IHawk
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1054 Posts
    
Lisle, Illinois
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IHawk
Underboss
1054 Posts
Lisle, Illinois
| | 10/16/2005 10:43 PM |
| Nightwalkers. They can be picked up Extreamely cheap and painted pretty easy as well. Or you could leave them black and just use a as proxy units. I am not a great painter, but my huge fire elemental didn't turn out too bad, although not as good as the Chrall or air elemental conversions to fire elementals. (my players just love the fire plane, so I needed extra staples).
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Malin Lug
Sergeant
742 Posts
| | 10/16/2005 11:13 PM |
| It is going to sound hoaky but... a glass of water for a water elemental and I have a couple of rocks that are the right size for earth elementals. The glass has the right base size and the rocks are the right size. If you want to look alot better, you could just crudely mold some grey clay into a vaguely humanoid shape. As far as a fire elemental... you are on your own, I haven't had to do one yet.
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CarrionCrawler
Underboss
1760 Posts
| | 10/17/2005 3:50 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by zoroaster100
Has anyone found any toys or other substitutes that can be used for huge elementals? The DDM huge elementals are taking too long in coming and I need some to run Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. I recently bought cheap a Living Torch Fantastic Four toy which will have to do as a huge fire elemental, unless I find something better, but I have nothing yet to use for earth, air or water.
If you went out and bought the human torch, buy the thing...BOOM! You've got a huge earth! I can't think of anything for either huge air or water, but check toy outlet stores... | |
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kyrin
Commander
3168 Posts
| | 10/17/2005 10:36 AM |
| Properly painted Treants might fit the bill too...
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Marjorie
Underboss
1141 Posts
| | 10/17/2005 2:37 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Malin Lug
It is going to sound hoaky but... a glass of water for a water elemental and I have a couple of rocks that are the right size for earth elementals. The glass has the right base size and the rocks are the right size. If you want to look alot better, you could just crudely mold some grey clay into a vaguely humanoid shape. As far as a fire elemental... you are on your own, I haven't had to do one yet.
A lit candle would work well... | |
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nyjastul69
Commander
2712 Posts
Rhode Island
| | 10/17/2005 2:43 PM |
| quote:
Original;y posted by Marjorie:
A lit candle would work well...
I would be afraid of what would happen at my table with an open flame, and we're all 30 or older.Ζ)] | |
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bshugg
Underboss
1833 Posts
| | 10/17/2005 3:34 PM |
| | There were some toys made in the 80's and early 90's called "inhumanoids" that you could get on Ebay. They were rock, lava, fire and tree people if I remember correctly. | |
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Count Dooku
Commander
4637 Posts
New York
| | 10/17/2005 4:46 PM |
| Does anyone remember those D&D toys from the 80's?
Not the action figures.
They were vynal figures just like our beloved minis..excet they were like around 6" tall....so large monsters were about 8 or 9 inces tall.
One of them was a Fire Elemental that came with a Crystal Ball on an ornate stand as an accessory.
Does anyone remember them at all? | |
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maijstral
Underboss
2105 Posts
| | 10/17/2005 9:33 PM |
| quote:
Does anyone remember those D&D toys from the 80's?
Not the action figures.
They were vynal figures just like our beloved minis..excet they were like around 6" tall....so large monsters were about 8 or 9 inces tall.
One of them was a Fire Elemental that came with a Crystal Ball on an ornate stand as an accessory.
Does anyone remember them at all?
God I'm old, yes I remember them I still have the fire elemental somewhere , I hope I haven't seen it in years. If I remember correctly it looked kind of like the large fire elemental from Harbinger except made of rubber. | | | |
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Count Dooku
Commander
4637 Posts
New York
| | 10/17/2005 10:19 PM |
| Actually it looked more like the fire elemental in the Dragonstrike Board game...but much bigger :)
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maijstral
Underboss
2105 Posts
| | 10/17/2005 10:28 PM |
| Thanks..... thanks a lot Count Dooku.[:(!]
Now you've got me tearing my place apart looking for a 20 year old toy that was probably carried off by mice years ago.[:)] | | | |
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dagonet
Sergeant
442 Posts
| | 10/17/2005 10:37 PM |
| Count Dooku,
I've got a rubbery Carrion Crawler (10"+ long) that I've been asking for years, "Where the heck did you come from?" Offhand, do you know what other figures came with this line?
Unrelatedly, I have a small, old-school Bulette (pokey spike projecting upwards from the rear of the carapace at a 45 degree angle) made of hard yellow plastic. Any idea where he might have come from?
zoroaster100, check out Mage Knight's Spirit Eidolon Solonavi Celestial--this thing IS Imix.
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Count Dooku
Commander
4637 Posts
New York
| | 10/17/2005 10:59 PM |
| CLICK HERE!!!
http://www.toyarchive.com/Dungeons&Dragons/PVCBendy/FireElemental1a.jpg
Heres the list of old figures I found
http://www.toyarchive.com/Dungeons&Dragons/PVCBendy/PVCBendy.html
You can click on the pics for larger versions.
If you check out the Fire Elemental, the Crystal ball is about as tall as a Harbinger Large Fire Elemental to give an example of scale.
I always thought the bendy ones were terrible looking. The Grell has eyes :)
I still have all of them (Except the Umber Hulk. His mandables broke off). | |
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Can of the Cave Beer
Commander
2838 Posts
| | 10/17/2005 11:29 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by CarrionCrawler
If you went out and bought the human torch, buy the thing...BOOM! You've got a huge earth! I can't think of anything for either huge air or water, but check toy outlet stores...
Earth=The Thing
Fire=The Human Torch
Air=The Invisible Woman (if she's actually invisible)
Water=Iceman(?) Sub-Mariner(?) The Beast (At least he's actually blue)
If you use a glass of water as an elemental, better use a coaster (or have VERY room temperature water) or you'll leave sweat-rings on your maps. | |
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orcdoubleax
Sergeant
694 Posts
| | 10/18/2005 6:25 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by A Can of the Cave Beer
quote:
Originally posted by CarrionCrawler
If you went out and bought the human torch, buy the thing...BOOM! You've got a huge earth! I can't think of anything for either huge air or water, but check toy outlet stores...
Earth=The Thing
Fire=The Human Torch
Air=The Invisible Woman (if she's actually invisible)
Water=Iceman(?) Sub-Mariner(?) The Beast (At least he's actually blue)
If you use a glass of water as an elemental, better use a coaster (or have VERY room temperature water) or you'll leave sweat-rings on your maps.
The thing does work great. He is a large huge bordering on the next size catagory, but still a huge.If you want to get real serious paint his pants. | |
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zoroaster100
Sergeant
873 Posts
| | 10/18/2005 9:51 PM |
| | After reading everyone's replies I bought the old Fire Elemental (sans crystal ball) on Ebay to use as another huge (or garganuan?) fire elemental, so thanks for that suggestion. I did buy a very large Human Torch to use as Imix as well. He looks about the right scale based on the art in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. I also found the inhumanoids on Ebay, and I'm considering getting one that looks somewhat like an earth (or stone) elemental, but I'm not quite convinced he'll look nice enough next to D&D minis. I'll continue to keep an eye out at toy stores and on Ebay for suitable substitutes. I always try to do that now, and not just for elementals. | |
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gregreid
Warrior
276 Posts
| | 10/19/2005 11:53 AM |
| It doesnt give you the size propotion you might want but we have a huge base (foam board) and use the Large figure. Cheap and easy but it does lack a little something.
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frogrodeo
Sergeant
706 Posts
| | 10/19/2005 8:54 PM |
| | A lit cereal bowl filled with gasoline should make for a fairly realistic fire elemental... may be a short encounter though. [:o)] | |
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Marjorie
Underboss
1141 Posts
| | 10/20/2005 9:33 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by gregreid
It doesnt give you the size propotion you might want but we have a huge base (foam board) and use the Large figure. Cheap and easy but it does lack a little something.
Actually, you could build on that foam board, and build a 'base' to surround the Large Fig base -- With a little paint, and thematic add-ins (a pool of 'water', a cloud, a bed of coals, or stone), the fig would not look so out of place. | |
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zoroaster100
Sergeant
873 Posts
| | 10/20/2005 3:06 PM |
| | I think maybe I'm going to try to make my own huge air elemental out of cotton. | |
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