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…

Marvel Zombies: Pepper Potts and Aunt May Parker

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Marvel Zombies: Pepper Potts and Aunt May Parker

Another pair of Marvel Zombies’ Wimminz – this time it’s Pepper Potts and sweet old, doting Aunt May. I’m aware of Pepper from the comics, but most of my familiarity with her comes from Gwyneth Paltrow’s depiction throughout the MCU films. I painted the model pretty much based on her generic look on the card, down to the strawberry-blonde hair and the rather innocuous briefcase that she’s holding. No doubt full of files, papers and pens. Pretty straightforward, really, and I’m still working on my highlighting of black clothing since I don’t want the highlights of her dark clothing to be noticible without making it look like she’s wearing a shiny PVC skirt.

Marvel Zombies: Pepper Potts and Aunt May Parker

 

Aunt May on the other hand was a whole lot more work. Her skirt is on it’s third repaint, since the first iteration was too pink, then too purple, and finally I settled on this shade of attempted-lavender. Damn, the purple spectrum of colours can be tricky! This appears to be the frail, doting, comic version of May, as opposed to the matriarchal overseer of the Spider-Verse or the younger, MILFy, go-getter of later MCU depictions. The pose really sells the personality here, I think.

Anyway, we’re almost at the end of my FeMarch models – aka “I failed at getting them finished in time for Fembruary”. Hopefully Alex forgives me when he gets back to posting! 😉