From Barks: Mansions of Madness 90pts

Not Star Wars, but still a Fantasy Flight boardgame offering: the figures from the latest Mansions of Madness expansion. The sculpt quality has vastly improved from the first edition, but there is still room for improvement.

First, our heroes. Tommy Muldoon is the rookie cop. He's got something of a young Peter O'Toole going on in his cheekbones.

Finn Edwards is a bootlegger. His face is great, but didn't photograph well. I tried to paint him carrying a bottle of illicit whisky, which was tricky.

Diana Stanley is the former cultist with a heart of gold. Her face is a little featureless, unfortunately. I gave her green details, as most of my Cthulhu stuff has green in it. I quite like how the candle flame and wax look.

Not all the foes they face are supernatural: the hired guns with their derby hats became some clichéd Irish hitmen under my brush. I enjoyed layering their trenchcoats.

The skeletons are suitably 19th century with their watch chains and waistcoats.

My favourites are the Star Vampires. These are invisible creatures which can be heard faintly tittering, and become visible by being filled up with their victims' blood. They're a chaotic mess of teeth and tentacles- perfect. I based them on 60mm bases.

Finally, the Lloigor. It is some sort of invisible reptile thing, and I'm not really fond of the sculpt- it is a monster designed by a gaggle of schoolkids. It's got two legs, four arms with claws, four arms with pincers, eight eyes, a pincer on the tail, armour on the back of it's neck, floppy looking spines- it really reminds me of the Black Beast of Arrgh! I persevered with multiple thin layers of grey, and am satisfied with the outcome. It's big- I based it on an 80mm mini-disc.

Keen students will note a missing figure- wait for a future theme round!


From Ray
Definitely not Star Wars! But still a great mix of figures, I unfortunately know bugger all about Cthulhu or Flight of Fantasy, but I still appreciate a well painted figure. I too can see the Peter O'Toole resemblance in Tommy Muldoon, its a great relaxed pose. I can imagine Diane Stanley starring in an old black and white film from the 30's, where the film and make up they wore kinda dulled facial features.....or am I talking a load of tosh?
The monsters look great especially the big beastie! So are we to expect an even bigger beast in the monster round? Me thinks so???
I'm not up with monsters so asked Curt to help out on their points, we've gone with

7x 28mm figures 35 points
2x monsters on 60mm bases 15 points each
1x monster on 80mm base. 25 points I've counted this large Monster as a 28mm vehicle but added a further 10 points for its size.
Making a grand total of 90 points,