New black pudding pics
forgive me if i seem to have been bit by the photo bug, but I gotta make sure i find all the bugs with this camera before it is too late to take it back.
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A few years ago I made a couple black puddings using black candle wax and wire, this is the big one.
Size: 4.75 inches wide or 23 3/4 scale feet across [yes, an ooze the size of a Compact Disc]
Material used
1 AOL CD for the base
3 black votive candles
1 tube of thick P.V.A. glue [school, white, Elmer’s glue all the same, just don’t waste your money on games workshop’s pva]
1 tube of cheap black gloss paint.
1 Small paint brush [not a good one used for minis]
1 bit of cheap string
1 fist sized hunk of Styrofoam
A couple feet of floral wire, thin
A bit of masking tape.
I took the hunk of Styrofoam and tore off chunks to give the goo a wave like mass at one side, a mound that I would later attach a wire pseudopod to and I cut a small hole into which I stuck a cone of masking tape. I glued the Styrofoam to the CD.
For the Pseudopodia I took the wire and made a thickest to thin to thick [¾” to 1/3” to ½”] shape with little open space. I attached this to the mound I had made for it. I then made a flat web of wire I attached to the crest of the slime wave to give it the look like its victim was about to suffer a wipe out.
Now, have you seen the late 80’s / early 90s Blob remake? Do you remember the scene where the blob forms a mouth like opening to “swallow” the girl? I tried to make an opening like that on the pudding. To do so, I took a bit of masking tape, rolled it into a cone and stuck it into the Styrofoam. Then I cut up the tape a little at the opening to give an organic look.
Next, to make sure the white of the Styrofoam did not show through, I painted the mass gloss black [also this helps to hide the wire a little better].
Once the paint was dry I took a candle, lit it and dribble the wax onto the Styrofoam. I ran a pencil into the hole in the CD into the Styrofoam to hold it better. Once done, it sat.
A year later, I find several dings on the poor thing after storing at the friend's house we play D&D at.and bring the poor thing home.
Now years later, i finally can take a decent photo of it.
