Bubblegum Dragon

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

Hmmm, just though of using cotton webbing we use for Hallowe'en and dying it pink to use for cotton candy. A few strands here and there should look good.

[TGP]

Hmmm, just though of using cotton webbing we use for Hallowe'en and dying it pink to use for cotton candy. A few strands here and there should look good.

 

Dying.

 

Dye.

 

That might be the key concept to get batting, or webbing or cottonballs to look the part of cotton candy.

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

 

Hmmm, just though of using cotton webbing we use for Hallowe'en and dying it pink to use for cotton candy. A few strands here and there should look good.

 

Dying.

 

Dye.

 

That might be the key concept to get batting, or webbing or cottonballs to look the part of cotton candy.

 

Whoops, dyeing. Thanks for the catch.

[TGP]

 

 

Hmmm, just though of using cotton webbing we use for Hallowe'en and dying it pink to use for cotton candy. A few strands here and there should look good.

 

Dying.

 

Dye.

 

That might be the key concept to get batting, or webbing or cottonballs to look the part of cotton candy.

 

Whoops, dyeing. Thanks for the catch.

 

I guess that is one the ChellSpecker will never spot.

[Dr.Bedlam]

"I have not failed. I have simply found several hundred ways that won't work." -------------Thomas Edison, the Ph.D. of the trial and error method.

 

I thank you all for your feedback; it was essential in cracking the problem.

Pictured here, we have the Cotton Candy Blast Mark 1, abandoned partway through its construction procedure. The further I got with it, the more obvious it was that it was simply not going to work in any manner I'd find acceptable. Perhaps I will find use for it when Julie Guthrie's massive multiheaded dragon arrives... although from which end the cone will be emitting, I leave as an exercise for the reader.

The zombie chainsaw waitress is around 28mm - 30mm, and is included for scale. Waitresses. I tell you. Give a waitress a chainsaw, and she thinks she's in a zombie movie... but I digress. The Mark 1 was made of a flat piece of polyester quilt batting, a thing which is in no short supply in Berni's side of the Hobby Room; I rolled it into a cone and painted it. And it's awful.

Plainly a different approach would be necessary. Cotton candy looks nothing like this. Did I learn NOTHING from my years in the circus? (Well, actually, I did, after they let me out of the cage and I worked my way up to barker, but that's another story). 

I wasn't looking at things correctly. I was thinking in terms of "dragon breath template." Well, unless I plan on reworking Candy Land, this dragon would not be for gaming. I needed to think outside the cone, so to speak... Cotton candy is made by a swirly process. Perhaps tearing up the cotton batting and swirling it, twisting it, would give a better effect? I tore up some scrap batting, ripped it up, and then twisted it around a paintbrush. It hung onto itself reasonably well, and looked sort of like white cotton candy. So I took the whole thing outside and sprayed it with acrylic clear coat and let it dry. Sure enough, this kept it twisted and swirled and gave it some more body to work with.

I dabbed it with Breast Cancer Awareness Pink. It globbed up immediately. This irked me and I began kicking it around with the paint brush, trying to scatter the glob. I finally wound up using my finger to spread it around... and it broke into many, many tiny globs, and spread out across the fibers, looking less like a pink glob caught in a cloud... and more like a pink cloud.

"Cotton candy has a lot of white in it..."

I kept it up, eventually discarding the brush and simply dabbing pink paint onto the frozen polyester cloud with my finger. The final result:

Holy carp. I DID it! And with a fraction of the time and paint I'd used on the Mark 1! Now it remained only to dry, and to field test using the Bubblegum Dragon... when dry, I did have to twist the narrow end a little tighter to fit into the dragon's mouth, but the results were ultimately worth it......

 That'll do, dragon. That'll do.

[Sanael]

That.

 

Yep, that's pretty great. I may need to make something like this, just to give my players a good bit of gonzo sometime.

[SpiritOfMadness]

Really cool Dragon project you have here! The cotton candy breath turned out awesome!

[Sirithiliel]

Ooohhhh lovely

[Dr.Bedlam]

Yeah... for something that was supposed to be an afterthought, I think it really reinforces the whole candy theme...

Many thanks to those who tossed in suggestions! This was new territory for me.

[malefactus]

BRAVO! That is FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT, INSPIRED, AND NUTS...not necessarily in that order. The dragon, base, & breath are BEAUTIFULLY crafted & painted. Your color selection is OUTSTANDING. VERY WELL DONE barely covers it!

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

"I have not failed. I have simply found several hundred ways that won't work." -------------Thomas Edison, the Ph.D. of the trial and error method.

 

I thank you all for your feedback; it was essential in cracking the problem.

 

Pictured here, we have the Cotton Candy Blast Mark 1, abandoned partway through its construction procedure. The further I got with it, the more obvious it was that it was simply not going to work in any manner I'd find acceptable. Perhaps I will find use for it when Julie Guthrie's massive multiheaded dragon arrives... although from which end the cone will be emitting, I leave as an exercise for the reader.

 

The zombie chainsaw waitress is around 28mm - 30mm, and is included for scale. Waitresses. I tell you. Give a waitress a chainsaw, and she thinks she's in a zombie movie... but I digress. The Mark 1 was made of a flat piece of polyester quilt batting, a thing which is in no short supply in Berni's side of the Hobby Room; I rolled it into a cone and painted it. And it's awful.

 

Plainly a different approach would be necessary. Cotton candy looks nothing like this. Did I learn NOTHING from my years in the circus? (Well, actually, I did, after they let me out of the cage and I worked my way up to barker, but that's another story). 

 

I wasn't looking at things correctly. I was thinking in terms of "dragon breath template." Well, unless I plan on reworking Candy Land, this dragon would not be for gaming. I needed to think outside the cone, so to speak... Cotton candy is made by a swirly process. Perhaps tearing up the cotton batting and swirling it, twisting it, would give a better effect? I tore up some scrap batting, ripped it up, and then twisted it around a paintbrush. It hung onto itself reasonably well, and looked sort of like white cotton candy. So I took the whole thing outside and sprayed it with acrylic clear coat and let it dry. Sure enough, this kept it twisted and swirled and gave it some more body to work with.

 

I dabbed it with Breast Cancer Awareness Pink. It globbed up immediately. This irked me and I began kicking it around with the paint brush, trying to scatter the glob. I finally wound up using my finger to spread it around... and it broke into many, many tiny globs, and spread out across the fibers, looking less like a pink glob caught in a cloud... and more like a pink cloud.

 

"Cotton candy has a lot of white in it..."

 

I kept it up, eventually discarding the brush and simply dabbing pink paint onto the frozen polyester cloud with my finger. The final result:

 

Holy carp. I DID it! And with a fraction of the time and paint I'd used on the Mark 1! Now it remained only to dry, and to field test using the Bubblegum Dragon... when dry, I did have to twist the narrow end a little tighter to fit into the dragon's mouth, but the results were ultimately worth it......

 

 That'll do, dragon. That'll do.

Sweet gods, it turned out perfect! Resounding success, old chap!

[robinh]

you have made it! 

  As the others have already said this is what it should look like...

 

I thought it was a wad of cotton candy you were using as a comparison on the mat next to the mark 1!

 

You have earned your Frogwarts membership with this one!

 

By the way, painted in different colors that would represent any dragon conical breath weapon!    (PLEASE show us a step by step... pretty please)

[Cranky Dog]

Now that is a sweet looking cotton candy stand-in. It looks better than any other plan I could've come up with.

 

Seriously, you can easily mistake for the real deal.

 

Anyone up for a 70% pure dark chocolate dragon nemesis?

[Dr.Bedlam]

Hm. I suppose it'd work for any sort of GASEOUS breath weapon... not sure how I'd work it to get a fire effect... and I'd STILL like to know how I could get a black smoke effect...

...well, the holidays are comin'. Maybe I'll have to set up some dye dippin' cups in the garage...

[Talae]

That is awesome!

 

If I were to throw that on the game table, I would make the cotton candy breath linger and cause all kinds of battlefield havoc!