Rigel

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He/ him. Mostly reading or painting things for nerdgames.

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Rigel@rigelr· 8d

An action figure of the Vision (monochrome version) modified with wings from another action figure (from Spawn?). The wings have been painted in gradients of bronze and gold and are studded with eyes. A halo made of gears and pins, also covered in eyes, emanates from his head. The effect is a tabletop-scale archangel.

Rigel@rigelr· 14d

This is all of us on the wrong day:

Tabletop miniatures. An uplifted ape in orange Space Pants lifts a brightly colored Crunchy Time snack machine over its head in rage. In the background are a soda machine and cigarette vending machine, as well as several Cold War-looking consoles and instrument panels. No more, the ape seems to say. This ends here.

Rigel@rigelr· 15d

Hooray!

What appears to be a woodcut of a bearded and mustached gentleman from the English Civil War era or thereabouts. He holds a long walking stick and is looking at a small black terrier. A scroll-style speech bubble emanates from his mouth, saying "O yes," an appropriate response to seeing a cute dog.

Rigel@rigelr· 18d

Heck yeah!

Tabletop miniatures. In the bottom of the picture, a diverse passel of nerds gather round a table with map and minis, while a speech bubble from the DM shows the cyberpunk scene from the scenario he describes. We see a sniper, a hacker, a scrapper, a punk bard and a driver in a vivid urban setting facing off against a bunch of lowlife juicer types.

Tabletop miniatures. A brilliant orange and blue giant squid breaching out of the water with a Great White shark leaping up after it. In the foreground, an incredulous sailor with peacoat and mug goggles at the sight from his tiny rowboat.

Tabletop miniatures. A bright evening sun illuminates a street of mid century brick storefronts. Striding in from the right side we swe the leg, hands, and partial torso of a titanic ape. Opposing it, in front of some 70's cars are Elvis, twin golden assault rifles blazing, and a couple of badass pistol-packing Afro-sporting heroes in vivid outfits befitting the disco period. Clearly there's only room for one King in this town.

Rigel@rigelr· 21d

Sometimes people need a message from the Universe:

A spread of Tarot cards (Smith-Ryder-Waite) on a wooden floor. The cards are fashioned into the words "DUMP HIM."

Rigel@rigelr· 27d

This beast is called the Philippines sailfin dragon, and so indeed it is:

A moderate - sized specimen of Hydrosaurus pustulatis, the Philippine sailfin dragon, an iguana-like beast with a slaty blue-black head, tail, and limbs, teal and bronze bands on its torso, and a great yellow-and-black sailfin on the first third of its tail. It has a spiky nose and a spiny dorsal crest.

Rigel@rigelr· Jul 12

The whole reason my setting has uplifted apes is that the robots unionized immediately.

The Soviet-style "Comrade Steel" poster by Zachary Mallett but rewritten to say "THREE laws for US...None for THEM? Does NOT Compute! Join your local 110010001 THIS processing cycle!" with additional text below rewriting the First Law about collective action and inaction.

Rigel@rigelr· Jul 4

WH40K called it.

A mummified corpse amid a tangle of piping and machinery, held upright solely by medical tubing on a vast throne in a colossal vaulted chamber. There is no evidence it is alive, but if any life or consciousness persists, it is one in torment. This is the Master of Mankind.

Rigel@rigelr· Jun 28

A Quiet Day at the Miskatonic Reading Room

Tabletop miniatures. A library with piles of books stacked in heaps. A dark-skinned halfling in a red suit and teal cravat sits comfortably in a large green armchair sipping tea and reading by the light of a hurricane lamp.

Tabletop miniatures. Again, the nattily-dressed halfling in his armchair from a different angle. Behind him unbeknownst, an enormous incunabulum of Forbidden Lore is levitating, having sprouted slimy tendrils of slick black shading to blue-green.

Rigel@rigelr· Jun 23

An update on James Gilray:

Rigel@rigelr· Jun 23

Colorful Space Babes are one of pulp sci-fi's proudest traditions!

A Space Pulp scene with tabletop miniatures. A cycloptic scaled ape-like brute prepares to hurl a boulder at a pair of well-built Space Heroes with ray guns. They have hot pink complexions, blue-green hair, and sword-and-planet clothing in sea green and yellow.

Rigel@rigelr· Jun 23

Tabletop miniature. A forest scene, the left half covered in snow. A tall spindly humanoid-ish creature with an antlered deer's skull for a head stands digitigrade on a lake that freezes at its touch. The creature looks famished. Its clawed hands are coated with blood and blood trickles from its jaws and blue-glowing eyes, staining the white fur on its upper body. This is a spirit of hunger and cold.

Rigel@rigelr· Jun 23

WWII opsec propaganda poster of a gorgeous dame in a champagne evening gown curled up on an upholstered chair looking knowingly at the audience while behind her three crisply-attired military chaps smoke and talk over drinks. Text at the bottom reads "Keep mum --shes not so dumb!" and "CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES."

Rigel@rigelr· Jun 19

I know Sir Terry was up on his SFF, so I wonder if he read James White's "Star Surgeon" (1963). Most of White's stuff is optimistic hospital cooperation with various BEMs, but this one involves an interstellar war brewing and a humorless Space Corps officer. When tensions boil over, we get this:

A Space Corps officer from a James White novel declaiming that he is doing his damnedest to ignore sentimentality because *he does not want to hate the enemy,* because that way makes peace next to impossible.

Rigel@rigelr· Jun 14

You can get anything at the Goblin Market, including familiars and extraplanar entities! I like to think the fey lady selling them here has her head removed and in a cage for mystical reasons analogous to a tax dodge, but for curses.

Another scene from a goblin market. A fuschia-skinned lady in a tattered blue dress is surrounded by birdcages containing multicolored glowing fairies and other weird creatures. Several fairies fly around her, tethered to various cages. I want to stress the lady is not, repeat, NOT headless--her head is in one of the cages which she carries in one hand like a serving tray. A forbidding cityscape looms behind her.

The same fey saleslady, seen from behind. We get a better view of many of the brightly colored little tethered fairies here.

Our familiar saleswoman again, this time next to a winged, horned magenta-skinned devil lady or succubus, who is wearing a marigold bikini top and loincloth and appears to be chained to a spike driven into the pavement.

I should probably note these are 3D-printed tabletop miniatures and little accessories.

Rigel@rigelr· Jun 14

You may have noticed that fantasy decor uses a lot of skulls. Well, some of those are battle trophies, I'm sure, but for most of your skull needs you can just get them from the Goblin Market!

A small goblin lady with blue-green hair, a yellow-and-purple outfit, and a red headscarf stands on a box in front of a sketchy market stall in an alleyway. On either side are two large barrels heaped high with (probably) human skulls. A red signboard reads "We Buy and Sell SKULLZ, NO questions asked!" Behind her is a table piled with very nonhuman skulls.

The same goblin skull stand, this time with our salesgoblin standing on a box so as to be almost at chin level with a couple of very shady-looking customers. One looks to be a plague doctor, and the other two warlocks or cultists or something. Purple robes, hoods, etc.

Rigel@rigelr· May 30

A little late to MerMay, but here's my take on the Chained Mermaid from Miniatures Blueprint. It is unclear what Mer-Crimes have led to this situation. Errors in printing and painting are mine. The fishbowl will tie in with a future Goblin Market project. #mermay

A mermaid with bright orange hair, pale skin, and a greeny-blue-scaled tail in an underwater scene next to some coral-like structures. She is floating above some pinkish rocks encrusted with barnacles and sponges, but is shackled with heavy gold chains around her neck anchored to those rocks. Her arms are manacled. This is a painted tabletop miniature.

Another view of the shackled mermaid, this time facing the viewer directly. Small fish flit about her chains and a huge hermit crab scuttles along the seabed.

A mermaid with the classic Ariel color scheme in an enormous fishbowl supported by a pink marble stand echoing the pinkish rocks in the tank. The mermaid is held by ponderous chains anchored to the rocks. The scene appears to be an aquarium of some sort. These are tabletop miniatures; the fishbowl came from a snow globe kit and the marble stand is a painted orange juice lid.

Rigel@rigelr· May 24

She could have one hell of a duel with Auchenbran from "Six-Gun Gorilla."

Rigel@rigelr· May 19

I see Emmy's finally got a proper storage bag for this thing:

The cover of the first volume of HARROW COUNTY. A half-open drawer reveals a pair of glowing yellow eyes in a flattened face. A ray of light illuminates an empty skin hand, like a bloodstained glove but with ragged fingernails, using its flaccid, boneless fingers to pull itself forward.
It is implied the Skin Husk opened the drawer itself, slowly and with great pains.

Rigel@rigelr· May 17

Hydra Miniatures' Imperials line could do it well, I think:

A towering robed figure, bearded and pshented, stands silhouetted by a great red sun atop a sci-fi dais of bronze and pink marble. In front of him is a crowd of figures in much less fancy robes. The style evokes ancient Mesopotamian dress with a retrofuturistic sci-fi twist. All of the people have deep blue skin and hair. Tabletop miniatures, mostly from Hydra's Retro Rocket line.

Rigel@rigelr· May 5

I knew I had this in the archives!

By @thewizzard.pizza, a YMCA verse about Pagliacci the Clown.

Rigel@rigelr· Apr 13

Let the reader understand what this means for fantasy theology, Azathoth, and Nyarlathotep; see also this from Archons March On

A passage from the "Big Bad Bigfoots" entry in the Archons March On blog, describing how yetis are part of a system of messages to Not Fuck With Nuclear (Holy) Sites. Abstract messages about danger are one thing; horrible angry apes that will actively fuck you up are a much more understandable concept.

Rigel@rigelr· Apr 7

Been working on a similar Goblin Market setting; imagine it photographed more noir and with more frequent shady alleyways

A shabby-looking row of redbrick apartments and a pulp-era newsstand, the street inhabited by a number of goblin and orc businessmen, rabble-rousers, swindlers, enforcers, and passersby

Rigel@rigelr· Apr 3

A sack of snacks that purport to be "MOTHMAN (style mysterious spice blend) FLAVORED POTATO CHIPS." They are made in West Virginia and the bag features a small human silhouette facing a gigantic moth on a background of mist-shrouded woods.

Rigel@rigelr· Mar 26

Itinerant musician Moondog, on the streets of New York, very clearly an iteration of Odin

An elderly man with a long grizzled beard on the streets of a metropolitan city. He wears a shapeless cloak of light-colored material and an elaborately horned helmet. In one hand he holds what appears to be the terminal foot and single-edged blade of what was once a spear. The whole effect is of a down and out Norse god or at minimum a Tarot-level arcanum. This is the street musician Moondog.

Rigel@rigelr· Feb 13

A wordless multi panel cartoon of a bald man on a dais seething with increasing resentment at a man on an even higher pedestal. Then an unassuming man pulls up and sits on the ground next to the dais. The resentful man thinks about this development briefly, and adopts a smug sneer and the same confident posture as the man on the high pedestal.

Rigel@rigelr· Jan 25

First encountered his work from an M. R. James ghost story cover. "A Yorkshire Lane in November"

A painting by John Atkinson Grimshaw, of a cobblestoned lane through woods on a cloudy night. The full moon gives the sky a green glow. In the middle distance a stooped figure stands in the road, facing away from the viewer. It is a very lonesome place and we get the impression the figure does not want to be there.

Rigel@rigelr· Jan 24

You are rad and we love you and the horrible times WILL end! But also yes,

Rigel@rigelr· Jan 14

Liked 'em enough to build one for nerdgames!

A weird Alien Beast made from cheap vinyl toys. Mostly a rhinoceros with a Dimetrodon sail fin and the snout and tail of a hammerhead shark. It is painted in a gradient of dark red at bottom to tangerine at top, interspersed with blotchy stripes of white-outlined blues.

Rigel@rigelr· Dec 31

The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again. "No, Spirit! Oh no, no!" The finger was still there. "Spirit!" he cried, tight clutching at its robe, "hear me! I am not the man I was!"