Cthulhu: Death May Die – Ariele Venturi & Sam Wood #Fembruary 2023

by

27

Cthulhu: Death May Die Miniatures - Ariele Venturi & Sam Wood, Cthulhu Investigators

Something a little different again today – we have a pair of player character models from the Board Game Cthulhu: Death May Die. Ariele Venturi, a game hunter from Napoli, Italy; and Sam Wood, a farmer from Kansas. Death May Die is a board game that has some pretty strong positive reviews, so Marouda and I decided to pick it up and see if we liked it before the Pledge Manager for the second campaign closed. As it happened, the game was fun – though it’s also not easy – and the models are pretty alright. A mix of nice, clean details as with the Night of the Living Dead Zombicide models, while many of them have a bit of weird wonk to them as well – witness the size of Sam’s hat and thickness of his pitchfork(!) or the wonk of Ariele’s rifle – which in the artwork looks a bit like a SMLE and a bit like a Carcano and on the model just looks like “generic rifle”, and is rather different to the detailed artwork.

Cthulhu: Death May Die Miniatures - Ariele Venturi & Sam Wood, Cthulhu Investigators

Painting Sam’s shirt was a right pain in the arse, though his worn denim and Ariele’s outfit were a lot more enjoyable to paint. I’d hoped to complete another pair of figures from this game, but with the hot weekends over February it just didn’t happen. This weekend is looking much more pleasant, though we’re expecting a call from the AirCon guy at some point over the next few days – so it’ll be great to get it fixed, though it’ll also take up a bunch of time. Worth it, though!

Ariele is a #Fembruary model, and the pair of them are also models for Dave Stone’s Paint what You Got challenge. I’ve now got 2 more February posts to knock out in the next couple of days, then the rather modest February Round-Up shortly after that…

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Iron Man

by

22

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Iron Man

Today’s model is one of the final ̶t̶h̶r̶e̶e̶ four from the Crisis Protocol Core Set – Iron Man!

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Iron Man

As with the Marvel Zombies model shown last, this model was painted by first painting, preshading and pre-highlighting the gold and then going over it with a “gel” paint – in this case I didn’t use Spiritstone Red at all and instead overpainted the model entirely with “Citadel’s Technical Blood For The Blood God” paint – giving a deeper red from the get-go than the Spiritstone Red used in the Marvel Zombies model.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Iron Man

While in some cases I’m going to be attempting some consistency between superhero and villain models in terms of exact colours and schemes – even across our various miniatures games (Crisis Protocol, Marvel Zombies & Marvel United) I’m also ok with having some variation – just look at how many unique suits of Iron Man armour Tony has had across the comics and/or films. I feel that I’ll need to be more concerned with consistency for skin tones on models like Hulk or Drax or Gamora, though I’m aware that even that is me being more OCD than I need to..

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Iron Man

While once again, the use of transparent gel paints doesn’t leave us with the most photogenic model in terms of what I’m able to do with close-up internet photos – it does however jive well with my larger scale Iron Mans – in this case my Hot Toys MK.III – they look very much birds of a feather, so I’m quite happy with the outcome – especially for our games table.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Iron Man

Again, this model is another one down for Dave Stone’s current Paint what You Got challenge. I’ll likely be posting things up for a few days into March to wrap up now that the weather has dropped a little and I’m finally getting some posts written. There’s now only three Core Set models left to go – Captain USA, Doctor Octopussy and Man-Spidey. Hoping to have one more of those fully completed before February ends, and then hopefully the last two in March…  ?