Demon Idol

You know what’s really cool? Having a fellow player in your game who say “Hey, I’ve got a 3D printer. Anyone want anything printed out?”

And yes, yes I do…

One of the things I’ve really wanted was the demon idol from the 1e player’s handbook. Now I have one!

The green plastic was a little weird, and the print quality was pretty decent for something this size. The smaller PC sized minis were unfortunately too small for the details to come out, so I’m glad I went with something a little more substantial.

After cleaning up the support bits from the printer, I primed it with black craft paint. I was generous with the application, and the paint is thick to begin with, and for the most part it did a good job filling in most of the print lines.

I thought about carving out the fire and replacing it with the head of the medium fire elemental, but decided to just go with the printed flames, as the head wasn’t quite big enough, but the fireballs were too big.

Wanting to keep it fairly simple, I built up a couple of layers of dark, medium, and then lighter grey, but the more I worked on it, the more the lines stood out.  So I smeared the whole thing with wood glue and coated it in fine grained sand, and then painted it black again.

 

I still wasn't super thrilled, and so in frustration I put it away... for a long time. Way back in the summer of 2018.

Pulling it out recently I decided to wrap it up. I repainted it, added some OSL from the flames, and a pair of gems were glued in for eyes. 

I think that's looking just fine! And I'm glad to have it finished.