locates some hard-to-find military toys at the dollar store.
This charming little column of tentacles is mounted on a 25mm round base and stands slightly over 1" tall. It's one of those models that you can paint in five minutes or five hours, depending on how many different tentacles you want to pick out in varying colors. I opted to come in toward the bottom end of that range myself, and stuck with a scheme fairly close to the factory version.
