I finished painting a Naga (snake with a woman's head in case you didn't know what that was) and a troll. I know, I did a troll a while ago, but for this one I had a construction break through, and I wanted to try doing more with the hot glue gun in terms of "sculpting" the miniature. Here they are:
The Naga is just the bead tentacle construction I've been doing lately with a simple round bead head and hair like I do for the character figures. I like how she turned out, but nothing new construction or painting wise.
The troll on the other hand, is an all new construction. Honestly, he was a test figure and I absolutely did not like him at all until I painted him. So what's new you ask?
You can't really see it in this picture, but his torso is completely different. I took two of the larger (I think they are 1.25") split eggs and glued them together smaller ends facing each other, but not overlapping completely. It produces "shoulders" in the back and a "belly" in the front. His arms and legs are the tapered beads, with hands a feet that are tile spacers. His head is a split wren's egg (the smallest split egg available) with a small bead split in two for the two eyes. The nose is also tile spacer, and the hair is paper. He also has two "buttocks" that are made with a split bead as well (you'll see them in a later picture). The arm muscles, mouth, facial contours, etc. are all done with the hot glue gun.
The Naga didn't look like much until I got the hair on her, then she really took shape. I'm happy with the figure, but I think next time I'll go with larger beads to make the figure larger and more impressive. This is a "young Naga" let's just say.
The two Fighters thought it was a good idea to bait the Naga and Troll forward so the Thief could get in a backstab ... but they are having second thoughts at this point!
Really creative stuff. I like them both, but the Naga pops. Interesting to see a larger version, if you ever get around to it.
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