BFG's Mini-A-Week Paint Project - Updated Sept 28 - Three different Dirz Tigers!

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Dirz Tiger #1

I painted these three Tigers of Dirz without a real plan in mind - basically practice in skin tones and blending. I painted each ones flesh with a slightly different style/technique, (as well as colors obviously), but left the carapice bits the same for group cohesion. I paintedthem sperately, and interestingly, I spent 6 hours on one of these, 3 hours on another, and did the last one about 90 minutes!

I love the Rackham creatures and Dirz clone humanoids too! Here's the "Red" one:

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Purple one. Can you see where I touched up with the wrong shade and never fixed it? I'm sure you can...

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

And the Blue.

 

[D'karr]

You really did a fantastic job on those carapaces. I love the highlighting on them and the stony look.

Very well done.

 

[frankthedm]

Very Tindolos-y tigers, i like!

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Very Tindolos-y tigers, i like!

Hi Frank!

Tondolos - Is that a Lizard-y creature from Final Fantasy ?

 

[frankthedm]

I use the tindalosy to describe quadrapeds i feel are lovecraftian.Translated from frankese it mean 'Me Likey"

The Hounds of Tindalos are a part of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

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They dwell in the distant past of the Earth, when normal life had not yet advanced past one-celled animals. They are said to inhabit the angles of time, while other beings (such as mankind and all common life) descend from curves.

The hounds are said to be immortal, and to lust after something in mankind and other normal life, following victims

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through time and space

to get it. What those creatures look like is unknown, as their appearance is not described in any Cthulhu Mythos story, due to the fact

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that every character in the short stories that meets a hound of Tindalos does not survive to tell.

Though they are normally pictured as canine beings, due to the evocative name of first story where they appeared—"The Hounds of Tindalos"—it is not likely that they look like such. Various pastiches suggest the Hounds are more bat-like in appearance, like the Byakhee - indicating the term "Hound" refers more to the creatures' habits than their appearance.

The stories tell that because of their relationship with

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the angles of time, they can materialize through any corner if it is sharp—120º or less. When they are about to appear, they materialize first as smoke pouring from the corner, and finally the head followed by the thing's body emerge

. It is said that once a human has been known to one of these creatures, it will follow through anything to get to him.

"They are lean and athirst!" he shrieked... "All the evil in the universe was concentrated in their lean, hungry bodies. Or had they bodies? I saw them only for a moment, I cannot be certain."

The Hounds also turn up in Final Fantasy X-2 as lupine spirit-creatures.

Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hounds_of_Tindalos

 

[nyrfherdr]

Nice job on those mini's BFG. I like the colors and the execution.
They'd look good on any table.

Nyrf