If nothing says "80s Golden Demon" more than a Great Spined Dragon then NOTHING says 80s Golden Demon more than Great Spine Dragon ON GIANT SKULL... right? :D
Here's a glow-in the dark novelty I purchased after halloween one year. Trimmed flat to hot glue to a base and staved in the top for a flat-ish area for the dragon to sit.
I decided I wanted this to be the place where our foolish adventurers live, or perhaps a dungeon they have just emerged from into the midst of yet another encounter. In any case a door leads out of the massive skull from some dank place...
Copious amounts of hot glue to seal the edges, then filled with plaster. What with two large metal dragons, a plaster-filled skull and the wooden plinth this is going to be a monster of a piece, and rightly so!
Now, on to the miniatures!
Gonna make a nice base.. Personally.. I'm wondering if it would look better being a horned skull.. but nope.. I think non is quite the right way ^_^
ReplyDeleteProblem with a horned skull is it would leave no space for the dragons. Though now I want to do another diorama with serpentine dragons snaked around the horns!
DeleteDepending on the type of horns, true ^_^
DeleteI need (at some point) to get around to making a Fukuryū-Maru based Dragon (annoyly, if you search online, you'll mostly get about the one boat that was named it after the Dragon.. It's a serpentine like dragon. What I want to make has the Head and Mane of a Lion, So i'm kinda looking for a cheap toy lion i can use as a bad, but right now, got more then enough stuff to deal with
Your project looks very promising to us. Unfortunately we never had the opportunity to browse the volumes of the Golden Daemon you wrote about in the previous post, but only to see the photos published by you and others on the web: it seems to us that your idea is in full oldhammer style, but however you have found an original way to reinterpret this classic diorama.
ReplyDeleteIt is surprising how any object - even a Halloween leftover - can become a starting point for this hobby, and the temptation to keep every bit of rubbish with the consideration "oh, it could come in handy for the diorama / basing / conversion!" is for us becoming very dangerous ...
One thing we really appreciate in old dioramas are the details or secondary scenes within the main scene, which perhaps add a less dramatic or even humorous tone: do you plan to include anything like that in your diorama?
The little scenes are what I love too. I'm planning on making this a diorama all about 'the hunted', so the little dragon is being taught to hunt, is in turn being hunted by three idiotic adventurers and they in turn will be hunted by some woodland beasties. I could carry on all the way up the food chain! The Fantasy Miniatures books are great inspiration, well worth tracking down if you can.
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