One of my favourite uses of a Gelatinous Cube was as basically the entire floor of a puzzle room. The floor was hard to move through (half movement), some areas had the gel being thicker than others, and there was a door with a question (with hints inside the room). Take too long, the floor starts dealing a little bit of acid damage as the gel seeps into your footwear. Give the wrong answer and the gel congeals into Gelatinous Cube(s). If you happen to be standing in a place where the gel is thicker when it congeals, the Gelatinous Cube gets a free attempt at Engulfing you before the fight begins.
Looking at the small interior base piece of the cube, it is actually a couple of humans slowly being dissolved. And what looks like a shield. I would paint that piece separately but not attach it. This would let the DM place a mini inside the cube to simulate being absorbed by the cube. If the character fails to escape, then the DM could swap the mini for the dissolving piece.
I have an awakened Green Slime Ranger with a Gelatinous Cube "animal" companion into which she can retreat to rest, heal or use the cube itself as an armour power-up and do various funky things via a mind/body link
Pretty cube man. The possibilities of colors to paint that cube are endless mixing to pretty shades. Please she's a video if u decide to paint it different shades. Thanks for sharing my friend.
That looks really good. You made a believer out of me. I was negative to the thought of painting it. But WOW, it looks great. I use them to move up on a poorly camped party that are develing a dungeon or underdeep. As they are slow. There is ample time for the party to detect it. But it is difficult for them to do so. I try and give them hints. Vermin rushing away. dried gobulets around and able to be detected by a good search. That sort of thing.
The Crafting Muse recently painted a miniature with a clear water base similar to this cube. She painted the inside a darker blue and to highlight the texture she dry brushed the outside a light blue. It turned out really awesome.
Two of my all time favorite uses of the Gelatinous Cube; 1) When doors are in recessed sections with a lot of shadows and/or darkness, have one at the very back of the alcove just in front of the door itself. Since they're transparent/translucent, the door will still be visible through them as a light source gets nearer, but the presence of the cube won't usually be detected until it's within striking distance. 2) Replace the water in a well with a Gelatinous Cube. Make sure the well is just deep enough that it can't easily be seen and when players are trying to figure out what the problem is, the reflection of their light source should create a pretty convincing illusion of water. Then just wait for them to draw straws or whatever other method they use to determine what poor schmuck gets to go down the well to figure out why the bucket is stuck and/or there's no water coming up. Third runner up; 3) In a dungeon/jail, make the individual cells just big enough to hold a Gelatinous Cube, then randomly decide which cells you want them in. This is a great trap for an adventure where the pcs have to break someone out of a dungeon/jail.
After watching this, I did mine in blue/purple, per your suggestion. It came out ok, but I agree with you that g-cubes should really be transparent. I much prefer my homemade Envirotex version (complete with victim).
GM: "Congratulations! You just defeated the Gelatinous Cube!" Barbarian: "I take a bite out of it!" GM: "It tastes like lemon-lime." Barbarian: "My insides feel funny..." GM: "Congratulations! Your insides are melting from acid!" I really like the paint job you did on this. It is a little interesting though that Reaper went with a more textured version because the model's transparency pretty much cancels out the texturing.
Also, I kind of want to get one of these and paint the inside red and the outside green so it looks kind of like a watermelon. I'm not sure how it would actually turn out, but I think it would be interesting.
I love your commentary on this video! Agreed, the gelatinous cube is supposed to be colorless and transparent but I must say I love your paint job on this thing. You've made a new monster for frpg's a Green Jelly as opposed to the standard Ochre Jelly.
Interesting take on the color, Gelatinous Cubes are the only mini's I don't paint or I might put a light blue wash on them, I try to keep them translucent like the Monster Manuel says, but to each his own. Love your channel, you my friend are a fantastic painter, I've learned alot from channels like this one, keep it up.
In the old monster manuals they tended to be green/blue in the artwork but in-game they're meant to be clear so you can walk straight into them and get stuck
I had a friend who played a Master Transmorgrifist in D&D 3.5. In one battle he turned into a flying creature, flew up high, then turned into a gelatinous cube and dropped himself on an enemy. He was high enough of a level that he could survive a big fall and do some massive damage.
My favorite use was as a player. We entered a large pillared Hall in an old dwarven ruin, and saw what I would reference to as headlights coming at us. Turns out the evil wizard who was utilizing the ruins for his nefarious schemes had "installed" the cube as a way of keeping his halls "clean." The twin lights we saw were two continuous-light coins that unfortunate adventurers had been brandishing at the time of their end at the hands of the gelatinous cube! 😂
I plan on using purples and reds to make it similar to the creature from the 1988 Blob movie. This is a very cool design. I also like that it's not a solid definitive cube.
You know it would great to install a small bright blue light in the middle of the cube. The single spot colour would look great and also it may bounce some blue light around the green/yellow.
I have never heard of this Jelly cube of death! But on Steam a guy said it's also in the Kingdom of Loathing multi player. Anyway what a fun Tut! Yay!!! --^_.._^--
i wonder if the transparent effect just works generally better with a dark color on the inside. i'm imagining either a light color on the outside with its darker counterpart on the inside or a light colour on the outside and a ifferent and darker colour on thw inside. loke a yellow outsude and a darker green or red center.
Hi. I just discovered your video. I see that you glue the cube with superglue (loctite), and do you use to fill the epoxy glue holes? Not the typical white glue glue ?. I say it because the epoxy tail is expensive to use in a single figure as it would be my case. What kind of paintings do you use to paint ?, those of vallejo are worth expensive, what similar paintings would be worth but cheaper ?, greetings !.
Dead end corridor, about 50ft into darkness, 5ft from wall to wall. Once they get near end of the hallway a trap is triggered dropping a 5 by 5ft Gelatinous cube behind the players, blocking the way to the exit out of the corridor. (Old faithful)
I decided not to glue mine at all. That way I can use it to "engulf" a player's mini by placing the two halves around it. When it's glued together very few minis will actually fit inside.
Favourite use- I played a (homebrew racial package) Gelatinous Cube Barbarian in a Spelljammer Pathfinder game. DC 30 fort save against paralysis on every attack, you say?
How did it work out to apply inks to the silicone sealant? My experience is that it's a lot like Teflon. I accidentally used silicone instead of acrylic caulk in a home improvement project, and I ended up painting over it with Killz oil based primer before anything would stick to it. It's why they make nonstick bakeware out of silicone.
My GM just had one in a Dark Corridor, Me as a fighter walked right into it, almost killed me. A friend told me about what his GM did, which was a suit of armor floating in the middle of the cube, the party thought it was an animated suit of armor and ran right at it and got trapped.
I'm new to painting minis. Can I use water downed acrylic paint for this type of mini painting. I own the same mini and would love to add some depth and color.
+Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic put it a dirty crumbling base and do a dirt wash on the on the bottom half like it's rising from the dirt :) Use that fladellum ? Arillium ? earth that cracks like desert mud :D What the hell is that stuff called again ? it's a Citadel texture paint is all I can remember, you used it on a space marine :)
FastlingStudiosCZ that sounds much closer than my guess :) I wonder what the ingredients are to that texture paint, have they mixed turps with acrylics I wonder ?
I really dont know, they are keeping all their secrets to themselves, only thing i know is, that it is liquid at the beginning and it just cracks in the process
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One of my favourite uses of a Gelatinous Cube was as basically the entire floor of a puzzle room. The floor was hard to move through (half movement), some areas had the gel being thicker than others, and there was a door with a question (with hints inside the room).
Take too long, the floor starts dealing a little bit of acid damage as the gel seeps into your footwear.
Give the wrong answer and the gel congeals into Gelatinous Cube(s). If you happen to be standing in a place where the gel is thicker when it congeals, the Gelatinous Cube gets a free attempt at Engulfing you before the fight begins.
Looking at the small interior base piece of the cube, it is actually a couple of humans slowly being dissolved. And what looks like a shield. I would paint that piece separately but not attach it. This would let the DM place a mini inside the cube to simulate being absorbed by the cube. If the character fails to escape, then the DM could swap the mini for the dissolving piece.
Looks much better painted. nicely done
slap a LED into it.
You gave it character... I really love this, simple but great effect!
I have an awakened Green Slime Ranger with a Gelatinous Cube "animal" companion into which she can retreat to rest, heal or use the cube itself as an armour power-up and do various funky things via a mind/body link
Complicated, maybe but, that looks so much better than just a translucent jelly monster
Pretty cube man. The possibilities of colors to paint that cube are endless mixing to pretty shades. Please she's a video if u decide to paint it different shades. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Another great video! Keep the D&D miniature videos coming!
That looks really good. You made a believer out of me. I was negative to the thought of painting it. But WOW, it looks great.
I use them to move up on a poorly camped party that are develing a dungeon or underdeep.
As they are slow. There is ample time for the party to detect it. But it is difficult for them to do so.
I try and give them hints. Vermin rushing away. dried gobulets around and able to be detected by a good search. That sort of thing.
I think it came out great, the colors give it a good bit more visual interest. It's the dessert that eats you!
The Crafting Muse recently painted a miniature with a clear water base similar to this cube. She painted the inside a darker blue and to highlight the texture she dry brushed the outside a light blue. It turned out really awesome.
Two of my all time favorite uses of the Gelatinous Cube;
1) When doors are in recessed sections with a lot of shadows and/or darkness, have one at the very back of the alcove just in front of the door itself. Since they're transparent/translucent, the door will still be visible through them as a light source gets nearer, but the presence of the cube won't usually be detected until it's within striking distance.
2) Replace the water in a well with a Gelatinous Cube. Make sure the well is just deep enough that it can't easily be seen and when players are trying to figure out what the problem is, the reflection of their light source should create a pretty convincing illusion of water. Then just wait for them to draw straws or whatever other method they use to determine what poor schmuck gets to go down the well to figure out why the bucket is stuck and/or there's no water coming up.
Third runner up;
3) In a dungeon/jail, make the individual cells just big enough to hold a Gelatinous Cube, then randomly decide which cells you want them in. This is a great trap for an adventure where the pcs have to break someone out of a dungeon/jail.
After watching this, I did mine in blue/purple, per your suggestion. It came out ok, but I agree with you that g-cubes should really be transparent. I much prefer my homemade Envirotex version (complete with victim).
Love the color scheme!
That is the most awesome looking cubic blob. Man it looks so good. It looks like infected snot, in a good way.
GM: "Congratulations! You just defeated the Gelatinous Cube!"
Barbarian: "I take a bite out of it!"
GM: "It tastes like lemon-lime."
Barbarian: "My insides feel funny..."
GM: "Congratulations! Your insides are melting from acid!"
I really like the paint job you did on this. It is a little interesting though that Reaper went with a more textured version because the model's transparency pretty much cancels out the texturing.
Also, I kind of want to get one of these and paint the inside red and the outside green so it looks kind of like a watermelon. I'm not sure how it would actually turn out, but I think it would be interesting.
I love your commentary on this video! Agreed, the gelatinous cube is supposed to be colorless and transparent but I must say I love your paint job on this thing. You've made a new monster for frpg's a Green Jelly as opposed to the standard Ochre Jelly.
Interesting take on the color, Gelatinous Cubes are the only mini's I don't paint or I might put a light blue wash on them, I try to keep them translucent like the Monster Manuel says, but to each his own. Love your channel, you my friend are a fantastic painter, I've learned alot from channels like this one, keep it up.
I have several of the ethereal ghost models and had no idea how to paint them. thanks for the tutorial
I painted blue and purple and it's beautiful!
Ori Betts please post pictures
RATHER than repainting, I'd do a repaint, do a second cube. This one is great.
I've been thinking of doing something like this for mine as well, so thanks for the video! It's given me a few things to keep in mind
as a GM i once had an LE chief in a local tavern serve up sliced gel cube to my PC's ( they were becoming a little too cocky )
a very amusing session,
Colin Wilson I hear three or four people a year die of gel cube consumption in Japan ;)
I'm not a D&D player, but when I hear gelatinous cube I always assumed they were green. Like Slimer from Ghostbusters.
NO reason they can't be...
In the old monster manuals they tended to be green/blue in the artwork but in-game they're meant to be clear so you can walk straight into them and get stuck
Wow, I just picked up one of these the other day.
I had a friend who played a Master Transmorgrifist in D&D 3.5. In one battle he turned into a flying creature, flew up high, then turned into a gelatinous cube and dropped himself on an enemy. He was high enough of a level that he could survive a big fall and do some massive damage.
What about putting an LED inside of it? Could look cool, but I can't speak to the practicality of it.
Its practical af if it just ate a wizard who cast light.
i wanted to try to use paint instead of ink for a translucent wraith i have. Did not work out.
My favorite use was as a player. We entered a large pillared Hall in an old dwarven ruin, and saw what I would reference to as headlights coming at us. Turns out the evil wizard who was utilizing the ruins for his nefarious schemes had "installed" the cube as a way of keeping his halls "clean." The twin lights we saw were two continuous-light coins that unfortunate adventurers had been brandishing at the time of their end at the hands of the gelatinous cube! 😂
I plan on using purples and reds to make it similar to the creature from the 1988 Blob movie. This is a very cool design. I also like that it's not a solid definitive cube.
You know it would great to install a small bright blue light in the middle of the cube. The single spot colour would look great and also it may bounce some blue light around the green/yellow.
Looks fine to me.
perfect for a nickelodeon themed campaign.
Great result and looks very gelatinously goopy :)
That looks delicious :)
I love this!
Oh it looks lovely! :D
Yummy
one of the citys int my world use's gelatinous cubes to keep there sewers clean, they are the citys garbage disposal
I have never heard of this Jelly cube of death! But on Steam a guy said it's also in the Kingdom of Loathing multi player. Anyway what a fun Tut! Yay!!! --^_.._^--
The infamous giant snot monster lol!!!
Looks very cool! and tasty ;)
i wonder if the transparent effect just works generally better with a dark color on the inside. i'm imagining either a light color on the outside with its darker counterpart on the inside or a light colour on the outside and a ifferent and darker colour on thw inside. loke a yellow outsude and a darker green or red center.
I will say it does look tasty
Hi. I just discovered your video. I see that you glue the cube with superglue (loctite), and do you use to fill the epoxy glue holes? Not the typical white glue glue ?. I say it because the epoxy tail is expensive to use in a single figure as it would be my case. What kind of paintings do you use to paint ?, those of vallejo are worth expensive, what similar paintings would be worth but cheaper ?, greetings !.
Mmmmm lemon flavour
Painted like that, it can also be used for a large ooze.
Dead end corridor, about 50ft into darkness, 5ft from wall to wall. Once they get near end of the hallway a trap is triggered dropping a 5 by 5ft Gelatinous cube behind the players, blocking the way to the exit out of the corridor. (Old faithful)
I decided not to glue mine at all. That way I can use it to "engulf" a player's mini by placing the two halves around it. When it's glued together very few minis will actually fit inside.
Favourite use- I played a (homebrew racial package) Gelatinous Cube Barbarian in a Spelljammer Pathfinder game. DC 30 fort save against paralysis on every attack, you say?
the gloss totally makes this. without it... it's not quite as gelatinous
Well, looks great to me. I wouldn't change it.
Are you actually using ink or a thin paint?
Love this. I really want to put “eaten” stuff inside it. :)
Did you ever paint the solid color version you talked about?
These cubes are really neat . Stupid question but are the creatures only considered a trap or can they attack
Gelatinous cubes and many other varieties of ooze can actually attack. Usually either by engulfing something or with pseudopods.
wdym ink? like is there a specific kind or do we just open up the printer?
Acrylic clear paint? Where would I find that?
Is it just me or wold a tiny LED light in the middle work well?
Loving the use of MST3K music
How did it work out to apply inks to the silicone sealant? My experience is that it's a lot like Teflon. I accidentally used silicone instead of acrylic caulk in a home improvement project, and I ended up painting over it with Killz oil based primer before anything would stick to it. It's why they make nonstick bakeware out of silicone.
+T.D. Williamson Worked fine.
+Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic That's good to know. must be something about the chemistry of the inks, that they will even stain silicone.
So ink is the only way to get that nice result would citadel or msp be too thick?
Paint would be too opaque.
My GM just had one in a Dark Corridor, Me as a fighter walked right into it, almost killed me.
A friend told me about what his GM did, which was a suit of armor floating in the middle of the cube, the party thought it was an animated suit of armor and ran right at it and got trapped.
+StatusClick Funny as that's what I did to my poor players!
I'm new to painting minis. Can I use water downed acrylic paint for this type of mini painting. I own the same mini and would love to add some depth and color.
Not on the clear plastic, no.
Are you part of the Mob Rules podcast?
Do you think you could fill one of these with clear silicone and embed say bits of a skeleton inside it? that might be an interesting effect.
+Falcon Fox Tried putting a skeleton inside, but had the same problem as with the debris. Walls are too textured to see anything but a blurry blob.
+Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic
put it a dirty crumbling base and do a dirt wash on the on the bottom half like it's rising from the dirt :)
Use that fladellum ? Arillium ? earth that cracks like desert mud :D
What the hell is that stuff called again ?
it's a Citadel texture paint is all I can remember, you used it on a space marine :)
+freezatron Agrellan earth or sumtin like that?
FastlingStudiosCZ
that sounds much closer than my guess :)
I wonder what the ingredients are to that texture paint, have they mixed turps with acrylics I wonder ?
I really dont know, they are keeping all their secrets to themselves, only thing i know is, that it is liquid at the beginning and it just cracks in the process
Hi. Does anyone know how to lighten the color of inks? been struggling to get a blue Vallejo ink to turn more light-blue / turquoise.
Milk?
Wow, I haven't seen Phil Foglio's art in a long long time.. :P
О! Я тоже сделал! Только куда более кустарно 😅
Shit I thought I was listening to noddle with that music
theirs always room for jello...
hot glue seemed like the obvious choice to me
Not very cube like eh?
Are you old enough to remember The Blob (1958)?
Deipatrous - that is what I immediately thought when he said blue and purple
It is called a cube but this is totally a rectangular box. What a LIE!
well comes to me thinking and ALLL know thats bad well fist the JOKE from the TV show the penguns of madagscar the cube cudels see show nest yes the them song 1960 the blob it creep and leaps then BOB frome tv show M VES As see show blue bob me if put gethert i ues goop and put stuff in it thats just me ;;;;]]]]]]]>>>>>