Cthulhu: Death May Die | Azazel's Bitz Box.

Firstly, I don’t know why even boxed board games now use the term “Season”. It’s not my fault! I wasn’t even there! It was Owen!

Regardless, my Cthulhu: Death May Die investigators from both the Season 1 and Season 2 boxed sets are finally complete, so I thought I’d show off a couple of group shots of the whole gang together.

It’s immensely satisfying to have finished even a sub-project like this for me, even with the couple of months delay when my painting paused recently.

With all of these figures being individuals, with no squads or zombie-versions or alter-egos or additional versions of any kind to paint, they were generally a lot easier to paint than many of the other models I’ve spent time on over the past few years.

As I guess is inevitable, some of the figures are better than others, and some of them were more enjoyable to paint than others. Even the worst of them do at least “spark joy” when looking at them, so I guess the time spent was worthwhile across the board here.

There’s a nice variety in these models in many ways, and CMON managed to split them 50-50 between male and female with a nice diversity of origin – more than two of these characters are from outside the U.S. – crazy I know!

Now all I need to do is paint up the baddies. Oh, and also the new Investigators I got in that other set that arrived recently…

Monthly Round-Up for March coming soon!

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.

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?

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. 😄

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.

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…

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