Wow! Those dioramas look great!

WOW!!!

Those are some sharp looking dioramas!!!

Thanks for bumping these to the top as I haven't been on this forum long enough to have seen them when they were originally posted.

Been reading Lovecraft for years. His stuff is spooky as @#@#. Always wanted to play CoC but everyone I suggested it to always griped that the game sucks because 'everyone dies or goes insane...'

Though Grenadier has been out of business for years many of the figures are still being made by RAFM:

http://www.rafm.com/

mate! they are soo freaking cool! i've been into HP Lovecraft for the last 20years, and now just got some figures to paint. Wish i could find more!

Forgot that I also did one also  based on The Dunwich Horror, called The Summoning of Yog-Sothoth.

Those are so very cool!  Good job!

Nice work

Joined FSM because of your post.

Great work!

I've been working on Lovecraft dioramas for a few years now. We may be the only two, creating a genre?

These ones inspired by:

The Haunter Of the Dark-

The NameLess City-

The Shadow Over Innsmouth-

Unfortunately the Innsmouth one didn't work, because it was too large, trying to create an entire Wharf-front. My photo skills also make it a bit to cartoonish.

I'm currently working on a Lovecraft inspired Ramsey Campbell tale, Towers OF Yuggoth, with ATMOM after that, probably next year (2011).

http://imgur.com/7jig7.jpg

25mm, I assume, the height of the figures, which would make them 4.5mm=1 foot scale ( approx)  close enough for HO scale 3.5mm=1foot, and, yes, the doors would be too small, an HO scale figure would measure closer to 19mm, so a 25mm figure would be almost 8 feet tall in HO. "The Dunwich Horror" was made into a movie, but there was no real attempt to "show" the creature. I may be wrong but I believe "Re-animater", was also Lovecraft story that was made into a movie. I agree, with CG, Lovecraft's "visions" could be shared with the world.....an unsetteling thought, at the best, but a good source for models.

Oh, stunning work there.

Terry.

Man, that is some kewel Cthulhu artwork on the Michael Komarck website!  Thanks for posting that link. 

Lovecraft rocks!!

Personally,now that CG is all the rage in movies,I'd really like to see his

stories make it to the big screen.

Great work bringing an eerie piece of literature to life!

Thanks for the nice comments!

Cosmic J: Building the Whately barn is a GREAT idea! I had just forgotten that scene, were "Young Whaletly" breaks free to roam the hills of Dunwich. Scratchbuilding a "Dark young of Shubniggurat" should take some time and effort though. I don't know if there are any kits available.

I found an artist by the name of Michael Komarck that has done some Lovecraft paintings, one of which pictures the ""Dark Young". Quite cool:

Here's the link to his homepage where some more paintings can be found:

http://www.komarckart.com/ccg_coc10.html

The buildings are Model railroad buildings. I think the scale is H0 (1/87?). The big building is a engine shed from an unknown brand. I modified it by takining half of the kit to build a upper floor. The huge doors for the engines (1/87) became smaller doors in the new scale (25mm), but I thought it worked out fine.

To the smaller house - also some Model RR kit - I had to build a new door  from balsa wood since the original were too small. I think that these kits are very useful when recreating historical scenes.

 Aaronw: I agree, that evil servent (with the not so modern shoes) is more disturbing than the 30 ft monster! I guess that's why the cop got him in his sight.

The figures are from two or three different brands. Both Grenadier miniatures and Ral Partha/RAFM produced some 25 mm led figure series back in the 80's and early 90's. Just googling around a bit, I found some pics of these series:

I think that one still can find some of the figures on e-bay. Those four that I uses were old ones that I bought some 15 years ago.

/Tony aka bultenibo

Great job, I've read almost all of Lovecrafts stories. The evil looking dude with the leprecon shoes is awesome, he looks like more trouble than the tenticles.

Are these figures still available? I remember seeing a neat line of lovecraft figures years ago.

Now that is truly inspirational.

Many years ago, I built a small vignette of Ghouls dancing in a cemetery by the moonlight. Called it "Pickman's Models". Used figures from that same line as yours, although my effort was not nearly so good.

Did you use model railroad buildings? If so, could you tell us what scale?

Like I said, you have inspired me. I'm now planning on building a dio of Old Man Whateley's barn, on the eve of The Dunwich Horror...

Thanks very much for sharing - JC

Excellent work on this.  Love the tentacle of one of the Old Ones coming thru the roof!  Very kewel poses on the characters, as well.   

"Call of Cthulhu!  Loved that RPG!  I played in three different game settings, for a total of seven gaming sessions for that particular RPG.  I had a different character in each one with all three going mad by the end of the stories.  One of them actually survived, tho was interred at Miskatonic Asylum.   

Thanks for the nice comments!

I didn't build the diorama out of any particular short story, even though I had the police raid at Devils reef, from "The shadow over Innsmouth", in mind when I chose to put some cops into the dio. Actaully, I was more inspired by the Rollplaying game "Call of Cthulhu", based on Lovecrafts work, that I used to play when I was younger.

What I really would like to do is a diorama based on "The Haunter of the Dark", the scene in the end of the short story, with the old abandoned church and the winged creature leaving it. I would probably have to scratchbuild the church so it would fit the 18th century New England architectural style.

/Tony