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[Exactobeast]

Whew! Thank you macod0shus!!

[deano9]

Can we get a full group shot of all of them in one big tribe!!!?

[Exactobeast]

I'll definitely work on that soon. Still have roughly 50-60 unseen though.

[steverotters]

How in the heck do you have so many figures to paint!!?!

[Exactobeast]

Say I need a shark or panther or whatever.  Usually, I find it's more cost effective to buy a random mixed lot of guys off ebay then search for them individually.  Why buy a shark for $8, when I can get him in a lot of 7 for $18.  Also, I very unexpectedly won an amazing auction last year of 77 beasts for $150 the very same day I won another more reasonable 17 for $45.  I really only wanted to win one of these, but customs really became the silver lining. 

[Exactobeast]

Macod0shus Vol II

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Gecko

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Fairly straightforward lizard modification.  Added a kangaroo tail and shaved down some skunk arms to get the look while also carving out and moving the original eyes. 

 

 

 

Quail

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Colonel bird head, hawk wires, skunk body, hawk arms, and owl wings= Quail.

 

 

 

Seagull

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For whatever reason, I really have the worst lipstick red and pure white paints and they require a real shellacking to have a non splotchy color, which then leads to repeated clunkier coats, which therefore leads to a blah paint job.  Anyways, Seagull is a shaved down hawk head, an orangutan torso, jaguar legs, mouse arms, and colonel bird wings.  The gun is actually from a Russian battle beasts weapon.

 

 

 

Dolphin

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Dolphin is tapir body, rabbit arms with shark leg fins, and ..... MYSTERY HEAD.  Any thoughts or guesses as to which beast the head is originally from??? Does anyone even read captions???  Macod0shus asked me to take some process pics so I can actually show how I made this and I will, once someone guesses correctly.

 

 

 

Seal

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I feel like my poor camerawork isn't doing this guy justice, but he ended up being my favorite of this group.  I really feel like he captured the design challenge. Seal is boar legs, pig torso, beaver arms, and a shaved down rabbit head.  Once I saw a semblance or seal in the original rabbit, everything really started coming together.

[Exactobeast]

And so that wraps up the Macod0shus run.  A true thank you again to Macod0shus for the inspiration and optimusdrizzt supplying for some spares.   This definitely pushed me outside my comfort realm, which is always nice.  I considered trying the remaining designs for stag beetle, snail, jellyfish, and hammerhead, but I just couldn't wrap my head around any way I would build them and not ruin them concurrently.  Coincidentally,  I have a moray eel of my own that Ersico is about to paint up for me.

 

Hopefully Macod0shus can come up with some more designs in the future. Or maybe you, yes you reader, have marvelous wondrous concepts, ideas, and images dancing through that brain of yours. I'm already picking through old threads such as:

 

http://www.littlerub...ies#entry364206

 

looking for any ideas.  I have a gargantuan sack of parts just waiting to be assembled. Help a brother out?

 

[Draznar]

My assumption is that you started with a duck head. (or one of the other birds as a second guess)

[Exactobeast]

Noooooo

[ScreaminDemon]

My guess is a gator head?

[optimusdrizzt]

Octopus head?

[steverotters]

shark?

[Exactobeast]

nope and nope and nope and nope

Edited by Exactobeast, 23 February 2016 - 05:43 PM.

[Beastformers]

Crow and otherwise the Penguin?
Based upon the sculpting of the eye ;-)

Edited by Beastformers, 23 February 2016 - 04:03 PM.

[koppenschevelle]

Wow, your customs keep getting better and better! I especially love the blue lizard above. Great work!

[Exactobeast]

1. Wrong Beastformers

2.  Thanks Koppenschevelle!  Means a lot as I think you are one of the best customizers out there.  Wait till you see what I have coming up soon.  Ersico is doing some stunning work to really make some builds shine

[steverotters]

Squirrel?

[Exactobeast]

Incorrect. 

[optimusdrizzt]

polar bear or seahorse

[Exactobeast]

All right, that's enough. 

 

The answer is:

 

A horse, of course.

 

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Yes, I literally line up a picture to the head to see if it was possible/working.  I had cut off the head gear (in one single piece that is actually quite awesome and will be used imminently on something else) and sanded out a basic rough shape, doing my best to preserve as much snout as possible. 

 

 

 

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Post transfer, but the eye placement still didn't work.  You can see the mark of where I think they should be.  Good thing I had a recently dissected boar head lying about.

 

 

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After this it was just adding the back shark fin and then putting on a thin paint coat to pic up flaws, sand the flaws down, and repeat (also eventually cutting in a mouth).

[Beastformers]

LOL Interesting approach.

It´s clear the eyes of the Boar fooled everyone but it does do the job very well there when it comes to the location and placement of the Dolphin eye.

Looking forward to see you progress because these creations are already a huge step compared to the first ones you did, keep it going!

[Exactobeast]

Thanks Beastformers!  Yeah, there has been a major quality uptick around here ever since I started using a hand sander.

[Draznar]

I'd love to see, and maybe one day even own, an updated version of that "dragon" you did.

[Exactobeast]

Might end up being busy soon, so thought I'd get some more up

 

Group 11

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Black Gator

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Gecko

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Flying Monkey

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Think of the evil Wizard of Oz music when you stare into his eyes

 

 

 

Viking

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More of an amalgam of parts, but once I put on the horns, definitely viking.

 

 

 

War sloth

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I like the look of this guy

[Exactobeast]

And....

Group 15

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Wolf

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Winged Panther Beast

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BUFFalo

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Crow Redux

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Flair Weasel

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