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Miniatures Adventure => Call of Cthulhu => Topic started by: Hobgoblin on February 17, 2019, 10:40:36 PM
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My ten-year-old son recently read the graphic-novel version of At the Mountains of Madness, which a friend passed onto me some time back. He loved it (and enjoys Lovecraft readings on HP Podcraft and the like). When we were in Rome last week, he seized on the idea of running a one-shot RPG for his friends based on the story. And so he wandered through the forum and around the Colosseum musing about elder things, shoggoths and blind albino penguins.
We got back yesterday, and he immediately began making the props for the game. These are his elder things in progress. They're made from tin foil and Fimo. He's already made card-and-glue wings for one of them, but those are drying overnight. He's also made a small shoggoth out of hot glue and cocktail sticks.
I'm going to help him paint up the adventurers (pulp figures from North Star/Bob Murch) when those arrive. I've also suggested that he replace the penguins with one giant penguin; I'm going to adapt a papier-mache Hobbycraft bird to that end. But the elder things are entirely his own work.
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Superb! Imagination and ability.
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Magnificent! Both his reading of HPL as well as his Elder Things!
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Cheers! He was delighted by the positive feedback.
Before school this morning, he did some more work on the wings. He's left a hole for a flying stand in the torso.
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Cool!
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Thanks!
The first beast is now airborne:
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That is fantastic work
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Many thanks - all feedback is being gleefully received by the young creator!
I rose this morning to find that he'd been up early adding tentacles ...
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I am so impressed with this. What a great boy, and it sounds as though he's lucky in dads as well. ;)
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Thanks! Well, it depends on your perspective. A corrupting influence, some might say ... ;)
He undercoated the beast before school and has just begun painting:
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Excellent work!
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Super fun.
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Thanks!
He's now painted one and has another approaching completion.
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WOW!!! Excellent work and painting. :-* :-* :-*
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Blimey! Those are maddening well done.
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Those are looking really good, great work!
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greatness!
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Thanks, all - he's delighted and encouraged by the feedback.
Not to be outdone by her older brother, my daughter is making a beastie too - with a little help from a GW skull bequeathed to her by her brother. I'm not sure what exactly it is, but I can see a lot of uses for it in D&D games when it's done:
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My son's got quite a bit more done over the past few weeks: another completed Elder Thing, a "slime fountain" (apparently an Elder Thing device for creating new creatures) and a shoggoth. He's also made a few more shoggoths which have yet to be painted.
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You will have quite the managerie of Cthulhu monsters when they are done. :)
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Very nice, and a tricky figure to make too - as the lack of commercially options available attests...
Great job
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Brilliant stuff!
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Thanks for all the feedback - he's delighted with it!
He's now completed three Elder Things. He's also made a lot of other bits and bobs (two or three more shoggoths and various other smaller creatures that he invented, along with some terrain pieces).
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I came home from work the other day to find that my son had painted all five of the adventurers he bought for the game. He's asked me to help him with the eyes and a few details, but I was quite impressed with what he's done on his own. He's painted a few other miniatures before, but this is his first themed group (and his first metals, I think). Here they are, along with some of the monsters and other things he's been making for the game.
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And here's his latest WIP - the "Whistler in Darkness," so I'm told!
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The Whistler is complete. It looks a little Tekumel-ish to me - though as far as I know, he's had no exposure to that (yet ...).
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:o Enviable work - keep it up!
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Thanks - I've passed on your encouragement!
He's now painted the Whistler:
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Have seen worse painting from far more experienced painters/gamers. And the "sculpts" are almost on par with a lot of mythos creaures you can buy. They're going to have a great wargaming career!
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Thanks very much!
My son drew this yesterday to illustrate his impending game:
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He is doing some fantastic work, you must be proud! :D
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Thanks! Yes, indeed.
Just helped him out by making and painting this to complete everything for tomorrow's game:
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=101314;image)
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You have got a real talented kid on you're hands there! Tell him to keep up the good work.
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Very cool, in a terrifying way! :)
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Thanks - and will do!
He ran the game yesterday - it seemed to go well.
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Really good work by your lad on the creatures and the painting of the adventurers.
Thanks - and will do!
He ran the game yesterday - it seemed to go well.
I suspect not so well for the poor explorers with all those monsters!!