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This is a stone golem monster used by a group Auckland New Zealand. Very impressive. Love to see stuff like this in the UK.
Follow the link and click on the first pic under videos.
http://www.mordavia.com/event_03.htm
Anyone seen anything like this at a UK event?
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That stone golem looks pretty cool.
Hasn't Maelstrom had a big dragon or something? what was that like, did it work/look good?
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Mandala has Lava beast which i "Belive" had the same construction methods as well as using up most of the PVA glue in northampton while being built
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| A Stone troll at the LT made in a similar way with lot morer detail...
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Anyone got any pictures?
Or tips on constructed oversized monsters?
were thinking of making a couple of massive creatures for some events this year. Trying to figure out wether to use stilts or bucket feet for the extra height. Plus a big artifical head, so player will be seeing out of chest; but this has caused problems with making the arms looked cramped.
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It's been discussed a fair bit before, both here & on pagga.net IIRC. Try using the Search function on both sites (in "The Method" sub-forum here, and in the Archive of "The Method" sub-forum there).
I favour Dura-Stilts to get a basic bit of extra height (about 18" is very achievable & makes you look huge). They take a bit of practice to get used to, but once you've put a few hours in you can walk, run, & fight in them.
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Elm (1/9/2007)
This is a stone golem monster used by a group Auckland New Zealand. Very impressive.
Thanks.
Personally I've found height boosters cumbersome, but maybe I just haven't seen it done well yet. Our stone golem is thick rather than tall, although the head peak does add a few inches and in person it just looks enormous all over. I had it bearing down on me in an enclosed space as an NPC in our last event, and it gave me the heebie jeebies.
Brief construction tips can be found here: http://www.mordavia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=655
I agree that our construction technique didn't give detail like you'd get with cast latex or a complex paint job. But it was cheap, relatively fast and the result is effective in play when worn by someone who is good at selling the weight of all that stone - as the wearer in that video was. It's lasted the years, with numerous re-glueings and re-paintings.
At our last event we did a giant corrupted tree costume, 15' high with two people inside and four branch weapons. It looked bloody silly in bright light, but in a forest at night with a murky green light it worked well. We had a film crew there (discretely) so hopefully we'll have a video up sometime. The wearers were back to back wearing metal frame backbacks from which a thick PVC pipe rose up. The whole structure hung from the pipe. Again, we didn't want stilts because they're easy to become unbalanced in combat.
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