A friend of mine wants me to make him a Cthulhu embryo in a jar, and while it would be sort of easy to do, I have no idea how to paint it. I figured it would make an interesting distraction from the last week, so I am hoping to start it this weekend.
The idea is just an old specimen jar like you would see in a museum or grandpa's old attic. If grandpa was really really creepy and kept things like that in the attic.
I was thinking sculpy to make the body and tentacles over a wire frame, maybe a little foam sculpting for the body and octopus head. I might hit wal mart to see if they have something squidlike in the aquarium area (plastic, not live).
It will be put in a sealed jar (probably a clear plastic jar or old glass jar), and sealed with "lead" (also known as sculpy that has been painted silver/black or hit with rub n buff).
Obviously I can't use acrylics to paint it since it will end up washing off in the water, but I can't think of anything that will not get affected by the water. I don't know if sculpy holds up under alcohol, but that is always an option to use instead of water...
Not sure about regular enamel spray paints, but since I never painted anything that was going to stay in the water, this is a new realm for me.
So... any ideas on this? It should be a pretty easy project to knock out, but while I have the basic stuff figured out I am a little bit lost on the more detailed parts of it.
The idea is to avoid resin, silicone, etc. Total project funds = ~15$.
Some stuff I already have access too :
Plaster
Durhams Water Putty
Some foam pieces
Belt Sander
Power drill/dremel
Sculpy (light? I guess it's 1/3rd the calories
)
Alchohol
Water
Tea bags (to dye water)
Any helps appreciated. I figure I would take a few WIP pics and just sort of document the project if anyone else wanted to make one.
The idea is just an old specimen jar like you would see in a museum or grandpa's old attic. If grandpa was really really creepy and kept things like that in the attic.
I was thinking sculpy to make the body and tentacles over a wire frame, maybe a little foam sculpting for the body and octopus head. I might hit wal mart to see if they have something squidlike in the aquarium area (plastic, not live).
It will be put in a sealed jar (probably a clear plastic jar or old glass jar), and sealed with "lead" (also known as sculpy that has been painted silver/black or hit with rub n buff).
Obviously I can't use acrylics to paint it since it will end up washing off in the water, but I can't think of anything that will not get affected by the water. I don't know if sculpy holds up under alcohol, but that is always an option to use instead of water...
Not sure about regular enamel spray paints, but since I never painted anything that was going to stay in the water, this is a new realm for me.
So... any ideas on this? It should be a pretty easy project to knock out, but while I have the basic stuff figured out I am a little bit lost on the more detailed parts of it.
The idea is to avoid resin, silicone, etc. Total project funds = ~15$.
Some stuff I already have access too :
Plaster
Durhams Water Putty
Some foam pieces
Belt Sander
Power drill/dremel
Sculpy (light? I guess it's 1/3rd the calories
)Alchohol
Water
Tea bags (to dye water)
Any helps appreciated. I figure I would take a few WIP pics and just sort of document the project if anyone else wanted to make one.
