| Cacique Caribe | 01 May 2009 9:29 a.m. PST |
I've always seen them in the typical triangular head shape, but never one like this species: link
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link And I love that name!!! That must be a fun face/head to sculpt in 28mm and, more so, in 15mm. What do you guys think? Putty-worthy? Thanks. CC
PS. Glad they are just a few inches in size. |
Rodrick Campbell  | 01 May 2009 9:36 a.m. PST |
Definitely putty-worthy. Cool insect find there. |
| PapaSync | 01 May 2009 9:42 a.m. PST |
Reminds me of the Bug-gers from Ender's Game. . . 8) |
| Rattlehead | 01 May 2009 9:57 a.m. PST |
Wow… Those are WICKED looking… I wonder if Spugs would have a chance against those? ;-) |
| Rattlehead | 01 May 2009 9:59 a.m. PST |
Or maybe they'd make good mounts for Spug Cavalry? |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 May 2009 10:03 a.m. PST |
With those front legs and jaws, it would make a formidable mount to the Spugs. Just make sure you start with the 15mm ones first! :) CC |
Frederick  | 01 May 2009 10:22 a.m. PST |
Not the sort of chap you would want your sister to go out with What an excellent model for a bag-ass alien |
| 28mmMan | 01 May 2009 10:50 a.m. PST |
One of my favorites…one of my larger tattoos is of a leaf mantis… :) picture
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picture and finally my choice for Spug color/pattern picture another view of your post critter picture |
| BlackWidowPilot | 01 May 2009 11:17 a.m. PST |
Um, if that one says he's from Tau Ceti, tell him to pay me the $25 USD he owes me from last month's poker game!  Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net |
| OldGrenadier at work | 01 May 2009 11:22 a.m. PST |
One can find beauty in the oddest places :) I never thought I'd ever type this, but those are some very pretty insects. |
 Dances With Words | 01 May 2009 11:28 a.m. PST |
Totally WICKED! we need more 'CRITTERS' like this! Sgt DWW-btod |
| cfielitz | 01 May 2009 11:51 a.m. PST |
Very cool eye color pattern. |
| Cyrus the Great | 01 May 2009 11:56 a.m. PST |
Or maybe they'd make good mounts for Spug Cavalry? I think they would be better as warriors than as mounts. The mounts for them should be from CC's earlier post. picture I can really picture this in my mind. |
| Jake B | 01 May 2009 1:01 p.m. PST |
Just another guy in a rubber suit. (Well someone was going to say it eventually.) |
| Black Autumn Productions | 01 May 2009 2:24 p.m. PST |
Thank you CC…consider this one a done deal. I was looking for something to give my Ahadhake a little flash in the final detailes…great! GRABED! 
Michael
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| Jake B | 01 May 2009 2:25 p.m. PST |
It is a nice look. Similar to the gangster boss in the first season of Babylon 5. |
| Black Autumn Productions | 01 May 2009 2:33 p.m. PST |
Yup Bab5 Rules…
I just saw this guy, and right at the point in my sculpting of the WSW Aliens, when I was thinking of how to give the lead troops all a good finishing touch in the detailes…then good ole Dan post this..it is so done…lol.
Tonight in fact. 
Michael
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| Alxbates | 01 May 2009 3:49 p.m. PST |
Really cool – we don't have to look into the stars to find alien creatures – we just have to look into the depths, or at the little worlds all around us. I'd love to see that in putty. |
 Wolfshanza | 01 May 2009 4:28 p.m. PST |
Have to find a large avian race to counter ? |
| Aladdin | 01 May 2009 8:56 p.m. PST |
With a face only a mother could eat. |
| Hrothgar Returns | 01 May 2009 9:05 p.m. PST |
the marbled eyes are very cool!
The world that exists in the undergrowth is stranger than you can imagine. I saw a cool BBC documentary the featured a type of caterpiller that uses pheromones to trick ants into taking care of it-feed it, keep it clean, etc. The ants think the caterpillar is an ant larva. The problem for the caterpillar is that there is a species of wasp that uses the caterpillar as food for its young. The wasp enters the ant's nest and sprays a pheromone that causes the ants to fight each other! While the ants fight, the wasp injects the catterpillar with an egg. After the catterpillar coccoons itself, the wasp egg hatches and the wasp larva eats the catterpillar before emerging from the coccoon as an adult wasp. |
| Cacique Caribe | 01 May 2009 9:49 p.m. PST |
"the marbled eyes are very cool!" Yes. In some of those photos, the eyes are almost hypnotic. CC |
 Legion 4 | 02 May 2009 7:48 a.m. PST |
Wow !! Very alien looking … in a Terran sort of way !! Bugz … I hate'm …  |
| PapaSync | 02 May 2009 12:57 p.m. PST |
BUGS!..HA!..Nothin a good Storm Bolter can't take care of. . 8) |
| coopman | 03 May 2009 5:49 a.m. PST |
Even if you put that head on a human body it would make a great alien. |
| Cacique Caribe | 03 Jun 2009 11:28 a.m. PST |
Gotta put this on hold for a while, until I sort out my carpal tunnel issue. But I must give this a try at some point, even if just to sculpt the head. CC |
| CAPTAIN BEEFHEART | 05 Jun 2009 6:34 p.m. PST |
Sculpt it !!! Just the one time at least! |
| Eli Arndt | 16 Jul 2009 7:26 p.m. PST |
Good paint scheme ideas for GZG Ixx figs. -Eli |
| Mooseworks8 | 17 Jul 2009 5:38 a.m. PST |
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| Cacique Caribe | 20 Aug 2009 9:42 p.m. PST |
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| 45thdiv | 21 Aug 2009 10:18 a.m. PST |
Okay – I just saw this. Fantastic. |
| Cacique Caribe | 17 Jul 2010 8:20 p.m. PST |
That head on this body would be too cool: picture Dan |
| 28mmMan | 17 Jul 2010 9:00 p.m. PST |
Dan that is a great bugman…skinny limbs would be a tough cast/mold though :( |
| Glenn M | 18 Jul 2010 5:46 a.m. PST |
Looks like a Thri-Kreen from Dark Sun, there were a few in DDM, but they were kinda iffy. |
| 28mmMan | 18 Jul 2010 8:23 a.m. PST |
Good call Glenn, right on the money link Especially this one for the balance in body design, same number of fingers/toes, limbs maintain consistency, and a certain logic to the form…for this type, following an established body format of anthro-mantis I think this person(s) did a good job picture |
| Cacique Caribe | 18 Jul 2010 10:44 a.m. PST |
They would definitely make great Selenites: TMP link Dan |
| Cacique Caribe | 10 Oct 2010 9:34 p.m. PST |
This one has the crest right . . . link Dan |
| 28mmMan | 11 Oct 2010 6:50 a.m. PST |
I am liking this one also link |
