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Cthulhu: Death May Die – Deep Ones

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Cthulhu: Death May Die - Deep Ones

Despite other things that have happened over the month of October, I have managed to get some painting happening. Sure, most of it was pre-surgery, but painting nonetheless. I’ll also use this as my excuse in the liklely case that I don’t get my monthly pair of Cthulhu: Death May Die Investigators painted for the month (despite only having four left!) What I did manage to get painted was this lovely fivesome of Deep Ones, or Fishmen as they’re more properly known as (they go great in batter with chips and some chicken salt!)

The design of these models veers into the possibly-suspect area that a few of the others from this line have strayed into, what with one obvious mouth and two other mouth-like orifices. One at the base of the neck (that’s where the tentacles are coming from) and one… downstairs. Yes, there’s another case of suspected Vagina Dentata for the Mythos Investigators to …investigate. As you can see, I’ve subtly de-emphasised this potential issue with my paintwork by just going brighter all around. I’m not sure whether the concept art or the models came first – based on all of the small mistakes I’ve noticed on the Investigators, I’d guess the art came first in this instance as well because the art doesn’t give a feel of tentacles and the additional two “mouths” that the model wears.

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Deep Ones

Anyway, these models are a good example of ones that look better in hand than in photos I feel. They’re finished with a gloss varnish, and also have had glazes of pealescent paint added to parts of them in order to emulate that irridescent look that fish scales have. But much like a gloss finish, this doesn’t translate all that well to photography but actually looks pretty good in person.

Because the Cthulhu Mythos are all about World-Ending situations (in the end), I’ll nominate these for Dave Stone’s Apocalypse Me challenge, with a few more posts yet to come in that vein…

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu & The Mummy

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Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu & The Mummy

It’s again been a good while since I’ve finished any of my Zombicide Abominations, and so in September I forced myself to finish a couple of the models that had been sitting on the desk since the end of the Monster-themed challenge months. Sure, I could have finished them in October for Apocalypse Me, but it’s not like I’ve got any shortage of other qualifying models to get painted, right? 😮

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu

Cthulhu was actually the second one of these to be completed, as The Mummy was much further along – but since when does Cthulhu give second billing to anyone?

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu

For Cthulhu I once again more-or-less followed the cues from the official artwork. The “something-under-thin-translucent-skin” effect of it’s head was something new for me to try and play with, so that suited me as well, and added a nice splash of colour to a model that could just be painted nothing but green and fit into Guru PIG’s Venn Diagram.

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu

I also ran with the contrasting colours much more than indicated in the artwork (stomach and wings) by continuing to add more warm tones through the palms of Cthulhu’s hands, elbows, and then some glazing elsewhere on the body, shoulders, etc. I also extended the cold tones from the head-sac further down the head. And of course, more blue veins on thick appendages! 😮

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu

Both of these models were sculpted by Jason Hendriks, who maintains a blog sharing his WIP progress on many of his models, including Cthulhu and often some design thoughts.

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: The Mummy

The Mummy was a fairly straigtforward model to paint, if a little busy with the bandages loosely draped over the mummified flesh underneath.

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: The Mummy

With The Mummy, I took the cue of grey flesh, but just went with whatever felt like it worked after that as far as colours go. As long as the model matches the art broadly, I’m good, and we’re not overrun with overized mummies.

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: The Mummy

Once again, Jason has an entry for The Mummy where he mentions that CMoN didn’t particularly want an Egyptian theme to this model – which explains the more ragged appearance of this sculpt.

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu & The Mummy, Zombicide Brad Clint Eastwoord Dirty Harry, Reaper Miniatures 50153 Berkeley Zombie Survivor

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I do like the way that they leaned into various cryptids and other mythologies and mythos for a bit of a different flavour to these stretch goal abominations. It certainly gives you more of an interesting variety of models to paint. Berkeley and Not-Clint here provide scale reference for both of these A-Bombs – as you can see, they’re hefty models for this particular game and put the regular zombies to shame!