Mycetic Spore Advice

Hey guys just pretty much finished my mycetic spore and am about to make a cheap mold and start casting so I can start selling these puppies. My question to you the prospective buyer is, what does this model still need. Is there anything i could do that would make it look nicer and perhaps entice you further into buying some? Or is it good and you (a nid player) would already purchase something of this quality? I'm kinda stuck in limbo and need some quick advice so i can start production. Please let me know. Thanks.

Personally I would remove the icecream swirl top it does not seem to fit for the model. If you remove that I think it would make the whole model look friggin fantastic. That is also just my personal take on it.

I would agree with Jon. The rest of it looks alien like and Nid, definitely, but the top almost looks like a BioTitan got too close when it was doing it's business....

But, if I were a Nid player, and needed some Spores, I'd definitely get one (albeit without the top swirl)

I also agree....remove the thing on top, it doesnt look like the rest of the model and doesnt flow. The rest of your model flows towards the top and then that looks like its just stuck on there. I am assuming that this has the same footprint as a drop pod, which is what you would want, so thats covered. I really cant think of anyting else, except that the base seems rounded and precarious. Possible a Nid scenic base to mount it to?

Any chance you could a door or a part to pop off that lash whips, and weapons can be attached to it?

OH! I thought it may be Carni-Poop! lol

Spore looks nice but I am thinking something more organic with tendrils coming off the top like the tail of a comet when it is coming down!

So on the ground they would sort of fountain out of the top for the lash whip representation!

..jellies



Solid work Danny..

Haha! Yea something like that would work!

This pic (and any more that you plan to use to market this thing) will need some point of reference for the scale of it. As it is now, in this pic, it looks unbelievably HUGE!

As far as the model critique (skipping the soft serve/poo topping), I think it looks far too pristine and in sore need of surface detailing. It's just too damned smooth as is. It looks like you just took a large egg and stuck some putty on it. Mycetic spores ought to be disgusting, oozing, mucous-y affairs. This one looks fresh off of the showroom floor, not on the ground after hurtling through the atmosphere and smashing into the earth with a payload of skittering death inside...

If nothing else, on that base coat of your putty over the whole egg shape (under the existing detail) would be great for detailing. After you covered it, small oval or teardrop divots pressed in over the whole of it would do WONDERS for making that more believable to me.

It also seems to be very unstable with that rounded bottom. You could kill two birds with one stone and model it partially submerged in the earth after the aforementioned hurtling and smashing. Upended earth with a big, snotty ball cracking open inside of a crater.

Lastly, depending on it's size, you plan to cast this thing in bulk? What medium are you planning on using? Unles you're going to do a two-piece cast with cavities, you're going to go through ridiculous amounts of casting material. If you're using resin, whomever is sponsoring this is gonna go broke, fast. If you plan on plaster, either the model, somebody's fingers, or somebody's models are gonna get broken when it inevitably gets knocked over or dropped. If you're going to use Hydrocal, it's going to be very structurally unsound and eventually break


As it stands now, I predict a hard market for trying to sell that thing to people.



Ghazkhull