Fishmen, fishmen, roly poly fishmen

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With apologies to Barnes & Barnes.  Painted batch of four chubby Deep Ones from the Reaper Bones III Mythos set, including priest and three nudists.









Big bruisers, standing a bit taller than an average 28mm human and much bulkier.

[Sterling Moose]

A themed ruler too - C-thrulu!  C-thrulu!

[tikitang]

Nice work. I have Reaper's metal version of these guys -- two Deep Ones and the High Priest.  I hope to get them painted up next month.

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Thanks!  I like them myself.  They're quite a bit bulkier than most of the Deep Ones out there, so they make good elders or bruisers.  Also think they work nicely as Dungeons & Dragon Kuo-Toa (maybe as their mad monks?) especially when faced off against Reaper's Tik and sharkman models as Sahuagin types.

[tikitang]

They're quite a bit bulkier than most of the Deep Ones out there.

This is why I like them -- they're exactly how I imagined all Deep Ones to look after reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth and playing Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. I've been rather disappointed by how other brands have made them shorter or skinnier than regular humans.

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This is why I like them -- they're exactly how I imagined all Deep Ones to look after reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth and playing Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. I've been rather disappointed by how other brands have made them shorter or skinnier than regular humans.

Well, the little ones could be fingerlings, right? 

I always imagined them as being more flabby and froggish than most sculptors seem to.  To be fair, many Deep Ones sculpts are fairly old and suffer from scale creep.  They probably started out as big as a human but the slow shift to 28-30mm norms has shrunk them over time.