Today for the final post of March’s models, we have a pair of player character models from the Board Game Cthulhu: Death May Die. Sergeant Mario Braghieri & Lord Adam Benchley. “The Plan” was to get at least two models from this game painted every month, so naturally I started with two in the first month, and then only managed a single model in the second – which in this case was Sgt.Braghieri. I just completed the model I started alongside him – Lord Benchley on the weekend – and so into April.
Both of these models are pretty straightforward, and I did my best to copy the colour schemes of their artwork. These models are actually pretty pleasant to paint for the most part, being just “people in clothes” without being overly-laden with detail or extra elements. I’m hoping to get a couple of bonus investigators painted in April beyond just two as a bit of a catch-up and a kind of pallete cleanser from some of the other stuff I’m working on.
Anyway, see you in a couple of days for the monthly Round-Up!
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Superb – that sergeant could do with a bolt pistol and a promotion to commissar! 😁
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Thanks Alex – he dows have the pose down pat, doesn’t he?
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Nice work again Az. I particularly like Lord Adam.
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Thanks Guru – he certainly has a good face sculpt on him! 🙂
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What a nice paintjob! I love both minis, they look really inspiring. The blue coat is so cool, I always struggle to get such surfaces right. Congrats on both.
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Thank you! I’ve been putting more conscious effort into my cloth lately with these figures, so cool to hear that people are noticing! 🙂
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Wonderful work on the clothing mate, the contrast is perfect and gives it a very natural look.
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Thanks Dave – these figures are a great opportunity to practise my painting of cloth and clothing.
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Very nice! 🙂 I particularly like the sergeant, although he’s in quite a relaxed pose for someone pointing a gun!
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He’s certainly learned to hold his nerve in stressful situations! 😀
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I don’t know if it’s just the camera pic, but these look fantastic. The cloth work you’ve been doing is really nice and it came out great on these two. Cheers to ya! 😃
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Thanks mate – usually I feel like the camera makes my models look worse than they do in hand, so if that’s still consistent then my doubling down on cloth work is …erm, working. 😮
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Smashing pair of miniatures there mate!
Cheers Roger.
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Thank you, Roger! 🙂
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These came out really well as usual, mate. I like seeing these more mundane miniatures as they always look realistic when you’re dong with them. Its also amazing to compare these sculpts to the original Zombicide ones. CMON has really improved their miniature quality over the years!
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Thanks Mate – they’re still not truly “realistic” as they would be less clean & bright and way more muted & “dirty” with blacks and dark greys as the shading. My models tend to be a bit more “person looking clean & bright with studio lighting” as opposed to “person looking realistic as though you were seeing them on the street”.
CMON has certainly come a long way with their models. A new Zombicide campaign has just started on KS as well, now…
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I think you’re being a bit too critical there and I like to paint things cleaner than dirty (for the most part) so they look realistic to me 🙂
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Oh, I’m happy with how they look – but real world stuff is often a lot more muddy/dirty/murky than the way we paint. 😀
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We agree with the previous comments about the quality of how you painted the clothes. The sergeant is very close to the artwork: an excellent result. That there is a character of Italian origin among the good guys in a game inspired by the world of Lovecraft surprises us a bit. If it is historically accurate to find Italian-American policemen in the USA at the beginning of the last century, in stories such as “The Horror at Red Hook” the protagonist is an Irish policeman, while the Italians are among the sordid immigrants who worship evil cults…
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Thank you – I’ve generally been enjoying these figures, despite some wonky details on some of them. Sgt.Braghieri is actually the second Italian hero from the game that I’ve painted – Ariele Venturi from my previous post is also an Italian from Napoli – I hadn’t yet found that web page with all of the listed characters when I wrote that post.
https://makecraftgame.com/2022/10/21/dmd-character-guide/#jp-carousel-12743
I know that there’s at least one more Italian in the roster – I just found out about Rocco through looking at the limited Comic book characters that I missed while working out which models I could use as proxies.
https://makecraftgame.com/2022/10/21/dmd-character-guide/#jp-carousel-12808
I’ve just had a quick glance through some of the other characters that I don’t own and it seems that Al Capone is also in the game as one of the Season 1 extras, along with other historical notables like Einstein and others – so there’s at least one Italian-American Anti-Hero amongst the other three (or more?) Italian Heroes..
https://makecraftgame.com/2022/10/21/dmd-character-guide/#jp-carousel-12762
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Stellar painting on those — so SMOOTH!
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Thank you! 🙂
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I like the way you’ve painted these, mate, very ‘clean’ colours and despite the model’s simplicity they have a certain charm about them.
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Thank you. I’m quite enjoying these – got another two almost finished as I type this – hopefully I’ll get ’em done today!
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Top work on both of these, you’ve got them looking really good. I like your idea of trying to paint two each month, that’s a good way to work your way through the whole set without making it too big of a burden. In fact, and I may regret saying this because life/work is super busy right now and all that, but how’s about a little friendly challenge? As I think I mentioned before I also have a copy of this game waiting to be painted and given that these are, as you rightly say “just people in clothes”, I reckon I might be able to fit in painting a couple each month too (or at least I can try, and if you don’t try you can’t fail spectacularly right?). So hows about it; if you’re going to paint two of these per month then so shall I! (Usual lack of rules apply; the aim is to finish models and encourage each other).
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Thanks Wudu! I’m certainly down for that! If one of us runs out of investigators too quickly, there’s always a solid supply of cultists and Eldritch Horrors to follow on with, right?
I’ve definitely found these models to be a kind of relaxing “something different” even moreso than their Zombicide equivalents as these ones aren’t laden down with twin katanas and an assault rifle and a flak vest – so they have been painting up really pretty quickly and easily when I’ve found the time to work on them. Hopefully you find them to be the same. 🙂
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