making a wizard staff, opinions on this one?

[Flaming Tiki 489]

While cleaning and prepping this wiz, I knocked off the top of his staff (which was kinda ugly anyway). Glued it back (CA and baking soda), no surprise, came off again. So something new is in order. I came up with this. At first I felt the skull was going to be too large, I'm okay with that. Now my concern is that it looks more, "headhunter-ish". I went to bed thinking a solid gold or chrome might "fix the cannibalistic" feel of it. Or I just go with the ever-popular (and a bit tired) crystal ball or gems. Opinions? The skull seems to "evil up' the character. I'm not partial as to his disposition, I/he could go evil or good,

 Thanks for lookin'  - Joe

 

[TGP 74284]

I like it. 

I keep picturing a red + green Christmas scarf under the skull's 'neck'. 

A Dr Who scarf would be funny. 

[Loth 616]

Skulls as evil is a cultural statement; many places see them as neutral- like the day of the dead 

 

looks good to me.

 

Loth

[Flaming Tiki 489]

@TGP thanks, now I may need to make the snake heads that I originally planned but chickened out on. SMH, a scarf!

@Loth TY, evil is so many things.

[Flaming Tiki 489]

For the sake of closure and my need to be here instead of sitting at my workbench, here's the staff in (to my best ability) NMM gold:

 - I thought the skull would be hard to paint, the "rod" part of the staff is what's being a pain!

Edited June 24, 2017 by Flaming Tiki

[Crowley 104294]

Very nice!

[Chaoswolf 114722]

The staff looks good!

[Lord_Bryon 82]

Awesome!.. in gold that looks sweet

 

[lowlylowlycook 9461]

That NMM seems quite nicely done.