Hello!
I painted in the meantime two Dracula's America's Church of Dagon Hybrids, which I bought probably 4 or 5 years ago.
I'm a huge fan Lovecraft's stories and Cthulhu myths since elementary school and it's time for some dark pulp stuff ( many more to come!).
Northstar MilitaryFigures fits also great as 'regular' mutants and other degenerates.
The Church of Dagon is a cult faction within the tabletop game Dracula's America: Forbidden Power, featuring deranged fanatics who worship unspeakable eldritch horrors and are known for their monstrous "Innsmouth-like" appearance and mystical supremacy.
This faction consists of figures like Priests, Emissaries, Tentacled and Scaley Hybrids, and Cultists.
In the Lovecraft story "Dagon," written in 1917, the narrator finds ancient carvings that depict humanoid creatures with webbed hands and bulging eyes, at least one of whom is almost as large as a whale.
He then sees a similar creature like that in the flesh--a "vast, Polyphemus-like...monster of nightmares," with "gigantic scaly arms." The creature is never identified as Dagon in the story, though he does seek out a "celebrated ethnologist" to ask "peculiar questions regarding the ancient Philistine legend of Dagon, the Fish-God."
The people of Innsmouth in The Shadow Over Innsmouth worship at the Esoteric Order of Dagon, and according to Zadok Allen are required to take the three Oaths of Dagon.
(Allen at one point rants about "Dagon an’ Ashtoreth—Belial an’ Beëlzebub—Golden Caff an’ the idols o’ Canaan an’ the Philistines.") The faithful in the order, Allen says, will not die but instead "go back to the Mother Hydra an’ Father Dagon what we all come from onct.
" To which he adds, "Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!".
Additionally, Robert Olmstead comes to believe that someday the Deep Ones will "rise again for the tribute Great Cthulhu craved [...] a city greater than Innsmouth next time".
This suggests that Dagon functions as a deity in the Innsmouth community, but whether he is supposed to be a distinct entity or merely Cthulhu referred to with a biblical name is unclear.




They look great Michal
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Miła odmiana i jak zawsze trzymasz wysoki poziom.
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Tomasz
Bardzo dziękuję!
DeleteMore excellent "strange" figures from your talented hands Michal!
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DeleteOoh, I love these Michal.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Michael!
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Excellent work on the Hybrids Michal, they look very creepy.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that! Thank you very much!
DeleteTwo very unfriendly looking individuals Michal , nicely painted of course
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for a kind words Matt!
DeleteThese sculpts are fun - not over the top and suitably creepy without being silly. As always Michal, your paintjobs are spot on.
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DeleteGreat work Michal. I have never read any HP Lovecraft but suspect I would enjoy it for something a bit different.
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DeleteWonderful work on these Michal!
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DeleteSome very nice painting Michal, I wouldn't want to meet those two down a dark ally!!!
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DeleteThank you so much Ray.
Great looking mutant types!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thank you so much Iain :)
DeleteGreat looking figures, Michal! One of my favorite "weird" films is the 2001 Spanish movie, "Dagon".
ReplyDeleteOh, have to watch!
DeleteThank you very much Dean.
Nice!
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DeleteVery cool stuff! Although I have never really gotten into the Cthulhu mythos, I am currently working on a horror project set in frontier America.
ReplyDeleteOh, also great!
DeleteThank you Mike!
I wouldn't let them drag me underwater... really nice weird skin tone !
ReplyDeleteHa! Thank you so much ☺️
DeleteUgly bastards!
ReplyDeleteVery atmospheric (wet and swampy) painting.
Glad to hear that!
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Love the flesh tone you've used for them. Very believable for fishy folk...!
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