The Helm of Thor!

The trailer for the retro-cheese action film "Kung Fury" has been making the rounds this week. Saying it's over the top doesn't do justice to the sheer insanity on display.


Imagine my surprise that Jacob Petersson, no stranger to these pages, produced some of the props for the project.  That includes his outstanding version of Thor's helm and hammer.

Update:  Sweet Jebus, I don't know where I came up with Odin instead of Thor. 

The Silver Skull

Rick LaRue brings us this fantastic silver-gilt human skull.  All the materials are authentic, including the skull.  It's a really interesting spin on the traditional kapala skull that, at least to me, hearkens to the "brazen head" of occult history. This would be the centerpiece of any collection.

Wyvern Fang

Kristopher Maxwell brings us the fang of an armored wyvern.  Given the number of drake teeth that humans collect I suspect most fantasy worlds have a brisk trade in draconian dentistry. 

Cthulhu Fhtagn! ShinyOne Edition.

TheShinyOne brings us a very unusual Cthulhu sculpt. What makes this different from the dozens of Cthulhu figures I've posted before is that it was sculpted digitally and then given physical form by a 3D printer.

This is the future of propmaking, and I'm really excited by the possibilities it presents. After years of on and off practice I'm just starting to reach the mediocre level of sculpting ability. A big part of that slow progress is that I have no feeling in the index finger of my dominant hand*, making fine tool control a real struggle. That's not an issue when I'm using a mouse, since I can manipulate it with my wrist instead of a single finger.

*The result of an unfortunate accident with an X-Acto knife.   You know the oft repeated warning to always cut away from yourself?  Obey it.

Deep One Relic

The talented Brandon Zimmerman returns to our pages with this relic of the Deep Ones.  It's a great sculpt, filled with flowing organic forms.

Uncovered in 2012 off the coast of New England, in an area formerly called Devil’s Reef, scholars have identified this strange metallic artifact as the invocation relic given to Captain Obed Marsh by the South Sea island Chief Walakea in the year 1846. This tarnished gold/lead object was dropped, by Marsh, into the abyssal depths of the Atlantic to summon the creatures known as Deep Ones to the legendary town of Innsmouth. The artifact is adorned with the strange heads of 3 fish-human hybrids, possibly Deep Ones, and is further decorated in a strange metallic amalgamation of unnatural and natural organic forms of marine fauna such as coral and mollusks.         

Ancient Nord Armor

Harrison Krix returns to the world of Skyrim to bring us some Ancient Nord armor.  His build log includes some insights into using Worbla, a plastic composite material that's moldable at low temperatures.

Pulp Mad Lab Gear

Alan Taylor brings us the Z-8 device, just one of the pulpy bits of gear he's created for his collection of mad science instruments. Some beautiful assemblage work is on display in his gallery.