Here they are. I'll admit to rushing them a bit. I'm at my best when I paint a single model at a time; Why larger scale war gaming never agreed with me
. The cultists are characterful models with their robes and ugly mugs I imagine one pipiing up to the others,
"Awright boys, Mistah Black sez if we waste dem nosey Investergators he'll fix up up wif a $10 bonus fer hooch and broadz, see!"
Maybe not. As yet they don't really have an identity as a cult. I have been throwing around potential loyalties for them. Are they;
1) Dupes. Mugs and rubes Black has gathered in his travels who don't have occult affiliations but trade their muscle for money.
2) Anarchists or commuinists. Black misleads them and sells them stories of how his machinations will bring down the bourgeois and forment revoloution.
3) Wanna be klansman or some other bigots motivated to serve Black by his honeyed promises
4) Legitimate cultists invested in Black's schemes believing they will gain great power serving the elder gods or seeking a nihilistic end like their master.
Once I group painted the cultists I revisited Black himself. The head dress was a neat idea but was poorly executed as well as conflicting with other colours on the model. I reverted to black to match him better with his minions and preferred how it contrasted with his pallid face and made it jump out.
I may touch up all of these models at a later date. Painting the pouches and stuff black leather was lazy and I should have done a better job. Black is a terrible thing to paint when you are feeling lazy because painting it properly requires some thought and clever treatment. The blue grey highlight was pure half-assed lazy drybrushing.
As I said the models were neat with a great pulpy vibe. They had some vicious "flash" and mold lines that ran across textures that made them hard to remove cleanly. I did a better job with the leader but I wasn't painting or modelling five of him. The eyes were very difficult to get at and though the cultists with pistols and shotgun had very nice "character actor" faces the man with the knife wasn't in their league. The eyes under the hoods were very difficult to get at and I was disappointed with what i achieved.