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Miniatures Adventure => Call of Cthulhu => Topic started by: dreamingleopard on March 02, 2011, 04:38:04 PM

Title: What the ??? (Odd would-be mythos beasties hitherto not described...)
Post by: dreamingleopard on March 02, 2011, 04:38:04 PM: I came across this fig today... it's a former Magnificent Egos creation, now owned by Valiant Enterprises. It could pass for a Gug if it had a couple more arms... a freak among freaks? So I thought:

Hellgug (my mythos interpretation of the following fig)

The "naked" Gug race from Hell's Deadlands, this cousin to the Dreamlands Gug is hairless - the hellfires keep singeing it off (note the blisters). These creatures are confined to the Hell dimensions due to their hair problem: the follicles have evolved to replace hair at an excellerated rate - so fast that if it didn't get singed or sheared off, the creatures would die of suffocating heat and immobility (like today's sheep). Only one Hellgug of legend ventured into the Dreamlands and survived for a month by daily self-immolation. He was a Gug researcher who succumbed to infection. The Hellgug is only two-armed, as it's more ancient than the Gug. The Gug might consider it handicapped, but the Hellgug makes up for that by having a keener mind, capable of wielding unspeakable magicks. The Hellgug considers Gugs to be "impure" mongrels that are best treated as children.

VELL5RSH17 - Oni no Kamu $14.00 US from Valiant Enterprises Ltd.
http://www.veltd.net/28mmshadowland.htm
(http://www.veltd.net/32mm/vell5rsh17.jpg)

What other would-be Mythos beasties do you know of out there? Feel free to invent... habits, talents, characteristics and even new names... but please let us know if you're inventing or not (in which case, give us a reference).
Title: Re: What the ??? (Odd would-be mythos beasties hitherto not described...)
Post by: Scorpio on March 02, 2011, 07:15:49 PM: (Wasn't that originally a Clan Wars oni?)
Title: Re: What the ??? (Odd would-be mythos beasties hitherto not described...)
Post by: dreamingleopard on March 02, 2011, 09:35:30 PM: Quote from: Scorpio on March 02, 2011, 07:15:49 PM
(Wasn't that originally a Clan Wars oni?)

Yup. Still is.
Title: Re: What the ??? (Odd would-be mythos beasties hitherto not described...)
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on March 03, 2011, 11:59:03 AM: hmm...looks like a conversion of the RAFM Shoggoth

(http://leadadventureforum.com/images/lpl/s04/r02/21_Prof_Hybrids_and_Shoggoth.jpg)

I guess, it's also sculpted by Bob Murch?
Title: Re: What the ??? (Odd would-be mythos beasties hitherto not described...)
Post by: Servitor of RAFM on March 04, 2011, 05:05:47 AM: Quote from: Prof.Witchheimer on March 03, 2011, 11:59:03 AM
hmm...looks like a conversion of the RAFM Shoggoth

Yes it does. :(
Isn't this business tough enough...
Title: Re: What the ??? (Odd would-be mythos beasties hitherto not described...)
Post by: jnr on March 04, 2011, 10:18:14 AM: Like the paint job on the hybrids.
Title: Re: What the ??? (Odd would-be mythos beasties hitherto not described...)
Post by: Profane Creation on March 07, 2011, 06:34:27 PM: I don't think it is a conversion? Just a different paintjob to the one on the RAMF site. I can't see any differences.
Title: Re: What the ??? (Odd would-be mythos beasties hitherto not described...)
Post by: Commander Vyper on March 07, 2011, 09:52:46 PM: He meant the similarities in the sculpting between the hellgug and the proto-shoggoth. ::)

:D
Title: Re: What the ??? (Odd would-be mythos beasties hitherto not described...)
Post by: Prof.Witchheimer on March 07, 2011, 10:23:32 PM: Quote from: Commander Vyper on March 07, 2011, 09:52:46 PM
He meant the similarities in the sculpting between the hellgug and the proto-shoggoth. ::)

:D

what Commander said.
Title: Re: What the ??? (Odd would-be mythos beasties hitherto not described...)
Post by: Red Orc on March 09, 2011, 10:24:42 AM: This is a very cool idea, I'm a big fan of re-purposing figs.

However, I can't actually think of any that I have that would make particularly good Cthulhu monsters. I do have a thing about using using Lizardmen for Deep Ones; as the first Deep One art I saw was quite Lizardmanish, I've always seen them in my mind's eye as having those lizardy features rather than fishy/froggy features. But that's hardly 'hitherto not described', more 'alternative minis for things you can get anyway'.