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I love film generally. But weird films are the best. Used to have a few 'books of blood' with short stories by him. One of those short stories inspired the Candyman films! I must get to work now, but thanks for looking everybody, zombie painting must happen tomorrow.

Zombies!! These things are pretty gross...

Great work, Weety. Really like how you did the broken arm of the zombie schoolgirl.

Yeah, that one really puts me off my dinner...

Awesome zombies, Weets!

Super nice paintjob! Your style really works well for zombies, gives them a nice gritty feel to them..

Awesome sculpts as well I have to add, I can really picture them shambling along menacingly.

Excellent stuff, liking that purple tinge to the rotting flesh

Thanks Commander and monkey. I'll pass any compliments for the sculpts on the the creator. He'll like that.

The first zombie (pregnant and glowing) has such a horrible face. It reminds me a of a snippet of a war poem they made me read in school "the leering face of death". Can't remember which one that's from or who wrote it. Probably Siegfried Sassoon.

Zombies are fun until you think about how they are just like dead people. I thought to myself yesterday "I'm imagining what decomposing flesh looks like and painting a pregnant woman's corpse" and for a second I felt like the toxic junction of miniature painting. Actually toxic junction would have been a great place to look for inspiration but I just don't have the stomach for real life dead people so I watched resident evil instead.

Toxic Junction is that a band or an Underhive train station? Great work really sinister and gruesome

I wouldn't know... I've certainly never been there. Its where sick people (or serious artists engaged in direct zombie research) go to look at pictures of dead people, among its varied and mostly undesirable subject matter, kinda like a 4chan version of youtube. But I've never been there. If you're in GCHQ you can check apparently.

Thanks for the like!

And I think a larger picture of that nasty fracture is appropriate here.


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Ohhh I think I'm gona hurl...

O.k they are brilliantly outstandingly disgustingly brilliantly painted weets!

Thanks nerdster. I'm especially happy with the skin. The recipe is almost all vallejo. I started with my usual P3 armour wash over white primer which gives a graded gray. Over this I wet blended a fairly thick layer of 'old rose' a pale reddish pink. Then I thickly applied a flesh-tone wash, and before this dried I added basic flesh tone, and sorta mixed it in with a stippling motion. Finally highlights in pure white with flesh tone mixed, bloodstains in flesh-tone wash mixed with red wash and a very watered down blue wash in certain areas I thought might be more ripe.

Wow... that's looks.... disgusting.

Nicely done weets. The skin on the legs really shows off your talent well. Pretty darn amazing. The blue was an excellent add.

I had a quick browse through your thread, and I must say, I really likin' those old school beakie marines! Lovely paint job on those (and on the other minis as well!)!

Thanks! It was such a long time ago - perhaps I should do more of em? I've got lots more unpainted. There's never enough hours in the day!

In other news I'm starting the Mantic Marauders. Looking forward to it but I have the classic mantic problem that some of the models are badly cast. I'm probably going to have to do a bit of sawing and putty work for this one:

Well I fixed those orks. It turns out that you can bend this plastic with hot water.

Here's my prototype ork. Whadaya think? Too pale? I'm considering another thin coat of green wash on the skin.

The darker they are the more boss they are

Well the client wants another layer of green so he'll be more boss.

All orks are boss. i just can't afford another horde army.

Looking good....and I don't see another layer of green changing that for the worse

Hiya internet folks! I've been trapped in stupid work a lot recently serving tourists cut price junk food and other tat. Unfortunatly this cuts into my painting time. One day I will quit the day job I will! Here's what I did manage to get done.

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Excellent looking orks. I love 'em.

Yeah, good job. Really liking the colours on the guns.

Well I've got the day off tomorrow so I might paint the big un's in between the inevitable chores. Pies don't cook themselves you know. Well not round these parts anyway... And there's laundry. Oh woe is me.

Pies to wash, clothes to cook...oh it never ends.....

Nice work on the Orks. Nice skin you have going on.

That's right monkey, oh the carpet needs ironing and I must vacuum my work shirts. At least I don't live on a barge, I'd have to scrape barnacles off its bottom!

Hi Dr H. The skin was a multi layered thing. I started with pastel green base coat, used old rose to highlight the lips, nose and veins and then its 2x green wash layers and 1x layer of umber 2:1 grey wash mix.

I wonder what you've all been up too? I'll go have a butchers.

More painting got done inbetween laundry and such. Here are a few choice shots. It seems hard to carry off NMM on such large minis, I think maybe I'm missing something. More dirt maybe.


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More shadows...


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And don't tell me, you can see mold lines right? Damn mantic and their inferior restic plastic.

Looks good mate! And no, no obvious lines. But working with other companies' plastics does actually make me appreciate GW sometimes...