March! We start this month’s models a little bit later than the start of the month with the Dimensional Shambler from CMON’s Cthulhu: Death May Die.
This thing sat on my painting desk for months – maybe a year(?) – as I stalled out on the blue crystals depicted in the artwork. It was seeing the thing on my desk constantly and a combination of Monster March and that “just fucking get it done and out of here” which eventually got me motivated enough to finish it off, and now I’m quite happy to have done so.
I’m still not super-happy with the blue crystals as they’re a bit discordant with the rest of the figure, but then I guess it’s a Lovecraftian creature, and it’s a board game model, so I’m just going to go with “good enough” and be happy with the fact that it being completed allows me to go and work on some other DMD monsters next instead of being cockblocked by this one.
I didn’t have any of my DMD Investigators handy for the scale shot (and Berkeley was busy!) so we have a pair of the CMON Night of the Living Dead models here instead,
As mentioned earlier, one of the community’s painting challenges that’s often out there is something called Monster March. It, rather unsurprisingly deals with the painting of Monsters during – get this – the month of March! It’s not offcially running this year, but much like Fembruary which is on a sort of hiatus, I’m happy to use anything I can to motivate me to finish specific models!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Fantastic work mate, and the varying colours in the crystals definitely give it an other worldly feel to the creature.
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Thank ou Dave – I can’t take credit for the ovcerall scheme though – I just followed the general gist of the artwork since I’m not super familiar with the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Oh I like that, disgusting though it is! 🙂 Blue crystals look fine to me!
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Cheers John – yeah they look okay, they just don’t read as “crystals” to me all that much. Maybe I need to hit them with some gloss varnish?
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Haha, yes, just need varnish! Being thick I had to think about that! Look fine to me though! 🙂
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Huh, in my mind dimensional chambers are gaunt, this dude is ripped
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I guess they have variety between individuals? Look at Christian Bale in The Machinist and then Ronnie Coleman.
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Bugger me matey! He is so UGLY, brilliant work👍🏻😂😂.
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Thanks Pat – I just needed to look in the mirror to get inspired on that front! 😮
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That is definitely a creative monster design. I can’t say that I love it and they didn’t make it easy on painters with all of those crystals but the end result is a very nice looking mini. I like the action shot at the end in particular as I’m sure Cthulhu: Death May Die ends up looking like that in a lot of games 🙂
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I didn’t particularly enjoy the weird in-and-out tentacles or the crystals, but I do get it that they’ve been trying to make some of these creatures look a little different to every other set of “Call of Cthulhu monsters”.
Thankfully I’m not familiar enough with Lovecraft’s writing or the mythos to know or care about any inaccuracies.
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Oh those are crystals on the card art? Fair do’s, I’d never looked that closely at the official illustration and just assumed they were chitinous spikes of some kind. Regardless, you’ve done a good job with them, they look like crystals – which are not the easiest things to paint – and they fit in well with the rest of the monster. Well done on the skin as well, its particularly nice, I may well rip you off on that when I get around to mine. 🙂
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