Today’s monster – my final Monster MayHem ’23 submission – is once again from Cthulhu: Death May Die – though this time it’s from the Season 1 core box. The Shoggoth appears to fit the overall description of Lovecraft’s creature pretty well, though reading that description certainly makes me suspect that John Carpenter had some rather direct inspiration for The Thing. (Not to be in any way confused with Ben Grimm in this case..)
Painting was pretty quick and straightforward – and Contrast Black Templar on the rest of it, drybrushed up with Dark Reaper (dark blue-grey) and then some thinned Contrast Volpus Pink (magenta) in spots on the body and the ends of the tentacles. The eyes were VMC Ice Yellow with Citadel’s Gemstone Red and a touch of Blood for the Blood God on their upper orbs.
Finally, Contrast Blood Angels Red in the mouth-tentacles, drybrushed with some mixes of lighter reds and oranges.
This Shoggoth was the final model I completed in May – in the evening of the 31st. It’s not my final May model to be shown, though – there’s still several posts worth of D&D Boardgame models I’ve been bumping out of the way so I could get these Monsters posted up in time before the weekend. Expect a daily run of those to begin in a couple of days so we can get through them in a reasonable space of time – culminating in the May Round-Up…
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Fantastic work mate, truly a thing of nightmares, and can see the reference to the Thing (not the Ben Grimm version LOL)
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Cheers Dave – when I was writing this I noticed the location of the HPL Shoggoth’s “home” being in Antarctica, and them being shapeshifters – which really highlighted the Carpenter association!
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It has a bit of a Giger vibe to me,
due to the shiny black skin. Actually, that color was what I was hoping for when I painted a Black Pudding long ago. You make it all sound pretty easy, but I guess that’s because you have most of this stuff tucked in your tool belt at this point. Very nice work! 😃
And oh yea, The Thing is a great movie! Some awesome practical FX. 😃
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You must be the only person I know who paints black pudding – I usually eat it! 😉
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I’d double check the expiration date first, John! 😉
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I’d be a bit scared of actual black pudding! 😮
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I can see that with akl of those shiny ribs.
The paint was actually really quick and easy – I’m sure you’d have an equally smooth ride with a figure like this. Most of the work was really just undiluted contrast over white and drybrushing over the top of that!
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Creepy! Looks really good and I like that colour scheme! 🙂
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Thanks John – I can’t take credit for the scheme really as I just went with the game art to guide me. 🙂
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That is quite some monster isn’t it! Cracking work – funnily enough I’m working on one of these myself at the moment…
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Thank you, Wudu! Looking forward to seeing yours! 🙂
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Love it mate , this is right up my street 🤘
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Chers Alex – I think this model has a lot of potential utiity across a whole pile of games…
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Eeeek! This one is most disturbing, and I say it as a total compliment!!
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Haha thanks mate!
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The black and red really work a treat on this one. I think the sculpt is perfect for Lovecraft as well. Generally, I’m pretty nonplussed by Cthulhu sculpts but this one has a creepy feel to it!
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I think I might know what you mean – a lot of Cthulhu Mythos sculpts just seems to be different layout combinations of tentacles and eyes (and sometimes, mouths). I guess it is what they are, and since the game is fun, I gotsta paints ’em! 🙂
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Disgusting! The human limbs protruding from the model add extra creepiness. I really like how you made the black look slimy and wet. Not looking forward to encountering this on the tabletop.
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Haha, I forget that you have the downside of encountering all these things he paints! I guess my players have the same woes when they see I’ve painted some giant monstrosity.
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Hahah indeed!
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It’s amusing because you still haven’t seen the model (because it was so quick to paint, unlike those fucking fire vampires).
Unless you sneaked a peek at it when you were getting stuff from the fridge…
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very nice
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Thank you!
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You captured the essence of the creepiness here so well!
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Thanks Mark! It came out well and the best part was that it was a nice, easy model to paint!
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Once again I can’t keep up with your lightning-fast (but somehow still spectacular) paint jobs. This, along with everything else you painted, looks wonderful. Thanks again for your participation in Monster May(hem), Azazel! You’re an inspiration!
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Thanks mate. Looking forward ot the next MM – it’s always a useful motivation go get a bunch of models finished.
I’ve barely painted for over a month now – if often happens something like this around this time of year as work burnout hits.
Now we’ve broken up for Christmas, I’m hoping to get restarted again today or at least very soon! 🙂
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Congratulations master!
In the text says “Painting was pretty quick and straightforward – and Contrast Black Templar on the rest of it”, there is something missing about some paint before the Contrast Black?
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Simply that it was added over the white undercoat., or possibly adding the texture to the base.
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