What the ??? (Odd would-be mythos beasties hitherto not described...)

[dreamingleopard]

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


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).

[Scorpio]

(Wasn't that originally a Clan Wars oni?)

[dreamingleopard]

(Wasn't that originally a Clan Wars oni?)

Yup. Still is.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

hmm...looks like a conversion of the RAFM Shoggoth



I guess, it's also sculpted by Bob Murch?

[Servitor of RAFM]

hmm...looks like a conversion of the RAFM Shoggoth

Yes it does. 
Isn't this business tough enough...

[jnr]

Like the paint job on the hybrids.

[Profane Creation]

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.

[Commander Vyper]

He meant the similarities in the sculpting between the hellgug and the proto-shoggoth. 

 

[Prof.Witchheimer]

He meant the similarities in the sculpting between the hellgug and the proto-shoggoth. 

 

what Commander said.

[Red Orc]

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'.