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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…

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Ghouls

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Cthulhu: Death May Die - Ghouls Painted Miniatures, Cthulhu Mythos Ghouls

I haven’t gotten a ton of models painted since my procedure in the middle of the month, but I have spent some time doing more work on getting stuff done. These five Ghouls from Cthulhu: Death May Die were the first things that I managed to get painted afterwards, Investigators painted for the month.

I mean, they’re pretty simple/straightforward models. They did have some shockingly-placed mold lines that I did my best to scrape away, and while I do appreciate Adrian Smith’s art, this design is pretty meh. Like, it’s totally fine, but not much else. So the bar for these was across-the-board, pretty much in the middle.

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Ghouls Painted Miniatures, Cthulhu Mythos Ghouls

So while I do like to challenge and stretch myself on occasion, I also very much enjoy low-stakes, low-stress models that simply need to look good enough on the tabletop. These are very much that! They were a good way to ease back into painting, and so on that basis alone they more than made up for any shortcomings.

And to copypasta myself – Because the Cthulhu Mythos are all about World-Ending situations (in the end), I’ll nominate these for Dave Stone’s Apocalypse Me challenge, with a few more posts yet to come in that vein… (well, one for sure, perhaps a second depending on Dave’s judgement…)