Cthulhu Fhtagn! Keisuke Edition.

This insanely detailed Cthulhu sculpt comes to us from Japanese artist Yoneyama Keisuke.  Click through to see a full gallery of shots that show off the incredible texture work.

 

Fiat Lux

This cool crystal LARP lamp comes to us from Spanish propmakers Creadores a sueldo.   I can't wait until life gets back to normal and live action games can resume.

 

 

The Celestial Devourer

 This hand-carved ring of the Celestial Devourer comes to us from artist Vincent DeVille.

 

Blade of the Secret Eye

 Ugrik brings us the Blade of the Secret Eye, featuring a hand forged steel blade, cast brass hardware, and a resin and linden grip.  

 

And My Axe!

  Russian artist nikolauskas_2la brings us this recreation of the Assassin's Creed: Valhalla hand axe.

It's Turkey Time!

It looks like I'll be having ham for Thanksgiving dinner.

Just in time for the holiday, Patrick Magee brings us this undead Turkey creature.  Mmmm...giblets.

 

Viking Dragon Armor

I'm no expert, but I think this set of Viking Dragon Armor from Schmiede Traum takes some historical liberties.  That said, it's absolutely beautiful.  The color scheme brings the whole thing to life.

 

 

Grimoire Weiss

The Grimoire Weiss is a tome/enslaved magical construct from the Nier:Automata video game.  Aldantler brings us this work-in-progress shot of his prop version, featuring the cast resin front cover embossment.  I can't wait to see the finished product.

 

 

Tome of the Eye

This beautiful example of tomecraft comes to us from the gifted Mille Cuirs.  Featuring a hand-tooled leather cover with inset glass eye and marbled text block.

 

Vendor Warning

I absolutely hate when a vendor I recommended flakes out on a customer.  Meliadhor left this comment on my Treasure! post from last month.  It recounts a very disturbing experience with Alpha Officium, a boutique coin maker I've previously had very good experiences with.

Hi! Does anyone know if the AlphaOfficium store is still properly active and not a scam? We've emailed them earlier last month about coins purchase, and my friend bought about 100$ worth of coins, and so far its been over 12 days, a couple emails, and an FB message since their last reply. The owner appears to be active & posting new coins on their FB group but no replies since.
...which is kinda e-scary as my friend already paid for a larger set of coins, including the VikingMix featured here, and all we asked for was a postal tracker code. The owner (the same person as on FB) sent us a wrong one first, for a different person from a previous month, and when we asked for the one for our purchase all contact broke off :C

[update since I prepared this message]
My friends' FB has been reported for the PM asking for the tracker code & suspended, no email replies received to my friends' account, BUT my email asking about another of their coin sets received an instant reply that "yes this expensive set is available" and that they can ship them ASAP. We got all the emails copied & screencapped, gonna give the guy one last chance before opening a PayPal dispute for refund. Friend sent one last email asking about the tracker code via the same store-contact form just earlier after I got my reply just to give them one more chance but this is feeling super nasty now.

I apologize for dropping this on you like that, but we did decide on that replica coin store because we saw your recommendation here (I adore your blog and you featured some of my works here as well, and the coins appear lovely, and a lot of people online seem to have gotten theirs OK, at least in the States).

Do you have any ideas what else to do? If you need us to show screencaps of the store messages or copies of emails and such, please tell, my friend kept them all for possible PayPal dispute/claim if nothing arrives in the next two weeks. If needed we can contact you via email I believe. :C

 Hopefully this is a situation that will be quickly resolved.

Anatomical Study of the Common Fairy

From the private collection of Octavius Rookwood (August 16, 1853 – July 17, 1936), American British pharmaceutical entrepreneur, explorer and occult researcher.

This specimen was acquired by Rookwood during a stay with the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire at their home, Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, UK. A farmer from the village of Allestree, situated approximately 30 miles to the south of the Chatsworth estate, discovered the small fairy body when his faithful rat catcher left the limp remains on his kitchen floor. The cat normally left daily 'glory gifts' for the farmer which comprised of mice, rats and small birds but during the spring of 1902 it started to leave dead fairies. Rumours spread throughout the local villages and the farmer began to exhibit them at the pubs and cattle shows for a small fee. Rookwood got wind of the story and promised the farmer a handsome reward if he could supply him with a fresh specimen. The farmer promptly delivered two fairy corpses to Rookwood; one complete and another partially devoured by the farm cat.

Dan Baines returns to our pages with this mounted mummified fairy specimen. It defies belief that scientists continue to deny the existence of the fae despite incontrovertible physical evidence like this. 

 

Book of Nightmares

 The talented Jason Soles returns to our pages with this creeptastic "Nightmare Sketchbook".  I love the organic embellishments.

 

Building the Bomb

The Continuum blog over at Propology has some great behind the scene looks at the company's prop builds.  One of the best entries is covers the creation of a massive "thermobaric bomb" for the television show Arrow.  It was originally supposed to be a cheap one-off prop, so the build budget was extremely limited.  The whole story is worth reading, but I don't think I'm spoiling anything major by saying it's actually an off-the-shelf septic tank.

 

 

From the Hive

This gruesome insect creature comes to us from artist William Nezme Zardain.  It would make an awesome design for the martian insects in a modern remake of Quartermass and the Pit/Five Million Years to Earth.

 

Winged Warrior

This over the top set of winged armor comes to us from Arthammer LARP Workshop.  Photography by Frederic Baclet.

 

Dawnbringer Helmet

 Prince Armory brings us this ornate "Dawnbringer" helmet. 

 

The White Tome

This beautiful leather journal comes to us from the talented Alex Libris.  Hand-tooled leather with custom brass hardware and embossment.

 

Of Unknown Origin

 I'm not sure if this creature from Fabelrot is a example of an insectile fae or a demonic manifistation.  Either way, I definitely wouldn't want it buzzing around my house.  

 

Cthulhu Fhtagn! Burdy Edition.

This tabletop Cthulhu idol comes to us from Director and CG artist Fred Burdy.  It's a background easter egg in his current film project. 

 

The Dark Portal

The Wicked Makers YouTube channel has a great tutorial on creating a massive inter-dimensional gate prop.  Well, it's great right up until the end, when you're directed to their Patreon to find out how the projected video effect was actually done. That said, the construction details alone are worth a watch.