Be Wary Careful - We Hunting Old Ones!

[P_Clapham]

Gheeze pulling out some obscure ones are we?   

[supervike]

What a fantastic thread!!!!

[P_Clapham]

As a Lovecraftian Scholar and a miniature painter, I whole heartily agree!

What a fantastic thread!!!!

[dreamingleopard]

Gheeze pulling out some obscure ones are we?   

Of course!  (These guys are pretty rare anyway.) Go on... see if you can make me scrabble... 


Dagon

P_Clapham - award yourself 3 points for reminding me about Dagon.  I conceed that the Reaper Burrowing Horror that I gave in my first post suits Dagon better (as per my post on Reaper) though it has been argued that Dagon really is just a super-Deep-One (along with Mother Hydra).  But if Shudde M'ell and Basatan count, then why not Dagon?

Glad you both like the thread!


Zushakon (or Zuchequon or Zul-Che-Quon)
Magnificent Egos by Valiant Enterprises Ltd.  VEL3016 Vortex $19.99 US  Sculptor Unknown
http://www.veltd.net/32mm/vel3016.htm

Sculpting mods: none



Debuts in "Bells of Horror" (1939) by Henry Kuttner.

dreamingleopard score for this entry: 3


Q'yth-az
Armorcast  ACRC005 Triple Quartz Crystal  $19.00 Sculptor: Unknown  Painter: Unknown
http://armorcast.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=235&osCsid=415a87228455785c82f2eab661213b47; actually, any of the crystals from Armorcast would do (see http://armorcast.com/store/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=crystal&osCsid=415a87228455785c82f2eab661213b47&x=0&y=0  – no need to post them all, as this is the largest “massed” crystal figure there.)

Sculpting mods: none



A mass of crystals, as described in Scott D. Aniolowski (1994). "An Early Frost".  (in Thomas M. K. Stratman (ed.). Cthulhu's Heirs (2nd ed.). Oakland, CA: Chaosium)

dreamingleopard score for this entry: 3


Cyäegha  The Destroying Eye, The Waiting Dark
Magnificent Egos by Valiant Enterprises Ltd.  MEO4037 Oculous the Rotten Eye  $15.99 US Sculptor: Unknown  Painter: Unknown
http://www.veltd.net/32mm/vel4037.htm

Sculpting mods: none



”They saw that it was a gigantic eye staring down at them.  Around the eye, the sky split; deep clefts opened through which darkness began to ooze, a darkness blacker than the night, which crawled down as a set of slimy tentacles, taking on more form, more definite shape...something was standing, outlined against the black sky, something which had tentacles of darkness and a green-glowing eye.” –  "Darkness, My Name Is" (1976) by Eddy C. Bertin.

dreamingleopard score for this entry: 3


Vulthoom  The Sleeper of Ravermos, Gsarthotegga
Armorcast  ACA007  Large Sucker Plant  $20.00 Sculptor: Shawn Lux  Painter: Unknown
http://armorcast.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=120_37&products_id=149&osCsid=415a87228455785c82f2eab661213b47

Sculpting mods: none



Debuts as a huge otherworldly satanic plant in “Vulthoom” (1935) by Clark Ashton Smith.

dreamingleopard score for this entry: 3


Cthugha  The Living Flame, The Burning One
Magnificent Egos by Valiant Enterprises Ltd.  VEL3004 Flaming Sphere $5.99 US  Sculptor: Unknown  Painter: Unknown
http://www.veltd.net/32mm/vel3004.htm

Sculpting mods: none



”But even though we had shielded our eyes, it was impossible not to see the great amorphous shapes streaming skyward from this accursed place, not the equally great being hovering like a cloud of living fire above the trees.”–  "The Dweller in Darkness" (1944) by August Derleth.

dreamingleopard score for this entry: 3


dreamingleopard score for this post: 15
Cummulative total to date: 24

[Heyer]

Love this thread ,keep doing it

[Onebigriver]

Haven't got a clue what you're all up to, but does this fit anything:



A Depths Creature from Fenryll

[dreamingleopard]

Haven't got a clue what you're all up to, but does this fit anything:



A Depths Creature from Fenryll

It seems to me to fit the second Wikipedia description of:

Gol-goroth  Golgoroth, Gol-Goroth, The Forgotten Old One, God of the Black Stone (A 70 mm tentacled avatar)
Fenryll Miniatures  FM124 Depths Creature  19,00 €  Sculptor: S.Guilbert  Painter: Unknown
http://www.fenryll.com/product.php?id_product=553 

Sculpting mods: It should have hooves (see the article link below).

Here's your argument for its inclusion as this big nasty on this thread:
http://crypt-of-cthulhu.com/golgoroth.htm

Onebigriver, I'd say you earned yourself 2 points, but try to reference the Wikipedia table of Great Old Ones yourself next time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Old_One) –  I'm doing the work of posting all the RAFM CoC figs and I've got my work cut out.  Wonder if the Fenryll's Putrid Horror fits any of the descriptors... I've had my eye on that one, too.

[dreamingleopard]

The Hound (Tcho-Tcho corpse-eating cult god)
Magnificent Egos by Valiant Enterprises Ltd.  VEL4009 Malryte Half Dragon Dire Wolf  $29.99 US  Sculptor: Unknown  Painter: Unknown
http://www.veltd.net/32mm/vel4009.htm
   
Sculpting mods: none



”Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial... Now, as the baying of that dead fleshless monstrosity grows louder and louder, and the stealthy whirring and flapping of those accursed web-wings closer and closer, I shall seek with my revolver the oblivion which is my only refuge from the unnamed and unnameable. ”–  "The Hound" (1924) by H. P. Lovecraft.

dreamingleopard score for this entry: 3


Rhogog  The Bearer of the Cup of the Blood of the Ancients
Magnificent Egos by Valiant Enterprises Ltd.  VEL1036 T'Sharo Druidic Plant Man  $7.99 US  Sculptor: Unknown  Painter: Unknown
http://www.veltd.net/32mm/vel1036.htm

Sculpting mods:  Fix the face to have a single eye at the centre of its trunk; maybe replace the weapon with some other stick-handled prop.



Invented by Micheal Saint-Paul for “Sacristans of Rhogog”`(1991), from whence comes the following:
“And as the child searched among the wicker-bushes, he came upon a great tree, blacker than the deepest void in all creation. The child, trembling with primal fear, touched the bark of the tree, and found that the wood felt as if it were aflame. Terrified, he struggled to pull his hand away, but found that the branches of the tree were holding his arm fast. The child shrieked in fear and in pain as a branch began to split his stomach in two, and his childlike voice was replaced by the howls of a being of unimaginable hatred. The woods trembled. Rhogog was still not satisfied. —Sacristans of Rhogog”

dreamingleopard score for this entry: 2


Nodens
Magnificent Egos by Valiant Enterprises Ltd.  VEL1083 Jsartan Storm Giant Conjurer  $39.99 US  Sculptor: Unknown  Painter: Unknown
http://www.veltd.net/32mm/vel1083.htm

Sculpting mods:  Mount him in or beside a seashell chariot if you like.  You can get the dolphins here: http://freeboardgamesnow.com/search.aspx?find=dolphin  If you use a real seashell, please be sure it’s found dead on the beach instead of buying it in some store (otherwise you may be supporting the killing of an animal that may have a reduced population as it is).



(Ignore the cloud - it’s not part of the figure – Alternative pic w/o the cloud here: http://www.frpgames.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=46638)

”And upon dolphins’ backs was balanced a vast crenelate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss.... Then hoary Nodens reached forth a wizened hand and helped Olney and his host into the vast shell.”–  "The Strange High House in the Mist" (19??) by H. P. Lovecraft.

dreamingleopard score for this entry: 3 (It does stand alone without the chariot.)


dreamingleopard score for this post: 8
Cummulative total to date: 43

[pixelgeek]

Can we get this pinned?

[Malebolgia]

Well, to be honest I like the thread but the usuability is less than with a topic with mythos creatures. Although I love deity sculpts, but they are not really useful in gaming in most cases. The arrival of a deity or avatar will bring death or major sanity loss in most games. So a combined thread with all interesting mythos creatures is more useful IMO.

[Blackwolf]

Dreaming Leopard,Nodens,I believe is not an Old One.He's either an Elder God,or in his own little pantheon (just him and the Nightgaunts ). However I may be wrong............?

[Malebolgia]

Here's another terrific King in Yellow! Not released yet, but absolutely a must buy for Lovecraftian games (can also be used as a ghost or wraith):


UD6 - Shadows (2) - sculpted by Paul Muller. 30 & 32mm to the (non-existent) eyes.

http://www.frothersunite.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=26915

[Argonor]

Interesting thread, here!

[dreamingleopard]

Although I love deity sculpts, but they are not really useful in gaming in most cases. The arrival of a deity or avatar will bring death or major sanity loss in most games.

I agree, but there may be an occasion to frighten them into perceived insanity.  For instance, I recently ran a Call of Cthulhu RP in which all the players were experiencing a mass dreaming brought on by a reality warp created by a malfunctioning alien machine.  They interpreted the weirdness as magic and ended up believing that they died and became One with Yog-Sothoth.  They awoke, relieved to discover it was only a dream... except they dreamed it together - and certain artifacts were brought with them to their waking reality... (requiring SAN rolls of course). 

In another scenario, one rather wealty investigator was instructed via vision to build a temple for Nodens in payment for saving his buns in a previous scenario.

Also, using figs for these beings is usually impractical due to the enormity of their true sizes.  Smaller avatars, expecially in disguise as something or someone "normal," would be much more useful.

These aspects have conspired against the recognition of the importance of these beings in the minis gaming field.  I'm just trying to give them the attention they deserve, lest they show us even less mercy when the stars are right.    (Some of us also like to paint and collect as well as play, too... and the gods know sculptors need to get paid in tough times).

Dreaming Leopard,Nodens,I believe is not an Old One.He's either an Elder God,or in his own little pantheon (just him and the Nightgaunts ). However I may be wrong............?

Nodens is an Elder God, and I did make it clear in my initial post that the Cthulhu Mythos Deities (or others that can be shown to be connected to the mythos) were allowed (there are not that many of them).

[dreamingleopard]

Cthulhu
Uncle Mike’s Worldwide Strange Aeons SA-018 Godling (nearly 6" high) $200.00 US 
Sculptor: Kyla Richards  Painter: “Uncle Mike” Atkinson
http://unclemikesworldwide.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_2&products_id=54

Sculpting mods: none



”A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.  This thing...was of a somewhat bloated corpulence.... It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway.... A mountain walked or stumbled.”–  "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928) by H. P. Lovecraft.

dreamingleopard score for this entry:  3 (my first non-official Cthulhu post.)


Oom
Beaumont  BMW008 Decapussywhipper (Heroic 28mm scale) $15.00
Sculptor: Clint Staples Concept: (from Skirmisher Publishing’s Nuisances)  Painter: Unknown
http://armorcast.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=116_73&products_id=553&osCsid=415a87228455785c82f2eab661213b47

Sculpting mods: none



Oom comes from the book Mad Moon of Dreams (1987) by Brian Lumley.

dreamingleopard score for this entry: 3


dreamingleopard score for this post: 6
Cummulative total to date: 49