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

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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…

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Fatima Safar & Halilia Hovath

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Cthulhu: Death May Die - Fatima Safar & Halilia Hovath

Today’s models are a slight break from Marvel or Zombicide, though we still have a pair of models from a CMON game. Last year I was attempting to paint two per month of my Cthulhu: Death May Die investigators, though when I burned out at the end of last year that also spelled the end of that for a time. Now we have two more of that final four, and another two for my FeMarch – female models that I didn’t get completed in time for Fembruary!

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Fatima Safar & Halilia Hovath

The first of this pair is Fatima Safar, an Occultist from Alexandria, Egypt for whom Tarot cards are but child’s play – which clearly explains why the sculpt is holding a pair. And I forgot to paint their backs. Once again our Death May Die sculptor turns out a technically fine model with an issue – this time it’s Fatima’s dagger arm, which is facing forwards rather than backwards. Kinda hard to see in 2D, but just take your right arm and hold an imaginary dagger in it in the manner that Fatima is here. Now, instead of the dagger facing out towards your right rear, rotate your arm so it’s facing towards your right front instead. Ouch. Anyway, Fatima wears another purple skirt (not lavender this time!) and a blue overskirt with patterns in both white and gold thread, which I attempted to simulate here.

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Fatima Safar & Halilia Hovath

Our second model today is Halilia Hovath, a Romani Wise Woman from Transylvania, Romania. Halilia also has a sculpting issue – the sculptor this time failed to notice the transition between her shirt and her dress, so the sculpt is just one smooth piece. I just kinda painted it in and hid the transition in her jewelery. The pattern on her robe wasn’t at all sculpted on, either. No huge hassle for me to do an imperfect approximation, but it certainly would have made adding it in more accessible to other painters. You can’t really notice in these pics, but Halilia has a slightly more olive skin tone than a lot of the other models I’ve painted, while Halilia has some grey mixed into her skin tone, which I also did for Aunt May in my previous post..

The rest of the painting on her was pretty straightforward, and it now leaves me with only two more models to have all of the Season 1 and 2 investigators completed!

Only leaving me the Cultists, and about a million Mythos Horrors still to paint after that…