seneschal Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I've read discussions here and at other web sites about finding good miniatures for Call of Cthulhu. However, I think the best ones I've seen were made by my nephew -- who was then around 10 or 11. He created a monster-themed board game for my son, including oven-bake clay monster figures, board, and rules. The game itself is lost to my son's childhood carelessness, but I saved (and in one case, repaired) the playing pieces. They're colorful, weird, and perfectly sized to threaten 25mm adventurers. What are they? Who can tell? Dark things with saber-toothed fangs. Things with bulging eyes. Things with beaks and tentacles. Gloppy things that look as if they just arose from the muck. The point is, no player seeing them will say, "Oh, yeah. Deep One." He'll say, "What the heck is THAT?" Which is, of course, the appropriate response to a CoC monster mini. Ah, the creativity of kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baron Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Pics? Please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seneschal Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 I'll see what I can do. Do I have to have 'em posted online somewhere to link, or can you simply upload JPEGs from a hard drive? I've never gotten the hang of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smjn Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I'll see what I can do. Do I have to have 'em posted online somewhere to link, or can you simply upload JPEGs from a hard drive? I've never gotten the hang of that. There's a gallery right here: http://basicroleplaying.org/gallery/. Seems to me you can just upload the images there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seneschal Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 Ah, new website feature! I'll employ my wife's digital camera and post pics as soon as I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seneschal Posted August 15, 2014 Author Share Posted August 15, 2014 Sorry about the delay. Still trying to dig that digital camera out of the closet. Meanwhile, I've been looking at Lovecraftian miniatures by CP Models and Elheim. The smaller, humanoid figures are nifty, but the larger critters --while interesting -- aren't necessarily any better than something I could make myself from polymer clay. I can create (I won't claim to "sculpt") an amorphous, blob-like thing with tentacles just fine. A few of these metal miniatures looked, well, just crude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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