Cthulhu: Death May Die – Machinist’s Mate Tony Boyle & Ahmed Yasin

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Machinist's Mate Tony Boyle & Ahmed Yasin

A couple more grounded models with this next pair of Death May Die investigators. We have the New Yorker, Machinist’s Mate Tony Boyle as well as the Turkish “Doctor”, Ahmed Yasin. The artwork for Tony looks a fair bit better than the sculpt, both in terms of the pose as well as the details – like Tony’s webbing belt only having holes on the front because the sculptor obviously didn’t understand what he was looking at in the artwork.

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Machinist's Mate Tony Boyle & Ahmed Yasin

Tony was a pretty straightforward paint job, and even his tattoos are more of a “feel” than a “detail” as they’re undefined in the artwork, so they were pretty easy to paint in. Ahmed’s sculpt works pretty well, and in paint terms, his suit turned out perhaps a little darker than I originally intended, but I’m still pretty happy with it. Another pair of investigators done!

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Borden & The Kid

Cthulhu: Death May Die Miniatures - Lizzie Borden & The Kid, Cthulhu Investigators

My next pair of Death May Die player investigator models feature none other than “Borden” – presumably based on Lizzie herself and “The Kid” – a terrifying supernatural psycho-child. As you may have noticed, both heroinies wear red dresses with patterns – but I ask you, dear reader – what really is a patterned red dress? They’re really the detail points of both models in a lot of ways, though I am happy with The Kid’s face and hair and Lizzie is my first successful attempt to paint full eyes with pupils behind eyeglasses – which you still can’t really see in these photos because of the angle of Lizzie’s head. I still don’t like having to paint OSL, but I wasn’t escaping it on this model, so…

Cthulhu: Death May Die Miniatures - Lizzie Borden & The Kid, Cthulhu Investigators

With both of these dresses I attempted to follow the artwork which is why they’re different reds, though on reflection The Kid’s polka dots are a bit bigger on the model when compared to the art. Lizzie’s flower pattern was a bit of a bother in some ways, though it wasn’t too tricky once I just knuckled down and got to work on it. Anyway – another two of these models painted and I’m pretty happy with them. Not really models I would ever have thought I’d enjoy painting to be quite honest, but there you go…

Fellow painter & blogger – and solidly inspirational fellow, Wudugast suggested that he and I should try to paint at least a pair of these models each month – as he also has a copy of this game to work through – so here’s looking forward to seeing his work to keep me motivated on these so I don’t run out of steam as quickly as I often do on these things… Anyone else out there with a copy of Cthulhu: Death May Die who wants to join in on trying to get a pair of models painted each month? 😀