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Miniatures Adventure => Call of Cthulhu => Topic started by: TheBlueShoggoth on 27 August 2015, 02:35:00 PM
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As a side-project and break from primeval Abyssian, I’ve been wanting to sculpt in a differnet scale, so I’ve decided to try and fullfil my dream of an HPL set mythos wargame. No idea if itll ever happen, but I thought it couldn’t hurt to try doing some sculpts and see how things go.
I have a ton of ideas for this, assuming there will be enough interest for it but at the current I want it to be a mass-battle game between Flying Polyps and Yithians, with a Human faction (who are imbued with the power of Nodens). Theres lots of things i’d like to do such as titan-scale stuff including enourmous lovecraft monsters and gigantic floating temples and the like. This is all just a pipe dream at current though, so I guess it will depend on whether anyone is even interested in anything like this.
To start with, I decided on doing a couple of Polyp figures. The smaller one (roughly 8mm) and the larger one (roughly 13mm) would make up the bulk of a Polyp force :
(http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/forumfiles/polyp_invaderanddominator.jpg)
(http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/forumfiles/polyps1.jpg)
I plan to try doing a yithian next.
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That sir, is an awesome concept.
I'm not sure how I could help you with this, but I'm in!
Anything Cthuluesque in 6mm would be a winner I think. I like what you did with these guys, hope you can stick with this and we can see where it goes.
Titan sized Locecraftian horrors, what's not to like!
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Indeed, it's a very appealing idea, the chance to fight the battles between the Elder things & Chtulhu's spawn as mentioned 'At The Mountains Of Madness', or Yithians & their rebellious Shoggoths.
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I've worked on the Flying polyps more.
(http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/forumfiles/polyps-wip1.jpg)
(http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/forumfiles/polyps-wip2.jpg)
(http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/forumfiles/polyps-wip3.jpg)
I've done 5 poses of the basic invader, 2 of the more definitive polyps - Dominators, and an airship type one that is currently a work in progress.
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Nice mate, very fleshy!
I'm not as familiar with the mythos as I should be, would there be a ground force along with the floaty / flying critters you have here?
Cheers.
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i don't think they'd have any ground forces as they are all collectively described as "Flying" polyps. i probably wouldn't do any ground forces for them personally - as I like that they all float/fly. They were described as conquerers too, so I like to think their ability to fly/float adds to feel of them being invasive, dominating and mobile aggressors.
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I got myself a little turned around there, I was mixing and matching the Polyps with the Yith. Just did a quick wiki binge to refresh my memory.
Cheers!
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Ah ok! yithians will definitely get ground forces - infantry and grav-tanks and stuff like that hopefully.
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Ah ok! yithians will definitely get ground forces - infantry and grav-tanks and stuff like that hopefully.
Not versed in the myths either, but they would make great aliens for more general sci-Fi!
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How's this going?
Did you do anymore work on your sculpts?
Cheers.
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I've put it on hold at current as there wasn't enough interest. I'm currently working stuff for a science fiction web-series instead (It's a about aliens that live in a void or "shell" that surrounds our the universe)