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I've been disappointed in the amount of flak the “translucent eidolon” clause in the new summoner synthesist archetype has received, because it has so much flavor potential! For the last 6 weeks or so, I've been playing a synthesist in a pretty unique way, and I thought I'd show off how I put that rule to great use with a cool mini I made!
My PC is an ectoplasmic spirit medium by trade, reflavored so that instead of summoning flesh and blood creatures, he gives spirits of dead creatures solid form through the ectoplasm his body exudes. His eidolon is the summoned spirit of an extinct Azlanti war-creature, and to portray him properly, I wanted to cast his eidolon in transparent resin around the synthesist's body. The way I play him, the synthesist has to give up most of his own body fluids to summon his eidolon, since he's made up of hardened ectoplasm, and so when you see his form within the eidolon, it is all gaunt and mummified.
So, I found a great miniature that I thought had the right flavor for my eidolon in the MageKnight knight line, a Living Elemental (the slightly-larger MK size works to my advantage). For my “mummified” summoner within, I thought a Harbinger ghoul would be perfect. I did the standard two-part dental mold of the MageKnight figure first, and dyed some transparent resin green. This stuff set up quickly, and I had to work FAST! Luckily, the two creatures had pretty similar poses, and after chopping the base from the ghoul and softening up the already-thin-and-pliable figure in some hot water, I poured the resin in the front part of the mold, set the ghoul within, then quickly closed the mold, trapping him in there before pouring the rest of the resin in. It was a gamble, and it took two tries, but I finally got exactly what I wanted!
Translucent Synthesist Eidolon
The second pic shows the mold and the trapped summoner within a touch better. The pics capture it pretty well, but in person it totally ROCKS! PERFECT! I even found a large ice elemental mini that looks really, really similar to this, and trapped a modified Wand Expert mini in him using the same process. While he's a little harder to see within, I'll have a large-sized mini to use when I cast enlarge person or my eidolon grows to Large. There you go!
Well done, that is pretty awesome. I need to start painting again so I can get my groups new minis on the table. Including my synthesist.
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Yeah, He kept his character all hush hush for a while and finally debuted his MAIN CLASS ABILITY just recently.
It's been really awesome flavor. In fact the whole party has been a fun 1st-2nd level jaunt.
Great minis and amazing work. I need to get something better for my guy. It's shameful.
Yeah, Daigle, you know I wrote this thread about 2 weeks ago, but just saved it to post until I actually debuted my eidolon. I can't believe I made it all the way through first level without ever summoning him. I had these minis I just couldn't wait to show off! Hahaha.
Dude, that's badass!
Was this the mini you said was "Most expensive mini ever"?
Yep -this is the one! I pretty much bought all the materials to mold and cast him just for this one project. Of course, I also cast the larger version I mentioned, and made a few molds for typical generic summoned creatures like ravens, wolves, etc (giving the small flyers an gooey "ectoplasmic" base rather than their little stem), but all in all, I'd say this mini cost me about $30! Of course, the more I make, the more that cost defrays, but I don't to make dozens of these guys, do I? =-)
Very impressive work!
Well concieved and well executed.
Congrats
Very cool. How hard was it to make the mold in the first place?
Please post pictures of the large one too :)