Something a little different again today – we have a pair of player character models from the Board Game Cthulhu: Death May Die. Ariele Venturi, a game hunter from Napoli, Italy; and Sam Wood, a farmer from Kansas. Death May Die is a board game that has some pretty strong positive reviews, so Marouda and I decided to pick it up and see if we liked it before the Pledge Manager for the second campaign closed. As it happened, the game was fun – though it’s also not easy – and the models are pretty alright. A mix of nice, clean details as with the Night of the Living Dead Zombicide models, while many of them have a bit of weird wonk to them as well – witness the size of Sam’s hat and thickness of his pitchfork(!) or the wonk of Ariele’s rifle – which in the artwork looks a bit like a SMLE and a bit like a Carcano and on the model just looks like “generic rifle”, and is rather different to the detailed artwork.
Painting Sam’s shirt was a right pain in the arse, though his worn denim and Ariele’s outfit were a lot more enjoyable to paint. I’d hoped to complete another pair of figures from this game, but with the hot weekends over February it just didn’t happen. This weekend is looking much more pleasant, though we’re expecting a call from the AirCon guy at some point over the next few days – so it’ll be great to get it fixed, though it’ll also take up a bunch of time. Worth it, though!
Ariele is a #Fembruary model, and the pair of them are also models for Dave Stone’s Paint what You Got challenge. I’ve now got 2 more February posts to knock out in the next couple of days, then the rather modest February Round-Up shortly after that…
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Now those are both very nice! 🙂 Sam’s shirt really does look the part! I really like ’em!
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Cheers, John. The flannel wasn’t particularly enjoyable tp paint but it worked out well in the end. 🙂
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Excellent work on both mate, your painting distracts from the wonk’s and the faded denim is sublime.
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Thank you Dave. These are odd sculpts – most of them are really quite nice and then there’s just the weirdly wonky elements.
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They look great!
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Thanks Warburton! 😀
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Very nice, especially Sam’s shirt. Funnily enough I’ve got this one on my to-paint pile as well.
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Ah cool. Have you played the game much? What are your thoughts on it?
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We’ve not unfortunately. It looks fun and we’ve got a few mates who we play games with from time to time and almost all of them enjoy something with a Lovecraftian theme so we thought it was worth getting but between life/work/children etc it hasn’t happened yet. Still, seeing you working on your set might inspire me to get some of mine painted at least.
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I do know that feeling. We played the intro mission two or three times. Winning once (but forgot some rules, so shouldnt have), mesisng up a second time almost immediately and needing to restart for a third game that we lost in the final stages. Not an easy one!
I’ve got the next two of these part-done, so hopefully I can get them finished this weekend if I don’t get too distracted…
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Cracking job mate, that shirt is fabbo!!
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Thanks Alex! Thankfully it’s finished now so I can just enjoy it! 😉
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Simply stunning work mate, the checked shirt is superb!
Cheers Roger.
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Thanks Roger. I’m honestly hoping I don’t have to do another one of those anytime soon, though! 😀
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Those two look….GREAT! Not sure if you changed your lighting setup, but some really nice vibrant colors there. The cloth textures turned out super nice too!
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Thank you! I think I forgot to turn on the two small diffused fill lights on the front angles, but these two are pretty colourful, and I’m still slowly pushing highlights a bit harder (but not wanting to hit near-white for everything).
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Well, they are looking great and I could tell the difference. Did you use AK paints on these?
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Mostly AK and Vallejo – but a bit of everything really – AP Blue wash (diluted) for shading on the denim and Reaper’s Blue Denim mixed with Vallejo Wolf Grey as the base for it . One of Citadel’s pinks for the base of her neckerchief, Citadel’s Reikland Fleshshade Gloss over her boots after highlights.
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I really like both of these miniatures but for me, Sam really takes it. The denim looks very nice and the shirt was well worth the head aches. That is plaid done well, mate! 🙂
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Thanks Kuribo! The plaid did come out well, but it’s also the simplest form of plaid, just being a cross-hatch pattern over a base colour, so not nearly as tricky as most others!
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I really like this pair of minis. Especially the denim overalls, boots and five o’clock shadow on Sam. The overalls look real, like they were put in a shrinking machine and then put on the mini. I asked Az why he bothers to put so much time and effort in a boardgame mini? When he could be putting those skills and time towards better minis. His response was 1. We are playing those table top games, right now, so there’s the motivation factor plus the games are much more enjoyable and satisfying with painted minis. 2. The ability to practice new techniques and low stress painting. 3. Much more variation in the models, with one off minis rather than than batch painting an army, which can be tedious and high stress.
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Thanks! And you have to admit that it’s certainly nicer to play games with painted minis than plain coloured plastic. if only we had more painted models for Marvel United as well…
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Really nice work, Azazel, especially their faces and Sam’s shirt, excellent.
Cthulhu: Death May Die has really grown on me and I’ll be sure to pick more up as it comes to retail.
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Thanks mate. I do like the newer CMoN models a lot more. These two had a bit more wonk than I was expecting in those little details that I pointed out but they were still enjoyable to paint. I ended up going “all-in” on the second campaign including the S1 stretch goal package reprint, so I’ll only be missing the comic characters now. Hopefully I can get my next pair of these completed this weekend…
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I was so tempted by the kickstarter but I just couldn’t justify the expense at the time. I’ll pick what I can up when they release to market. Look forward to seeing more of these from you😃
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I feel you there. That’s happened more than a few times to me – luckily most of the time I don’t regret it later! 😀
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