Category Archives: Cthulhu: Death May Die

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Tcho-Tcho

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Cthulhu: Death May Die - Tcho-Tcho painted miniature figurines

Well, in September I didn’t manage to get three investigators completed to catch up from August and current month, and so with just two days left to go I wanted to make sure I still made some meaningful progress on getting this board game painted, so I pulled out the set of five Tcho-Tcho from the Season 2 set that I’d started several months ago.

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Tcho-Tcho painted miniature figurines

Not knowing all that much in terms of the details of the Cthulhu mythos – particularly in terms of depth – I just went with my usual method of basing my paint schemes on the CMON illustrations once again. So they’re kinda like tanned, jacked ghouls – which will obviously give them some utility use for other games if ever needed.

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Tcho-Tcho painted miniature figurines

These enemies seem to be on the lower tier, alongside things like Human Cultists and Deep Ones and Ghouls – at least if the miniatures are anything to go by! As noted above, I’m hoping that my offering of these five Tcho-Tcho will appease the Great Elder God of Wudugast for our monthly Death May Die pact…

I’d nominate these for Challenging Challengemeister Dave Stone’s Apocalypse Me, but it’s an October challenge, and these are September-painted models as I still have a few days of backlog to get posted up yet…

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Sergeant Ian Welles & Alex Parker

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Cthulhu: Death May Die Investigators - Sergeant Ian Welles & Alex Parker

Once again I failed in my “two per month” quest to get these Cthulhu Death May Die investigators done – with only Sergeant Welles finished in August. This meant I needed to paint three in September to catch up. So I’ve only now just finished the model I was initially painting alongside Welles – Alex Parker. This also means to get back on track I need to finish two more of these things in the next four days. No pressure, then!

Cthulhu: Death May Die Investigators - Sergeant Ian Welles & Alex Parker

The first of these two then is the previously mentioned Sergeant Ian Welles. He’s a U.S. Army Veteran of The Great War from Maine who now fights against the gibbering eldritch hordes. No relation to any other U.S. Army Veterans who hail from Maine that frequent this blog, I’m sure. The artwork shows the model wearing puttees, but – once again in this series of models – the digital sculptor, while talented, didn’t know what he was looking at in the artwork and just did a bit of “whatever” and sculpted Welles with essentially long socks (and another webbing belt with no eyelets), so I had to “paint them in”. The blame also has to fall on the CMON Art Editor for this project as well for the regular sculpt mistakes, but

Cthulhu: Death May Die Investigators - Sergeant Ian Welles & Alex Parker

The second of these models is Alex Parker, who comes from Brisbane, Australia. Alex’s backstory is pretty uninspired, as I’d expect from a token Australian character. He apparently was a curious child who became a curious adult who got involved in various criminal investigations and eventually unearthed a cult. I enjoyed painting his (military?) clothing with the exception of his argyle socks, which are inexplicably visible with his weird short-legged pants. Huh. Over the two models I based their clothing colours on the artwork, rather than trying to match early 20th Century uniforms.