Cthulhu: Death May Die
Cthulhu: Death May Die is a fully co-operative, miniatures-heavy, board game set in the pulp-era (1920's and 1930's) where desperate and brave humans defend against ancient horrors derived from the horror fiction writer H.P.Lovecraft's (et al.) nightmarish alternative world known just as Mythos. I myself consider this game to be THE best co-operative game in existence and that has inspired me to paint most of the entire gaming line's 200+ miniatures. I'll take pictures as time permits.
I've removed all the plain plastic bases the miniatures came with and replaced them with similarly sized clear acrylic bases. This will let the game board below to show through making the miniatures much more immersive. But in retrospect ... oh boy, that has been a LOT of work; especially since CA glue doesn't work that well (without an activator compound) when applied to smooth acrylic surfaces and so I've pinned every miniature to their bases with 0.7mm tiny metal rods to make them robust enough to withstand the tear and wear from actual gaming. I've tried to follow the illustrations provided in the game when painting but some paint-schemes would have been so damned bland (I mean solid blackish greys) that tiny liberties have been taken with a few of them. Of course some - like the Colour Out of Space on this page - are purely products of imagination.
Tsathoggua
Such an annoying enemy in the game, I painted Tsathoggua mostly with a mixture of Army Painter's thinned Speed Paint paints doing layers upon layers and making a rough white dry brushing in between layering.
Colour Out of Space
How to depict a colour that can not be quantified as a colour by the inadequate human senses? In H.P.Lovecraft's original story (of which this miniature is based of) it is "easy" just to write that such a colour exists that humans can not quite understand or categorize. In two movies based on that story the colour is depicted as a reddish purple colour in an otherwise completely black and white film (as if the senses of human beings are reduced to black and white and the only colour of the movie epitomizes the overloading of human senses) or in the case of Nicolas Cage starred movie the colour is depicted as a reddish purple haze that haloes out, dims and mutes other colours again in an attempt to exemplify how this unknown colour could be visually perceived by humans. In painting this miniature, however, I chose to approach this conundrum by painting with vivid traditional colours but in such a manner that a person seeing the miniature would be unable to answer the question: "What colour is this miniature?". I also used GSW's metallic colour shift paints that change their colour depending on lightning and angle - and then layered thin layers of paint atop of them so that the miniature would not look "metallic" as such but the colour shifts still work in slightly changing the colours of the layered paints depending on the viewing angle. However, in still photographs this effect does not really show.
Dark Young
Hounds of Tindalos
Star Vampires
Fire Vampires
Gugs
This is the very first set of miniatures I painted using entirely with the following technique: 1) black primer, 2) aggressive white zenithal primer, 3) Army Painter's Speed Paints, 4) aggressive white dry brushing, 5) another layer with the Speed Paints, 6) final touches with sepia inks and some white highlights with a traditional brush.
Eddie
From the special Iron Maiden -themed expansion set. It would have been annoying to remove the fixed base so I just left it be.
Mario
Don
Painted by my son.
Self-made gate markers. Made by chopping up some Dungeons & Lasers Sci-Fi Starter Set assets and attaching them to clear acrylic bases. Simple and effective replacement for the cardboard tokens.
Margie
Roxie
Quite annoying to paint.
Antonio
Painted by my son.
Saito
Painted by my son.
Cultists
I painted different inscriptions on each of the five ritual books held by the cultists. These are the cultist models from the very first DMD box. I've painted the additional different cultists introduced later on as well (pictures later).
Ithaqua
Lots of glimmering effects that reflect light as if the creature was covered in ice.
Shantaks
These supernatural "horses" got some ethereal effects as the manes and tails are covered with Green Stuff World's fluorescent gels. So yeah ... their manes and tails glow in the dark.
Dagon
A blast from the ... deep! The colours of this one might seem weird but they actually do follow the colour schemes of illustrations provided in the game. Personally I think a more traditional deep greens mixed with deep blues and browns would have been more appropriate considering Dagon's origins in H.P.Lovercraft's works of fiction but I still decided to follow suit - perhaps just because there's already so many figures with dark base colour schemes already within the game's universe.
Yog-Sothoth
Hastur
Hastur Disciples
