Itsy Bitsy Cool Lovecraftian Props

[dreamingleopard]

In deference to the thread Cool Lovecraftian Props http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=19544.0, I offer up this thread for props that suit the miniature gaming scales of 25-32mm.

I'm currently exploring the Reaper "Boneyard" and will soon have a listing of Call of Cthulhu bits of interest.

Also, when I get my photos done of my own RAFM and Grenadier bits, I'll be posting them as well, along with the information about which packs they came in.

In the meantime, here's a cool page to browse:
http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/m/magnificentEgos/artifactsAndDweomers

I bought the Portal to Hell, the Hungry Trap and the Flaming Sphere (for a Cthugha Avatar).  Check out the Vortex: it has dead people in it.   

I'd like to see any pics you have from other companies.  Any man-eating toilets out there?

[dreamingleopard]

A better paintjob of the Flaming Sphere can be found here
http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/miniatures/valiant-miniatures/flaming-sphere.html

Check out the tentacles, gross anatomy and the killer puppets here:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/miniatures/valiant-miniatures

[P_Clapham]

Quite a few of the Rafm Call of Cthulhu monsters blisters came with little artifacts.

[chicklewis]

Please do post the photographs, DreamingLeopard.  Can't have too many artifacts. 

[Bako]

I'm certainly liking this!

[Voogla]

Does anyone have a list which RAFM artifacts came with which mini? I recently bought a bag of RAFM COC minis on ebay so all items mixed up, and RAFM webpage does not really help...

[P_Clapham]

These are the only 'confirmed ones'

Deep Ones: Altar
Ghasts: Severed head on a post
Sand Dwellers: Animal Skull
Wamp: Piece of Debris
Nightgaunt: Stone circle with Pentacle
Dimensional Shamblers:  Little critter, maybe a Zoog
Great Race of Yith:  Some sort of trapezoidal artifact
Servitor of the Outer Gods: Badass skull pillar
Cthonian:  Egg pile
Shoggoth : wee shoggoth
Flying Polyp: Stone Idol animal skull carving
Dark Young:  Some sort of post marker or remains of a wooden fence topped with a skull.
Ghouls: Crypt entrance with Urn marker
Hounds of Tindalos:  Some kind of enchanted mirror perhaps
Moon Beast: lil moon beast
Yig : little snake
King in Yellow: Some sort of stone marker, and little guy
Deep Ones Pack #2 : Some sort of stone idol or marker
The Houd: Marking stone embazoned with the Elder Sign

[Voogla]

thanks, that will help, will start sorting 

[chicklewis]

You might want to know that Rafm has changed the way they package the monsters at least once in the last ten years.  So the way they are packaged now on the website is not definitive for the past. 

[dreamingleopard]

RAFM:

Here are the items (and their pics!) of what came in the packs I bought, and I've "consulted" the unopened blisters on eBay to confirm.  The only change I have found was this one: there was a whittled down version of the Antarctic expedition with only 2 people and 4 dogs with the sled (no penguin or monster).  I give the penguin of the full set.

Without further ado, the COMPLETE pics of the "itsy bits" of RAFM's Call of Cthulhu monsters, Expeditions, Specials, and Boxed Sets (the character sets don't have extra itsy bits - including the cultists, though they are shown in the merchants' official photo with the deep ones' altar and two of the byakhee's idols):

2012 Lovecraft Country (guard dog, Wilbur Whatley) The official photo doesn't do the human figs justice, which makes it hard to know which figs go with this set. There is the farmer-looking Wizard Whately, his daughter Lavinia with the baby, her mutant fast-growing son Wilbur Whately, her other son as the Dunwich Horror (son of Yog-Sothoth). Also included are Professor Armitage, the University Night Watchman and his guard dog.  Here's Wilbur and the dog:



2914 Sinister Scientist (high voltage machine, reclining table w. victim) more pieces available in the 4586 Mad Scientists Lab (which doesn't have the two people, but does have the high voltage machine and the reclining table w. victim http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF04586&Category_Code=FTA):   



2920 Nightgaunt and 2921 Nightgaunt, Demonic Servitor (summoning pentacle which might be available as one of the smaller circles in the photo of the 4584 Summoning Stones pack:

http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF04584&Category_Code=FTA):



2922 Deep Ones Mutant Fishmen (altar - I bought two packs, so I made the second hollow altar into a coffin with a green stuff lid):      



2923 Dimensional Shamblers (zoog):    



2924 Great Race of Yith (summoning trapezoidal stone also seems to be available in the 4584 Summoning Stones pack http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF04584&Category_Code=FTA):



2925 Servitor of the Outer Gods "death column" (Can be bought in a set of four as 2583 Death Columns http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF04583&Category_Code=FTA):



2926 Cthonian, Carnivourous Giant Worm (Cthonian nest):   



2927 Shoggoth, Protoplasmic Horror (li'l shoggoth):   



2928 Flying Polyp, Aerial Horror (skullstone):



2929 Formless Spawn of Tsuthoggua (critterbox):



2930 Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath (warding sign):



2931 Ghouls in Varied Transformations (open grave w. urn):   



2932 Byakhee, Hybrid Winged Thing (idol):   



2933 Hounds of Tindalos (portal - could double as a mirror):



2934 Nyarlathotep (blisters online show none)

2935 Elder Thing (blisters online show none)

2936 Tsuthoggua (larva):   



2939 Mi-Go (brain cylinder):   



2940 Hunting Beast/Horror (tentacle):



2941 Moon Beast (l'il moonbeast):



2942 Ghasts (staff - made to be adhered, if desired, to the reaching hand of one ghast):   



2943 Serpentmen and 2945 Yig ("Serpent of Yig"):



2944 Sand Dwellers (animal skull):



2946 Gug (a spikey-looking worm):



2947 Lesser Other God (l'il mi-go):   



2948 Y'Golonac (head-stone):   



2949 Leng Spider (l'il leng spider):



2950 Tcho Tcho People (none)         

2951 Wamp (ruined column):



2952 The King in Yellow (psi or trident stone and a skinless-looking human [shudder]):



2955 Crypt Ghoul, tombstones & Worm Also available in 3889 Master of Ghouls with Tombstones (http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF03889&Category_Code= and the 3890 Ghoul Scribe can also be bought separately http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF03890&Category_Code=) (crypt worm, crypt, gravestone, tombstone):



2956 Deep Ones - Pack #2 (summoning stone - not included in the Summoning stones pack!):   



2957 Gnoph-Keh (modern pigmied Hyperborean):   



2958 Proto-Shoggoth (blisters online show none)   

2959 The Hound (star-type eldar sign stone):



2960 Chauga Faugn (skull-bordered pedestal base has a hole in the centre which I filled with green stuff here):
 


2970 M.U. Expedition to Egypt (mummy on fire, Egyptian obelisk - see merchant photo for humans):



2971 M.U. Expedition to Antarctica.  I've got two of these packs and I'm picking up a team of Copplestone huskies (http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=HA) to make the dogs look a little different. Copplestone has a great bunch of sets, including more penguins, inuit, and a snowcat (http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=HA)for Polar Perils. (sled, six of the same husky dog, giant penguin, tentacled horror of some kind - see merchant photo for humans):



2972 M.U. Expedition to the Amazon (anaconda, Olmec-looking head - see merchant photo for humans):   



2973 M.U. Expedition up the Mekong (boat w. standing steering man coming separately to putty in, giant leech-like creature - see merchant photo for humans):



2974 M.U. Expedition to the Outback (car with two fully-legged seated people, spare tire for mounting on back - see merchant photo for humans and car):

2981 Summoning of Lioigor (comes with summoner - see merchant photo)

2982 Shugoran (blisters online show none)   

2990 Investigators with Roadster (two footless seated people - see merchant photo)

2991 Motorcycle Cops (2 cycles, 1 sidecar, 3 seated cops - see merchant photo)

2996 Call of Cthulhu Driver Set (comprised of the four seated figs from 2974 and 2990 - see merchant photos of these sets)

Unidentified RAFM Cthulhu bits: I have not been able to establish where the following items came from, but perhaps they came from older blisters of two of 2958 Proto-Shoggoth/2982 Shugoran/2934 Nyarlathotep/2935 Elder Thing (recent blisters of these show no inclusions). Anyone know where these came from?

The Skull Pile:



The Treasure Pile (I'm thinking maybe from the Mekong set):




Another RAFM item of note is the 3717 "Vaporous Grave Horrors" http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF03717&Category_Code=) which comes with a separate base-obelisk combo.  I mounted the horrors separately.  Here's a pic of the base-obelisk combo:



RAFM also has some interesting scenics:

http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=RAF&Category_Code=SCEN

Mother of Fortune's crystal ball table and rat on a chair:
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF03865&Category_Code=WIT

The sedan chair:
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF03750&Category_Code=WIZ

The "oven" in Hansel and Gretel:
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF03860&Category_Code=WIT

Cat on a Pumpkin Post:
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF03861&Category_Code=WIT

Owl on a stump from the Female Evil Cleric:
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF03930&Category_Code=PC

Cemetary pieces and gargoyles (which don't have to be animated, but probably are more interesting as):
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=RAF&Category_Code=GAR

Dog from the Female Druid:
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF03926&Category_Code=PC

Johan Ripponoff's Doom Ray:
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF1844&Category_Code=S1889

I have on order RAFM's 3899 "Faceless Guardian of the Void" (perhaps a Nightgaunt relative?) which comes with a separate pedestal:
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF03899&Category_Code=DA

Okay, that's it for RAFM.  Whew!  Now on to Reaper... !

[D@rth J@ymZ]

Damn. That's some nice work.  Thanks for sorting that one out.

[chicklewis]

Lovely job, Dreamingleopard.

I have always believed that your "larva" in the Tsathoggua pack was Tsathoggua's tail !  Check it out, I remember there being an indentation in his nether region which fits the rounded 'nose' of the "larva". 

[dreamingleopard]

Lovely job, Dreamingleopard.

I have always believed that your "larva" in the Tsathoggua pack was Tsathoggua's tail !  Check it out, I remember there being an indentation in his nether region which fits the rounded 'nose' of the "larva". 

ROFLMAO.  And so it does seem to be, though it doesn't fit all that well.  It was my newest acquisition and I hadn't checked over the fig thoroughly (I still prefer my Grenadier Tsathoggua) and the base part does make it seem like it stands alone... good thing I hadn't primed it yet.  But it makes a lovely larva, doesn't it?  Does reproduction of a tiny piece of a fig for one's own purposes constitute a copyright infringement?  Never thought I'd want a piece of Tsathoggua tail... I'm not that kind of girl and he's way too hairy, and a slob at that.    Will have to get the green stuff out and model a few. 

[Voogla]

Great work, Dreamingleopard, putting this all together, seems like I have to do some more RAFM shopping, there were several parts missing in the batch I bought on ebay...

[dreamingleopard]

OOPS... Just realized I must have put the wrong link in for the Nightgaunts' pentagram piece.  Here it is: