Head: carved insulation foam skull and apoxie sculpt
Body: Marvel Universe Rhino
Knickerbockers and under tunic: fabrics
Leather tabbard: old baseball and leather jewelry lace
Belt: elastic lace
Pistol: Fortnite
Harpoon: stir straw with 25th Blowtorch fire hook with Fortnite grappling hook, string, BFS axe handle end
Tentacle: wall crawling octopus with bendy wire


For a new D&D campaign, I'm playing a Giff (hippo folk) sailor with access to magic. Couple of weird things on this one worth pointing out.

First, I made a very similar character for an entirely different campaign and this was the culmination of all the choices I ended up not going with. Never throw out ideas. Everything can be recycled.

Technique wise, I wasn't satisfied with any of the toy hippo heads out there and I wanted to be able to add an opening mouth later. So I carved out essentially a foam skull and then sculpted over the foam. Not perfect, but I liked that process and have already figured out how to improve it.

Lastly, are the soft goods, namely the top tunic. I wanted it to be leather. It is supposed to be heavy leather on the character. Closest I could find were purses. Then an old baseball fell out of the closet and hit my foot. I dressed it up with some jewelry leather lace. I really look hod naturally weathered and creased it looks.

Oh, did I mention his main weapon is a magic floating tentacle? In game it sloshes out of a floating port hole in the air, but for this I wanted it to look as if he was manipulating it with his off hand. It needs work.

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