rotting laviathan wip

dogfender

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Well Im nearly finnished converting 1 of my laviathans for my zombie pirats of the vampire coast. I decieded to base my Laviathan off a nautalis, which is basically a shelled octopus. There really is no way of making the laviathan look rotting until the paint job, but I added many cuts into the tenticles, a broken harpoon stuck in the beast, and an axe, not to mention a very large gash on its side. To add to him, on his shell he has part of a net which has stuck on him after time. I though it would be a neat addition as if while fighting the beast someone tried to wrangle him, or perhaps it was stuck in a fishermans net b4 reaching the surface and attacking. Seaweed is also add to the net and the shell. It is there but quite hard to make out against all the white.

Questions, comments, crit. and suggestions welcome =)

PS not shown is the little sea star i made to have stuck in the net.

lav 1
lav 2
size comp
gash
 

Jabberwocky

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Welcome to the forums, Dogfender!

Very cool WIP! I like what you have done so far. My only suggestion would be to remove the axe and replace that with another harpoon, perhaps embedded in one of the eyes? The axe is only barely embedded in the tentacle. My rational (if one can have that when discussing a giant zombie octopus :D) is that the axe would have fallen out of a powerful tentacle that was thrashing about, especially given any length of time. The harpoon might benefit from being cut a bit closer to the body for the same reason. Great conversion thus far though--I look forward to seeing it painted!

Jabber
 

TAB Studio

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@dogfender
Welcome to the forums
Way cool stuff you have there.
I am curious though By any chance do you employ a wonderful painter known here as Leviathan?
The color on the octopus is great, I like the suction cups & eyes.
 
I guess that used to be some showcase piece put to a better use :D Nice work on the gash, the overall idea is great. The paint is nice as is, but \"giant zombie octopus\" calls for something more radical... try something greenish-purple on the flesh, and something with a nice contrast on the shell. Or, you might just buy some octo sushi, put it in the sun for 4-5 days and use that as inspiration :|~
Keep it on!
 

dogfender

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Yeah its pre painted, and the octopus toy came like that. I never painted it, though I will be basecoating it today.

Any last suggestions?
 
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