#Femarch 2024 Completed!

A quick one today – I’ve got a draft of the monthly round-up, but it’s already pretty long and I have a lot of stuff to do this weekend, so I thought I’d highlight the female models I painted in March. For those who may not know (not many regular readers here, Id wager) Several years ago, Alex of the Leadbaloony blog started a thing called “Fembruary”, where the community was challenged to specifically paint some female models.

Obviously, how easy or not this is to accomplish depends a lot on what you’re painting and the models available for those ranges. Anyway, Alex has set the idea free and hasn’t actively moderated the month’s participants for a couple of years, but a good number of us still make an attempt anyway. This year I was really just getting re-started painting again in February after a bit of a hiatus, and so challenges weren’t high on my mind, so I made a specific effort in March instead, with a focus on getting a few models from speicifc games completed or entirely painted. This first trio were part of trying to get the last of my Cthulhu: Dead May Die models painted – three of the four were these ladies, who now are indeed complete!

The next pair are the simplest of Femarch’s models – a pair from Last Night on Earth.

The third game to feature was Marvel Zombies, one of CMoN’s endless Zombicide franchise. These five models are all “Bystanders” rather than “Survivor Heroes” – these being easier to focus on for a variety of reasons. In the end, I got 10 models painted for “Femarch” – a pretty good showing I think. Next year I’ll see if I can manage to do this during February instead, but I do tend to get a decent number of female models painted every month regardess when I’m painting Zombicide and/or Marvel/Cthulu/boardgame-centric models. Which is basically all the time these days.

Cthulhu: Death May Die – John Morgan (Not-Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones) and Adilah Vidal

Cthulhu: Death May Die Investigators - John Morgan (Not-Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Miniature) and Adilah Vidal

Today we have the last pair of my Cthulhu: Death May Die investigators from both the Season 1 and Season 2 boxed sets. The first of the two investigators that we have here are “John Morgan“, an Animal Handler and Safari Master from Fort Wayne, Indiana. (see what they did there?) The art depicts an African American man, which is obviously the way that they chose to get around the sorts of IP copyright issues that CMON have faced with many of their “homage” characters in the past.

Cthulhu: Death May Die Investigators - John Morgan (Not-Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Miniature) and Adilah Vidal

So with all that, I simply “race-swapped” the figure back to the character’s original form, and in our games we’ll instead be playing as Dr. Jones, University Professor, Adventurer, Archeologist star of one of the greatest movie trilogies ever THERE WERE ONLY THREE MOVIES and also inspiration for one of the greatest songs of the late 1990’s that I’m sure many of you will remember.

Now that’s stuck playing in your head, we can move on to discussing our second Investigator. You can thank me later. You did click on the youtube link, didn’t you?

Cthulhu: Death May Die Investigators - John Morgan (Not-Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Miniature) and Adilah Vidal

The final figure that I completed for the Death May Die cast was Adilah Vidal. Adilah is a Voodoo Priestess from Les Cayes, Haiti. I’ll readily admit that the patterns on her skirt were the thing that pushed my painting of Adilah riiight to the back of the queue. In the end, when I finally got to work painting her skirt, it was actually pretty enjoyable – a bit of a surprise, but then freehanding patterns to fill in missing details is pretty fun. 😄

Cthulhu: Death May Die Investigators - John Morgan (Not-Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Miniature) and Adilah Vidal

I guess I should point out here that unlike the newspaper in J. Jonah Jameson’s hand from my recent post, Adilah’s skirt was simply smooth – nothing was etched into the skirt, so the whole thing had to be done freehand. So while it was enoyable in practise, those lines are reeeally small. I think the issue is that unlike when painting a shield or some such when you can just do whatever the hell you want, in this case I was trying to match the look and feel of the artwork reasonably closely, which was a bit more of a mental block than just going for it on something.

Cthulhu: Death May Die Investigators - John Morgan (Not-Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Miniature) and Adilah Vidal

Adilah was then my final model for FeMarch, and also about to be the model that gives me all of the Season 1 and 2 investigators completed – all of the investigators that I owned, in fact – but then, as I was nearing completion of Adilah, my final investigator, something else arrived in the post…

To be continued, I guess…