The street names are familiar, and remind you of childhood: Boardwalk, Park Place, Marvin Gardens. Long ago, proud businessmen arrived to this city with their carts, top hats and steam engines, looking to open lavish hotels and build their fortunes. You have other plans. Instead of building houses, your objective is to destroy them.

You’re one of the Great Old Ones – beings of ancient and eldritch power. Cosmic forces have held you at bay for untold aeons, but at last the stars are right and your maniacal cult has called you to this benighted place. Once you regain your full powers, you will unleash your Doom upon the world!

Azathoth figure design.

Azathoth miniature figure sculpt. “This design was an attempt to distill the somewhat abstract idea of the Blind Idiot God into a striking miniature. The insectoid aspects represent the Shaggai, the alien worshippers of this outer space deity, and the base, their conical temples of worship. The swirling nucleus at it’s core is an enormous occluded eye.”

Yog Sothoth figure design.

Yog Sothoth miniature figure sculpt. “In my attempt to make the mass of iridescent globes look eye catching, he wound up looking like a tumorous growth. Reminds me of the self-proclaimed ‘dreaming disease’ from Clive Barker’s Son of Celluloid.”

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Nyarlathotep figure design. “This was based, almost verbatim, on a drawing Lee Moyer had done of this incarnation, some years ago. With the design already established, it was up to me to work out how it would work in three dimensions.”

Nyarlathotep miniature figure sculpt. “Sculpey and a thin brass rod.”

Hastur figure design. “There was very little visual reference for this one, and I’d seen him oft represented as a figure in a hooded yellow robe. Lee and I had decided on a much more extravagant incarnation. Also, that’s my first doodle of Ithaqua next to him. I did most of the designs in the Starbucks of Lost Souls, as I’ve come to call it, on the next block over from where I live.”

Hastur figure design.

Tsathoggua figure design.

Tsathoggua figure sculpt. “There’s always a bit of give and take regarding the translation from drawing to sculpt.”

Ithaqua. “Yes, those are my hands.”

Ithaqua figure design.

“Cthulhu figure design. This was based on Lee Moyer’s initial drawing for the game, with a nod to Stephen Hickman’s beautiful statue.”

“Cthulhu miniature sculpt (Pro Clay). 2 inches tall or thereabouts. I enjoyed doing the Moebius-inspired base. Not quite the way I envision Cthulhu, to be frank, but I was going for what would look iconic as a miniature playing piece.”

Shub Niggurath figure design.

“Shub Niggurath – Dark Goat of a Thousand Young. Or at least as many as I could squeeze onto the base of a roughly 2 & 1/2 inch figurine.”

Posted by Nadya Lev on May 16th, 2012
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