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beckyg
10-29-2006, 11:13 PM
When life gives you styrofoam balls, make Beholders (or call a doctor).
http://www.wildlife-fantasy.com/photos/beholders_close-up_scary1.jpg

I was running a D&D campaign with Beholders in it, and to my surprise, Wizards of the Coast has not made any freakin' Beholder figurines! (Not that I could find, anyway.) They're only one of the most trademark monsters in the system, so why would we want to go and do something like make some figures of them - especially when we could make a fiendish gnoll warlock instead. Everyone knows there are just dozens of them running around. 9_9

Anywho, I corrected this shortcoming by making my own out of styrofoam balls, brown paint, pipe cleaners, googly-eyes (yes they move) and my trusty glue gun (also useful for making drool). The mouth I grabbed from one of my many pics of Cthulhu type monsters and printed them out and glued them on.

Here you can see that I used homemade stands to put them on (courtesy of my husband). I placed an unpainted figure there for scale. The Beholders are about the right size in comparison to the human figure.

http://www.wildlife-fantasy.com/photos/beholders_scale1.jpg

The finale of my campaign had a Beholder "Hive Mother" in it. They're bigger and nastier. Mine also happened to be a lich, but that's niether here nor there. ;-)

Hive Mother
http://www.wildlife-fantasy.com/photos/beh_hive_mother1.jpg

Hive Mother in scale.
http://www.wildlife-fantasy.com/photos/beh_hive_mother_scale2.jpg
Bookman
10-29-2006, 11:22 PM
That's REALLY awesome! :D

You should applaud yourself!

Definatly better then any old figurines! :D
Ink
10-29-2006, 11:57 PM
Those are just adorable. Some great-looking beholders you got there. Nice work!
Nevermind
10-30-2006, 12:03 AM
Those are just adorable. Some great-looking beholders you got there. Nice work!

Never heard 'adorable' as an adjective for beholders before. They are like real-world OOTS-Style beholders! I don't have good arts & crafts expertice, but I do have an eye for it, and you are pretty good!

Ever think of selling stuff at craft fairs?
Lucky
10-30-2006, 12:17 AM
Sweet! If the cool mouths and drool didn't do it for me, the googly eyes definately did! Those look pretty awesome.
Ink
10-30-2006, 12:48 AM
^^ They do look adorable. It's the googly eyes that does it.

I'm just reminded of a friend of mine who made a beholder plushie for her young son once. Of course she made the menacing eyes and mouth all cute and cuddly instead. After that her son kept wanting to go to the zoo to see beholders.
Beleriphon
10-30-2006, 01:36 AM
I was running a D&D campaign with Beholders in it, and to my surprise, Wizards of the Coast has not made any freakin' Beholder figurines! (Not that I could find, anyway.) They're only one of the most trademark monsters in the system, so why would we want to go and do something like make some figures of them - especially when we could make a fiendish gnoll warlock instead. Everyone knows there are just dozens of them running around. 9_9
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http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mi/20050113b

First picture should cover you pretty nicely if you want a nice official beholder mini. I like yours more though.
Death, your friend the Reaper
10-30-2006, 05:07 AM
Wow, my limitation on things to represent D&D was some war hammer figurines I found around the place.

Need a white chromatic dragon? Use a clan rat.

I think I may need to steal those and add them to my collection of all things cute.
Captain van der Decken
10-30-2006, 05:12 AM
:D they're great.
Dispozition
10-30-2006, 05:36 AM
They...Are officially better than Ink's avatars (Sorry Ink).

They're freakin' awesome...Really...Awesome...
Ink
10-30-2006, 07:57 AM
^ Well I've certainly never made a beholder-on-a-stick before so no arguments there.
beckyg
10-30-2006, 11:57 AM
Heh, thanks all! :-)
beckyg
10-30-2006, 11:58 AM
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mi/20050113b

First picture should cover you pretty nicely if you want a nice official beholder mini. I like yours more though.

ACK! Figures 9_9 (no pun intended). They even kinda look like mine! They ripped ME off! :-D
beckyg
10-30-2006, 11:59 AM
^ Well I've certainly never made a beholder-on-a-stick before so no arguments there.

One of the things my players said when engaged in combat with them was "I attack the stick that's holding it up." :-D
beckyg
10-30-2006, 12:49 PM
Ever think of selling stuff at craft fairs?

Heh, I'm not THAT good. But thanks. :-)