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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 – Sergeant Ian Welles & Alex Parker

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Cthulhu: Death May Die Investigators - Sergeant Ian Welles & Alex Parker

Once again I failed in my “two per month” quest to get these Cthulhu Death May Die investigators done – with only Sergeant Welles finished in August. This meant I needed to paint three in September to catch up. So I’ve only now just finished the model I was initially painting alongside Welles – Alex Parker. This also means to get back on track I need to finish two more of these things in the next four days. No pressure, then!

Cthulhu: Death May Die Investigators - Sergeant Ian Welles & Alex Parker

The first of these two then is the previously mentioned Sergeant Ian Welles. He’s a U.S. Army Veteran of The Great War from Maine who now fights against the gibbering eldritch hordes. No relation to any other U.S. Army Veterans who hail from Maine that frequent this blog, I’m sure. The artwork shows the model wearing puttees, but – once again in this series of models – the digital sculptor, while talented, didn’t know what he was looking at in the artwork and just did a bit of “whatever” and sculpted Welles with essentially long socks (and another webbing belt with no eyelets), so I had to “paint them in”. The blame also has to fall on the CMON Art Editor for this project as well for the regular sculpt mistakes, but

Cthulhu: Death May Die Investigators - Sergeant Ian Welles & Alex Parker

The second of these models is Alex Parker, who comes from Brisbane, Australia. Alex’s backstory is pretty uninspired, as I’d expect from a token Australian character. He apparently was a curious child who became a curious adult who got involved in various criminal investigations and eventually unearthed a cult. I enjoyed painting his (military?) clothing with the exception of his argyle socks, which are inexplicably visible with his weird short-legged pants. Huh. Over the two models I based their clothing colours on the artwork, rather than trying to match early 20th Century uniforms.