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@Cam, thanks, I like the fact they bothered to make "good zombies" also.
@Grimdork, yeah I'm just worried that it might not remain darker since this is all drying right now and the lower half is collecting more varnish because everything is sagging with weight.

Also side note, I went and looked at a local shop that's been around for 20+ years I believe yesterday. Their hours are afternoons and short hours on weekends, which totally conflicts with my work schedule. The place is called Animeggroll, and is a anime lovers dream, VHS, laserdisc and DVDs of hundreds of anime titles along with graphic novels, dolls and Gundam models. I've been out of that scene for so long, but it was fun looking around.

My 16 year old daughter is mega into anime/manga. I used to be, but back then Akira was about all you saw, unless you went hardcore on it, but now its becoming mainstream, daughter spends 15 hours a day watching it on youtube.

My son got a cool Gundam model for his birthday, only cost about £5, really cool.

Their Gundam models were a LOT cheaper then I remember them being as well. I have a few myself, but mostly just robotech/mech warrior types. Akira was big in my time too. Also Ninja Scroll, riding bean and platabor(sp???). My best man for my wedding was really into Ranma 1/2, which was hilarious, I liked more of the scary stuff like Wicked City Shinjuka or really epic stuff like record of Lodoss wars.

Now a days if I see someone with a kanji tattoo I say to them "WOW you really must like chicken fried rice!" Then I try to convince them that the tattoo person must have screwed up or didn't know Kanji. Thinking back on it maybe I should stop doing that , there might be a few tattoo artists with black eyes that want to talk to me .

Making banana pancakes for dinner right now. At 6:30 (roughly 2 hours from now) we are headed back up to church for the post camp week get together. The counsellors and some kids will get up and share experiences with everyone and then they will plan a 6month reunion meeting. It's a nice way for the kids to have one last visit with each other before next years camp. We had 182 campers from all over including some of the kids of our missionaries from around the globe. They had a great time even though it was HOT!!!!!!

Oooh, I liked that.. was it Demon City Shinjuku (could have been translated differently where i saw it) and what I saw of Lodoss war too.

Man, big camp. I think I went to camp like.. once. It was ok, just during the day though no staying anywhere else that I recall.

If the legs end up not being darker, just black wash them again once the dip has had long enough to cure. I paint over dipped models on occasion, doesn't hurt anything... though since I use woodstain I tend to use separate "dirty brushes" that I don't use for other projects so I won't accidentally tip them and get nasty chemicals in my mouth

I think the guy with the mutton chops and sunglasses was in a different video game.

The girl reminds me of chainsaw-Lollipop


the gal with the Katana, Hmmm, that covers so many different movies and anime,

another brush licker I knew I liked you for a reason

I only ever went to 6th grade camp, and hated almost the entire time. I was the second fatest kid there, but unlike the other guy I fit into the opening of the cave we went spelunking into. He got wedged in the opening I felt bad for him, especially since it was pouring rain outside and everyone was pissed at him because they were stuck out there in the rain. My best friend at the time was thrown from his horse while riding it because it got startled by a copperhead snake. He broke his arm and went home . Theast straw was I got lost at night when our panty raid was interrupted by one of the girls counsellors returning from the event they were at and we all scrambled out the door. We didn't get caught, but I was out in the woods for two hours on my own before finding my way back. I didn't even get any panties out of it .

Started watching walking dead again. Really wish they'd put season 5 on Netflix already. I've only seen 1-4 and I'm almost to the point of going and buying season 5 just to see it . I NEED ZOMBIES.

Is there.. any other way to legitimately point your brush? I like.. freak out a little whenever I can't do it. Kind of like having a 'big red button of DOOM' with a DO NOT TOUCH sign on it. You probably won't.. but man it's tempting even with consequences.

Huh, interesting experience! I probably would have been the kid who refused to go but promised not to tell, likely would have had some kind of book packed to keep my busy at that point.

I can't get into the walking dead. I'm at the farm/barn/Herschal(sp?) part of season 2 and it's just boring me to tears =/ The show is really presenting like Days of Our Lives (with Zombies!), or whichever Soap is more appropriate. You know what I mean... love triangles, pregnancies, civil unrest, etc. There are only occasionally zombies and it's usually pretty awful when there are. Not so much awesome zombie carnage gunfights, or clever survival tricks etc, nah mostly gore.

At least from what I remember. I guess they did sneak around covered in zombie guts that one time.

I liked the Herschel farm house part because of the character development. If it were all just zombie fighting then most of the peeps would be zombie food. They need to show some of the survivors strengths beyond just who was a good shot, or who can swing a mean axe. The civilization needs to be seen teetering on the edge. Plus it gets better (won't spoil it)

I've heard it gets better, that's why I'm trying to grind through it a piece at a time. Also, I usually will only watch it when I'm flying solo, don't want the three year old watching people eat people =/

I don't mind character development and drama, it's just part of where I am right now. Kind of like how Supernatural eventually gets to be a Soap +monsters (well mostly demons and angels at that point) and even Arrow feels like a Soap with a bow. I realize those things are probably more interesting to other people, and I don't just want action... I'm just weird about some shows right now I guess. Kind of like how I can't listen to music that's even remotely slow at this point, just a taste shift I'm somewhere in the middle of...

Well they had to add the soap opera feel to all those shows to bring in The chick viewership. I'm waiting on more Arrow and daredevil as well. Seems I'm stuck in the dulldrums between seasons.

I try and wait till the kids are asleep, or occupied with other things and then slip away to my cave to paint. But I guess that's only been possible the last year or three as the kids are finally old enough to occupy themselves now (12,10,10). Honestly if it's a show I've already seen then it's just playing in the background.

Haha, mine's only 3 but she occupies herself just fine what with the mini kid-tablet and her various toys and play-doh type things. Just occasionally wants a top off on her beverage or another snack or similar. I liked daredevil too, not as sure if the other 3 B-list super heroes (well, at least I don't know nearly as much about them as, say, the x-men or avengers, DD I know plenty though) shows they're planning for Netflix are gonna be as good though. And then I think they get their own mini-series.. the Defenders or something? Could be neat.

I think I'm behind a season or three on a couple of shows I've been watching too.. but ehh I'll just power-watch them sometime to catch up or whenever I resubscribe to the appropriate service.

I was a super X-men dork growing up, but I really dislike the x-men movies, don't get me started on how bad the second one was . Juggernaut was not someone to truffle with. I have a huge clection of comics, mostly X-men and their brother titles including issues back to the original x-men titles number 2,3,5, 8 and 11 then pretty much every issue from the 50s-300. Had all the wolverine issues from the first mini series and all the crossovers and 1-75. If they ever came out with an inexpensive (not knight models) 28-32 mm marvel miniature game I'd be hurting.

Back from the camp meeting, lots of good stuff .

Hopefully I'll get some painting done tonight to catch back up to the pace I had going. If not hopefully it's because I got sidetracked by another idea that I want to try out, still zombie related, so not really a distraction.

My uncle split his old (70s?) comic collection between my cousin and I. He got the hulk and maybe.. x-men? I got DareDevil and Spiderman.

I do not regret the split, though I do like both of the other things.

Spidey is probably one of my favorite superheroes if I really think about it.

Good luck catching up

Well the good luck wishes helped

Couple of zombie soldiers, one was obviously doing electrical work at one of the camps when it got over run and he turned.

A couple of business people, ones a legitimate (street)worker and the others a tax accountant

So 10 down today, that more than makes up for yesterday, and I have another 4 models partly done so a good jump on a busy day tomorrow.

Sheesh, nice work, fast zombies.

Almost tempted to buy a box or two of that stuff just to do something excessively fast too. I mean, my plague and strain mutant/zombie/things paint up pretty quick too but cleaning them takes as long or longer /sigh.

Wonder how those guys scale up with Mars Attacks... may be a good way to have a MA zombie campaign (though probably not as accessible or fun as a proper Zombicide run).

I don't think Tax Accountants can turn into zombies? once they get their degree they die on the inside and lose all emotion, empathy and heart?

I think the top 2 are your best so far, especially the big fella - love him!

theo... i just told my wife about you putting your kids under duress and using blackmail to clean their rooms... lately it feels as if we are the last two parents in the world to use these classics in raising and teaching kids... we usually refer to "no sweets" no "TV" as the kids are seldom on their WII and still are too young for anything remotely mobile or PC related...

and i was once very big in marvel comics... collected about everything and even hunted for backnumbers... but... well... then i needed the money and puff all was gone... after that i got family...and i never returned...now whenever i see a marvel movie it leaves me with a slight pang of remorse not to have my comic books back... and mind you even being in germany i collected the english versions as you just can´t stand the dubbed versions...the horror... and if i had to choose... spidey, wolvie, magneto... in that order...
also...never understood the hate about the xmen or for that matter the FF movies... i really like them all... and for my own opinion they were all perfect screen versions...the only downside with the modern versions was that they turned nearly everyone into a mutant than "just" a super being...

@Vik, I just felt the movies were so "without character", but after knowing so much about the characters and only getting a tiny bit of it from the movie I was let down. That and I dislike movies that use star power to attract the masses. I think I would only have used Patrick Stewart as Xaiver, and wolverine, everyone else would have been no name actors.
@Nerdfest09, , glad my brother in law doesn't follow this thread
@graven, thanks, I like the big guy as well, too bad his head lacks definition, he reminds me of the koopa (spelling???) the supermario villians.
@grimdork, fast? I'll show you fast. Here's five more


Oh and I e been kicking around this idea for terrain.

The DUST buildings have been sitting around for a bit, but they match scale REALLY well with the Zombicide figures, they are appropriate for time scale (older American looking town) and are cheap with them being back in stock at miniaturemarket.com on the clearance table. It will be a side project so as not to derail the figure painting. I think I'll try and make pieces for the doors and windows to look boarded up, but be removable for gameplay. What is on the table now is just one box of operation zverograd, I want to pick up at least one more.

Muahaha nice

I think having expectations is what gets you let down in the movies, especially for superhero/comic book movies. It's hard not to have them though.

Grimdork you need to get some rest dude, your on here at all hours of the day/night, even worse than me . Plus I can't even fix posts before you post

I know the lights bad, but here's a shot of officer friendly with the Zombicide board and DUST buildings and some zombies coming around the corner.

i know what you mean with not enough character... and famke jansen as marvel girl could have had more bewbs too

as for the dust building..."SHOOOOOOPPPPING MAAAALLLL" ...
it has to be

The walls perfectly line up on the exterior wall drawings for the buildings. I'm thinking foamboard walls for the inside room dividers.

Well since my last check in I've finally got my lawnmower working and the lawn mown. It was just bad fuel I guess it's all been sitting too long unused. Never had a problem before. But the vacation and then the heat kept me from using it for longer than usual, and I was scrapping the bottom of the gas can so I guess the impurities had built up.

So after the grass I went to the basement to cool off. Knocked out another 4 zombies

I've just been reaching into the pile and grabbing random ones, but keep getting duplicates. I guess it's bound to happen as there are lots of copies of the same figures.

hell yes! ACDC!!! on a black tshirt! i call that win on win^^

Lol Vik, that guy is going to be the posterboy for all sorts of rock bands. The other version that I've done of him already had a light grey shirt with OZZY on it. I'm not a fan of their music, but he reminds me of two rockers we had in highschool that would wear the band t-shirts all the time, plus the pose is just one that reminds me of when the singers point the mic towards the crowd to cue them to sing.

Well I finished waywatcher greening 20+ more zombies, only 24 more to glaze and then paint all of them. I wanted to rock some numbers out today and it seemed to work decently.

Wife is on my case about painting so much and not spending time with the kids. I e given them options, but they just want to chill with their iPods or watching Netflix. I work at church the next two mornings but will be free on Thursday to hang out with them, hopefully I'll have plenty of zombies done by that point(I think I'm good right now, but would like more done) to introduce them to some zombie killing fun.

Also stopped by miniaturemarket on my way in and picked up another operation Cerebus box. I can now make a 6 story high rise building or cover the Zombicide boards with the exterior building walls. Hopefully the plan is to just make wall sections that match each tile, so they can get repositioned for different scenarios.

I've also decided to only get one of the knight pledge levels for Black Plague. That will help with opening up funds for more terrain and contemporary Zombicide stuff. I still need prison outbreak, and Rue Morgue.

Huh Dust buildings you say? Better check them out, probably good for mars attacks if they work for zombicide.

you probably need to make a metallica shirt too... black with red writing^^ for classic appeal...

Wife is on my case about painting so much and not spending time with the kids. I e given them options, but they just want to chill with their LEGOS

that´s my case...but the same story... LOL... as if our wife´s are siblings separated at birth

It's a genetic thing Vik, no escaping it.

My job doesn't require a ton of thought, which is good on nights like tonight when I've got miniatures on the brain. I've been considering one of the board sections and how to make it "work". It has the inside of a auto repair station complete with the hydraulic car lift drawn on it. The problem was the walls from DUST don't have a garage door type set up, so I've been trying to figure out how to "fix it". I think I'll just have to use two of the corner pieces as the door frame and scratchbuild a garage roll up door for street level. I was also thinking how to make an opened version of it to be able to swap it out for when the survivors enter inside.

Zombies looking good!

On the lawn mower, gasoline gels over time. You want to put fuel stabilizer in the can if you are going to let it sit for a long time. It doesn't usually come up, but not a bad idea over the winter.

Thanks wehrkind,

I've ised the same gas can for 12+ years and stored it the same manner (on the floor in the garage). I think the biggest thing is that the temps were almost 100 degrees for a week and humidity was close to the same. All this while I was on vacation so the can stayed still. Usually doesn't work out that well, but it could just be that I have been gambling each time and finally rolled ones.

No painting today, it's a good thing I got ahead the other day.