The Ill Fated Expedition of 1947

Outstanding Build and I think everyone would LOVE to have a plane in there backyard

Very Cool Build

Bud

  Once the Catalina was built, my wife flipped over the size of the diorama...so, I had to go with just the Arado from a later part of the story (almost everyone's dead, plane is disabled), but it still came out nicely. 

  Here's a top view, and a side in colour:

cthulhu77 wrote:

I was lucky enough to be invited to give a lecture on Cthulhu last year at the Monterey Aquarium...very pretty!    Here is the latest shot from the dio:

Sounds like fun and kewel pic! Can't wait to see some more pics of the diorama. 

BTW, any updates on your other Cthulhu related thread in these forums? 

H.P. Lovecraft didn't write the screen play for any of the Re-Animator movies - he died in 1937 of intestinal cancer.  The movie was based on one of his stories entitled "Herbert West, Re-Animator", but a lot of liberties were taken, tho to be fair most dealt w/updating the story for modern times, IIRC from the story.  Been a few years since I read it. 

To sorta/kinda answer your question: Basically, sorta. 

cthulhu77 wrote:

Ahhh...if you are a fan of Lovecraft, then you need to join Tonmo...lots of us there! http://www.tonmo.com/

This lovecraft you speak of, is it H.P. Lovecraft, the one who wrate the Re-Animator movies?

  I was lucky enough to be invited to give a lecture on Cthulhu last year at the Monterey Aquarium...very pretty!

   Here is the latest shot from the dio:

I have been messing with the Call of Cthulhu XBox game.  It does pretty well to capture my "lone wonderings" as something of a back-seat fan of the Lovecraft stuff.  The game is a real challenge, and have set it aside in a temporary fit of frustration at being unable to get past a tough spot.

As for my modelling thing, there's this wonderful little former coast guard station on the west coast (USA) that has an intriguing history laced with rumors and unanswered questions.  I have been thinking on a storyline that could almost make a reader poke into the real stories and go, "hmm, could it be?"  Of course, I'd get in a load of trouble with my hometown folk for the implications, but all the more fun, eh?

Am currently chewing on how to model the station as a diorama, slowly chewing it over, and have half-considered taking the historic re-creation and putting the "gothic horror twist" to it, capturing a scene like what you have in the works.

Looking forward to more of your stuff.  Don't forget the giant penguins, eh?

OH! Just checked your link out!  And yes, I am a fan of cephalapods!  In fact, can proudly say I had a tug-o-war with an octopus in a tidepool at the above mentioned C.S. station and lost!  Have always wanted to have a pet octopus.  Ever read the Steinbeck Cannery Row stories?  That C.S. Station spent it's last years as a small marine research facility with the researcher having a pet octopus that we loved to visit when I was a kid.  A key feature in the story I have mulled over writing.

Ahhh...if you are a fan of Lovecraft, then you need to join Tonmo...lots of us there!

http://www.tonmo.com/

Awesome!  Love both the story and the model thus far!   Ever get in to the RPG's (Role Playing Games), such as "Chthulhu Now"?  I had a great time playing in two separate stories, tho was a bit bummed when my character - the only one to cross over from the first to the second - won't up a blithering idiot at Arkham Asylum, just up the road from Miskatonic U! 

  ah, the beautiful suburbia of Gilbert!  Not bad actually...'cept my ac went out in the truck, and the new compressor won't be in until thursday...lots of sweating!  This is shaping up to be a looooong hot summer, for sure.

            greg

  Oh, I'm a long ways from being done yet...and have already started on the "Mountains of Madness dio...modified trimotor, dogs, and casting some Old Ones. With it being so hot here, I felt like doing something with snow in it! Curious to see what you are up to...inquiring minds want to know!

Looking good... Ya strike into my old days of poring of Model Railroader magazines eating up the diorama works.

Funny, have been thinking on a Lovecraft-ish thing of my own, based out of a little modeling project I've been vegetating on in my head for the last some-odd months.

You realize, ya gotta stick something sci-fi in this dio to make it fit the forum, right?

Time to cast the water feature !  This is the first level:

Hey, let's add on a deck!

Cast the base, added on the foliage, and sculpted a stingray:

  All you have to do is make sure that you have no perpendicular angles on any of your walls, and if you hear any noises behind them, recite : "those are RATS in the walls, and nothing else."

   Works every time. I think so, at least...

and every expedition needs tables, maps, posters, and evil lexicons, right?  Oh yeah, and some nice throw rugs, too.