Some background -
I wanted to build this in secret for my wife's birthday at the end of March, but I ended up not having the time. She's a big Little Shop of Horrors fan and has gotten my two daughters (4 and 6) hooked on it as well. Now I'm just building it for her and the girls out in the open, much nicer that way because I don't have to work under a deadline or hiding it.
The base of this is a larger sized decorative Easter Egg that I found at Hobby Lobby. I thought it provided a decent size and shape for the base. My intentions with this were to be able to fit in to scale with 6 or 7 inch figures as a larger Audrey II, and by itself as a 1:1 between phase 1 (coffee can) and the WSKID scene-size. It's truly not accurate to the screen used puppet, but my only goal for the end-model is that it is recognizable. I'm taking inspiration from the designs of all the stages in the film, and doing some things on my own.
I don't have any pictures of it as a blank egg, but I have pictures after adding base sculpting. I sculpted the lips out of Crayola Model Magic. Blending this in with the egg caused an issue that I expected, because Model Magic just doesn't blend. I created a paste made with Elmer's glue, fine sand, and water and used this to blend the lips to the egg. That was something I just came up with - I didn't want to use a lot of milliput or apoxie on the seams, and I thought the fine grade of sand would work.
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I removed the veins from a Dollar Tree leaf and added it on to the top of the head. I then painted liquid latex over the entire thing, painting it thick and streaky in places to give it texture. The latex over the sand produced a great lemon/lime type irregular dimpled texture. Came out great and unexpected I think. After a couple coats of liquid latex, I sealed the entire thing with Mod Podge to prep it for painting. at this point I stuck a piece of bamboo in to the egg (it was foam filled) to use as a stem
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Primered head:
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Initial paint, using green and yellow spray paint:
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Hand painted the rest of the details. Spotted brown areas using paint + toothbrush, and various washes and drybrushes:
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Next up I'll work on the floral portion. I have some cheap larger leaves from Dollar Tree, but I don't like how thin they are. I'm thinking of painting them up with liquid latex to make them thicker.
Fairly low cost so far:
$1 ceramic pot
$2 Egg
$3 Model Magic (even though I really had it left over from my Krang costume)
$1 Bamboo
$3 in assorted floral
$2 - two rubber snakes to use for vines/tentacles
$11 total so far
More updates as I get them done. Thanks for looking!
- Rob
I wanted to build this in secret for my wife's birthday at the end of March, but I ended up not having the time. She's a big Little Shop of Horrors fan and has gotten my two daughters (4 and 6) hooked on it as well. Now I'm just building it for her and the girls out in the open, much nicer that way because I don't have to work under a deadline or hiding it.
The base of this is a larger sized decorative Easter Egg that I found at Hobby Lobby. I thought it provided a decent size and shape for the base. My intentions with this were to be able to fit in to scale with 6 or 7 inch figures as a larger Audrey II, and by itself as a 1:1 between phase 1 (coffee can) and the WSKID scene-size. It's truly not accurate to the screen used puppet, but my only goal for the end-model is that it is recognizable. I'm taking inspiration from the designs of all the stages in the film, and doing some things on my own.
I don't have any pictures of it as a blank egg, but I have pictures after adding base sculpting. I sculpted the lips out of Crayola Model Magic. Blending this in with the egg caused an issue that I expected, because Model Magic just doesn't blend. I created a paste made with Elmer's glue, fine sand, and water and used this to blend the lips to the egg. That was something I just came up with - I didn't want to use a lot of milliput or apoxie on the seams, and I thought the fine grade of sand would work.
I removed the veins from a Dollar Tree leaf and added it on to the top of the head. I then painted liquid latex over the entire thing, painting it thick and streaky in places to give it texture. The latex over the sand produced a great lemon/lime type irregular dimpled texture. Came out great and unexpected I think. After a couple coats of liquid latex, I sealed the entire thing with Mod Podge to prep it for painting. at this point I stuck a piece of bamboo in to the egg (it was foam filled) to use as a stem
Primered head:
Initial paint, using green and yellow spray paint:
Hand painted the rest of the details. Spotted brown areas using paint + toothbrush, and various washes and drybrushes:
Next up I'll work on the floral portion. I have some cheap larger leaves from Dollar Tree, but I don't like how thin they are. I'm thinking of painting them up with liquid latex to make them thicker.
Fairly low cost so far:
$1 ceramic pot
$2 Egg
$3 Model Magic (even though I really had it left over from my Krang costume)
$1 Bamboo
$3 in assorted floral
$2 - two rubber snakes to use for vines/tentacles
$11 total so far
More updates as I get them done. Thanks for looking!
- Rob
