Author Topic: why are the gug minis naff... (Read 3128 times)

Sterling Moose · « **Reply #1 on:** May 22, 2019, 11:57:43 AM »

I'm happy with mine.

thebinmann · « **Reply #2 on:** May 22, 2019, 12:18:00 PM »

Quote from: Sterling Moose on May 22, 2019, 11:57:43 AM

I'm happy with mine.

Mr Moose, which one do you have?

Ballardian · « **Reply #3 on:** May 22, 2019, 03:34:15 PM »

Well, while I've always quite liked the Reaper one, it has the same problem that all (bar one) have - they're way too small. A Gug is supposed to be 30' tall, and the only mini which came anywhere near to representing that was the Avolakia one (I don't know if it's still available).

Manchu · « **Reply #4 on:** May 22, 2019, 03:42:45 PM »

I reckon you could make quite a nasty one out of the citadel giant.

lugiber · « **Reply #5 on:** May 22, 2019, 08:54:21 PM »

Check out the one from Avolak castings, it's without a doubt the best looking gug to date. And it's also in the correct scale.

Sterling Moose · « **Reply #6 on:** May 22, 2019, 09:51:01 PM »

This one:

https://www.miniscollector.com/sites/default/files/20120810-Gug.jpg

https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5ldrl?Pathfinder-Battles-Preview-Opening-Big

thebinmann · « **Reply #7 on:** May 23, 2019, 11:40:27 AM »

Quote from: lugiber on May 22, 2019, 08:54:21 PM

Check out the one from Avolak castings, it's without a doubt the best looking gug to date. And it's also in the correct scale.

Do you have a link?

thebinmann · « **Reply #8 on:** May 23, 2019, 11:41:05 AM »

Quote from: Sterling Moose on May 22, 2019, 09:51:01 PM

This one:

https://www.miniscollector.com/sites/default/files/20120810-Gug.jpg

https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5ldrl?Pathfinder-Battles-Preview-Opening-Big

Nice, will have a look for it but not sure this side of the pond....

Hobby Services · « **Reply #9 on:** May 23, 2019, 03:54:54 PM »

Link to the Avolak one. http://www.avolakcastings.com/#!store/productsstackergalleryv20=9

I would say that's just about perfect. Haven't done it myself, but I have done their Dark Young, Formless Spawn, and not-Y'golonac figs for commissions and they were all top-notch, well worth the price.

Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye · « **Reply #10 on:** May 31, 2019, 09:43:37 PM »

Aren't the Gug a creature of the Dreamlands and hence the product of the individual's mind?

Hobby Services · « **Reply #11 on:** May 31, 2019, 10:14:25 PM »

Quote from: Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye on May 31, 2019, 09:43:37 PM

Aren't the Gug a creature of the Dreamlands and hence the product of the individual's mind?

There is no suggestion anywhere in the books that the Dreamlands or their inhabitants are unreal, or malleable based on the person dreaming. The closest to that is the somewhat nebulous geography, but that may just be a combo of Lovecraft being poetic and the natives not travelling very much sosome of them don't know what's over the next hill. It's much more like an alternate dimension that some people's consciousness can shift in to when they're sleeping. Experienced Dreamers can do so more easily, and appear to able to arrange to meet and interact there as well no matter what their physical location. Might be an afterlife of sorts as well - at least one short story has a Dreamer on Earth die physically without affecting his dream-self at all - although he probably can't wake up at that stage.