Saturday, 23 January 2021

From Dallas: RAFM/Bob Murch Cthonian in the Oubliette (30? points)

For the Oubliette, we're supposed to post a forgotten figure or long-neglected project... not a problem for most of us. I have drawers full of them...

Anyway, here we have a Cthonian sculpted by Bob Murch for RAFM's Call of Cthulhu range. Can't remember when I bought this one but it was years and years ago, and I think I actually bought it for parts. I used the metal mouth tentacles on a couple of Chaos Spawn I built and painted to include in my Chaos army for Warhammer Fantasy Battle. 

After that, the rest of the model languished in a drawer... I had converted the mouth and upper part of the model with greenstuff to use as a head for a Nurgle daemon prince, but that project went in another direction. When I found the "tail" again I clipped the greenstuff off the mouth part and stuck 'em together, but the mouth tentacles were still missing...

Fortunately, though, I had kept a couple sprues of spare parts from (you guessed it) another GW plastic Chaos Spawn kit, and on those sprues were a bunch of tentacles. So I restored the Cthonian using these GW parts, after using the Cthonian parts on a GW model... go figure.

Disapproving look from a matronly townsperson. I think the model turned out OK and should make a nice addition to a fantasy skirmish game... someday... how about 10 points for this large 28mm model, plus 20 for the Chamber bonus?

Stay safe everyone!

 

11 comments:

  1. Lovely bit of model resurrection and a great finish!
    Best Iain

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  2. That is a fab figure! Nice work.

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  3. Disapproving Glance does 2d8+12 damage, no DR. Double that if you’re on the social register.

    This is an excellent resurrection of a long neglected model!

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  4. Lovely lilac tones on a gribbly model!

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  5. Wonderful work Dallas! As Mr Lovecraft said, you can never have enough tentacles...

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  6. What a great model and paint job, that looks the biz 👍
    Regards KenR

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  7. Great work Dallas. The female figure looks like she’s warning it to keep its grubby tentacles off her clean floor.

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  8. I'm not sure which of those two minis is the real horror. Nice work on the gribbly beast.

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  9. Great work Dallas. I loved the whole "circle of parts"...such a nice part of the hobby life!

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