Grainy image of nightmarish horror?

[D@rth J@ymZ]

***Incoming Transmission***

Spotted floating near the frozen North on Winter Solstice...
Have any fellow Threshold operatives encountered this peculiar appartition?
Classification requested.



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[fairoaks024]

Hmmm,

looks like an elder thing or great race of yith........

regards

jim

[Ajsalium]

Elder thing. You can (barely) distinguish its five radial wings.

Ummhhhh...

[inkydave]

Whichever Cthulu beast looks like a Manx shearwater viewed through a thermal imaging device is my bet

[Dolmot]

Weather balloon. Move along.

[Steve F]

Oh no!  We're being attacked by a luminous Rorschach inkblot test!

[D@rth J@ymZ]

An old, beat up and dusty folder appeared on my desk this morning with a handwritten note from an unknown agent saying that this was "what I may be looking for".  Inside was this photo:



and a brief description: Winged Nightmare

[Ajsalium]

Ooohhh.....

I was wrong, then. No problem. I'll just go open my head and eat my brains...

[mdomino]

Baba Yaga and her flying chicken leg house.
M

[Dr Mathias]

Whichever Cthulu beast looks like a Manx shearwater viewed through a thermal imaging device is my bet

This made me shake with laughter, even though I didn't know what a Manx Shearwater was until I looked it up 

[Uncle Mike]

Cool!

[D@rth J@ymZ]

I painted the Winged Nightmare body with Glow In The Dark Paint (phosphorescent).  The first photo was done in the dark to try to capture the "glow" effect, which was kind of difficult.  Overall, I'm rather pleased with the effect, as the paint has an eerie, pale green colour in normal light that looks rather gross and slimy.  

The wings have a multi-coloured "sparkle" effect that I tried out for the first time too while trying to emmulate insect wings.  
Props to Dr. Chimpula's LPL Season 5, Round 10 Entry "The Last Unicorn" for the inspiration with using the sparkle effect.