.... something wicked this way comes.
It's a Shoggoth!
It is a big resin piece, around 7cm long, 4cm high and 5 cm wide from Fenris Games. It is a one piece cast with three optional metal tentacles, which I used because, when it comes down to it, who doesn't want a dreadful sanity-threatening, slithery, protoplasmic Horror with tentacles? The young Assassin, a Bad Squiddo Lucrezia Borgia mini is here to provide a sense of scale.
The backdrop is from a Jon Hodgson book and the flooring is from a Warbases dungeon tiles set.
I'm rather pleased with how this Thing came out. I finished the eyes and larger pustules with a lick of gloss varnish after spray varnishing the finished beastie in a matt finish.
Hopefully this Abomination might get some gameplay in the future.
Wow, that really is a 'shapeless congerie of protoplasmic bubbles '!
ReplyDeleteI had to look up 'Shoggoth'. This chappy seems to be a little on the small side, and maybe deficient in the tentacular department, but no doubt, apart from being probably a youngish shoggoth, it would look sufficiently humongously ginormous, pulsatingly amorphous and verminously pustulant to the wee assassin facing it... Can those slivers of blades seriously harm that monstrous mass of mindless mordancy?! One has a vague notion (though H.P. Lovecraft might have had something to say to this) that were one to cut a shoggoth in two, you would then have TWO shoggothim to deal with. Nasty!
ReplyDeleteI do like this chappy. I'd like to call it William.
Cheers,
Ion
Great idea.
DeleteBilly the emotional support Shoggoth.
"Don't be frightened, he's just a big softy"
"What do you mean he can't stay. You said it was a pet friendly inn!"
I'm liking the biology of Shoggoth splitting.
DeleteNicely done Carole. No sneaking up on poor Billy.
ReplyDeleteSeriously sinister... great work! And I rather like the set up with the background display and Lucrezia Borgia... shapes a whole narrative
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