Now for something completely different.
Every now and again the "Nerd Centre" as the kids call it needs a clear out and re-organising, in one of the various storage boxes I stumbled across these a long forgotten project to recreate some of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Universe in miniature, it never got off the ground but these and some fishmen got thrown in a box based and undercoated never to grace the battlefield.
Until now......
Not really sure when they will appear on the table.
But the pulp project is getting ever closer.
I think their predominant color was a greyish-green, though they had
white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of
their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid,
while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes
that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills,
and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on
two legs and sometimes on four. I was somehow glad that they had no more
than four limbs. Their croaking, baying voices, clearly used for
articulate speech, held all the dark shades of expression which their
staring faces lacked ... They were the blasphemous fish-frogs of the
nameless design - living and horrible."
(H.P.Lovecraft - "The Shadow Over Innsmouth")
I like those Stuart, good work!
ReplyDeleteThanks Fran
DeleteThese figures Stuart - tend to remind me of the early 1960's STAR TREK - 'Gorn'....he was a bit more greenish - more reptilian than froggish. KEV.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kev, just spent the past 30 minutes reading up on Gorn on the web.... The internet can drive you mad some times :-)
DeleteAll the best
Stu
They are quite spooky and I like the fact that they are holding human weapons - and a book! I could see them working well in a pulp game, on the lost island of horrors or whatever. Have you seen the new line of Cthulu figures by Bob Murch of Pulp Figures? I am sure that your chaps could use some company.
ReplyDeleteI have Michael.
DeleteNow the paint table is building up again - Curses.... :-)