So, apparenly I can't get images to embed...dunno why. In any event, you are stuck with links.

EDIT: Thanks for the help.

I decided, after seeing the thread floating around the interwebs about dying polymer parts, that I needed to undertake a project doing just that.

So, I went a little crazy and put together a tribute to my dark lord and master, Cthul....er....ummm...I mean, a tribute to a favorite author, H.P. Lovecraft.

Why, you might ask? Because I wanted a one-of-a-kind rifle. One. Of. A. Kind.

I think I got it.

First, the basics, rear to front.

VLTOR EMOD stock
Spike's buffer tube/buffer, lower, and upper
RRA 2-stage trigger LPK
FailZero BCG
BCM Gunfighter charging handle
Magpul MIAD grip and BUIS, as well as 7 PMags
Daniel Defense 16" chrome-lined 1-in-7 barrel
YHM lightweight rifle-length handguard with endcap
Grippod foregrip
KwikGuard rail covers
AAC Blackout flash hider

I think thats about it. Its a Burris AR-536 optic I am trying out on top.

It was a lot of work...three hours or so of actual rifle assembly, WEEKS of design, masking, dying, drying, re-dying, etc. on the polymer parts.

And, here it is:





And some close-ups...









All of the quotes on the parts are from either Lovecraft's personal correspondence, or directly from his stories. Some examples:

"I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness..." (on the MIAD grip)

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." (along the right side)

"If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences." (magazine)

"We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight." (along the top)

"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind." (along the bottom)

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.” (spread out over two mags)

"Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity." (magazine)

"Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal." (foregrip)

"It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients—or their lack—and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws." (magazine)

Not everything thats on there, by any means, but a lot of it. Here are a couple photos of parts of the process:









Anyway, I just thought I would share my sickness with the world...enjoy!

IA! IA! PH'NGLUI MGLW'NAFH CTHULHU RY'LYEH WGAH'NAGL FTHAGN!

10/10 for creativity man. Not my thing, but it looks really good.

Yeah...it probably won't be many people's thing. LOL

Its a toy. I freely admit that. And it makes me happy to be cheek-to-cheek with Cthulhu...

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Interesting. Very creative.

Admit it, you are the guy who makes Dr Brohner's soap...

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You squid guys are weird ..

But.

I like what you did.

I just giggle a little inside every time someone worries about zombies, or disease, or power outages or some other nonsense...

Every good cultist knows how the world will REALLY end. When the stars are right, of course. Apparently FortyFive is on board...

Yog-Sothoth knows the Gate...
Yog Sothoth IS the Gate...
Yog-Sothoth is the Key, and the Guardian of the Gate...

I just lost 35 Sanity just reading it.

Thats a big hit!

Glad I could help. I'm curious though...that seems like a lot of sanity to have left...it would have put me WAY below zero. Got any left?

My Ref says "You feel happier" if that helps.

On a semi-related note, we watched the Destination Truth episode where they went to Antarctica. I kept waiting for them to head to the Mountains of Madness but alas they didn't get past the Wordie hut.

The black goat of the woods with a thousand young approves.