"Are These MAGGOTS Good For Gaming?" Topic

Imagine your insectoid troops protecting their brood:

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"Product Features: Bestest Maggots Ever! Sticky, icky and glow-in-the-dark! Very creepy and very X-Filey. Our each is a bag of (48) 1-1/8" long x 1/4" dia, sickly-pale, squishy-soft rubber maggots – enough to infest your sister's bedroom from floor to ceiling to under the pillow with plenty left over to stick in her yogurt. Not that we'd ever do a thing like that. We like our sister. And she doesn't eat yogurt anyway."

QUESTIONS:

a) Has anyone here used them?
b) If so, did they glue down well? What glue did you use?
c) Did they take paint and/or a wash?
d) Did that make them stop being sticky?

Thanks,

Dan

The sticky comes right through acrylic paint, I know that.

Use Loctite Stik n' Seal for glue, but you cannot get around the sticky problem.

Bummer!!! :(

Dan

I think you can find fishing lures that look like this Dan, that aren't sticky, just made of rubber.
Mongo

The sticky is due to the rubber formula, it has a permanent lube built into the chemical make-up.

But you get defeat it by taking a couple different steps:

I would first consider what you are going to do with them..if making small terrain pieces such as on a 30-40mm base then set in place with super glue and baby powder…touch the maggot to the glue then touch the contact point and dust with the powder.

This makes small patches of hard joints.

I could see putting a stack of maggots like this…picture a group of 9-13 maggots boiling out of a hole in the ground…then a wash of primer…let dry then a spray primer coat.

These seem like a bunch of steps but these will help defeat the "grease"

Or

Use the super glue which will burn/melt the contact points, build up your desired form of maggot pile and then dip in a 50/50 white (PVA) glue and water. This will seal the whole in a skin. Then prime and paint as normal once dry.

Or

Use two sided tape or roll a piece of tape across a shelf or other hanging point, get a bunch of sewing pins, pierce the maggot in his dirty little maggot end, and dip in 50/50 glue/water, put on tape to hang and dry…once dry glue, prime, and paint.

CC,
You have a PM.

RW,

Reply sent. Thanks,

Dan

CC,
I sent you a new link.

Hey you two! Get a room!

LOL!!!

Well, if you are nice, maybe RW will show you what he has been up to. :)

I'll just say it looks awesome.

Dan

I've been a good boy all day, I even went back to work after lunch.

I've been good also…hmmm

Security Minister I have sent you a new link just like Dan did…and Dan sent me a new link..(as he wrings his hands knowingly, that his ruse will draw out the data of what people are up to…heh heh heh)

Ok, you guys were nice:
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The first three variants of the Sand Worm will be available to pre-order from Acheson Creations very soon. Actually they have already made appearances at a couple of shows and have done well. The Giant Larvae will be shipped to him next week along with yet another Sand Worm pose and some other products I have been working on. Those will take a bit to get molds poured and such but hopefully it won't be long.

I will have my own site (www.riverbluffwargames.com) up and running in the not too distant future with a gallery of all my products, linked to the Acheson site, and a workbench to see what is to come.

Keep your eyes peeled, there will be TMP announcements soon.

Those rocks on the "Sand Worm" were fun to make.

Dan

Fun times ahead :)

When I read the title, I thought "Gosh, I know that some of the Games Workshop fans can be annoying at times, but Maggots!?"

Ooo.. sand worms! Those are nifty! I especially like the dead one, which would be a particularly awesome chunk of terrain on a desert battlefield, the smaller the scale the better. Heh… I can imagine a Flames of War fight between Monty and Rommel, with the worm being used for cover.

28mm Man's suggestions sound perfectly viable. I'd probably avoid painting them in fear of them melting like my fishing lures, but it sounds like he's done it successfully.

How would you model the stink of that dead Sand Worm if you painted it as if had been dead in the hot sun for a few days?

This ought to do it:

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- Rod

You'd need something more like Liquid Rot.

Hmmm, painting for a smell…other than scratch and sniff which just baffles the mind to consider, I suspect a quality painter (which I am not by any means) or a decent model technician (which I am much closer to being :) could make this come true with a few finishing steps.

Play with the matte, gloss, and heavy gloss…textures of soil (fresh or used coffee grounds are fun to use because once applied to the wet paint or sealer the resulting leeching coffee color will add a nice stain and texture build-up)…brown and green washes…etc.

These would go a long way to create the sense of stink.

:)

@ River – Imagine my surprise as I check out your link while "Dune" is on! Are there other powers at work here???

Back to the original grubs, why bother with painting or gluing? I'd think you'd just take a bowl-shaped nest, drop a small pile of them in, and let mommie have all the action.

Doug

Agreed. They are easy and ready to use as they are. I took it to mean that there were plans for other colors and perhaps just mulling the potential of painting soft rubber objects.

:)

Too bad these can't be bent smoothly (without collapse), to make them into a few different variants:

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Dan

Let's see if these like their new home:

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Dan

Maybe add some cat food to the paint? That would make it reek.