Creatures from H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands

Ghasts

"That a mortal dreamer could traverse their cavern realm and leave by that door is inconceivable; for mortal dreamers were their former food, and they have legends of the toothsomeness of such dreamers even though banishment has restricted their diet to the ghasts, those repulsive beings which die in the light, and which live in the vaults of Zin and leap on long hind legs like kangaroos."

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, H. P. Lovecraft

"Ghasts are humanoid creatures with hoofed feet and kangaroo-like legs and nose-less faces".

The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia, Daniel Harms

Boo - Happy Hollowean

I primed this miniature sometime ago and then missplaced it. I found the piece and stuck in my painting draw. Recently, I was looking for something inwhich to make a post. This disembodied spirit is from Reaper Miniatures, a ghost.

Creatures from H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands

Moon-Beasts

"There, around a hideous fire fed by the obnoxious stems of lunar fungi, there squatted a stinking circle of the toad-like moon-beasts and their almost-human slaves. Some of these slaves were heating curious iron spears in the leaping flames, and at intervals applying their white-hot points to three tightly trussed prisoners that lay writhing before the leaders of the party. From the motions of their tentacles Carter could see that the blunt-snouted moon-beasts were enjoying the spectacle hugely, and vast was his horror when he suddenly recognised the frantic meeping and knew that the tortured ghouls were none other than the faithful trio which had guided him safely from the abyss and had thereafter set out from the enchanted wood to find Sarkomand and the gate to their native deeps."

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, H. P. Lovecraft

Moon-beasts are "pale, squat, toadlike creatures, superhumanly strong and noxious-smelling. Moon-beasts, have no eyes, but use the mass of pink tentacles at the end of their snout to sense their surroundings."

The H. P. Lovecraft Wiki

Creatures from H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands

Shantaks

"Other views shewed the gaunt grey peaks dividing Leng from Inganok, and the monstrous shantak-birds ¹ that build nests on the ledges half way up. And they shewed likewise the curious caves near the very topmost pinnacles, and how even the boldest of the shantaks fly screaming away from them."

Fourth and fifth mention of the creature "Shantaks" in Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of the Unknown Kodath.

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¹ Shantaks are creatures that resemble large scaled birds with heads of horses . Shantaks live in the moutains near to the Plateau of Leng, in Dreamlands.

The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia

Full Text of The Dream-Quest of the Unknown Kodath, H.P. Lovecraft

Creatures from H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands

Zoogs

“In the tunnels of that twisted wood, whose low prodigious oaks twine groping boughs and shine dim with the phosphorescence of strange fungi, dwell the furtive and secretive zoogs¹.„

~ H. P. Lovecraft , The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

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¹Zoogs are a race of sentient forest-dwelling creatures that inhabit the Dreamlands of Earth. They are rodent like creatures about the size of a cat and have short tentical like appendages around their mouths and nose. Zoogs have a taste for flesh and may attack a human who wonders into the wood at night. They are mortal enemies of cats, as they prey upon their kittens, for they consider them a delicacy, and are preyed upon in return by adult cats.

Adam Savage Makes a Lock From Scratch!

Adams finds a box and starts to modify his find with more fitting hardware. In the process we get to see a little of his cave.

Adam is still working on his box. In the video he sheaths the interior with copper sheathing and by using reverse engineering Adam creates a homemade lock. Truly astounding!

Human Augmented Mech Units in Mass

Mech Units in Mass

Screensnip is from Avatar 2. The miserable bastards have returned to work havoc to Pandora.

Cleaner bot sub-assemblies; part 4

In my last installment I had chosen materials for the sprayer and rails for the scourer unit and had removed some unneeded material from the black plastic piece.

Here I have cut the piece in two and have sanded off some unwanted bits off the piece. These two strips will be fashioned into the rails that will be attached on either side of the superstructure.

I used the dremel tool to remove material from the slab of styrene, have drilled holes for the sprayer, and have started to contour the unit into a desirable shape.

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Cleaner Bot Sub-assemblies; part 3

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The black recycled plastic part to be used for left and right rails for scourer component. I don't have any idea as to its original use and I have already removed unneeded parts from the unit.

The piece of white styrene will be the basis for the sprayer unit. It will be shaped and drilled and adventually added to the cleaner bots superstructure. At first I thought of addinng this component as part of the scourer unit.

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Bakugan Figures Blind Bags

This lovely character goes by the name of Dragonnoid. My copy is moulded and painted in some garish colors

He stands approximately 60mm tall from its feet to the top of his head. I didn't measure to the tips of his wings. Why? I just didn't. If I had, that would add another 40mm to its height.

These are static miniatures. They are made from a soft, but sturdy type of plastic, which when opening the bag gave off a strong order sort of like dry cleaning fuild.

If the bags illustration is any indication as to the number of different types being offered in this offering, then there are three others available, namely:Trox, Hydorous and Nillious. There is always a chance I obtain another just like the one I have, should I try to pick another one?

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Cleaner Bot Sub-assemblies, Part 2

The scourer unit has been completed. The scourer material, the purple material, as yet to be trimed and adhered to the scourer unit assembly.

The scourer unit was fashioned from a piece of piping of unknown origin, disks were cut from styrene and I used small strips of styrene to hold everything together.

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Recycling Ideas for Model Sprues

Although I don't build too many plastic kits, thus I do not enough sprue to do much of anything with,Recycling Ideas for Old Sprues from Warhammer and Model Kits does offer several ideas on how they may be used.

Scratch-Building & Painting - The Fine Scale Honker Skiff

Building a small scale boat is on my bucke list. I was facinated watching the author scratch build this skiff. Starting with something small and simple might be a better place for me to start.

AI Generated Gaslands Vehicles

I recently discovered Microsoft Image Creator and wow! Type a few words into its interface, wait a few seconds and be prepared to be astounded. Image Creator which uses AI will create four images for you.

Big wheels and gun and we are ready for some fun on the Gaslands.

Looks like we have a convoy. We are locked and loaded and ready for action.

Are they rockets or something more exotic?

It looks like we have a flame thrower in our arsenal. You never know when you might need one of these.

This is one very exotic system here. I have been inspired, not just by these images, but also by the images of other subjects, some of which I might try to build.

The Alien Chronicles

Searching through my notes on these occurrences I found that I made two more sightings of alien species some time ago and never documented either specie.

Atheleni

“The Atheleni in Natures lottery had been luckier than most – and yet had missed one of the greatest prizes of all. They had powerful bodies and powerful minds, and they lived in a world which was both temperate and fertile. By human standards, they would have seemed strange but no means repulsive. Their sleek fur covered bodies tapered to a single giant rear limb that could send them leaping over the ground in thirty-foot bounds. The two forelimbs were much smaller and served merely for support and steadying. They ended in pointed hoofs that could be deadly in combat, but had no other useful purpose.”

Philens

"The Philen were little creatures, scarcely half the height of the Atheleni and did not hop, they rather walked upon two jointed limbs that seemed very thin and feeble. Fro the other appendages they processed multiple tentacles that they seemed to use very ambidextrousnessley. Its large spherical head was dominated by three huge eyes, set far apart and were capable of independent movement."

Second Dawn, Expedition to Earth, Arthur C. Clarke

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I envisioned the Atheleni as being more like a rabbit than a horse.

Cleaner Bot Sub-assemblies, Part 1

Frame for autonomous unit with partially built scourer unit.

Here it is 12:02 am. I had to hoped to get this posted before the end of the month. I am having fun creating these parts. I didn't get the hole centered on several of disks perfectly, but this will be hidden by the subsequent componets of this unit.

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