Nightmare: sacrificing my Bones for Reapercon!

[Corporea]

First, a quick story.  While falling asleep last night, I tried to come up with a plan for the Open category at Reapercon.  The theme is horror, so I needed something suitable.  What's scary?  Hmmmn.  Something scary.  I liked Kuro's tentacle project.  Something with tentacles?  Hmmmn.  Scary... what are kids afraid of...

 

I sat bolt upright in bed.  A Nightmare!  It's perfect!  I can mutilate a bunch of Bones I'll never get around to painting and make all the rest from greenstuff and sculpey.  I can use Talespinner's awesome Bones bed and make a little kid huddling under a blanket. 

 

I am a bad Corporea. 

 

 

I started with the eyebeast and squashed some sculpey around it.  the hands there are from the KD phoenix.  They're the scariest hands I own and my game came with an extra phoenix.  Perfect!  

 

I also stole the wings from the harpy, the arms from the harpy and ape demon and plan to stick on the mockingbeast.  Plan is lots of eyes, tentacles, claws and teeth.  Yup.  Bad, bad Corporea.

 

 

in progress.  See my little nightlight off to the right?  I'll be the only place where the Nightmare can't be.  I'll have painted tentacle scuttling away from it.

 

 

I like the way the hands hover over the poor kiddie.

 

 

I realized after taking this I was using my Halloween pencil to plot.  that's the spirit!

 

 

more sculpting and I added in some ghostly wall.

 

 

Not my best foray into photography and I managed to drop the whole mess onto the base after this, but I fixed it.  Plus it was only about an hour of sculpting, so totally fixable.  I'll be adding a bunch more details.  The spider/etc on the base will be done using greenstuff.  I'll make some more tentacles curling onto the bed and posts, but again, avoiding the light.

 

tried to get a better pic:

 

 

I'll be alternating this project with my diorama this weekend, but for now, must take a dinner break.  I ate donuts last night so salad today.  Sigh.     Salad.  Now that's a scary thought.

 

More soon!!

 

[vegascat]

Just.....wow.  That is going to be crazy amazing when you're finished.  I        this so much and you're not even done!

[Pingo]

 

Cripes Amighty.

 

[Sylverthorne]

I confess, you said 'nightmare', and my brain went to 'winged steed, snorting hellfire and trailing ash as it tears '.

 

This is considerably scarier. Me likey. ^^;

[ultrasquid]

I worry for what might happen to the Bones when you bake it to harden the Sculpey. Ovens can reach much higher temperatures than boiling water, and we know that's enough to make bonesium go all floppy.

[ub3r_n3rd]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

 

Looks awesome already!

[Tarsemina]

Neato!  Can't wait to see how this turns out!

[Corporea]

thanks!!!  I confess, after coming up with the idea I didn't sleep very well!

 

ultrasquid- all the parts are removable except the eyebeast and the mockingbeast.  Sculpey bakes at 275, and I'm pretty sure the actual melting point of the plastic is higher.  It's ok if they get soft- heck, a warped face is scarier, right?, but I'm going to watch them extra carefully to make sure they don't do something awful like release toxic fumes in my kitchen.  It'll be hairy and I worried about it, but otherwise I can't get the bulk of the sculpting done in sculpey which for me is faster and cheaper.  if it fails... I learn something!

 

And I have extra bones... 

 

I'll also wear my N-95 mask and kick the cats out of the room!  But if anyone knows for a fact the bones melt at that temp, let me know and I'll alter my plan! 

[Kheprera]

 

OMG!!! SQUEEEEE! I LOVE THIS IDEA TOTALLY AMAZING!!!

[Serenity]

Excellent project idea.

 

If you'd rather not experiment with baking, another way to cure Sculpey is boiling it in water.  Since we know Bones won't melt at 212 F, that might be another way to go.  I've never tried this, but it might be safer.

 

Or you could remove all the Bones pieces before baking, then add the Bones to your sculpt with a little more filling and sculpting using green stuff or another self-curing putty.

[haldir]

Needs a teddy bear!!!

 

[Sylverthorne]

If you have one, the not-a-gibbering horror might be an excellent addition. *evil grin*

 

Helping!

[malefactus]

That is a BRILLIANT idea! AND it looks like it is coming together WONDERFULLY! HAVE FUN!

[Cranky Dog]

thanks!!!  I confess, after coming up with the idea I didn't sleep very well!

 

ultrasquid- all the parts are removable except the eyebeast and the mockingbeast.  Sculpey bakes at 275, and I'm pretty sure the actual melting point of the plastic is higher.  It's ok if they get soft- heck, a warped face is scarier, right?, but I'm going to watch them extra carefully to make sure they don't do something awful like release toxic fumes in my kitchen.  It'll be hairy and I worried about it, but otherwise I can't get the bulk of the sculpting done in sculpey which for me is faster and cheaper.  if it fails... I learn something!

Be careful with the melting temperatures of plastics. They can go from a range of 250°F-550°F depending on the type plastic (plastic bag polyethylene is low, nylon is high). And I don't remember ever seeing the melting temperature for Bones.

 

Though I also really want to know the results as I got a nice brick of Fimo that also bakes in the same range as Sculpey (230-275°F).

[knarthex]

Needs a teddy bear!!!

 

Maybe a teddy bear KNIGHT defending the child????

 

(Cant see the pic....)