"The coming of Great Ba-He-Mot" Topic

Only the most primitive of men were in the world to see the great conflict end, between the great creature of the sea and the great creature that came from the earth.  So cataclysmic was the struggle and so sudden and inexplicable was its end that they spoke of it for thousands of years afterward, around their fires at night, in hushed tones.

Eventually the stories passed into myth, and into the legends of many peoples.  For instance, the ancient Hebrews spoke of a sea monster, Leviathan, and a land monster, Behemoth, who were mighty beyond human control and, diametrically opposed, would fly at each others' throats in an Armageddon at the end of time -- only to both be dispatched, said the Hebrews (perhaps at bit hopefully?) by their God.

Behemoth was remembered but faintly.  What was he?  A beast of the fields of some sort? A creature of the jungle? Those primitives who had laid eyes on him eons ago were loathe to describe his form in too great detail, alluding only to certain of his aspects, and these oblique descriptions were carried down as part of the legend, often misinterpreted.  For instance, it was said by the Hebrews that he wielded his tail like a cedar -- so immense was its strength that it could, and did, flatten lesser creatures as does a falling tree trunk.

And in this ancient remembrance Mankind was correct, for Great Ba-He-Mot, Archfiend of the Pit, did indeed wield Its tail, an immense cord of flaming muscle, like a cedar, perched on it like a snake, swinging it about to flatten anything which might by some miracle escape the torrents of black magic blasting from Its fingertips.  And with every mortal soul It devoured, It became larger, and stronger still.  

It had been awoken by chance, Its resting place pummeled by a falling rock from space, but immediately It sensed that Its old enemy, the invader of Its realm, was stirring in the slime of the deep sea, preparing again to seize command of this blighted world. But Great Ba-He-Mot would prevail.  Already It saw past the struggle with the challenger from the stars, and It thirsted for dominion once again.

Not counting the horns, our model of the archfiend Great Ba-He-Mot is about 90mm tall.  It comes with three different sets of horns, so you can choose which aspect of the Lord of the Pit you prefer.

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When Great B-He-Mot rose from Its pit, It sought out mortal creatures, for It desired Its children to do Its bidding once again.  Finding beasts that ran in the forests, or mysterious fat creatures that grazed upon flat green land, It would seize them up in Its claws and stuff them into Its mouth, mash them into pulp with Its teeth, swallow them into its incendiary gullet, then vomit them back up onto the ground.  Emerging from this retch were Its beloved minions, the Imps of Ba-He-Mot.  Rising from the steaming spew to their miniscule height of scarely a meter tall, these demonlets bobbed up and down rhythmically, peered up at their master with their single eye, then scurried off to capture more victims.  At first, when the Imps were but few, their captures were limited to small animals, but as their numbers swelled, the bands of Imps would seek out  larger beings for their lord to ingest.  And now, from the edge of the woods, they eyed the two legged creatures that lived in boxes and tended the fields ….

Imps of Ba-He-Mot in 15mm are small, very small indeed.  These pictures are greatly blown up just to show what they look like!  

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Coming soon to our Little Carinthia Eldritch Horror line.  All of these were painted by our own Spacejacker.  Following later will be the Pitfiends of Ba-He-Mot, large (four meters tall) winged demons who, as the Chosen of  Great-Ba-He-Mot, are incomparably mightier than the Imps.  Incidentally, one of these Pitfiends was brought into the world over two hundred years ago from the womb of a witch living in New Jersey, because in Its slumbering dreams Great Ba-He-Mot had willed it to be ….

Okay, now that one's on the Must Get ASAP list. The imps are cute too. Some 6mm potential for those as well as 15mm – or really wee fellows in 28mm.

Well done!

There is an old goat-faced demon god that doesn't get a lot of expusre in minis.

The imps would be nice in post-apocalyptic settings as dwarfed, noscturnal ghoul types or cave dwellings. Perhaps they live in tunnels like naked mole rats?

-Eli

cool!
like the movie The Gate.

Here's a picture of Great Ba-He-Mot with some imps and then an Octogod cultist for scale:

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like the movie The Gate.

I'm rather looking forward to the 3D remake. Apparently HR Giger is doing the creature designs for it.

I trust a Stephen Dorff miniature is being prepared to fire his rocket at Behemoth and blow him up in a display of fireworks?

And here all along I thought this was "Behemoth":

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Dan

Any shots of the other horn options (even unpainted)?

Yes I will post pics of the greens with the other two sets of horns on the weekend.

What a great sculpt! perfect for 6mm through 30mm scales.
Hats off to Jon, the sculptor and the painter.

That's another super one, and as mentioned, it will be great for 6mm. The imps, too – I'm sure I can find a use for those in my fantasy armies.

Doug

The Imps look a bit crude in detail, but I guess they could be used as H. Floresiensis with 15mm.

Dan
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Wow that's… BIG!

Looks really cool.

Well they are about 7mm tall so there's not a lot of detail to paint! They were made to look creepy in very large batches, and you can probably get away with a base coat and wash.

Spray white and wash brown, or spray black and drybrush brown :)

Well they are about 7mm tall so there's not a lot of detail to paint! They were made to look creepy in very large batches, and you can probably get away with a base coat and wash.

They can wrassle with your Munchers and Space Demon Nymphs comfortably.

Not to mention the chewks (oops, mentioned them!).

Tease!

The Chewks you announced back in January 2010?

Dude, you need to stop counting (and getting people excited about) chickens before they hatch.

Dan
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didnt the chewks take so long because the greens got lost in the mail, cc?

That was step 1 of the disaster, Thor. Step two was their taking many months to get cast. As the Beatles once said about the Chewks, the long and winding road ….

Wow…that is a slice of special…good grief that is a sexy beast.

Chewks vanished somewhere in the US postal system (I think that's the last place they were spotted). They had to be redone from scratch, and that involved getting the heads and weapons recast in order to make the figures, which added to the time taken.

ThorLongus: "didnt the chewks take so long because the greens got lost in the mail, cc?"

Yes. But those things happen. A million things can happen, up to the point the figures are ready for sale. But the pre-sale hype tactics continue.

And, to drag it on further, the figures never go on sale until they are finally painted by a top-notch professional painter. They should go on sale the moment the figures are ready to go (would be nice if zoomed photos of the bare metal figures are taken too*).

Just my opinion, of course.

Dan
* Back in the day, Foundry had catalogs with pics of unpainted figures. That's what really got me to buy loads of their figures. You could really see the detail of the figures that were going to be sent to you. Not necessary, but pics of unpainted are a plus.

Why wait for photos of the bare metal?

They should be available as soon as they are cool enough from the mold to pack and ship.

Had even a sketch of the *thing* been available when I ordered I would have added to my cart in a heart beat.

I thought the Octo-god was good, but this is truly an unspeakable horror.

"Why wait for photos of the bare metal?
They should be available as soon as they are cool enough from the mold to pack and ship."

I absolutely agree with you. Put them up for sale while they are still red hot and send them in fire-proof bags.

The bare metal photos would just be an added bonus.

Dan

Dude, you need to stop counting (and getting people excited about) chickens before they hatch.

Dan, don't you mean chewkins?

-Eli

LOL!!! Good one.

Dan

Don't throw rocks, but look at the number of things that have been provided over the last 12 months and I feel it is easy to see that a serious effort has been made to increase production and not to hide any particular project.

With all that Khurasan has recently put out, to press hot the worry stone seems a bit odd.

If a company, a one man after hours/weekender, puts out a dozen or more miniature projects in a year and one slips by for whatever reason…those are great odds.

I feel a measure of patience and respect is due to the efforts made and the projects that have made it to sale…

Just my opinion, but it is mine to have…I do not intend to beat anyone with it, like some great cricket bat, but I will…oh yeah I will…all right, nobody move! I've got a dragon and I'm not afraid to use it! I'm a donkey on the edge!

:)

"Well they are about 7mm tall so there's not a lot of detail to paint! They were made to look creepy in very large batches, and you can probably get away with a base coat and wash."

Sounds like a perfect opportunity for THE DIP! dun dun dunnnnnnnnn :)

I agree with you 28mm, Khurasan is well on the way to world domination with only evenings and weekends…very impressive output in the last year

ONE Man operation, with life sometimes in the way…yup.
Sounds familiarly to me.

Ok, as promised, the other two horn options. Horns are pewter.

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By the way, horns go in with the same little square peg attachment as the Octogod pieces. So with a little finagling they can be inserted into the sockets at multiple angles.

Same goes for the connection between the upper and lower body -- whilst it is designed to attach as shown, if you clip off the connection the upper body can be inserted 180 degrees opposite, so that the tail is behind instead of in front. Might need some minor puttying with milliput or the like, but I think it would work without many worries. And the body belts (which as you can see are designed to look like maggots) are parallel so they'd look the same whether the tail was in front (as intended) or 180 degrees traversed.

These last releases and the start of the Eldritch Horror line are fantastic. Really best thing since sliced bread, or whatever the 15mm metal equivalent to sliced bread is.

So far I have liked everything and I'll need all of it. The little imp dudes will look nice swarming over a party of investigators. They should be hard to hit with firearms.

Of course you can handle it however you want, but at least in the Little Carinthia backstory, you can't really "kill" the Imps as they are demons.

If you hit them with firearms they explode into a pile of maggots which slither into the earth, and eventually reconstitute themselves as an Imp. Cosmic (or perhaps holy, if you are so inclined) weapons can destroy them. Especially one cosmic weapon, which is what banished the Octopus God and Great Ba-He-Mot all those aeons ago….

I've come back for a second and third look on these and I must say that I really like this model.

Nice hint at the Jersey Devil there, BTW.

Who sculpted Ba-He-Mot?

-Eli

I think the imps are going to be perfect as grunt types for 6mm horror/sci-fi games as well. Like the Imps from the original Doom computer game, they can claw your face off or shoot fire balls at you. Also, in 6mm, they're big seven foot tall brutes instead of little guys.

Those imps are going to find a home in just about any scale!

-Eli

ONE Man operation, with life sometimes in the way…yup.
Sounds familiarly to me.

Was with you until the "operation" part.

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They all look painted to me. Yet, the website still says they are not.

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When are they going up for sale?

Dan

Especially one cosmic weapon, which is what banished the Octopus God and Great Ba-He-Mot all those aeons ago…

Said cosmic weapon appearing, to our merely mortal senses, to be a cat wearing a straw boater, of course.

Said cosmic weapon appearing, to our merely mortal senses, to be a cat wearing a straw boater, of course.

That FIEND.