Goobinsitz on Instagram was running a contest making squigs. Knowing very little about Warhammer and its small monsters with legs and teeth I did a tiny bit of research, or looking at pictures online of past squigs made by people I follow. I also looked at the types of squig on the wiki and just decided to chop up some dinosaurs and see what comes out, the typical Rob building style. I took a few dinosaurs and cut off their top halves, storing them for a later project down the line. The legs were sturdy but the lower waist on one of them needed foil to be added to give it more mass. I added on the Miliput and started playing around with how it interacted with my tools. For the singular eye Squig I used a marble and secured it with the Miliput. The yellowing in the orb is from the actual putty itself showing through, next time I will have to either paint the back side of the marble ahead of time or use the color Miliput. I added in extra features made from Sculpey while the putty was still wet.
Paints, washes, and dry brushing like any other build and for basing I made some mistakes. I used a the glue within reach, Elmers school glue, and smoothed it onto a base. From there I added my sand, stones, and baking soda concoction and let it dry. The next day I hit it with spray E6000 to further hold everything down. The glues did not like eachother or the basing mixture and when I went to attach my minis they only glued to the surface of the glue… so it came right off. In a panic I added some greenstuff I was using from another project, and that failed to hold at all. On the side I was trying out a hot glue casting technique, filling a few of my silicone monster molds with hot glue, and remembered I could just hot glue the Squigs to their bases and pretty them up after. Feet secured, bases got primed, washes added, dry brushed, and more washes. I was happy in the end with both sculpts and their bases. I need to make more, building off another figure sped up the process and helped by avoiding struggling making feet.
