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Cthulhu: Death May Die – Ariele Venturi & Sam Wood #Fembruary 2023

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Cthulhu: Death May Die Miniatures - Ariele Venturi & Sam Wood, Cthulhu Investigators

Something a little different again today – we have a pair of player character models from the Board Game Cthulhu: Death May Die. Ariele Venturi, a game hunter from Napoli, Italy; and Sam Wood, a farmer from Kansas. Death May Die is a board game that has some pretty strong positive reviews, so Marouda and I decided to pick it up and see if we liked it before the Pledge Manager for the second campaign closed. As it happened, the game was fun – though it’s also not easy – and the models are pretty alright. A mix of nice, clean details as with the Night of the Living Dead Zombicide models, while many of them have a bit of weird wonk to them as well – witness the size of Sam’s hat and thickness of his pitchfork(!) or the wonk of Ariele’s rifle – which in the artwork looks a bit like a SMLE and a bit like a Carcano and on the model just looks like “generic rifle”, and is rather different to the detailed artwork.

Cthulhu: Death May Die Miniatures - Ariele Venturi & Sam Wood, Cthulhu Investigators

Painting Sam’s shirt was a right pain in the arse, though his worn denim and Ariele’s outfit were a lot more enjoyable to paint. I’d hoped to complete another pair of figures from this game, but with the hot weekends over February it just didn’t happen. This weekend is looking much more pleasant, though we’re expecting a call from the AirCon guy at some point over the next few days – so it’ll be great to get it fixed, though it’ll also take up a bunch of time. Worth it, though!

Ariele is a #Fembruary model, and the pair of them are also models for Dave Stone’s Paint what You Got challenge. I’ve now got 2 more February posts to knock out in the next couple of days, then the rather modest February Round-Up shortly after that…

Marvel Zombies: Heroes’ Resistance: Zombie Iron Man

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Marvel Zombies: Heroes Resistance: Zombie Iron Man, Zombicide Iron Man

And now back to Marvel-themed models, and the next thing I have to show for February is Iron Man. Well… Zombie Iron Man, from CMoN’s Zombicide offshoot, Marvel Zombies: Heroes Resistance which is a cut-down, retailer-friendly version of the “full” game – Marvel Zombies.

This was my first experiment using Citadel’s Technical Gemstone Paints over a pre-highlighted-and-shaded metallic base – something suggested to me by for Dave Stone, whose current Paint what You Got challenge. is something this model also qualifies for.

The first layer of Spiritstone Red was a bit patchy and looked a bit too light in places, so I gave it a second layer of Blood for the Blood God which worked nicely to add a bit more depth and darkened the very bright armour down. I mean, it did look very “comic-book Iron Man”, but at this point I do like the reds a bit deeper.

The model’s face is more than a bit mushily-detailed – not the most handsome or defined that Tony – or even Zombie Tony has looked, but you wqork with what you’ve got and the model will be more than fine as a board game tabletop villain.

I have to say that using the gemstone paints for this laquered armour effect has positives and negatives – it looks very cool in person, but doesn’t translate nearly as well to photographs. So while Jeff Fenech’s famous saying of “I love youse all” applies here, I am in the end painting these models primarily for myself and my table rather than for painting competitions or internet points.