WIP Wednesday! Seeing Orange!

It’s that time of year as Halloween gets closer and closer to descending upon us all! So let’s see how DM Ben is putting a printed twist on one of our holiday office party contests!

A pumpkin decoration contest, you say? Challenge accepted. The 3DRPG team might now be handy with a carving knife but we know our way around a printer and a paintbrush, baby!

Did you know orange is the new gray – as in Hatchbox filament gray? If you’re a regular follower of our 24/7 live Twitch stream, you know that it’s our filament of choice. Thus, it only makes sense that we take our orange pumpkin and give it a coat of  Rust-Oleum Painter’s Touch 2X Ultra Cover Flat Gray Primer as the base coat. Will it even stick to a pumpkin’s surface? No idea. We’ll find out later this week.

For our killer pumpkin mimic minions, we grabbed this amazing model by Teirale. Many of his models are supportless including this gem and even better, it’s a free download. Still, please do consider joining his Patreon if you can.

We rattled off about a dozen of these mean lil’ bastards on our resin Mars Pro 3 and dropped a black primer on ’em to get the paint steps rolling. The print time was less than 3 hours and the longest step was basically letting them dry for 24 hours before curing.

As you can tell from the party invite above, time is of the essence here! DM Ben is going to face his fears and try to take on the paint duties rather than passing them over to our resident brush master, Kimmy Utah. He’ll start by using the tried and true slap chop technique by The Honest Wargamer which is simply: (1) Prime Black (2) Drybrush gray (3) Drybrush white.

For the specific paints, DM Ben is a novice painter and the holiday clock is ticking so he’ll naturally lean on Army Speedpaints. To decide which specific colors to use, he utilizes this excellent color guide by the insanely talented Dana Howl. We’ve visited this handy page so often that we should get our own parking space. It includes sample paints by both Army Speedpaints and Citadel Contrast paints.

The other resource we’re going to utilize here to ease our painting trepidations is to ask the Tale of Painters discord and see if the highly knowledgeable community has any other suggestions. Their website has great color charts too.

Ultimately, we’re going to try the following:

• Pumpkin: Fire Giant Orange
• Tongue: Purple Alchemy
• Teeth: Pallid Bone
• Eye: Blood Red
• Stalk: Malignant Green
• Base: Americana Burnt Umber
• Finish: a light black or brown wash

DM Ben is just going to line these up Ford Model T assembly-line style and apply each color across all the minis before moving to the next step.

For D&D 5e monster stats, we loved this comprehensive pumpkin monster guide review by Ember Dungeon Mastery. There are so many baddie options to choose from too: a Pumpkin King, Pumpkin Tendrils, Pumpkin Bombs, and Pumpkin Plants.

Be sure to check out Teirale’s full mimic set on Joseph Prusa’s Printables website. 3DRPG has printed nearly all of ’em and they’ve turned out great.

We’ll be sure to circle back and show you the finished works in the coming weeks!