Their body is divided into segments.
Each with its own set of legs and internal organs. This is the Horse Centipede.
They are meat eaters. Wow, what a beauty.
Let’s kitbash the Lord of all horses. If I was a wizard, of course I could
just summon one out in the wild. Sadly I’m just a normal person with normal horses.
But hay, that’s good enough for me. After luring them in and gaining their
trust, we’re ready to line these studs up for the sacrificial ritual.
But which of these beauties will be the centipede’s head?
Neigh. Neigh. Neigh. Neigh. Neigh. None of these will do.
Oh, yes! This one! This head will be our mane event.
And these hindquarters will bring up the caboose. Within this centipede sandwich, the lion’s
share of the legs will be this stack of steeds. Now, it’s time to make our first
incision using a rotary tool. The first surgery was a success, but we
have many more horses to get through. Oh yeah, this one was a twist-off.
After separating heads from tails, you might realize we’re not building a Horse
Hydra so the rest of the heads must go. Bill Making Stuff is always saying to “keep
the heads” for future kitbashing projects. But I’m worried I’m going to wake up tomorrow with
a new pile of bits that I’ll be cursed to use up. This is the general body layout, but the
next challenge might be a little cheeky. We’ll need to blend these rear ends together. Using a pin vice, I’m doing something
extremely normal to this plastic horse to remove a little extra cheek chaff so I can
insert a piece of armature wire into the hole. I’m sorry for this.
From here, it’s a simple and morally reprehensible process of impaling horses whilst coiling this
equine assemblage into a threatening semicircle. Then a bit of super glue
to lock the pose in place. To fill in the flesh gaps, a
combo of milliput and green stuff. This creates grilliput, which
is not only a good gap filler, but an excellent medium for holding the
intricate details of horse centipede flesh. But to really capture that horse fur
essence, I’ll need to make a texture tool. Using a chopstick, I’m skewering
a chunk of super sculpey. Then, I’m lubing up a horse
with vegetable oil, as one does. A greasy steed helps in sampling texture
so clay doesn’t get stuck in the fur. After a quick bake, I can’t show it on YouTube.
Nah, I’m just kidding, it’s just Earthworm Jim. I’m blending the epoxy putty into the
plastic fur texture as best I can. But as it turned out, the texture tool
wasn’t quite as good as just using a spare pelvis from the horse bisection earlier. Another reason to hold on to
the pile of severed horse bits. After a quick prime, it’s time to
decide on the right color scheme. I’ve always been a fan of
Epona in Ocarina of Time. And since she is the pride
and joy of Long Long Ranch… It feels right to imbue the horse
centipede with her lustrous chestnut coat using a spritz of burnt sienna ink.
A bit of carbon black for her hooves and nostrils. And some light tan for her knee
highlights and that vascular horse face. Her mane and tail get several coats of
ghost white which I blended toward black. Then her front feet get the same treatment.
Followed by her other sixteen feet. After a rich brown wash to bring back
a little contrast, this statue is fully crafted in the image of the Horse Centipede.
Speaking of images, what do you think of this? Would you wear it on a shirt?
Heck, I would. My partner designed this and we’re
thinking about doing some merch with this and other designs. Sound off in
the comments if you need it on your body. Now back to the build where we’re
using this clear disk as the base. But it must be aggressively
sanded so terrain can stick to it. Next, a lump of ground goop.
Too thick, we need to beat this down. That’s better, we don’t want the
horse to drown in deep sludge. “ARTAAAAAAX!”
Here’s how I made this ground paste by the way. Before letting this delicious cookie dry
overnight, I pressed in a few chunks of bark as boulders, then spiced
it with a few pinches of dirt. I gave the bark a few passes of
a dirty wash until they looked more rock-like, but the ground is
still missing something critical. It’s grass.
But do you know how to best grow a lawn? Every lawn craves Lon Lon Milk.
I pour it on extra thick. That drinkable yogurt consistency.
Spread that cream all the way to the edges, then electrolize the proteins
so it's got what plants crave. For these extra grass that failed to stick,
just vacuum it up and throw it in the trash. Just kidding, catch them in a nylon
sock and save them and that’s my tip I learned from Luke Towan of the Day.
I’m finishing this horse home with a garnish of the finest tiny pebbles
taken from an old dirt hole in my yard… And if we’re lucky, the Horse Centipede will feel comfortable enough in its new
home to leave us with a gift. Oh wow, a baby Horse Centipede.
Welcome to the world, little one. Oh no…
Welp, guess I’m cursed forever. I shouldn’t have made you. I
knew you couldn’t be tamed. There’s only one thing that
can tame a Horse Centipede… A Human Centipede. That means we’ll have to upgrade
our hero from Link to Chain Link. Now, I’ve watched enough North of the Border
at this point to feel a lukewarm confidence that I can also make a tiny Link, despite
my immense lack of sculpting experience. But I’m pretty sure watching Adam make
a tiny Link six times is pretty much the same as making a six-armed Link.
With my long Link armature done, Lonk is ready for his clay flesh using
the ol’ North of the Border tippy tap. Oh no, that’s a bad skin graft.
Okay, let’s try that one more time. There we go! And look at that powerful pose.
“Are you not entertained?” We’ll start with Link’s handsome bishōnen face.
But remember, I have no idea what I’m doing, so he looks more like Ooccoo from Twilight Princess.
But you know, extra arms, not extra nipples. Or maybe he does have extra nipples, I don’t know.
Don’t let me know in the comments. Lonk’s hair is several strands of thick
pointy snakes arranged into a bald mullet. Which is why he’s always seen
wearing a cap as to avoid burning his exposed scalp under the hot Hylian sun.
While the mullet does imply a party from the back, he’s all business up front with a collared shirt.
But not too business, because he’s rocking the short sleeved six-armed tunic.
Then I finished up the lower part of his tunic to make sure he wouldn’t
catch those cold drafts from the back. Then I flattened out some long
linguine noodles for his belt, shoulder strap, and the cuffs
that go around his boots. So far, he looks a little lumpy, but
I think he deserves a hand. Or six. I rolled out a spaghetti noodle and doubled it
over a couple times to make six open palm hands. A pose which I meant to look like an attempt to
calm the Horse Centipede, but instead it just looks like he’s ready for the handsiest hug.
After a quick bake, I painted him up in an Ocarina of Time color scheme.
This was the phase where my very rough sculpting really revealed itself, because I
learned I didn’t make a handsome Hylian afterall. The paint really emphasized every
lumpy imperfection, which I could chalk up to an artistic choice to emulate the
low-poly game model, but that would be a lie. For a moment, I thought maybe a
fleshshade wash could help salvage it, but I made sure negate those efforts
by painting on two creepy little eyes It’s okay though, I love my lumpy Pinocchio child.
“Love me…” I do love you. I love you so much I’m going
to give you a Master Sword and shield. I’m sculpting the shield over a metal spoon to
take advantage of its built in shield curve. I’m going for a Hylian shield,
complete with a perimeter of rivets. Using my other offscreen hands,
I sculpted this Master Sword.. Then baked the sword and
shield right on the spoon. Then I started painting, but it got a little
messier than intended, so I switched over from my normal eating spoon to my painting spoon.
Let’s quickly wrap up the painting, then equip Chain Link on his task of taming
the wild Horse Centipede or die trying. As always, thank you to all the support on Patreon
for making these videos possible, including these patient patrons thanked in song form.
Now roll the beauty shots.
