Today’s models are another pair of Mythos creatures from Cthulhu: Death May Die. This time, they’re something called Flying Polyps because… well, why not, I guess? I really don’t know anything about these, but they’re in the boardgame as enemies of the players and the models looked fairly straightforward to paint, so they also got tapped for the Monster Challenge Months and like the Fire Vampires we’ve just had, they didn’t get finished in time. Unlike various other models, these ones do belong to a game that I’m wanting to play and so between seeming like quick and easy wins and that – they got moved up in the queue.

Painting them was a fun exercise in blending layers of Contrast paints for the most part. I used a mixture of Citadel and Green Stuff World’s ranges for this, and at times literally a mixture of their paints! There’s a little traditional highlighting in there as well – both drybrushing and layering but I wouldn’t blame anyone for not having any idea that it’s in there. The eyes were painted using the traditional “gemstone” techniques. The one from before gemstone paints.

These are some of the mid-tier enemies in the game. Above things like Human Cultists and Deep Ones and Ghouls but below, say, the Star Spawn of Cthulhu or any of the Great Old Ones. These particular models are some of the smaller creatures in this “tier”, but I don’t think it will mean they’re any less dangerous to our Investigators…