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Stained Glass Golem
"What the hell is this?" Ever since the movie "Young Sherlock Holmes" I have been enamored with the idea of an animated Stained Glass window. Browsing through the 3rd edition D&D supplement "Monster Manual II" I ran across a description of a Stained Glass Golem which fit perfectly. All I needed was the inspiration of materials. Someone on the Wizards of the Coast miniature board was tired of the lack of halfling miniatures so he ended up making his own out of Shrinky Dinks -- A plastic sheet that shrinks by a factor of three in the oven. That was all the inspiration that I needed... Materals are Shrinky Dinks, Colored Pencils, and my normal base job. I first made a "ruler" on a shrinky dink so I would know exactly how much the stuff would shrink. I then drew on paper what I wanted it to look like, and then traced it on to the Shrinky Dink paper. After cutting it out, I "cooked" it (takes 2-3 minutes) to get it down to the proper size. Before cooling, I took two pointed toothpicks and lifted the arms -- I didn't want it to look completely flat. I did paint a black edge around the "figure". I'm not completely happy with the colored pencils as they're not that translucent. I might try this again with colored markers. I think it's hysterical. This was made in December, 2003 in around 2 hours, and most of that was painting the base and drawing the figure on paper.
Posted: 19 Dec 2003
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