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Description The Dormant Shoggoth Embryos of Dr. Lake:

Of all the objects acquired by our artifact hunters, this is considerably one of the most dangerous.
Collectors of the strange may remember the doomed Pabodie Expedition to Antarctica in 1930–31, in which only two of the party's researchers returned. One of the survivors, William Dyer, Professor Emeritus of Geology at Miskatonic University told a tale of madness and monsters in efforts to cancel a follow up trek to Antarctica by the Starkweather-Moore Expedition.
His partner, Dr. Lake, a professor of Biology from Miskatonic University, came back a changed man. He was haunted by the things he had seen and experienced, never speaking of them to anyone. Upon his death his beneficiaries came upon a vault safe hidden behind a bookcase in his study. In it was a loaded pistol, a stack of badly faded black and white photos of fantastical vistas, and a strangely bulging canvas backpack. The backpack was from the Pabodie Expedition. Inside were many strange spheres attached to star shaped bases with a neatly folded note on top. It read:
" To Whom It May Concern,
God help me, but I was a scientist first. The horror I witnessed like a black train of Armageddon roiling through that tunnel. It haunts me today, but not as much as what I brought back with me. There were so many of them there, cold, still, gleaming with life as one could not imagine. Shoggoth embryos, as real as the ink on the pages of the Necronomicon. I knew they existed now. How would we as a race have any hope of surviving if we could not study them, learn their undoing? I was a scientist first, and brought home what could be our salvation, or our annihilation. I have lived my life without action, too horrified by the memory of the things to do harm or good. I leave these sleeping giants with you now. I hope that you will have the bravery and skill to make use of these most evil abominations before the poles melt, and they are free..."
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Solid cast resin, 4 inches x 4 inches, A limited number of these will be for sale at the NecronomiCon in Providence RI this August.
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Legiongp In reply to ??? [2016-05-03 11:18:05 +0000 UTC]

It's not easy.
I sculpted creature out of wax and made a two part rubber mold.
I bought a 4 inch acrylic ball online, made a one part glove mold with fiberglass shell.
I made the base from wax and made a 1 part rubber mold.

I cast the creature in different colored resins, let cure then drill whole in bottom for acrylic rod.
I cast the base in different colored resins, let cure and drill hole for screw.
I spray paint the creature in black and brown, wiping off the surfaces before it drys to add depth to the details.
I then have to wait for ten hours until the spray paint is totally dry (so it won't make bubbles in the resin.
I level and set up my sphere mold with a jig to hold an acrylic rod at a 90 degree into the mold.
I poke an acrylic rod in the bottom of the creature and position it inside the sphere mold.
I mix the two part resin, tint it, and put it in a degassing chamber to remove bubbles.
I then carefully pore the resin in to the sphere, over the creature, and let it cure for 4 hours.

Sometimes the creature shifts too close to the edge, sometimes there are air bubbles, sometimes the different temperatures of the creature and curing resin cause the ball to split, sometimes the color tint is too dark. When any of these things happen, I have to throw it in the trash. I have many trashcans full of failures.

If all is successful, I drill a whole in the bottom of the sphere, attach it to the base with a screw and polish it with wax.
That's the easy explanation. : )

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SheTheTDE [2016-03-24 12:20:41 +0000 UTC]

How did you make this?

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Legiongp In reply to SheTheTDE [2016-03-25 16:03:44 +0000 UTC]

It's quite a process. I sculpt the creature that is inside the sphere out of wax, and make a rubber mold of it. Then I fill the mold with colored resins. When its cured, I peel it out and antique it with brown spray paint, wiping it off so the dark gets in all the creases. I have a silicon mold of an acrylic sphere. When the paint is dry I put the resin creature in the empty sphere mold and suspend it in the center with a screw and clamp. I then mix up more slow setting resin, and de-gas it in a pressure chamber to get rid of all the bubbles so the resin will be clear. I pour this on top of the creature and fill the sphere mold up. If I'm lucky, the resin sets without bubbles, clear, and doesn't crack due to difference of the setting resin shrinking at a different rate as the solid resin. Pain in the butt, really.

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SheTheTDE In reply to Legiongp [2016-03-26 01:41:00 +0000 UTC]

wow... That is quite a process and I have none of the resources to try it.
I'm going to stick to my plan A of following a homemade slime tutorial, making it in black, and sealing it in a jar.

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Legiongp In reply to SheTheTDE [2016-03-26 10:59:29 +0000 UTC]

The specimen look is also cool, and much easier😁

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SheTheTDE In reply to Legiongp [2016-03-26 11:13:13 +0000 UTC]

Specimen look? You mean the thing I just said?

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Legiongp In reply to SheTheTDE [2016-03-26 14:18:47 +0000 UTC]

Yes. The specimen in a jar.

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SheTheTDE In reply to Legiongp [2016-03-26 14:32:22 +0000 UTC]

cool. Any other ideas for jar contents? I got a set of specimen jars back at Christmas and don't want to just fill them all with the same thing.

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Legiongp In reply to SheTheTDE [2016-03-27 12:27:59 +0000 UTC]

You could do anything. The challenge is choosing materials that don't float. Try Super sculpy in a flesh tone and make little monsters. Search online for fetal things, microscopic animals, deep sea critters. Squish them together. Search online for specimens for inspiration. Have fun!

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SheTheTDE In reply to Legiongp [2016-03-27 12:31:40 +0000 UTC]

I will do that then

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DrGravity [2016-02-20 22:15:19 +0000 UTC]

they look like they could hatch at any time(i wish)! they're amazing!

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Legiongp In reply to DrGravity [2016-02-21 03:56:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. If they hatched, we'd all be in big troubleπŸ˜‰

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DrGravity In reply to Legiongp [2016-02-21 06:59:14 +0000 UTC]

well, they'd still be babies. maybe they would be young enough to be controlled?
that would be pretty cool!

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EmmetEarwax [2015-10-31 16:16:24 +0000 UTC]

Β Professor Lake -AFTER his butchering by the Old Ones- HAD been depicted in a drawing on DevArt.
Had.
The author removed it, app. due to its sheer horror.

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Mushiz [2015-02-02 16:26:47 +0000 UTC]

dayum

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Legiongp In reply to Mushiz [2015-02-02 16:41:37 +0000 UTC]

: )

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Rus-ka [2014-08-18 02:30:57 +0000 UTC]

Nice.

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captivityisevil [2014-08-17 05:03:35 +0000 UTC]

Flagged as Spam

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Legiongp In reply to captivityisevil [2014-08-17 13:29:36 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, I've been exploring other versions.

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princessanastasia434 [2014-08-17 04:55:55 +0000 UTC]

Flagged as Spam

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Legiongp In reply to princessanastasia434 [2014-08-17 13:29:56 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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DarkStormGTS [2014-08-17 03:15:09 +0000 UTC]

Are the Shoggoth Embryos actually part of a Lovecraft story? I'm kind of new to the Lovecraftian universe.
And amazing work, I must add.

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Legiongp In reply to DarkStormGTS [2014-08-17 13:31:53 +0000 UTC]

Sort of. I continue the story At The Mountains of Madness a bit, and add these guys. Read the description for my little bit of story.

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DarkStormGTS In reply to Legiongp [2014-08-21 13:28:30 +0000 UTC]

Gotcha.Β  And Mountains of Madness is where Shoggoth originates from right?

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Legiongp In reply to DarkStormGTS [2014-08-21 15:07:25 +0000 UTC]

Yes. A long read, but great. I reread it with google handy so I could fully understand all the scientific references, and it made the story even more real. A masterpiece.

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DarkStormGTS In reply to Legiongp [2014-09-03 03:08:29 +0000 UTC]

Finally finished reading it, and I now find your models even better.Β  Fantastic work.

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Legiongp In reply to DarkStormGTS [2014-09-03 11:02:13 +0000 UTC]

😊

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DarkStormGTS In reply to Legiongp [2014-09-03 03:08:13 +0000 UTC]

Finally finished reading it, and I now find your models even better.Β  Fantastic work.

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RDizzy [2014-08-17 02:52:34 +0000 UTC]

Love your craft; it's R'lyeh cool!
(sorry)

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Legiongp In reply to RDizzy [2014-08-17 13:32:08 +0000 UTC]

nice.

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DamnTorren [2014-08-17 01:27:16 +0000 UTC]

Hey! I saw one of these at Reynold's Advanced Materials down in brookline!

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Legiongp In reply to DamnTorren [2014-08-17 13:34:09 +0000 UTC]

I think you saw the Oculus of R'yleh, another spherical relic with a different story, there. I love that place. They have a couple of my things lurking around.

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safyia110 [2014-08-17 01:03:26 +0000 UTC]

These are both strangely disturbing, and oddly resplendent~Β  Just as they should be~ -.-

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Legiongp In reply to safyia110 [2014-08-17 13:36:40 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. If you know the story, its like holding the apocalypse in your hand.

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NuminiousNihil [2014-08-17 00:34:04 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic lovecraft fan-work. Tickles the imagination

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Legiongp In reply to NuminiousNihil [2014-08-17 13:38:00 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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SerpentSapiens [2014-08-16 21:07:37 +0000 UTC]

wow, really nice love Lovecraft ^_^

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Legiongp In reply to SerpentSapiens [2014-08-17 13:38:21 +0000 UTC]

me too, thanks

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Adrolyn [2014-08-16 20:42:52 +0000 UTC]

I feel a need to start gibbering all of a sudden.

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Legiongp In reply to Adrolyn [2014-08-17 13:38:54 +0000 UTC]

just don't write it down

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aohoshi2008 [2014-08-16 19:48:58 +0000 UTC]

I see a face in the green 1

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Legiongp In reply to aohoshi2008 [2014-08-17 13:39:39 +0000 UTC]

be careful, it might see yours😁

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Fractaldragon [2014-08-16 18:50:27 +0000 UTC]

Oh very clever! However, I do not think I am either brave enough nor insane enough to possess one of these! Congrats on the DD!

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Legiongp In reply to Fractaldragon [2014-08-17 13:41:31 +0000 UTC]

thank you. A fan who bought one said it was like having a nuclear bomb on his desk that no one at his office recognized.

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AgonizingSwordfish [2014-08-16 17:53:01 +0000 UTC]

Congratulations on the DD!

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Legiongp In reply to AgonizingSwordfish [2014-08-17 13:42:05 +0000 UTC]

thanks!

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AgonizingSwordfish In reply to Legiongp [2014-08-18 01:18:28 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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Itsmellsofdoughnuts [2014-08-16 16:20:35 +0000 UTC]

Whoa.

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Legiongp In reply to Itsmellsofdoughnuts [2014-08-17 13:42:21 +0000 UTC]

oh yes.

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TheGalleryOfEve [2014-08-16 13:24:38 +0000 UTC]

Congratulations on your well-deserved DD!!!

I’m very happy for you!!!

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