Cthulhu Statue based on Lovecraft's original drawings-Small version

[Metaluna mutant]

Continuing from this thread about the Joe Broers Cthulhu statue based HP Lovecraft's original drawings of the famous idol in CofC.

He also made a small version of the idol which I also got. It arrived and it's a beauty. Very smooth but with sharp detail for the size. It has a great elusive greenish-gold color which shifts according to the light. The pics somewhat capture this. I've included a few with a ruler for scale.



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Being about half size of of the larger version, this beauty is going on my desk at work.

Actually I think I like this one more than the larger version. The smooth finish reminds me of it being worn smooth from years of constant handling like a real artifact found in a museum.
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As for the scale, HPL never gave an exact size of the idol found near New Orleans so really, any small size is perfect. Call of C only mentions it being "handed around" for inspection so it's obviously not meant to be larger than hand sized.

 

[The 48th Ronin]

As for the scale, HPL never gave an exact size of the idol found near New Orleans so really, any small size is perfect. Call of C only mentions it being "handed around" for inspection so it's obviously not meant to be larger than hand sized.

Actually he did:

[SIZE=-1]"The figure, which was finally passed slowly from man to man for close and careful study, was between seven and eight inches in height, and of exquisitely artistic workmanship."[/SIZE]

 

[Metaluna mutant]

Actually he did:

[SIZE=-1]"The figure, which was finally passed slowly from man to man for close and careful study, was between seven and eight inches in height, and of exquisitely artistic workmanship."[/SIZE]

Oops,I guess it's time to re-read CofC again!

 

[Confused85]

The figure, which was finally passed slowly from man to man for close and careful study, was between seven and eight inches in height, and of exquisitely artistic workmanship. It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters. The tips of the wings touched the back edge of the block, the seat occupied the centre, whilst the long, curved claws of the doubled-up, crouching hind legs gripped the front edge and extended a quarter of the way down toward the bottom of the pedestal. The cephalopod head was bent forward, so that the ends of the facial feelers brushed the backs of huge fore paws which clasped the croucher’s elevated knees. The aspect of the whole was abnormally life-like, and the more subtly fearful because its source was so totally unknown. Its vast, awesome, and incalculable age was unmistakable; yet not one link did it shew with any known type of art belonging to civilisation’s youth—or indeed to any other time. Totally separate and apart, its very material was a mystery; for the soapy, greenish-black stone with its golden or iridescent flecks and striations resembled nothing familiar to geology or mineralogy. The characters along the base were equally baffling; and no member present, despite a representation of half the world’s expert learning in this field, could form the least notion of even their remotest linguistic kinship. They, like the subject and material, belonged to something horribly remote and distinct from mankind as we know it; something frightfully suggestive of old and unhallowed cycles of life in which our world and our conceptions have no part.

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