Friday, September 11, 2015
Wings of the Dragon
Miel Jolie has a great tutorial on creating a pair of costume dragon wings. What I really want to draw attention to is her technique for creating the wing membranes with Mod Podge. It's a brilliant idea, perfect for making fins and wings for creature gaffs.
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Curse You, Pittsburgh
I was planning on offering up my first prop set in years tomorrow, but that's not going to happen. A package containing Arkham Library bookmarks and Tillinghast Field warning stickers has been sitting in Pittsburgh for two days. At the earliest they'll get here on Saturday. If so, I'll have the package available on Monday or Tuesday.
Delays like this are why I'm so paranoid about having things in-hand before I offer them for sale. Ideally, I'd like to offer a short run of 10-12 sets on a Friday, mail them on Monday, and have them in your hands by Thursday at the latest. Quick and simple.
Delays like this are why I'm so paranoid about having things in-hand before I offer them for sale. Ideally, I'd like to offer a short run of 10-12 sets on a Friday, mail them on Monday, and have them in your hands by Thursday at the latest. Quick and simple.
Cairo, City of Adventure
Wikimedia has a beautiful vintage map of Cairo by cartographer Alexander Nicohosoff. It dates to 1933, but would be ideal for any classic-era adventures in the city.
Update: Raven is a god amongst men. He left this as a comment, and it's awesome:
Point of special interest at F-5: the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities.
If you would like to follow Harry Houdini's travels (or travails) in "Under the Pyramids" by map, here are grid references:
... we halted at the great Gare Centrale ["Main Station" at C/D-7/8].
... whilst the very theatre where I was vainly requested to play, and which I later attended as a spectator, had recently been renamed the "American Cosmograph" [period program; now the Cosmos Cinema, still at E-7].
We stopped at Shepherd's Hotel [actually "Shepheard's Hotel" E-7]....
Guided by our Baedeker, we had struck east past the Ezbekiyeh Gardens [E-8] along the Mouski in quest of the native quarter....
At length Abdul took us along the Sharia Mohammed Ali [F-8 → I-9] to the ancient mosque of Sultan Hassan [I-9], and the tower-flanked Bab-el-Azab [the original *gate* of Saladin's Citadel], beyond which climbs the steep-walled pass to the mighty citadel [J-10] that Saladin himself built with the stones of forgotten pyramids. It was sunset when we scaled that cliff, circled the modern mosque of Mohammed Ali [K-11], and looked down from the dizzying parapet over mystic Cairo — mystic Cairo all golden with its carven domes, its ethereal minarets, and its flaming gardens.
Far over the city towered the great Roman dome of the new museum [the Egyptian Museum at F-5]....
The next morning we visited the pyramids, riding out in a Victoria across the great Nile bridge with its bronze lions [Qasr El Nil, G-4], the island of Ghizereh with its massive lebbakh trees [covers B-2+3 to H-3+4], and the smaller English bridge to the western shore [H-3]. Down the shore road we drove, between great rows of lebbakhs and past the vast Zoölogical Gardens [K-2] to the suburb of Gizeh [on map as "El Giza" N-1+2], where a new bridge to Cairo proper has since been built [Abbas II Bridge across Roda Island, L-2+3+4]. Then, turning inland along the Sharia-el-Haram [L-2 → M-1 and leaving the map]....
Update: Raven is a god amongst men. He left this as a comment, and it's awesome:
Point of special interest at F-5: the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities.
If you would like to follow Harry Houdini's travels (or travails) in "Under the Pyramids" by map, here are grid references:
... we halted at the great Gare Centrale ["Main Station" at C/D-7/8].
... whilst the very theatre where I was vainly requested to play, and which I later attended as a spectator, had recently been renamed the "American Cosmograph" [period program; now the Cosmos Cinema, still at E-7].
We stopped at Shepherd's Hotel [actually "Shepheard's Hotel" E-7]....
Guided by our Baedeker, we had struck east past the Ezbekiyeh Gardens [E-8] along the Mouski in quest of the native quarter....
At length Abdul took us along the Sharia Mohammed Ali [F-8 → I-9] to the ancient mosque of Sultan Hassan [I-9], and the tower-flanked Bab-el-Azab [the original *gate* of Saladin's Citadel], beyond which climbs the steep-walled pass to the mighty citadel [J-10] that Saladin himself built with the stones of forgotten pyramids. It was sunset when we scaled that cliff, circled the modern mosque of Mohammed Ali [K-11], and looked down from the dizzying parapet over mystic Cairo — mystic Cairo all golden with its carven domes, its ethereal minarets, and its flaming gardens.
Far over the city towered the great Roman dome of the new museum [the Egyptian Museum at F-5]....
The next morning we visited the pyramids, riding out in a Victoria across the great Nile bridge with its bronze lions [Qasr El Nil, G-4], the island of Ghizereh with its massive lebbakh trees [covers B-2+3 to H-3+4], and the smaller English bridge to the western shore [H-3]. Down the shore road we drove, between great rows of lebbakhs and past the vast Zoölogical Gardens [K-2] to the suburb of Gizeh [on map as "El Giza" N-1+2], where a new bridge to Cairo proper has since been built [Abbas II Bridge across Roda Island, L-2+3+4]. Then, turning inland along the Sharia-el-Haram [L-2 → M-1 and leaving the map]....
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Cthulhu Fhtagn! Gentry Edition.
I was sorry to hear Shaun Gentry won't be doing a run of these, but the finished piece is quite nice. Projecting wings on an idol like this are always problematic, since there's so much risk of them being damaged during shipping.
Hail to the King
Michael Shreeves isn't waiting until the stars are right to declare his allegiance. His flesh now bears the Yellow Sign, courtesy of tattoo artist Matt Shiflett.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Egyptian Elder Thing
Daryl Toh brings us this curious archaeological find from an unidentified Egyptian tomb- a shabti that appears to depict an Elder Thing. One wonders how many Mythos artifacts like this have been overlooked by scientists unaware of their significance.
Monday, September 7, 2015
Magic Circle
Another piece of magic circle clip art for use in paper props. Just right click and open in a new tab for the full-sized version. It's a clean image, so you can apply weathering and effects, as in the example below, as you see fit.
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