"Throshold and Lurkers: Cthulhu and Strange Aeons" Topic

Can you suggest some miniatures that I might use for Strange Aeons.

I'd like about 5 Threshold figures… private eye, cops, civilian investigators… things of that natures. (maybe even some g-men)

I'd like a wider variety of Lurkers… the crazed cultists, creepy townsfolk, frothing maniacs and the darker things from the other side of the skin of reality.

Can you suggest either single figures or lines that I can perhaps take a look at and pick up? I've already looked at Strange Mike's miniature offerings and they're nice… but i'd like a bit of variety… help would be appreciated.

sorry, Throshold in the title should be 'Threshold'

@ kyoteblue

The miniatures are 28mm that I'd be looking for and I don't need a huge amount but the ones I buy I'd like to have some character to them.

Strange Mike as well should be Uncle Mike… and he's the producer of the game Strange Aeons.

thanks

I'm assuming 28mm…

Artizan's Thrilling Tales springs to mind.

I know West Wind and Copplestone castings have pulp lines, and I suspect Hasselfree and Reaper would have some offerings too.

Only saw the photos but the Pulp Miniatures and Uncle Mike's look rougher-sculpted than the others I've named…

Black Cat Bases for lurkers. (Love their Deep Ones!) They have a lot of nice modern figures that would be suitable, but not in 20's clothes and gear.

Gangland minis from Blue Moon seems very good.

The old Grenadier minis for Cthulhu investigators and monsters are available for Mirliton and EM-4.

RAFM has a large line of (oldish) Cthulhu minis, both investigators and monsters.

Rattrap has several suitable figures for agents, as does Brigade Games (not to be confused with Brigade Models).

Many manufacturers of fantasy figures have some that are well suited as lurkers of different kind. Look at Reaper, Heresy, etc. There are also a good deal of monsters in prepainted plastic from Horrorclicks or D&D Minis that can are very nice, if the painting is touched up a bit.

Be warned that Uncle Mikes figures are rather large, and the humans may not really fit in with many other brands. (I'd be particularly wary of mixing with RAFM and EM-4 (Grenadier).

Pulp Figures are fantastic and they'd be my first choice.
RAFM has a great line of Cthulhu, sculpted by the Pulp Figures guy.

You should also check out Reaper.

Done… placed an order with Black Cat… we'll see how it goes.

thanks all for the suggestions.

Lovecraft's tales were set in the 1920.
To play Lovecraftian games in that period is indeed faithful to the *letter* of the Canon, but is it faithful to the *spirit*? The novellas were so much the more impressive as they were *contemporary* of their intended readers: so it would probably be more 'faithful' to HPL to play Cthulhu in 2011.
Now, the Elder Gods and their minions were here *before* Humankind, so a Lovecraftian game can be set in any period of History, e.g. the 18th C.
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(With the first functional balloons, steam-powered land and water vehicles, submarine, 'medical' use of electricity and yet Cagliostro and de Saint-Germain…, a century specially propitious for very diverse 'weirdnesses'
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Not exactly 'Cthuluesque', but novellas rooted in the early days of the Colonies ('The Dreams in the Witch-House' and specially 'The Lurking Fear') could be set during the FIW, as could be (Lovecraftian in 'feeling' if not 'officially') movies such as 'La Maschera del demonio' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_%281960_film%29

Pulp Figures in Canada are the 'bees knees'.
Artizan's a close second.

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