Nearly there.

The tentacle beast is coming along really nicely now. I've attached all the baskets together, 3 on each side, and have blu-tacked them to the side of the beast to see how it looks. I've put the wooden panel on the side of one as well. This needs some straps to give it a suspended look rather than just sticking there. The tentacles are all completed minus a bit of sanding and I've made attachments for them on the underside of the beast. Here are the pics of it at this stage. After that is work on the merchant/handler.

He's a rough sort at the moment. I really need a lot more practice with the human form but it's a beginning. He'll be wearing some sort of robe/cloak as well. There is a fair amount left to finish on this guy. I've also but a length of brass rod for his snagging tool.

Again, more progress on the Tentacle beast.

I've made some basic extra tentacles now. These ones still need a bit of work. I need to add the tips to the tentacles so the wire is hidden underneath.

So with a bit of magic I managed to take these photos (Okay so I flipped them upside down) This basically shows where they will go. Sculpting needs to go on underneath where they attach as well.

More progress on the tentacle beast and the Demon Fiddler Crab

More progress has been made on the tentacle beast. The underside has been created and I have made the two long tentacles. They have small suction pads on the ends that I made with a small leather punch to get the circle and a rubber clay shaper. Now all that is left is the other tentacles and the beast is nearly finished. Only small details and piecing it together.

The Crab man, which I now call the demon fiddler crab, has a gigantic arm. I'm thinking it may be slightly too big. I've added a shoulder since the photo was taken and also sculpted over most of the smaller arm. The base of which you can see on the right. This will probably have a smaller upper arm section. I found it better to make it longer and then take away rather than making it too short. This guy is nearly complete.

Progress on the tentacle beast

I added the harness to one of the beasts. First I put on some small metal rings that I found on some cheap necklaces. I then mixed some milliput and GS together.
This is the first time I've used this mix and I really like it. It works nice and smooth like GS but has more solidiity to it, like milliput and it wasn't flaking like milliput tends to do by itself. This should help me stretch my stores of GS out a bit and make it cheaper too, win win!
I rolled out some thin strips of putty and put this into the grooves I had previously made. This gave it a look of tight harnesses on a rather squidgy organism.

After doing this I added some gill type breathing things to the front. To begin with it look very much like a toy rubber duck for the bath. I added a few more layers of it, and while still looking like a duck, it is toned down a little bit.

LAF build something contest

I've been working on the build something contest, over on LAF.
The theme for the contest was flight so I basically went for floating instead which is close enough to flight to be allowed. I was going to work on the chicken legged hut I have been wanting to do for a while to go with the witch I sculpted for CP models. Unfortunately I couldn't do this as I had already entered my idea.

So basically it is floating jellyfish/squid used as a beast of burden.

Here are some pics: