Call of Cthulhu Minis: Cars!

Just a short post. I've finally had a change to run Call of Cthulhu 7th Ed and we have had a blast, finishing two classic intro adventures : Edge of Darkness and The Haunting. It's also given me a chance to use a bunch of my miniatures. I've written before about Bob Murch's Cthulhu line of minis (which I've since purchased, of course) and his "Pulp Figures" line, both of which are great.

But, of course, like a shark (...or at least certain species of shark), my wallet must keep moving to stay alive.

I've been watching and enjoying a lot of Seth Skorkowsky's YouTube videos. I watched his video on miniatures for Call of Cthulhu - not super relevant for my own purposes since I've got a ton of Murch's stuff (Or dare I say...murchandise? I can't possibly be the first person to think of that joke) but one part that did catch my eye was Skorkowsky's reference to Matchbox's "Models of Yesteryear" long-discontinued line of toy cars. He confirmed the opinion I've seen elsewhere that 1/43 scale models are the right size for 28mm minis, even though not quite to 28mm scale (which is technically somewhere around 1/64 scale).

To Ebay!

"This shark-wallet metaphor's kinda tortured, Frank."
(from surferworld.com)

There's a collector's market for the "Models of Yesteryear" so many of the cars are very expensive. But there are certainly some non-mint cars that are available for pretty cheap. I managed to find an Ebay lot that was in "played with" condition, so, pretty much zero interest for collectors. But it was fine for me! A bit of model glue to fix a few broken parts and we're good to go.

So, examples.

Zardon the Magnificent prepares to head to a show.

Miss Zelda Foster and her driver, not noticing what's about to happen. (The zombies are from the Zombies! board game.)

Gangland shootout! I really like this Victoria Packard, and choose to ignore that it's an anachronism in most Call of Cthulhu games, being a 1930 model.

And of course some Deep Ones.

"'Let's drive to Innsmouth,' you said. 'Genealogical research,' you said."

The cars do vary a bit in scale and, overall, probably are a bit large (again, the cars being mostly 1/43 vs 1/64 scale for the minis). But once the minis are on bases, the scale works really well.

And they definitely trigger the "vroom, vroom" instinct in my inner ten-year-old.


Of course now I need a set-up that requires some parked cars or, better still, a chase scene! (I still need to use the 7th Ed chase rules.)

From philgamer.wordpress.com