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Today’s monster – my final Monster MayHem ’23 submission – is once again from Cthulhu: Death May Die – though this time it’s from the Season 1 core box. The Shoggoth appears to fit the overall description of Lovecraft’s creature pretty well, though reading that description certainly makes me suspect that John Carpenter had some rather direct inspiration for The Thing. (Not to be in any way confused with Ben Grimm in this case..)

Painting was pretty quick and straightforward – and Contrast Black Templar on the rest of it, drybrushed up with Dark Reaper (dark blue-grey) and then some thinned Contrast Volpus Pink (magenta) in spots on the body and the ends of the tentacles. The eyes were VMC Ice Yellow with Citadel’s Gemstone Red and a touch of Blood for the Blood God on their upper orbs.

Finally, Contrast Blood Angels Red in the mouth-tentacles, drybrushed with some mixes of lighter reds and oranges.

This Shoggoth was the final model I completed in May – in the evening of the 31st. It’s not my final May model to be shown, though – there’s still several posts worth of D&D Boardgame models I’ve been bumping out of the way so I could get these Monsters posted up in time before the weekend. Expect a daily run of those to begin in a couple of days so we can get through them in a reasonable space of time – culminating in the May Round-Up…

It feels like a good while since I’ve completed any Zombicide models, so as part of Monster MayHem ’23, I’ve finally gotten this pair of models that have been sitting on the desk, part-painted for quite a few months now completed and so off the desk!

Unlike many of the other Second Edition Abominations I’ve painted so far, these two aren’t based on folklore cryptids.

Both of these are pretty obviously based on pop culture IP/characters, as CMON loves to skirt legality with their *cough* homage models.

I mean, I enjoy them myself, but I’m also very aware of what they actually are…

First up we have the third of my Piggy-trilogy of miniatures (that I’m sure a certain Guru has been enjoying) the Manbearpig. I mean Bearmanboar. Totes different, right?

I went for the overall “cleaner” version of Manbearpig over the very bloody version, since I wanted to preserve my skin tones.

The second of these totally-original creations I’m sharing today is the Actual Cannibal.

Also known as Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf.

Which is an actual thing.

For some reason.

Unfortunately, Shia’s skin tone has come out a bit flat in the photos, but I’ll rest easy enough knowing it looks fine in hand. He’s actually a bit bigger than you’d expect, which you’ll see in the image with Berkeley below…

While Zombicide 2nd Edition does have several “traditional” Abominations in the set – that is to say – giant muscular and nasty looking zombies – I do like the way that they leaned into various cryptids for a bit of a different flavour to these stretch goals. It certainly gives you more of an interesting variety of models to paint.

And they’ll be easy enough to showhorn into our 1st Edition games as well once we get back to the Zombicide campaign… I guess in June I probably need to get back to the zombies… 😮

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Cthulhu: Death May Die – Shoggoth

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Bearmanboar (Manbearpig) & Actual Cannibal (Shia LaBeouf)