Sirrob01

I wanted to get some practice sketching up insects so I decdied to make a paper miniature based on a spider. Although not technically an insect I felt the extra pair of legs would just be more practice. Looking around at the different spider species,  I decided to base my paper miniature on the Aussie Redback spider. After several days of practicing sketching spiders in 3/4 view I finally ended up with a bit of rough sketch that resembled what I wanted.  I decided to do something a little different with the spiders as I always liked those miniature packs were you get small and big critters. I thought I’d do two sizes as flat miniatures and a third size as a 2.5d miniature.  Looking at the D&D scale chart I decided on the sizes of  medium, large and huge spiders. As usual I did the outlining and colouring primarily in Inkscape:

I decided to overlay the red strips in Gimp as it has much better control for that than Inkscape. The two smaller flat spiders were fairly easy to design where as the 2.5d Huge spider required a little more work and a pre-final test build to ensure I had the legs the correct length etc. I was hoping the whole lot would fit on  one page but as it turned out that wasn’t possible. The small and medium spiders are on one page and I did mirror each size so there’s 8 spiders on the page. The huge spider is on it’s own page with it’s instructions following it.  Here’s a final shot of the whole family all built up and waiting to devour the next group of adventurers who wander into their nest:

I’m very happy with how these paper miniatures turned out and although the  basing was a little larger than I originally wanted, the medium ones will fit into a 25mm base and two of the larger ones can be trimmed to fit into a 40mm base (Onemonk Bases here). The hair looks much better on print out than it did when looking in Inkscape although if you pick one up and look at it very closely  it does look a little odd.

The GSD and PDF are below, As usual if you save the GSD rename it to .gsd rather than .odt:

RedBack Spider Paper Miniature – PDF

Redback Spider Medium and Large (pg1) – GSD

Redback Spider Huge (pg2) – GSD

Anyways welcome to the parlor said the spider to the fly 🙂