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Given Mantic's previous record on Kick-starter I think that passing by on the funding was the sensible option to take Barzam. The miniatures are one piece and already moulded to the base, so an integral 25mm base. I do not know how the bases were on the Dungeon Saga minis but these bases are hollow underneath a la GW bases rather than the flat bottoms on Deadzone and the like. That certainly helps getting them painted up quickly as you need to do a little filing and scraping on mould lines and then you are good to go.

I should get a further four zombies done today so that will be half of the set done already. I should also be getting a pack of Negan, Machonne, Abraham and walker Ronnie in the post today as well. I bought this as Michonne is the better half's favourite character and they are KS unique sculpts.

Looking pretty sweet.

The second walker looks a bit like King Ezekiel though

He does actually, maybe he is a zombie version?

Anyway I completed the other 7 Walkers, that leaves the 6 Survivors up next. It was a bid odd to paint so many female figures, it just reminded me how under represented they tend to be in Wargaming.

The lady on the right was clearly at a business meeting that went VERY wrong:







Squad goals:



And the integral bases:



Am going to have to do a bit of research now on what kind of colours the Survivors wear. That takes me up to 282 minis for the year, so not long to go to hit 300.

Ew. They're in bad shape

Nice change of pace from GW sculpts.

The zombies look fantastic, mate! If you can push to 365 minis that nets you one a day :-)

Cool, gave the game a pass so its neat to see them done. Nice cultists a D tanmsasg page too!

@WarbossDakka: They certainly are, lots of bits missing and rotting flesh abounds.

@Bottle: Therein insanity lies! I think aiming for 25 a month is much more obtainable. It has been nice to see a fair amount of the grey pile disappear over the year. It also leafs to less feeling of guilt about buying new stuff.

@Grimdork. I think due to the licence that the usual Mantic KS value was not there, at £35 rrp and easily available at s
£30 or less the core set means it is easy not to have missed the KS. I think that waiting for retail is always the most sensible option as you know what you are getting.

Have managed to complete the core set for the Walking Dead with the six survivors painted up. Mantic also swiftly delivered the Walker that I was missing, so kudos to them for sorting out the mispack issue in just 7 days.

Here are Rick and Carl:



Liam and Patrick:



Sandra and Derek:



And the group together:



The completed 18 minis in the gamebox:



And with the cover on:



Finally I have the Neagan/Michonne/Abraham and Walker Ronnie booster to paint up. Admittedly the detail of the barbed wire on Neagan's baseball bat is a little soft so I will be removing it and wrapping it in proper model barbed wire.




Thanks for looking.

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Sweet. The bag of guns makes me laugh. Great work on this lot! Looking forward to the rest.

It is a nice and useful objective marker. I caved in and being an impatient man-child I presented Cindy with the starter set the other day...

Surprisingly she loved it. She has already digested the rulebook a few times and we are going to tackle the starter scenario this weekend. She is also continuously lookin at booster/expansion packs with her various favourite characters so a few of them may be in the future. It is just odd to see her interested in what has previously been my realm of interest.

Anyway I have the month to paint 12 minis for my 300 this year, that is easily obtainable so I hope to get started on that today. Hopefully number 300 will be the new Ahriman on disc.

Avance!

Still catching up on the many blogs I've been pout of touch on - The Cultist Goliaths look amazing - the dusty weathering really works against the dark paint scheme on them. Your Iron Warriors Cataphractii do the legion proud as well! I might have to knock off the pteurge scheme when I get to my own IW Terminators.

The TWD models have come up well. I'd say I regret skipping that KS, but then my trust in Mantic isn't strong, and I've not read or watched TWD yet, so the cost of the IP tax in terms of the models was a barrier more than a selling point. You've certainly made them look good, though.

Good to see you back Azazel, you have certainly been missed. Is the weight of your heavy workload now done for the year? Hope you are fully healed and get back into the hobby with your usual aplomb.

Have managed to get a little done over the past few days. First is Rick Grimes' Sheriff badge, in the game this acts as an initiative token so whoever holds it is the active player. This is a nice little upgrade of the cardboard counter in the core game. Nothing taxing here:



I have also got Michonne painted up, this is Cindy's number one favourite character so I am glad to have her done:



I also got my replacement "missing" Zombie from Mantic and have painted him up. I got him a mere week after bringing up the issue with Mantic, so hopefully they are finally on top of their customer service issues.





I also painted up the Zombie Ronnie Renton, here he is replete in his Mantic branded blue polo shirt. He looks very happy for a man whose ankle is basically hanging off:



And I also put an order in on Wednesday with Firestorm Games, based in Wales. (How to describe Wales to our friends in America and Australia? Hmmm, they are basically a much lesser Canada or New Zealand . I can say this as a Welshman myself). Was really happy with the service and delivery that arrived this morning. Moar Walking Dead:



I think the scenery pack is really useful, 4 cars (two repeated) and a multitude of barriers and objectives etc.





Finally I popped into my local GW too, All Is Dust:



I may go for an ancient looking gold scheme for these with minimal blue accents, their main scheme is a bit much for me.

Thanks for looking.

Nice work on all this Walking Dead stuff, I'm not familiar with the IP so the significance of particular models/characters goes over my head but the paintwork is great!

Nice haul of new stuff, I look forward to seeing what you (and others) can do with the Rubric kits, they look very impressive sculpts.

You caved then eh? Lol. You could go for Magnus-loyal Rubricae? Their legion paint scheme is pretty nice.

Good looking zombies!

I'm interested in seeing how you do the Thousand Sons.

The new models are very nice from GW, and I like the brighter colour scheme personally.

Very nice Mantic minis as well. The gore suits them well.

@Para: Same with me with the IP, blood and guts are not really my thing. The other half has been giving me pointers.

@AoV: Magnus loyal Rubricae sound interesting, any pointers as to what the scheme is?

@Zambro: I am thinking of ancient suits for the rubrics, but not totally sure yet.

@Warboss: I am going to construct them tomorrow, will let you know how they go. I am also considering mixing and matching them with some Mk III or IV parts.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Good to see you back Azazel, you have certainly been missed. Is the weight of your heavy workload now done for the year? Hope you are fully healed and get back into the hobby with your usual aplomb.

I've gotta say, all of that TWD stuff looks really good. Mantic have outdone themselves with the quality of these models and scenery. I order from Firestorm pretty regularly, and they're a great supplier. You've done a great job on the zombies and heroes as well - and the badge/player marker is outstanding. As for the Welsh, aside from an over-fondness for sheep (so I'm told), they're the last of the true Britons, they have those awesome names, and we'd not have Rob Brydon or Tom Jones or Gimli.

I'm really tempted by the Rubricae marines, but I'm going to hold out for some sort of army bundle box. Because I want heaps of them, do do both in blue, in red, and as mix-and-match with MKIV armour. I will gladly watch what you manage to do with them and drool from a distance.

As for my work, I've still got a couple of weeks of attendance before we break for Christmas, but the endless homework and insanity is done, and what's left is largely going to be preparing things for the start of next year. I've also got some time in lieu set aside, so I'll finish a couple of days early as well and have the whole of the Christmas week to recharge and waste time with games and paint.

Aye, very happy with Firestorm and the minis and game thus far. We had a few play through of the tutorial scenarios yesterday and it was both fun and engrossing. It was weird with Cindy having no terms of reference for miniature wargames but seemed to pick up the basics well. She especially enjoyed uncovering a hockey stick and headshotting a zombie into oblivion!

I think a 1k Sons box is inevitable, so it is probably sensible to hang fire. Glad to hear that you are back in the game.

I skipped TWD game since I'm frustrated with Mantic still. I'll play KOW, but mainly with existing armies I have of ones built using other company figure . But that scenery pack might by my next Mantic purchase if I can get it from Miniaturemarket or some other discounter. I may have missed it but do the figs line up size wise with zombicide?

Great painting by the way .

@Theo: SadlyI have absolutely no context at all for the size vs Zombiecide minis, I would say that at a guess they are a similar height but are a fair bit chunkier than the CMON minis. I will fish around the facebook group to see if anyone has done any comparisons.

Have got a couple more Survivors painted up, namely Negan and Abraham. Very happy that I added proper modelling barbed wire to Lucille (Negan's baseball bat) for some added definition. The face on Abraham was a bit of a pain, a bit flat and ill defined for my painting "skills", but I am calling him done.









That takes me up to 293 minis painted for the year. And number 300 is on the horizon:



Thanks for looking.

Great stuff, the face on the first guy is excellent!

Yep, the face and clothes are very well detailed. Well done!

Cheers gents, all encouragement is appreciated.

At the start of the year I pledged to try and paint 300 miniatures over the calendar year, as it stands I am at 299. These last six minis put me on the cusp, they are all from the Prelude to Woodbury expansion from Mantic. This is a solo starter set and is really cool for a play through if you have no one to game with.

The only survivor in the pack, the Governor Brian Blake. I am really happy with the face on him but it does not seem to translate in the photos, hey ho:





And his 5 zombie opponents:



I really like the "lady" on the left, she reminds me of a character from the 80's zombie classic "They Live" which starred wrestling legend Rowdy Roddy Piper:



I have also gotten Ahriman constructed, he is a cracking kit:





And here are minis 201 through 299. As you can see they are mainly GSC, but there is some Deatwatch, Iron Warriors and a fair bit of Walking Dead thrown in there.









Thank you for looking, now onto 300.

Damn, that's a serious bit of hobby. Especially to a great quality! I think the IWs and the Walking Dead stuff has been my favourite so far out of the 200+ lot. Lets see if Ahriman can top that...

Look forward to seeing Ahriman painted . It's nice that they've given him a Disc to fly around on. Should be much easier to get him in closer to kill things

The Walking Dead minis continue to impress! There's great variety in the zombies but they all still look coherent.

Arihman looks like a wonderful model but one that's going to be damn fiddly to paint, can't wait to see him!

Wow, awesome stuff and an incredible number of models painted in 1 year.
Cant wait for Ahriman!

Congrats on the 300 mark!

Well I'm sold on the walking dead minis. Awesome work. You made that badge look quite lovely really.