show me your hentai love-bugs

[gigasnail]

so my toxicrenes have been sitting unfinished for...a while. the tentacles just jut out way too far to make them usable on the table. i have a pair of these, and i'm holding out hope they won't be effing awful in the next codex, so i need them playable.

i had tried to heat them both with a heatgun, and with boiling water, and it didn't work out well, broke a couple of tentacles.

my issue was it was only a 1k watt heatgun, and when i was boiling them i was using an electric ramen cooker (i.e. it gets hot, boils, and shuts off heat, not a constant boil). i took the hentai love-bug in to work and used the 3,000W heatgun and it worked pretty well. the arms are still smelling like noodles though; need to maybe saw apart and repose at the elbows because it still sticks out 2" from the front of the base.

better than 4"+ though.

pics later.

what i need from you guys are pics of re-posed/positioned toxicrenes, and how you achieved the pose. HALP! thanks!

[Koyori]

Humm.. I know some localy has just remade the tentacles with greenstuff.. maybe that can be a way to go..

[jimmyp]

I used hairdryer on mine mate...I put a photo up on a thread ages ago will see if I can find it..

[jimmyp]

I copied this
s271.photobucket.com/user/zargroth/media/peleja/toxicrene2.jpg.html?w=480&h=480&fit=clip

[LordPathos]

HERE IS A TENTACLE LOVE BUG!

[jimmyp]

Here mine......found the old photos


Basically heat up and over time flip inwards. Takes a while but worth it!

[gigasnail]

this one's mine, at the moment. i can maybe curb the worst problems with reposing the arms.



i'm feeling the "cut them off and make new tentacles out of GS" as the nuclear option. best thing to do probably but that's a lot of work for something that isn't seeing the table until its rules aren't 100% butt.

[jimmyp]

Can't see your photo?? I played toxicrene 5 times and he is just a distraction unit really and only gets in two attacks usually...IF he was a higher WS and a better save or even give shrouding to units surrounding like the books say...might improve him a bit.

[blackrainbow]

I took the ugly way and just used oversized magnets, so you can see it holds the base tentacle pose at any angle. I had tried hollowing out the inside and doing magnets there and looking inside you can see the tear, but this was a project done a bit ago and I don't remember why I just filled in the sockets with GS and plopped big'ol magnets in there.








For the crafty type, here are some of my favorite tentacle options: stem wire. You should be able to find them in garden sections or at hobby stores like Michael's. These are what I used for my old mycetic spore tentacles, now some for the tcyte, and as you can see in the picture, with a minor amount of GS you should be able to get three set-up just the way you like.

[gigasnail]

i think i'm going to end up doing the nuclear option and just GS some up. thanks for the pics and suggestions guys!

[jimmyp]

That's all cool mate, it's a mental model...

[Lilycat]

Jun 27, 2016 14:10:02 GMT LordPathos said:

HERE IS A TENTACLE LOVE BUG!

[LordPathos]

Jun 30, 2016 14:21:42 GMT Lilycat said:

Jun 27, 2016 14:10:02 GMT LordPathos said:

HERE IS A TENTACLE LOVE BUG!

Better?

[blackrainbow]

Jun 30, 2016 14:30:13 GMT LordPathos said:

Jun 30, 2016 14:21:42 GMT Lilycat said:

Better?

Can fap to either...

[drakiskier]

I can join this party....

we need to make those cults happen somehow...

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