Dark Spawn (Six of the Thousand Young)

I'm sure that designing miniatures for large-scale production is difficult, balancing aesthetics with price and construction realities. When I say that these Dark Spawn from Cthulhu: Death May Die are poorly designed, I mean that only insofar as their ability to be painted is lacking. The masses of branches or tentacles on top, along with some of the underbelly areas, are difficult to reach to apply a base coat, let alone detailed painting. In light of that, I went with a very fast, drybrush-heavy, sketchy, and dark paint scheme to hide the worst of it. This is not a great paint job, but these are not great models for painting.

All that said, these monsters are finished and perfectly usable on the tabletop, and I can move on.