Handcrafted props for the awarded Call of Cthulhu RPG Campaign : The Masks of Nyarlathotep
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I crafted the Australian version of Nyarlathotep, like I did the perverted Idol for Kenya. I didn't use Aboriginal material as inspiration even since the statue in Masks of Nyarlathotep is supposed to be an Aboriginal product, but I've made my interpretation of a Nyarlathotep from the Australian waste land as if it was an wooden miniature of the original.. . Of course, it 's a pastiche of an imaginary-ethnic statuette creation and does not pretend to be anything other than a pastiche... I used pentagones because it's not a geometric pattern that is used in Aboriginal art.
I hope will be convincing in your eyes.
Description in the book is as follows :
p464: "Looking down, everyone sees that the weak, softwood crate has splintered, revealing the contents: a grotesque wooden idol about three feet high, seemingly of Aboriginal Australian manufacture, and covered with white-painted, geometric lines. The foul idol is humanoid, without hair, and with strange, round, thick whiskers like tentacles. The creature’s hands and feet end in flipper-like appendages. The eyes are round, with jagged facets, and have a cruel expression "
Here is it:
It's 18cm heigh. I will cast it and paint it like this prototype, like it is carved in a piece of wood, covered by a sticky black material and painted with white chalk.
How do you like it?
If you do, You would be able to add it €85 on your backerkit survey.
Cheers !
Delphes
ps : I got back in touch with Nevil Kingston-Brownone of the author of the Masks Companion, who wrote additional background for some of the Australian items we propose.. More information at the next update !
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Hello Everybody
I hope you had a nice summer.
I began the backerkit survey for you but didn't find time to complete it yet. For those who also pledged for the Idol of Cthulhu, you already know that a survey is a difficult Ingeenery for me and even with the smoke test on 5% of the backers, errors or missunderstanding had persist. Although, I'm now more precise then ever on this part of the job and that the survey for the last Chapters of the Masks should be much more easier, I need a serious time to filled it up completly.
I still need also to finish all the props as well.(15 of them need some special treatments)
I sware i'm doing my best to make all of this happening. If only I would sleep 3 hours per day, I would do much more.
I also need to earn real money to fill the machine and to hire an assistant. I'm looking to sell my original art pieces to make some money and give me the time and space I need to keep the economic flow.
In short, in my brain, there are three factories and dozens of workers who work on the assembly line but I have to spare them from time to time because, first, I respect labor law and second, these workers tend to stop the production line if I give them too many instructions at once. So I have to be a good manager for all my teams.
My goal is to finish this project before the end of the Year. You and I need this.
I'm looking for help to succeed.
You have an amazing weekend.
Delphes
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