Live size Kroak!

Jon Micheelsen · Tadpole Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 7

Behold Kroak: www.rollespilsfabrikken.dk/kroak/

I made this Kroak prop for a Danish Warhammer LARP.

The body is a giant monkey teddy bear from a theme park, the head, hands and feet is carved styrofoam, with a layer of PVA glue and news-paper with a modelled layer of paper clay to give detail. To enforce, it's sprayed with alcohol-thinned fast Araldite. The paintjob is airbrushed acryllic paint with a final coat of half-shiny spray-can varnish. The neck and smoldering skin parts is acryllic toned latex and toilet-paper, paintet with a non-bounding acryllic paint that forms in fine little proplets, that provide the spottet finish. The body is wrapped in roughed-up gaze dipped in a mixture of water, kaolin, PVA glue and a light tone of acryllic paint, the wathered finish is achived with sprays of darker tones of water diluted acryllic paint.
I didn't make the throne, the mask and neclace, but they're made out of a PE foam called platezote. I did however do the painting of the throne, a little rushed, the night before it was featured in the LARP. It's light enough to be easily carried by two.

Jon M.

Huinipachutli · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:09 am Post subject:

This is really amazing!

Godt klaret mann! Very Happy

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Jon Micheelsen · Tadpole Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 7

Hehe, jammen mange tak!!

I forgot one thing. I had only 5 days to make the thing - luckilly my darling girlfriend didn't mind me ignoring her completely in my creative frenzy while bringing me food and drink Wink

Dark Bryne · Saurus Warrior Joined: 03 Sep 2008 Posts: 38

That is pretty darn cool Very Happy

Pogo · Stegadon Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 280

COOL!
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Kiour_gr · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:42 am Post subject:

THat is best larp model I have seen and definelty the best lizardmen one. and only in 5 days?

so you say you used styrofoam or the head.
How did you carve the eye sockets ?
And how did you do the teeth? did you add them afterwards?
Do you have any pictures of Kroak when he was in progress?
And again great joB!
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lutherblue · Tadpole Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 13

I am saddened to say that this link to the Kroak picture doesn't seem to be working and gives me a oops message.
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Mr. Ski · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject:

Tankmaster · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:50 am Post subject:

I cannot see the website.
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Trevy the Great · Sacred Spawning Saurus Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 95

Me neither. Sad

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turmi110 · Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:03 pm Post subject:

er, the last post was almost a year ago

Either way, the website where that link leads was closed because of copyright issues with GW, turns out for their LARP they didn't follow all the guidlines well enough for GW. I must say I am very interested to see what it looked like though Sad