I haven’t gotten a ton of models painted since my procedure in the middle of the month, but I have spent some time doing more work on getting stuff done. These five Ghouls from Cthulhu: Death May Die were the first things that I managed to get painted afterwards, Investigators painted for the month.
I mean, they’re pretty simple/straightforward models. They did have some shockingly-placed mold lines that I did my best to scrape away, and while I do appreciate Adrian Smith’s art, this design is pretty meh. Like, it’s totally fine, but not much else. So the bar for these was across-the-board, pretty much in the middle.
So while I do like to challenge and stretch myself on occasion, I also very much enjoy low-stakes, low-stress models that simply need to look good enough on the tabletop. These are very much that! They were a good way to ease back into painting, and so on that basis alone they more than made up for any shortcomings.
And to copypasta myself – Because the Cthulhu Mythos are all about World-Ending situations (in the end), I’ll nominate these for Dave Stone’s Apocalypse Me challenge, with a few more posts yet to come in that vein… (well, one for sure, perhaps a second depending on Dave’s judgement…)
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Look good to me dude – low stakes & stress free is a great way to paint 😊
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It doesn’t work for every model, but it’s a nice break from those that aren’t! 🙂
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Good job mate. That face in the second picture just let me think of one of the Uruks in Lord of the rings films for some reason.
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he does have a bit of an echo of Grishnakh, doesn’t he?
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More like Gothmog for me for some reason. I do not know how to ad links into comments, sorry..
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Old Harvey Weinstein, eh? 😉
Comment images are very hit-or-miss as to whether they’ll work in WordPress’ shitty system.
I have only about a 50% success rate here on my own blog where I can edit them several times…
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I agree with everything you said about these sculpts and designs. Not the most inspiring stuff I’ve seen. As I often say, its great that you powered through and got them done so they’re ready to be used in-game. That’s the most important thing!
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Thanks mate – they’re a good example of models that aren’t bad but aren’t particularly exciting either – so with time being a Zero-Sum, they’re now painted to a standard where they’ll look pretty good on the table. I’ll save the higher standard for player-character models and the bigger monsters! 🙂
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Very cool- love those.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete! 🙂
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I understand what you say about the sculpt itself, but they look like fearsome critters nevertheless, nice paintjob on them!
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Thanks mate. I’m sure that I’d be less grumpy about the sculpts if not for the terrible mould lines they had… 🤔
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I think they look fine! 🙂 Nasty looking blighters!
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Thanks John – thats the idea of them for sure!
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The sculpt may be uninspiring, but your painting of them is not, they have so much life to them that I’d swear one of them just turned it’s head ! ( could also be due to the lack of sleep ! LOL)
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Thansk Dave – looking at them now the sculpt is simple but fine. I think my issue at the time might have been with having 5 duplicated figures of it! 🙂
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