""Healthy" Zombies: How About BRAIN SLUGS?" Topic

Finally a solution for the problem of having duplicate figures . . .

Imagine making little brain slugs like these, that you can simply glue to the heads of your extra figures, to turn them into "healthy" but otherwise mindless zombies?

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Has anyone tried to do anything like that with their figures?

Though, to avoid IP issues, they could be done a little more like this:
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Dan, you scare me… You must be reading my mind ;)

That is one head sprue that is under sculpting…

Piotr,

LOL.

Is it like a sprue of just the slugs, so that people can attach them to whatever extra figures they have?

Or are you making entire human heads, with slugs already sculpted on them?

Dan
PS. And I assume you are talking about 15mm, right?

Actually both, but we started with the heads with slugs since they are easier to do. Part of our future World Wide Water mini line. Apart from slugs there will be another sprue of human heads with starfish attached, for variety or another species ;)

Awesome. I, for one, would love sprues with just the slugs themselves.

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At most, they should be no bigger than half the size of a human miniature figure's head, don't you think? For 15mm, that could be pretty tiny, but cute. :)

Dan

Imagine converting your duplicate figures to this, by simply attaching a cute brain slug to their heads:

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This one is kinda cute:

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Dan

Dan,

I guess you have seen the movie "Night of the Creeps"..brain slugs but they are inside the head instead of outside.

Michael

Michael,

Hmm. I'll check it out. Thanks.

Though I think it's funnier to have them plain for all to see, don't you think?

Dan
PS. By the way, I just remembered that the Drakh "Keepers" in B5 were also external parasites:
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Didn't the 'slither' zombies have a smiliar ailment?

(although also inside, not outside)

Internal mind-controlling parasites are everywhere in movies and shows. Including this Outer Limits episode, "From Within":
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External ones are few and far between. Plus, the brain slugs would make the game more entertaining.

Dan

I keep hoping Khurasan will do a set of Space Demon Nymphs in full "head crab" mode – making them wrapped around a seperate head would allow you to use them for swaps and conversions. Sculpting something like the Futurama brain slugs would be pretty simple by comparison, but attaching them to regular figs would require some fancy painting to get that slack-jawed zombie look on the faces. OTOH, there's a bald severed head on the GW plastic zombie sprue that would make an outstanding basis for a head swap conversion – it's got that gaping mouth/eyes don't track thing going.

If you want really over-the-top external mind controllers, you can't beat the silliness of the Filarians of the defunct Galactic Empires CCG:

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Octopus hats in space, as we used to call them. :)

"Sculpting something like the Futurama brain slugs would be pretty simple by comparison, but attaching them to regular figs would require some fancy painting to get that slack-jawed zombie look on the faces."

I don't know. It seems like some of the hosts look pretty happy to have those parasites on top of their heads:

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Dan

you'd only have to paint the eye if you used green stuff.

Maybe not brain slugs exactly, but I always wanted to do a puppet master project.

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Figured I would just sculpt a crude face sucker looking thing on the backs of civilian models, with some pincers doing into the spine. Ohhh ah, another project.

Regarding sculpting your own, a few years ago I made some life-size brain slugs for my wife and daughter. I used a mix of translucent, glow-in-the-dark, and pale green Sculpey, sculpted over a small glass (to minimize wasted Sculpey).

The slugs glow nicely in the dark, and I can also put a small flashing LED underneath, in the glass, to get some cool lighting effects.

I'd be tempted to paint up my victims as usual, then just attach some translucent green Sculpey slugs to their heads.

Wow. I guess Sculpey has come up with new colors since I last used it.

Thanks!

Dan

Damn it,. forgot to order Pole's zombies. Link, anyone?

If you are really jonesing for, "right now available," that maybe ain't so cute; the GW Tyranid poison sacs have the right size/creepiness to them and could be strategically placed to do the trick until someone sculpts and makes "legit" brain slugs.

("legit" brain slugs. How cool is this forum?!?)

"the GW Tyranid poison sacs"

Are these Tyranid "adrenal glands" the same thing?

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If not, about how big are those adrenal glands?

What about these other adrenal glands, but with the little tail thingie? How big are they?

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Thanks.

Dan

Wait a minute. Mardaddy, are these the ones you mean?

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Thanks.

Dan

Dan, CC

Wow, those adrenal sacks look perfect for the puppet masters. Thanks. I like the toxin sacks too.

Thanks, though I would still like to get some idea of how big they are.

Dan

But, horror of horrors, they would only fit 28mm minis !?

Are they that big?

Dan

According to Daniel Dennet, how do we know that we are not already Zombies?

If you want them healthy, send them to the doctor:

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Toxoplasma is indeed the real brain slug:

"A common parasite in cats can infect humans. The protozoan Toxoplasma gondii feeds on human brain cells, causing altered mental states, behavioral problems and schizophrenia. According to the CDC, up to 60 million people in America suffer from toxoplasmosis, and most don't know it.
Although T. gondii is a microscopic organism, it seems to influence the mind and behavior of its host. By manipulating the reward and pleasure centers of the brain, the parasite can ensure its own survival."
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"Changes in Human Personality and Behavior
A study at Charles University in Prague found that men infected with toxoplasmosis were more jealous or suspicious than the men of a control group. Women, on the other hand, became more friendly and outgoing. Both sexes had stronger feelings of guilt, and showed more self-reproach, than did those in the control group.
The same study found that people with toxoplasmosis had delayed reaction times. An infected person was four to six times more likely to have a traffic accident than a non-infected person."
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Thank your cats.

Dan

I guess you have seen the movie "Night of the Creeps"..brain slugs but they are inside the head instead of outside

Has one of my favorite movie quotes:"The good news is you dates are here. The bad news is… they're dead."