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…
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Awesome work on both, Indiana looks just like him, but Adilah totally steals the show with the most impressive freehand on the skirt.
It’s funny how we think we’ve finished a section and then something else turns up ! LOL
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Thank you Dave! Hopefully it doesn’t take me another three-six months to get these next six Investigators done…. 😮
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A fun post mate. I agree on that there’s only three movies hehe. Very nice work on both minis
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Thanks mate – it helps that I never bothered to watch anything beyond those! 😀
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Very nice! 🙂 Adilah’s skirt certainly is impressively done! I didn’t have a clue about the song, clicked the link and took two seconds to realise I hadn’t missed anything!
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That song was almost unavoidable for a period of time. I can’t hear or read the words “Doctor Jones” without hearing it play in my head!
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I DIG Dr. Jones. Unfortunately the YouTube link didn’t show up for me. Adilah’s skirt is really impressive! I like the colors and patterns, great freehand there. 🙂
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Thanks Faust! Luckily for me it was mostly just geometric patterns and shapes, so it’s both complicated but also simple at the same time. 😮
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Indy looks good, mate! And the freehand was worth the effort (when is it not, really!?) 🙂 Thank you for the Aqua song as well. That style of music has a particular name and I can’t remember what it is. I wanna say its Euro something. Either way, its corny and amusing all at once!
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You’re very welcome for the song – in fact I can’t even look at my own post without it starting in my head (including as I type this response!)
Europop I’d guess would be the style. Along with things like The Ketchup Song (look it up!) etc. Glad to finally have these first Invstigators all done regardless – I should get a group shot done soon!
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