These two modela are the final pair for this little run of Cthulhu: Death May Die Mythos Creatures – at least until I get another one painted. Today we have some Byakhee. The design on these ones is rather different to the old model I painted years ago and fixed up a year ago. But then again, the background of Byakhee is almost interesting – a nameless creature (or creatures) in Lovecraft’s stories, they were named by a friend and publisher of HPL’s writings. So… fill yer boots, I guess!

As with other Mythos creatures from this game’s range, layers of Contrast-type paints played a big part in the painting – once again I drew from Citadel and Green Stuff World’s ranges as well as some Army Painter washes – and a little bit of traditional highlighting and painting in spots. As usual, I based the scheme off the game’s artwork so they’re easily recognisable on the table from the cards, though I added a little bit more colour on their wings and to their flesh as I thought the art looked a little monotone and other people’s painted examples adding in some extra purples and such looked much nicer.

I did have to use the old Hot Water trick to bend their wings a little. They were really flat looking and I wasn’t a fan. A few seconds work for each wing and they’re looking much nicer. You can see the difference here. The one on the right also got hairdryer-ed to straighten up his posture, since he looked a little drunk.

The painting of these was overall pretty quick, easy and enjoyable. I do like the loose freedom that highly organic, weird-shit models like these offer, especially when compared to a lot of other models that I paint which really call for more careful and strict work – these figures provide a much-needed break along with “easy wins” that look a whole lot better than models on the level of the D&D boardgame figures.

As with pretty much all of the Mythos creatures I’ve painted so far, these fit into that mid-tier of foes, like the Flying Polyps and Fire Vampires and various other whatnot. I’ve only got one more of these things on the go on the Painting Desk – the next batches of these DMD models still need to have their mold lines cleaned up so will be a little further away.