this

Excellent paint-job, very life-like - you've really got a lot of texture onto a mostly smooth model and of course brilliant work on re-sculpting the missing parts

What's more your dungeon bits are looking awesome too

Marchomer wrote

Last year I bought a GW Shelob miniature for a ridiculous price (about 5€ ~ 4£), because of some missing pieces like pedipalps and one half abdomen, but I asked to myself: "What does messyart do in these situations?"

Actually I think Messy would re-sculpt the entire model into something completely un-spider-like which then makes you wounder why he used a spider at the starting point ...

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Marchomer

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Thank you so much dudes!

I'm glad you appreciate this work!

MortiS-the-Lost wrote

Actually I think Messy would re-sculpt the entire model into something completely un-spider-like which then makes you wounder why he used a spider at the starting point ...

Yes I was wrong! You're totally in right! Something like:

"Uh! A big spider with some missing pieces... a good starting point for a huge nurgleish zombie horror with three arms... and a rocket launcher. Two rocket launchers. And boobs"

+ Other planes lie beyond the reach Of normal sense and common roads But they are no less real Than what we see or touch or feel. +

BobbieTheDamned

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Wow, simply exquisite! I'm sure you could do a good job of scaring someone into thinking that it was a real spider. Excellent job on the markings and highlighting. Good job on the re-sculpt too.

I really like the walls too, look nice and simple and well...wall-like! How'd you make them?

Marchomer

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Thanks Rob!

RobertTheDamned wrote

I'm sure you could do a good job of scaring someone into thinking that it was a real spider.

...and yes, a friend of mine and me have took a picture of the spider on his hand, we showed the picture to some girls we know telling we found it in the toilet of my hobby cellar... and they swallowed the story! Obviously with the usual shocking sentences and little screeches...
Oh my...! What a handsome rogue I am!

RobertTheDamned wrote

I really like the walls too, look nice and simple and well...wall-like! How'd you make them?

For the walls I used this kind of bricks:

Basically I glued the bricks on each side of the cardboards. Only recently I painted them and add some flock to fill the holes of the bricks fallen during the years.

+ Other planes lie beyond the reach Of normal sense and common roads But they are no less real Than what we see or touch or feel. +

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