Cohors Cthulhu

That is all for now.

Next month I will purchase a pack each of revolting peasants, Chatti Warriors, cavalry command and two packs of naked savage germans, this will finish the factions, I will also add some heroes From other nations a Gaul who may bear a passing resemblance to Asterix, wizards, Egyptians and I already have a couple of Thracian heroes to paint.

But I need to take a small break to paint up the Cyberpunk Red: Combat Zone starter set do I can have a few games, thst will be a new project coming soon.

I also am building my brother a 1/32nd scale Shepherds Hut from scratch for his 50th Birthday present he is a shepherd and has a collection of 1/32md scale Britains Farm models from his childhood. So I will probably return to this project in May, hopefully with a first draft of the rules.

As I said earlier the inspiration for finishing the  building was my backing Modiphius’s Cohors Cthulhu.

The game takes place in the same world as Achtung Cthulhu but has a more mythical feel.

Frpm the quick start rules:

Amid a war-torn and fractious world in which Roman legionaries bent on conquest face off against barbarian warriors protecting their tribes, players take on the roles of diverse heroes from regions across the empire: Germania, Gaul, Britannia, Aegyptus, Assyria, Greece, Hispania, and even eternal Rome itself. Arising from a wide array of backgrounds, they battle baleful horrors facing all of humanity. Whether the fight was forced on them or they chose this path, it requires putting aside allegiances and prejudices, and making friends of former enemies. This fight also requires confronting peril to gather remnants of forgotten magic, most often preserved by priests of jealous and competing gods. But fickle as humanity’s gods may be, they are sometimes the only recourse against those from beyond the stars. Nyarlathotep, the God of a Thousand Forms, has unleashed myriad schemes to subvert oncesacred cults across Rome, Germania, and beyond. In the shadows lurk powerful, corrupted survivors of Atlantis, their minds twisted by Sarthothus, the Shattered God, whose alien intellect has infected the Atlantean relics upon which the Atlanteans’ power relies.

This gives me the opportunity to build a diverse collection with heroes from across the Roman Empire.

I am starting off with a core of Romans and two Germanic Tribes.

I will use these models to playtest the miniatures rules when they are sent out. I am also adapting a skirmish rule set based on the CS1 rules that came out for SLA Industries, there are some mechanics that will synch really well into the back ground.

Unfortunately at this point I took no more photos of the painting process.

The next post will show the finished model, and I will share some of the techniques used.

Having backed the Cohors Cthulhu Kickstarter from Modiphius I bought some figures and dug out my unfinished Roman Inn from Aarrissa Precision and decided to finish it providing as much as a tutorial as possible.

I hope to get the buildings and scenery items finished this week, then I will do a complete step by step for the larger farmhouse/inn.

I will then base all the buildings on thin mdf creating gardens etc, I will also be.purchasing bits to make the buildings look lived in.

The scenery will initially be used for Barons War (if I am happy with the two sample knights) and then for generic fantasy and Runequest.

Once the buildings are finished I may rename this thread to Barons War and continue to document my progress here. While I am waiting for the Kickstarter to deliver I will probably get some Dark Age/Medieval civillians from Foundry and Perry Miniatures to populate my village (and possibly a couple more buildings to expand the village).

I have forgotten to take pictures and have progressed with the smaller buildings. So once these are finished I will ensure that I do a step by step of the larger farmhouse/inn as this model will cover all the various methods used.

All the small buildings are now finished to a useable stage, I will be adding larger scenic bases later and adding a few more details to give them that lived in look.

I have also worked on all the fences, the well, the haycart and the sheep.

With the buildings I have finished adding all the wooden beams and planking as detailed earlier, filled in the cob panel areas with Games Workshop Martian Earth texture paint, I then added Brillo Pad roofs. All the floors were covered in PVA glue and fine sand.

That is where I am at. This evening I am going to attempt finish off the wooden beams inside and out on the barn. Then I either going to texture wall panels and add ground work to the three smaller buildings followed by detailing and painting.

Or

I am will start on exterior detailing of the Inn, I think I am going to work towards completing the three smaller buildings not inc. the scenic bases.