Tap a brush over the sculpted material to add texture to the mini. Make sure you scrape it all the way down to the wood. Scrape away a mouth shape from the sculpted on material. This will lock the super-glued lens in place and hide the edges of the lens. Sculpt a little bit of overlap on the main eye lens to make an eyelid with. Don't worry about accuracy or messing up too bad its an aberration its supposed to look uneven and deformed.įor a really cheap solution Hot glue should work but you will lose detail. Don't worry about getting it even just smear a thin coat on the ball and pins.

You may need to super glue them in place if they don't fit tightly.īend the pins in the directions you'd like the Beholder eye-stalks to sit. Insert the straight pins into the thumbtack holes. You may want to drill out the hole bigger depending on what you will use to mount it to a base with. Place another thumbtack through the bottom of the ball, so you have a place to hold it by while you work and a hole to mount it to a stand with. Take a thumbtack and make 10 holes around the top of the head where you want your Beholder's eye-stalks to set. When the eye is dry, glue the lens over the painted eye. Remove the lens and paint a nice eye there. There should be a small flat spot on one side of the ball, use a file or sandpaper to flatten this spot till the lens fits on it flat.

A knife will slide right under the paper and remove it cleanly. You may need to remove the decorative paper from the back of the lens sometimes it pulls off with the lens. Use a knife to slide the lens off the decorative thumbtack. toothbrush, or any stiff bristle brush you can use for sculpting. Straight Pins ( you want the ones with the plastic ball on the end ) Decorative Thumb Tacks ( you want the ones with a clear lens over colored paper, I found mine at Target. 1 inch Wooden Ball (comes in a pack of a few at Hobby stores) I really like the classic floating ball over the floating skull and brain they've become so I went about crafting my own. I've been needing a Beholder Mini for a while and the official DnD ones are either too expensive or aren't appealing to me.

Beholder mini