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Cthulhu: Death May Die – Shoggoth

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Cthulhu: Death May Die Mythos Shoggoth Painted Miniature

Today’s monster – my final Monster MayHem ’23 submission – is once again from Cthulhu: Death May Die – though this time it’s from the Season 1 core box. The Shoggoth appears to fit the overall description of Lovecraft’s creature pretty well, though reading that description certainly makes me suspect that John Carpenter had some rather direct inspiration for The Thing. (Not to be in any way confused with Ben Grimm in this case..)

Cthulhu: Death May Die Mythos Shoggoth Painted Miniature

Painting was pretty quick and straightforward – and Contrast Black Templar on the rest of it, drybrushed up with Dark Reaper (dark blue-grey) and then some thinned Contrast Volpus Pink (magenta) in spots on the body and the ends of the tentacles. The eyes were VMC Ice Yellow with Citadel’s Gemstone Red and a touch of Blood for the Blood God on their upper orbs.

Cthulhu: Death May Die Mythos Shoggoth Painted Miniature

Finally, Contrast Blood Angels Red in the mouth-tentacles, drybrushed with some mixes of lighter reds and oranges.

Cthulhu: Death May Die Mythos Shoggoth Painted Miniature

This Shoggoth was the final model I completed in May – in the evening of the 31st. It’s not my final May model to be shown, though – there’s still several posts worth of D&D Boardgame models I’ve been bumping out of the way so I could get these Monsters posted up in time before the weekend. Expect a daily run of those to begin in a couple of days so we can get through them in a reasonable space of time – culminating in the May Round-Up…

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Yugg

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Cthulhu: Death May Die - Yugg Cthulhu Mythos Miniature Figure

Today’s monster is from Cthulhu: Death May Die Season 2 – it’s a thing called a Yugg – though it seems like a fair few of the Miniatures in this game don’t really match Lovecraft’s descriptions all that well. If I were deeply invested in the Cthulhu Mythos, this might bother me, but luckily(!) I’m not, and am happy to just paint the toys and play the games.

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Yugg Cthulhu Mythos Miniature Figure

So this creature is apparently described as like a tapeworm – so instead the model is pretty much a gigantic combination of a leech and a maggot, but like I said above, I’m not super-invested in the Cthulhu Mythos (same as D&D, to be fair).

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Yugg Cthulhu Mythos Miniature Figure

I might have to go back and add a little pinkish flesh to the teeth in it’s underside, to emphasise the under-mouth of the model a little more. What do you think, dear reader?

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Yugg Cthulhu Mythos Miniature Figure

As I’ve been working on the “monster” models from these sets, I’ve noticed some rather suggestive elements of the sculpts. In this case, the spiked …sac under the “chin” of this creature looks like it could contain a pair of …something inside it. A couple of the other models I’m working on now, there’s a real resemblance to the “orchid” in the head-parts, but I’ll discuss that once I’ve completed them and post them here.

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Yugg Cthulhu Mythos Miniature Figure, Investigators Miniature Figures

Anyway, this delicious beast is another model completed in time for Angry Piper’s Monster MayHem ’23 painting challenge! Stay tuned for the next ones…