| Cacique Caribe | 05 Apr 2007 12:59 p.m. PST |
And I mean the creature in the foreground here: picture CC |
| Lowtardog | 05 Apr 2007 1:13 p.m. PST |
Is it some sort of Stingray with hands? |
| Cacique Caribe | 05 Apr 2007 1:15 p.m. PST |
That's what it looks like, though I think that Frazetta deviated quite a bit from what Burroughs meant in the Pellucidar novels. I still like this Frazetta creature better, even though you really can't see all of it. CC |
| ruggeddude | 06 Apr 2007 9:54 a.m. PST |
I think the big one in the background is a similar beasty, looks kind of like a cross between vulture and a bat to me, although I was not aware that bats could swim or hold their breath under water. Perhaps if you look through the fantasy ranges you might find something. you might be able to butcher some Dream Blade figs to make one…. plastic being fairly easy to cut apart and all. |
| Cacique Caribe | 09 Apr 2007 7:03 a.m. PST |
Didn't Games Workshop do something like flying manta rays? I have no idea what they were called, so I cannot do a proper search for them. CC |
 Dances With Words   | 09 Apr 2007 9:28 a.m. PST |
If it was from ERB/Earth's core…wasn't that a 'Morgor' or something like that???? Sgt DWW |
| Insomniac | 09 Apr 2007 10:10 a.m. PST |
Screamers of Tzeentch were the GW rays. |
| Cacique Caribe | 09 Apr 2007 10:58 a.m. PST |
Thanks Insomniac!!! link CC |
| Skrapwelder | 09 Apr 2007 12:40 p.m. PST |
It's a Mahar. A race of sentient pterosaurs. The picture shows one from behind half submerged in the water which is why it looks like a ray. Any pteradactyl or pteronodon figure would work fairly well. |
| Space Monkey | 09 Apr 2007 4:44 p.m. PST |
I love that illustration… it was the first SciFi/ERB book I ever read…
Unfortunately, pterodactyl/pteronadon minis aren't usually in particularly evocative poses… they usually have their arms fully spread like they're flying but very seldom 'lurking' or looking like the sinister villians the Mahar were. What were those ape things that served the Mahar? |
| Space Monkey | 09 Apr 2007 4:47 p.m. PST |
Oh… and that scene is pretty much right out of the book… and it's pretty nasty/gruesome (that girl is NOT a major character). |
| Cacique Caribe | 10 Apr 2007 5:10 a.m. PST |
Venusboys3, "What were those ape things that served the Mahar?" If I recall correctly, those were the Sagoths:
link There were also other "ape men", though these were apparently a bit different. Wow. Look at the gallery on this site:
link More here:
TMP link CC
PS. Pal-ul-don was another interesting world from Burroughs' creative mind:
TMP link |
| Cacique Caribe | 10 Apr 2007 5:18 a.m. PST |
Venusboys3, "Oh… and that scene is pretty much right out of the book… and it's pretty nasty/gruesome (that girl is NOT a major character)." I think this is the chapter describing that scene: link
link Here is the worst part of all, I think: "Once they were below much longer than usual, and when they came to the surface I was horrified to see that one of the girl's arms was gone--gnawed completely off at the shoulder--but the poor thing gave no indication of realizing pain, only the horror in her set eyes seemed intensified.
The next time they appeared the other arm was gone, and then the breasts, and then a part of the face--it was awful. The poor creatures on the islands awaiting their fate tried to cover their eyes with their hands to hide the fearful sight, but now I saw that they too were under the hypnotic spell of the reptiles, so that they could only crouch in terror with their eyes fixed upon the terrible thing that was transpiring before them." Gruesome indeed. CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 10 Apr 2007 10:32 a.m. PST |
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