Friday, 29 March 2019

Mansions of Madness: Horrific Journeys

I painted the figures from the latest MoM expansion, Horrific Journeys.

There are four investigators: Trish Scarborough (spy), Jim Culver (jazz musician), Silas Marsh (sailor), and Agnes Baker (waitress).

Trish Scarborough, Jim Culver, Silas Marsh, Agnes Baker
There are some human, humanoid, and eldritch monsters:

Warlocks

Dimensional Shamblers

Hunting Deep Ones

Formless Spawn
I'm pretty happy with the Warlocks' suits. I went dark grey with a black wash and highlighted with a mid-grey. The Formless Spawn is supposed to be an amorphous tarry black blob- I highlighted it from above and then washed it down with a black wash. It's big: on an 80mm base.

The quality of the figures is leaps and bounds ahead of where FFG used to be.

12 comments:

  1. Lovely painting. The jazz musician made me smile, why would anyone carry a trumpet when fighting the hordes of evil ??

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    1. I’m glad you asked! Jim’s inherited trumpet allows him to communicate with the dead- although riffing off a snazzy tune when Great Cthulhu himself rises before you may not be useful.

      I’m bemused by the sailor- “I go around everywhere topless with my harpoon because I’m a sailor.”

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    2. It's Erich Zann's trumpet, made from the bones of murdered victims. Playing it can cause magical effects or strip a being's soul from its body (With apologies to Charles Stross)

      I like how the sailor investigates appalling supernatural evil with a 6-foot spear... While Agnes does it with her diner order pad. She must truly be a badass.

      Great bunch of characters, you made them look fantastic.

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    3. Thanks very much, Allison! I hadn’t thought of a Zann connection, nice one.

      Agnes is a devastating spellcaster in the card game, but I’m not sure they’ve captured that in her sculpt!

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  2. The scenarios are good too. We've Zeppelin'd twice and take the Arkham Express this pm.

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  3. Terrific, I love them all :O

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  4. Awesome. I need to get back to painting my characters for the game (have about 1/4 done). Liking your Jim Culver especially.

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    1. Thanks! I based the skin recipe on Anne O’L’s work.

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