Something a little different again today – we have a pair of player character models from the Board Game Cthulhu: Death May Die. Ariele Venturi, a game hunter from Napoli, Italy; and Sam Wood, a farmer from Kansas. Death May Die is a board game that has some pretty strong positive reviews, so Marouda and I decided to pick it up and see if we liked it before the Pledge Manager for the second campaign closed. As it happened, the game was fun – though it’s also not easy – and the models are pretty alright. A mix of nice, clean details as with the Night of the Living Dead Zombicide models, while many of them have a bit of weird wonk to them as well – witness the size of Sam’s hat and thickness of his pitchfork(!) or the wonk of Ariele’s rifle – which in the artwork looks a bit like a SMLE and a bit like a Carcano and on the model just looks like “generic rifle”, and is rather different to the detailed artwork.

Painting Sam’s shirt was a right pain in the arse, though his worn denim and Ariele’s outfit were a lot more enjoyable to paint. I’d hoped to complete another pair of figures from this game, but with the hot weekends over February it just didn’t happen. This weekend is looking much more pleasant, though we’re expecting a call from the AirCon guy at some point over the next few days – so it’ll be great to get it fixed, though it’ll also take up a bunch of time. Worth it, though!

Ariele is a #Fembruary model, and the pair of them are also models for Dave Stone’s Paint what You Got challenge. I’ve now got 2 more February posts to knock out in the next couple of days, then the rather modest February Round-Up shortly after that…