Zombicide 1st Edition: Murder of Crowz

Zombicide 1st Edition: Murder of Crowz

Today we have the entirety of the Zombicide 1e Boxed set “Murder of Crowz”. I think I had two sets of these, and painted five of them a year ago with rural/fantasy-style basing – as I’d picked them out to use as Dark Eldar Razorwing proxies years ago (still need to set up 40mm nesting bases for those ones) I never found the rest of that boxed set – so there’s 10 more of these Crowz missing somewhere!

Zombicide 1st Edition: Murder of Crowz

I found the contents of this set in a tub under the painting desk, and suggested to Marouda that we work together to try and get them finished as quickly as possible – asking her to help with the fun task of mold line trimming. In short, we succeeded, and they went from bare grey plastic to painted, varnished and blood-spattered within 24 hours over this Easter weekend.

Zombicide 1st Edition: Murder of Crowz

I just gave them simple grey, lightly-textured bases. I mulled over adding some road markings to them, which would have looked a bit better, but this way they’re very usable in Black Plague as well as still being fairly incongruous in any other fantasy games. Like, if I ever need Ravens alongside Vikings – or Razorwings for my Dark Eldar/Drukhari. Not to mention a Hitchcockian nightmare for our Zombicide games.

Zombicide 1st Edition: Murder of Crowz

Sure, they’re simple, but they’re comppletely fit for purpose for boardgames and miniatures games, they pass the “four foot” test, and most importantly – they’re now painted!

And then, between finishing them and writing this post, what else did I happen to find? Yes.. that’s the Black Plague box version of the same figures. very much direct echoes of my last post’s postscript when another box of Death May Die investigators arrived just as I was finishing my “last” Investigator!

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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. 😄

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

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.

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

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…