OMG...

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...I have purchased phlosque[1]. To wit a largish resin dragon I found cheap on eBay, which is about the right size to be the big boss in one of the adventures I'm running at Dragonmeet. Arrived today, and it's about the size I want, but even less menacing-looking than I expected. I will have to de-cute it a LOT; replace the cute widdle baby dragon hatching out of its eggs underneath with a pile of gold coins and maybe some bones, change the colour from greens and golds and reds (with little sparkly bits) to something a lot meaner looking, change the expression from "cute motherhood" to "hey, let's eat these bozos," and so on.

I may eventually post "before" and "after" pictures. If it works, and I can stand to look at the "before"

[1] There doesn't seem to be a good Wikipedia or other reference that explains what phlosque is, which is a pity. Think of it as the fantasy art equivalent of those pictures of cute big-eyed kids painted on velvet. There's a tongue-in-cheek description here, more brutally Dave Langford describes it as "notably and noisomely cute sf/fantasy art"

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[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Try "Phlosque"

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Many thanks - Wikipedia still doesn't have an entry, surprisingly enough.

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

http://www.conbledegook.org.uk/Phlosque

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Actually that links's already in the post, thanks to Bug pointing out I'd originally spelled it wrong.

[raygungothic.livejournal.com]

I feel a burning curiosity as to just how horrid it can be.

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Don't say I didn't warn you...



What you can't see is how crap the paint job is and how everything is covered in sprinkles of gold glitter in the lacquer.

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Later - one dremel bit later the baby dragonet is gone, and a large hole has appeared in its place, which I will eventually fill with something non flosquey like a rock. The thing turns out to be hollow, and I am horribly tempted to drill out the eyes and put an LED inside its head, if it's still hollow there...

[raygungothic.livejournal.com]

Now my eyeballs have recovered I can see how that might need... alteration. So, new paint job from the basecoat up then? (I didn't know you were a miniatures painter... but now I think about it it doesn't surprise)

Are you good with green stuff? Bigger claws might make the feet less cutesy.

LED-head could be entertaining but it would need to be a fairly dark dragon to be dramatic, which might be tricky to photograph. (Do you have a macro lens for that Nikon of yours? If not, would you like to borrow one for a bit at some point?)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I'm going for adequate rather than good. I'm a crap modeller, unfortunately. It's going to have to have a colour change because in Jo's world green dragons are deathly ill - I think something like grey and black will be the easiest to make reasonably menacing. Wasn't really serious about the eyes.

[raygungothic.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't a deep red be easier to paint? (At minimum, mid-red colour + dilute brown ink - simpler than making a dark grey that doesn't look dull, unless you have better paint-effect tricks than I do - and easier to do more stages with if you have the time)

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Red is generally female and this is going to be a big boss type NPC, so probably male.