Category Archives: Cthulhu: Death May Die

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Yugg

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Cthulhu: Death May Die - Yugg Cthulhu Mythos Miniature Figure

Today’s monster is from Cthulhu: Death May Die Season 2 – it’s a thing called a Yugg – though it seems like a fair few of the Miniatures in this game don’t really match Lovecraft’s descriptions all that well. If I were deeply invested in the Cthulhu Mythos, this might bother me, but luckily(!) I’m not, and am happy to just paint the toys and play the games.

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Yugg Cthulhu Mythos Miniature Figure

So this creature is apparently described as like a tapeworm – so instead the model is pretty much a gigantic combination of a leech and a maggot, but like I said above, I’m not super-invested in the Cthulhu Mythos (same as D&D, to be fair).

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Yugg Cthulhu Mythos Miniature Figure

I might have to go back and add a little pinkish flesh to the teeth in it’s underside, to emphasise the under-mouth of the model a little more. What do you think, dear reader?

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Yugg Cthulhu Mythos Miniature Figure

As I’ve been working on the “monster” models from these sets, I’ve noticed some rather suggestive elements of the sculpts. In this case, the spiked …sac under the “chin” of this creature looks like it could contain a pair of …something inside it. A couple of the other models I’m working on now, there’s a real resemblance to the “orchid” in the head-parts, but I’ll discuss that once I’ve completed them and post them here.

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Yugg Cthulhu Mythos Miniature Figure, Investigators Miniature Figures

Anyway, this delicious beast is another model completed in time for Angry Piper’s Monster MayHem ’23 painting challenge! Stay tuned for the next ones…

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Mary Diaz & Elizabeth Ives

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Cthulhu: Death May Die Miniatures - Mary Diaz, Elizabeth Ives, Cthulhu Investigators

Today we have May’s (first?) pair of Death May Die investigators. First up, hailing from Caracas, Venezuela, Mary Diaz. (Think about that name for a moment or two… there’s something about it…)

Our second investigator comes from London, England, the Flapper, Elizabeth Ives. I wonder why Flappers haven’t made a comeback in the 2020’s? With piercings and tattoos and plugs, of course – I guess there’s still time… Speaking of time, I have no particular artwork or sculpt complaints about Mary, though Elizabeth is a different story…

Cthulhu: Death May Die Miniatures - Mary Diaz, Elizabeth Ives, Cthulhu Investigators

For Mary I wanted to try a “light olive” complexion, as befitting both the artwork and her Latina heritage as well as the link to her clear inspiration making me go lighter. Along with that, the art suggested dark blonde hair, so I started from a darker base than usual. Her red dress has orangey highlights in the art, so again I tried to emulate those on the model.

Cthulhu: Death May Die Miniatures - Mary Diaz, Elizabeth Ives, Cthulhu Investigators

Elizabeth’s art is generally fine, though the colour choices (bright yellow with blue and green!) aren’t exactly what I’d have chosen. Still, with all but one of these models (to come sometime later) I do intend to stick with the artwork reasonably closely. No, the problem with Elizabeth was with the digital sculpting – her pearl necklace & bracelet as well as her facial details were clearly sculpted with an artists’ PC screen and large renders in mind rather than an end-painter – so they suffer from being very fine and shallow. I mean – I like to do a good job on these, but I’m no Angel Giraldez, nor am I willing to invest hours into detailing the pearls on this model.

Still, I’m happy enough with the end result – not sure what that dot on Elizabeth’s dress is – I’m just seeing it for the first time now, so I’ll go and check it out a bit later – hopefully it’s just a bit of fluff stuck to the model (along with that hair!) 😮