Sculpey Mushroom Fellas by Rigel

[Rigel]

Maybe this should have gone in the Sculpting thread, but I didn't make a build log when I sculpted these about four years ago. It was my first game DMing, a 5e homebrew, and enigmatic mycelial conspiracies played a large part. At this point I only knew the FLGS as a source of minis, and they didn't have any myconids. So I made do. One of them is based loosely off of bracket fungus and one off of amanita toadstools.
Showing them off now because a) I picked up some Nolzur/Wizkids new Myconid Adult sculpts to go along with them, and b) I'm seeing so many wonderful mushroom-folk on the forums and love jumping in front of bandwagons.  

The sculpting was ham-fisted and the painting leaves much to be desired, but I am proud of one innovation that you can use for your myconids: for that enokitake effect, get a bunch of sewing pins, clip to different lengths, and bend them into a gentle curve near the cut or pointy end.  Cluster as necessary.

[Glitterwolf]

Very nice!

[Corsair]

Those are sharp! Love the idea about the sewing pins, I may have to try to make some Groaci from Frank Laumer's Retief series of books!

[malefactus]

You "made do" SPLENDIDLY. The Fungus Fellows are WONDERFULLY imaginative creations, nicely crafted & painted. OUTSTANDING WORK!

[Highlander]

[Rigel]

Thanks, folks! 

12 hours ago, Corsair said:

Those are sharp! Love the idea about the sewing pins, I may have to try to make some Groaci from Frank Laumer's Retief series of books!

Love me a good mid-century sci-fi project! If this happens, I want to see it. Great idea!

 

9 hours ago, malefactus said:

You "made do" SPLENDIDLY. The Fungus Fellows are WONDERFULLY imaginative creations, nicely crafted & painted. OUTSTANDING WORK!

Any fungus you appreciate is a fungus good enough for me. Many thanks for the inspirational words!  Tried to paint them up in  multiple shades of "moldy" for added verisimilitude/ick factor. 

[lazarp]

I love them, I will surely try making some of my own out of fimo in the future! 

[Warlady]

Very creative!

[Iridil]

Nice fungus - I like your sculpts, they are vaguely humoid but yet not - they kind of remind me of 80s minis!

[redambrosia]

Oh my goodness, they're so cute!! 

[Metalchaos]

These are some lovely and inspiring sculpts, you did a wonderful job.

[Rigel]

Thank you all for the inspiration!  The great thing about mushrooms is that even if yours turn out (like mine) lumpy and asymmetrical, you can claim it's a feature.