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Hey crew,

I did two mycetic spores for my nids a couple of weeks ago. I'm pretty pleased with the way they came out: big and nasty-looking. Note the sneaky li'l Wolf Guard lurking in there for size comparison:



These were stupidly easy to make. I went to Michaels and got a couple of foam craft eggs, largest size they had, and then hacked away at them with my foam cutter and hobby knife. The organic looking interior is a lotus pod, available in pretty much any craft shop that sells dried floral arrangement pieces. It was a little tricky getting the pod to set correctly inside the egg, but diligent use of knife and air-dry clay worked. Once everything was in place, I absolutely saturated the model in Mod Podge, letting two coats dry completely.

I modeled the tentacles out of copper wire, with a greenstuff coating, and leftover Carnifex tusks/Trygon tails/grandmother's secret stir fry for the pokey bits. Covering the lotus pod with paper, I sprayed the whole thing white. Then the outer shell was painted with Americana Acrylic (avocado, to match my Knarloc Green carapaces). Finally, the whole shebang was given an extremely generous spraying with a two-in-one wood stain and varnish.

Sadly the varnish took five days to completely dry, so I had to use garlic bulbs. Embarrassing. But they are ready now, here we go:

Top view:



Anybody hungry for eggs now?

Thanks for the regards, all!

@jimsolo, Mod Podge is great stuff. It's a fairly quick-drying mucilage that cures clear and glossy. It's primarily used by people doing collage work, or fixing jigsaw puzzles permanently. Works great for sealing a foam piece against the spraypaint nasties!

Thanks guys, glad you like 'em!

Skalk, I'm going to need to make some more of these, so maybe we should have a Spod party some night soon.

Spot on advice, insaniak. I'll have to make a custom base of masonite, though, these things already have a bigger footprint than a dread base. More to model debris and extra goopiness than anything else, really.