Cthulhu: Death May Die Season 2 – Dimensional Shambler

Cthulhu: Death May Die Season 2 - Dimensional Shambler

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.

Cthulhu: Death May Die Season 2 - Dimensional Shambler

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.

Cthulhu: Death May Die Season 2 - Dimensional Shambler

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.

Cthulhu: Death May Die Season 2 - Dimensional Shambler

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!

 

Zombicide Survivors & Zombivors “Bill” (Ian McShane as Deadwood’s “Al Swearengen”) & “Ralph” (Woody Harrelson as Zombieland’s “Tallahassee”)

Zombicide Survivors & Zombivors "Bill" (Ian McShane as Deadwood's "Al Swearengen") & "Ralph" (Woody Harrelson as Zombieland's "Tallahassee")

Last post for January and February, aside from the combined round-up that will be next. Both of these figures are “inspired by” promo figures. “Bill” is from the “Gaming Night 3” set, and “Ralph” from Season 2’s extras.

Zombicide Survivor & Zombivor "Bill", Ian McShane, Deadwood's "Al Swearengen Zombicide Survivor & Zombivor "Bill", Ian McShane, Deadwood's "Al Swearengen

The first figure is Ian McShane as Deadwood’s “Al Swearengen”. Getting the pin-stripe suit was a real bear at this scale, so hopefully the impression of it works well enough on the figure in photos. Of course at actual size it works a bit better, and then on the table at arm’s length the stripes kind of disappear into the subliminal as they do in real life at a distance. So good enough for a Zombicide model, anyway! I do need to get around to watching Deadwood as well!

Zombicide Survivor & Zombivor "Ralph", Woody Harrelson, Zombieland, Tallahassee Zombicide Survivor & Zombivor "Ralph", Woody Harrelson, Zombieland, Tallahassee

Our second figure today – and the last for January-February is Woody Harrelson’s “Tallahassee” from the rather excellent film, “Zombieland” and it’s incredibly disappointing sequel “Zombieland: Double Tap”. Painting Tallahassee was really straightforward and easy – I can’t figure out why I kept putting him off for so long! Then again, there’s always a huge pile of figures waiting and so often selecting the next Zombicide survivor for the painting queue is a combo of randomness and “feel” at the moment I’m looking through the figures.

Zombicide Survivor & Zombivor "Ralph", Woody Harrelson, Tallahassee, "Lea", Emma Stone, Wichita, Zombieland,

I do also have the “Wichita” figure that I painted a few years ago. It seems a little odd that CMON never produced a Jesse Eisenberg/Columbus figure. The lack of Little Rock makes a bit more sense as the character was a kid, and back in 1st edition the game didn’t have “youth” characters. These are my final models for January and February, and as such the last for Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 24-25. I’ll have the round-up post up in a couple of days, but for now, I’m taking a couple of days off after all these daily posts before getting onto March’s stuff!