Cthulhu: Death May Die – John Morgan (Not-Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones) and Adilah Vidal

March 31, 2024 by Azazel

Today we have the last pair of my Cthulhu: Death May Die investigators from both the Season 1 and Season 2 boxed sets. The first of the two investigators that we have here are “John Morgan“, an Animal Handler and Safari Master from Fort Wayne, Indiana. (see what they did there?) The art depicts an African American man, which is obviously the way that they chose to get around the sorts of IP copyright issues that CMON have faced with many of their “homage” characters in the past.

So with all that, I simply “race-swapped” the figure back to the character’s original form, and in our games we’ll instead be playing as Dr. Jones, University Professor, Adventurer, Archeologist star of one of the greatest movie trilogies ever THERE WERE ONLY THREE MOVIES and also inspiration for one of the greatest songs of the late 1990’s that I’m sure many of you will remember.

Now that’s stuck playing in your head, we can move on to discussing our second Investigator. You can thank me later. You did click on the youtube link, didn’t you?

The final figure that I completed for the Death May Die cast was Adilah Vidal. Adilah is a Voodoo Priestess from Les Cayes, Haiti. I’ll readily admit that the patterns on her skirt were the thing that pushed my painting of Adilah riiight to the back of the queue. In the end, when I finally got to work painting her skirt, it was actually pretty enjoyable – a bit of a surprise, but then freehanding patterns to fill in missing details is pretty fun. 😄

I guess I should point out here that unlike the newspaper in J. Jonah Jameson’s hand from my recent post, Adilah’s skirt was simply smooth – nothing was etched into the skirt, so the whole thing had to be done freehand. So while it was enoyable in practise, those lines are reeeally small. I think the issue is that unlike when painting a shield or some such when you can just do whatever the hell you want, in this case I was trying to match the look and feel of the artwork reasonably closely, which was a bit more of a mental block than just going for it on something.

Adilah was then my final model for FeMarch, and also about to be the model that gives me all of the Season 1 and 2 investigators completed – all of the investigators that I owned, in fact – but then, as I was nearing completion of Adilah, my final investigator, something else arrived in the post…

To be continued, I guess…

Zombicide Survivors & Zombivors “Kirk” (Not-Steven Seagal) painted as J. Allen Brack & Hasslefree Miniatures HFA066 “William” (Spike from Buffy) painted as “Dave” (Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory)

March 29, 2024 by Azazel

Damned if this post doesn’t have an overly-complicated nightmare of a title. So.. for those masochistic enough to read this… here we go

One of the original bonus survivors from the original Kickstarter of Zombicide 1e, which I missed by like a week was “Dave”, based on Jim Parson’s portrayal of Sheldon Cooper. Along with characters like El Cholo (Danny Trejo as Machete) Nick (Bruce Willis in Die Hard) and Ivy (Angelian Jolie in Mr.&Mrs.Smith), These original bonus figures were never re-released, although their character cards were, and a collected box containing their Zombie versions did become available late (if you got lucky – which I did only about a year ago).

I eventually found proxies for both Bruce and Angie, but old Sheldon has been a much tougher find. Wanting to get the thing done, I recently plucked my Hasslefree HFA066 William – who I understand is a model inspired by Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and just went with “good enough”. I never watched Buffy, so no big deal for me to use this model as Sheldon. So combining William with Zombie Dave and we have a workable pair to use as “Dave” aka Sheldon Cooper in our games, thereby completing the Big Bang Gang in the short timeframe of only… (checks earlier posts) almost-nine years.

Oh.

Our second figure is only slightly less convoluted. We have “Kirk”, who bears no real resemblance to Captain James.E, but instead was designed as a caracature on the increasingly-corpulent former action star and current vatnik, Steven Seagal. Now my original idea for this model was to paint him with a Ruzzian flag on his t-shirt and a big-arse Z – one on the front and one on the back. The problem was that I would then need to occasionally play as this putin sucking, carrot eating piece of shit. Aaaand.. well, I just couldn’t do it. I mean, I have German WWII armies (along with forces from everyone else from the European and African theatre) but when playing the Germans I’m under no illusions or delusions that I’m playing as the “good guys”, even if I’m playing as Rommel’s DAK.

For some reason, I’d be much more inclinded to paint a “Z” modern russian army for Team Yankee, if only as a “supply both armies for games” OpFor for the eventual Ukranian force that I want to paint with an interesting mix of NATO and Pact hardware than to play as an individual like Seagal as one of a few living survivors I’m trying to save. So.. unable to stomach playing as Steven, this model sat on my desk. For over a year. So with the bar set exceedingly low, I eventually settled on painting him bnased on J. Allen Brack. The Warcraft developer from Blizzard Entertainment who is infamous for his “You think you do, but you don’t” comments in response to a question asking for Classic WoW servers – which turned out to be clownishly wrong…

Also not someone I’d particularly want to play as, but better than Seagal, anyway.

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Cthulhu: Death May Die – John Morgan (Not-Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones) and Adilah Vidal

Zombicide Survivors & Zombivors “Kirk” (Not-Steven Seagal) painted as J. Allen Brack & Hasslefree Miniatures HFA066 “William” (Spike from Buffy) painted as “Dave” (Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory)