'Monstrous' from PhilH: Hunting Nightgaunts

As Snowlord knows, I've been playing quite a bit of Arkham Horror: The Card Game since it released, an excellent (if expensive) cooperative card game by Fantasy Flight Games. An action-packed take on Lovecraft's Mythos, we dive into a new narrative adventure every few weeks, our plucky investigators battling foiling the schemes of dastardly cultists and facing down unimaginable horrors. The latest campaign, The Path to Carcosa is excellent game design with a gloriously deranged and bleak story and stunning visuals.

As always when one has a few hobbies, these tend to inspire and bleed across to one another, and I've been collecting a few Mythos monsters and cultists, to port over to miniatures gaming, probably using an adapted Pulp Alley ruleset.

Noting the theme of AHPC VIII, this seemed a fitting time to put paint to them. For this round, I offer a pack of Nightgaunts on the hunt.

Unfortunate cultist for scale only (painted in AHPC VII)

One of Lovecraft's own inventions based on a childhood nightmare, Nightgaunts are black, faceless humanoid creatures with membranous wings, swooping to snatch unfortunate victims. Often depicted as entirely black, I opted to add colour to the chains* they wear, and wing membranes.

*a curious feature, which begs the question of who chained them, and how did they escape?

The miniatures are from Modiphius Entertainment, who mostly produce various RPGs, but also Kickstarted a range of metal Mythos creatures, focusing on their weird-WWII Achtung Cthulu! brand. I've picked up a few packs of monsters, avoiding the WWII elements (so far...)

Nice sculpts, finely detailed with good musculature, though quite slender and potentially fragile - I pinned the wings, but worry for the separate horns!

These three and the theme round bonus should push me over my points target with a couple of weeks painting still to go! Now if only this unseasonable cold snap would leave us, I could get some priming done and some more Mythos monsters through the queue.