For my Mythos Wars project, a few Elder Things were of course essential. Failing to find miniatures I was pleased with, I rashly decided to sculpt them myself. Starting with a description from "At the mountains of Madness":
Six feet
end to end, three and five-tenths feet central diameter, tapering to one foot
at each end. Like a barrel with five bulging ridges in place of staves. Lateral
breakages, as of thinnish stalks, are at equator in middle of these ridges. In
furrows between ridges are curious growths – combs or wings that fold up and
spread out like fans. . . which gives almost seven-foot wing spread.
Arrangement reminds one of certain monsters of primal myth, especially fabled
Elder Things in [the]
and some illustrations:
I decided to make the bodies from FIMO clay, as this can be baked and would be hard enough to attach the rest of the parts to.
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The next part was the undercarriage, made up of greenstuff and shaped into 5 tentacles ending in a triangular footpad. 28mm figure for size.
Then the bodies were glued to the tentacle bases and I sculpted the 5-point star-shaped heads from green stuff, adding these to the body.
The arms were a challenge, being described as tentacles ending in thin tendrils. I made them from unbraided electrical wire and greenstuff.
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I kinda cheated with the wings, using some parts clipped from old MageKnight miniatures. Not quite satisfied with them, but the greenstuff needed to harden before I could continue.
The next day I found better wings in the Mageknight bitbox.
Added eyes, some more body structure. Tried to add more details to the heads but sculpting is HARD people! SO I threw the gauntlet and primed them with spraypaint primer.
And here is the (almost) finished eindproduct.