"H.P. Lovecraft "Echoes"" Topic

H.P. Lovecraft "Echoes" is a Kiki campaign that offers to fund "lovecraftian" heroes for role-playing or board games. These 35mm miniatures seem to me all mannequin stile. A Shoggoth is also available in 70mm.

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Armand

Gosh, I'd forgotten how tall and spindly everyone is in the worlds of HP Lovecraft….

….that is also a terrible Shoggoth. It's certainly not what Old Whateley kept in his attic.

(smile)

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Armand

I don't think what "Old Whateley kept in his attic" was a Shoggoth.

You are correct, the creature is described as :

"Bigger 'n a barn … all made o' squirmin' ropes … hull thing sort o' shaped like a hen's egg bigger'n anything, with dozens o' legs like hogsheads that haff shut up when they step … nothin' solid abaout it--all like jelly, an' made o' sep'rit wrigglin' ropes pushed clost
together … great bulgin' eyes all over it … ten or twenty maouths or trunks a-stickin' aout all along the sides, big as stovepipes, an' all a-tossin' an' openin' an' shuttin' … all gray, with kinder blue or purple rings … _an' Gawd in Heaven--that haff face on top_!…"

Whereas a Shoggoth is

It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.

— H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
The definitive descriptions of shoggoths come from the above-quoted story. In it, Lovecraft describes them as massive amoeba-like creatures made out of iridescent black slime, with multiple eyes "floating" on the surface. They are "protoplasmic", lacking any default body shape and instead being able to form limbs and organs at will.

So quite similar creatures, but the Whateley that took after his father more was (probably) not a shoggoth in the true sense.

Either way, that's a terrible figure (IMHO).

I like the painted light effect from the flashlight on the lanky guys torso!

Agree on the paint job on figures I would never buy.

Guess that's the point.