Shoggoth....

Here's some pictures of painted shoggoths, the latest model I've sculpted for my Dark Foam range. Almost all of the shoggoths previously sculpted were done so low and flat so for this one I went for a taller more blob like version. The thing with sculpting one of these is you've just got to pick a shape and go for it because of the amorphous nature of the creature, described as constantly changing form with the green bubble-like eyes forming and unforming constantly. Any sculpt of a shoggoth ends up being a like a snapshot of the thing. Like the old Grenadier and Rafm shoggoths I went for toothless "mouths" mere pukered holes. In the story the creature came from it was not a host of toothy jaws the sent someone insane but from the suggestion that the thing could develop a rudimenty form of speech.

The model itself is a resin casting. Here's a pictures of my painted version of the basic model.

Now Lovecraft had a thing about tentacles so it would be poor form not to give one of these at least a few :)
Here's a second models with three tentacles from my Son of Yog-Sothoth kit.

I painted the models with Vallejo paints. Basic method was to drybrush the whole thing in progessively lighter shades of green. A little red mixed with green was painted around the mouths then the whole this was washed with thinned black acrylic. I kept applying wahes until the body was suitably dark. Once that was done the eyes were picked out with a progression of mutation, sick, escorpena and livery green. the the whole thing was given multiple coats of gloss varnish.

Finally a couple of pics of the shoggoths next to a figure for scale. "Tekeli-li Tekeli-li"

Tengu Models scale pics

Someone asked about the size of the Son of Yog-Sothoth model when it was posted on TGN so I thought I'd take some scale pics of the model and some other Tengu figures.

Son of Yog-Sothoth assembly.

Here's a quick guide to putting together a Son of Yog Sothoth model. It's pretty easy with some drilling and pinning, and then some filling needed.
Here are the parts in their raw form, two sprues of metal tentacles and the resin body.

First up I took a few minutes to fill in any air bubbles/mould lines that made it to the surface of the body.

Next up tentacles will need to be snipped apart then they're ready for drilling. I found it best to get these all drilled and with the wire glued in place before the next stage. Stuff used pin vice, 1mm drill bit, super glue, wire, and snippers.

Once they were all done with the wire glued in place I was time to start positioning them on the body. It was a case of drilling holes and seeing how the tentacles looked in that position.

At this stage I had all the tentacles glued in position. Being white metal I was able to add more twist and bend to some of them.

Next stage is filling the gap between the metal and the resin body to smooth out the join. Any type of putty can be used for this, I used a 50/50 mix of milliput and green stuff.

Working around the model all gaps were filled and then the putty was left to cure. That was all the modelling done, next up was to wash the model in some soapy water and once it was dry I stuck it to an old paint pot with some blu tack and primed it grey ready for painting.

Return of the Son of Yog-Sothoth

Here's some pics of the new version of my Son of Yog-Sothoth model. The model is based on the H.P.Lovecraft story The Dunwich Horror and represents the horrid result of a union between terrible god Yog-Sothoth and a human female.

I had been producing this kit using RTV rubber and a resin injection casting method but once the first mould wore out I never got around to remaking another one. This time rather than producing the model myself I got a resin caster to make the body and had the tentacles cast in metal. The body had been re-mastered a little from the first run of models, mainly adding eye-lids to the eyes situated around the bulk of the body.

This model will be released as part of my Dark Foam range sometime next week.