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Not in love w/ those models but the paint job is (as always) very impressive.

yes that paintjob is really stunning... washpainting produces some nice effects again!

Those are coming along great!

Skalk - Cheers bud! I quite like them, especially considering that they're from a board game, could have done with a bit more gore, but that does leave me something to do I suppose


vik - Thanks. More importantly, it's quick


Gits - Thank you sir!



So, considering all these CDs I've been utilising for bases, Figured I should really do something with the CD spindle too

And so I decided that more landing pads were in order.



There needs to be a ladder and chains on that vertical piece, possibly some more details on the main structure, and a hose attached to the refueling pump. Maybe a few tools lying around, some support for the fuel pipes and a spot of debris.

started my current project with wash painting too... hopefully i can provide pics tomorrow...

and yes it is quick^^

and ...that fuel pump atop of that landing spindle... what are those round half spheres?

looking good as usual by the way...an intersting take at the somewhat otherwise overdone spindle usage for terrain^^ tat two storey version out of one spindle is something i haven´t yet seen

Oooo this one seems really cool, I could see this fitting well in any 40k city

That little do-dad on the edge there is super cool. Where did you get the little half-orbs?

looking great monkey.. wishing i had some plasticard rods right about now..

there is a commandment... tho shall never run out of plasticcard rods...

Landing pad I keep thinking star wars for some reason, love the little pump as well maybe an open tool box with the odd spanner lying around.

Great job

vik - Yep, good start mate! Those hemispheres come from EMA http://www.ema-models.co.uk/index.php/acrylic-plastic-shapes/hemispherical-domes/clear-domes.html

Seemed like the obvious solution to me, I'm sure there's a whole bunch out there somewhere


RW - Cheers bud! Yeah, this ones not too orkified, they haven't had a chance to improve every building in the area yet


GG - Thank you, and see above


Neil - Thanks man. Yeah, guess you've been going through a bit of plastic recently


vik - or pen inners, insulated wire, straws, sprue etc


ldd - Yeah, I'm thinking fuel hose, spanner/wrench possibly a tool kit, I'll probably wait till the main part's done before deciding what exactly.



Most of the base colours down, started on some of the weathering.




Thanks for popping in, help yourself to a soggy squig on the way out...

Nice work as usual MT!

What you going to add the first level ? seating area maybe a squig juice machine maybe, smoking section

hmmm.... that yellow level... i am not sold ... looks rushed... not your usual quality... it needs saying as your weathered yellow is one of the best i´ve seen here so far!!!

and thanks for the explanative link... could have known such stuff by myself...

As always, Monkey, your terrain is utterly amazing. I'd love to play on your table some time! That walkway support from the last page is perhaps my favourite bit of terrain from you so far - all the graffiti is so beautifully believable, and the weathering is top notch. I might borrow the hanging barricade idea too, if you don't mind

Your zombicide turned up a full week or two before mine, and I'm really glad for you that you didn't get stung on the customs - it took £20 to get mine out of the customs office, including £8 for the privilege of having them hold onto it for me! It's a fantastic game though, tells a story every time you play. Have you had a chance for a game with anyone yet?

Really like your paint job on the first few zombies - the wash painting is working out really well for you! I'm using gryphonne sepia over white for my zombie skin, but I don't have the patience or brush control to use it for all their clothes - I tend to try painting new layers too early and end up with a murky mess

Stung by customers I have a load of stuff from Dreamforge Kickstarter to come, I know I am going to get stung big time on that

I hate the fact they charge you for holding onto it not like we asked them to ….

I really hate customs

It's been soooo long I can't remember.... do you have any Deffkoptas to plant on those awesome landing pads?

I can't remember ever seeing any of your terrain I didn't like. You are 100% every time. Really like the gubbins on your most recent work. The little details really sell the idea. What did you do to weather the top? I can see things I recognize, but a small explanation would be great.

Gits - Thanks a lot bud, who knows, someday I may even get back to the boyz


ldd - I was planning on just a console and maybe some assorted debris. Squig juice vending machine is just asking for a conversion from one of Dave's vendors though


vik - Thanks vik, but don't worry too much, that's far from finished, that was just a base coat and some heavy washes - it's already further along, but it won't be as good as usual I'll admit. I'm just trying variations on stuff as I go along, don't want everything worn in the same manner.

Careful with that site though, even if it's a horrible task to add items to your basket, you'll find it gets pricy rather quickly, too many important bits available


Scarp - Cheers buddy! What table Those supports are actually for the larger landing pad, need to get on the details for the pad itself now I guess. Loot away my friend, loot away

Yeah, I seem to have been among the first in the UK to get it, and I was shocked when I found everyone else was getting shafted by Customs
Not had a chance to play yet, to be honest I wasn't sure if I'd be playing or just grabbing the minis when I pledged, but It looks fun enough to play. I just know that it'll be a while till I get a chance, certainly not before November, maybe not until that celebration thing we do near the end of the year I'll surely try a solo game or two beforehand.

Yeah washes work well for these guys, nice and fast and simple. Washes dry pretty quickly so just do a kind of semi-batch job on a few and you should be ok, it's when I start adding inks it can get messy


ldd - Yeah, I'm fairly sure I'll get stung there, possibly even three times


Arakasi - Long time no see, hope everything's good with you. How long till your modelling stuff gets to you? Da Dark Angelz are sorely missed around these parts.
Finished wise, there's Da Red Kount and Bionikopta, but neither of those works well on the pad due to their bases. Rare to see lamp-posts and ruins atop landing pads There is however the looted landspeeder, or potentially a unit of grot-koptas. The larger pad will take a valk (for future reference ) or the cylon-based Fighta.
And as they're the same height as the other terrain they can be used as plaza's or some such in the walkway mave, or parking places for the hover-buggy and looted wagon.

But yes, as the landing pads progress more 'koptas or other flyers may appear. Awaiting a couple of Doom Scythes and a Storm Talon for various shennanigans


Skalk - You flatter me sir Keep it coming
I think I'd argue with 100% of the time, but thank you, I appreciate it.
Yep, always the details

Ok, so let me see, I've been messing around a bit recently without taking any notes, so hopefully nothing utterly stunning comes of it as I won't be able to replicate, but I beleive it was something like this:
Base spray of ogre flesh, over-spray of humbrol sand. Sponge/smearing with dark flesh, light sponge with black. light wash with sepia. Touch up some of the raised tread with silver. sepia wash, with random light touches of thraka and flesh. Devlan around the rim and in splotches across the pad. Vallejo light grey wash in selected areas, touch of badab around the rim. Some random patterns using a large lat brush tapped vertcally to create lines, of sepia, devlan and yellow ink. (The yellow ink is quite low-key in rl, but highly obvious in the pics - probably won't use that in this manner again).
I'll probably do another sepia wash with touches of others and a grey (I love that grey wash, excellent on bare metal) before a light bit of rust powder. After sealing there'll be some oil spills added and maybe a touch more rust.

Something like that anyway I know I meant to use Dakka as a notepad for my various colour combos, but I seem to actually do that so little - possibly because there's these huge gaps of decent modelling time in between thos eisolated incidents of colouring in



So, what have I got for you lovely, lovely people today?

A little progress on the landing pad.






Quite pleased with how the pump is coming along. Experimented a bit with some Distress crackle paint. Mixed a bit with some crackle medium, some deep green pigment and water, roughly covered a dark flesh undercoat, then added some lighter crackle paint and drybrushed, then again with a bit more of the lighter colour. Because it was watered down and then drybrushed it didn't actually crack, but has produced a nice blistered type effect. Which if I can replicate should look interesting on something like a plague marine, no?
You'll be seeing some more experiments with crackle paints, the main thing i'm trying at the moment is getting coats thock enough to crack, but thin enough to not cover detail. There's some on a few pieces at the moment, in varying states, none of the others have worked as well as I wanted yet though



Finished off the pump room/filtration unit/multi-purpose terrain thingummy bit



May give the roof another dry-brush & wash to blend those panels a bit better, although once again, they're not as hideously visible as that in RL. Once sealed it may get another touch-up of rust - depends on how it looks .



More shambling hordes. You've all seen the movies. Once an outbreak starts, they'll keep spawning....



GS'd some sleeves on one and gave the other a serious chinese burn. Also left a mould line on completely purposefully purley for gaks and giggles.




Couple of runners, proving that zombie co-ordination is crap for hi-fives. Hair on one, sweatbands on the other, both have had arm transplants.




Prison fatty and his doxie. He's looking for an anadin.




Bonus blurry shot.



And a concept for a three-wheeler for a little diorama type thingy I'm contemplating.



Think the rear wheels need to be slimmer, even with mud-guards in place. Maybe grab another FW biker wheel, they're about right I think. Or maybe something completely different, not sure now, but I do want the tricycle arrangement.


And I suspect this next maybe a bit unexpected:




And a little bonus going out to Arakasi



Seems to have lost his dakka, gunner and console in the long aeons since he was last touched


Cheers y'all.

Very tasty csm. Could this mean you're tempted to start playing with the arrival of the new dex?

Unlikely

I just felt that the scheme would work well and needed to try it out. I'll possibly do a few more till I can replicate the look of that pump easily. It's kind of a variation on a very rusty theme I have in mind for spiky 'rheens, it's just that I can't recall the method I had previously Worked realy well on bases then I forgot the method when I went to do a marine

Did almost pick up the new rule book yesterday, but got distracted by comics and paints

hmmm... i still have an untouched can of crackle medium in my paint box... good to see some interesting uses shown by you...

and indeed the look suits a nurgle marine to the T...

the first z´s look as if they are about to boogie^^...the rest looks like you´ve found your new niché to paint in... zombies seem to grow on you quite good

and the lil threelegged truck^^ good looking concept...tho slimmer wheels on the rear will make it look perfect... will this be for your orks? will you then add some plating as well?

and yes... visiting artshops always comes with a heavy loss of money... regardless if online or RL^^

and i am all for testing new techniques^^

The chubby guy and his woman look like strictly come back dancing contestants lol

Stuff looking great love the landing pad, still think you need a squig juice machine mind

The three wheeler did that come with the zombie set then ?

All good no bad, like the csm, very cool pose

vik - I'll try and do some tests using just the medium, or the medium mixed with paint/pigment. The main isue is that the paint needs to be a certain thickness to actually crack - although as can be seen on the pump some interesting efects can occur when not quite at that level.

I managed to catch them auditioning for a Thriller video re-make (note to self, red leather and single glove for one zed )

The trike-truck is indeed heading back into orky territory, although I'm thinking it'll be one of a set of little diorama/display things I have in mind. The back will be getting covered over, and there will be more plates.


ldd - see audition comment above As said, I beleive I can switch some radioactive cola for some squig-juice

No, that's a Daihitsu Midget, released by Arii - they have a couple of other three-wheelers in their catalogue which I may need to look up too. Although as their are rules for police-cars and pimp-mobiles in Zombiecide my thoughts have strayed in that direction, believe me When I was first looking through the box I started to envisage building a town set to play in and everything


bigfish - Cheers fella, I started off trying to build a proper load-out, then thought 'feth it, this is a test-piece, build what you want - just don't make it an awesome detailed conversion in case it all goes tits-up.'


Nothing to report on at the moment, had to go in for stock-taking today, so had to skip the local IPMS show (International Plastic Model Society), which means I missed out on some inspiration and a chance to put a whole bunch of bits on my credit card

Did find this on my desk today though, it had come in yesterday I believe.



Orx trike from Mantic, I think I can use those bits. In fact, those wheels look just about right for the earlier three-wheeler - bonus!


Edited four atroshush spelin innit?

note to self, red leather and single glove for one zed

LOL... that´s bound to be happening sooner or later, eh? lol... resistance is fultile^^

and yes... that trike looks quite good... well of course we wont see it that way ever again on your desk

so reuse those wheels... will fit like a glove methinks too^^

oo that is one cool bike!

That landing pad looks awesome!! It reminds me how lacking my own terrain is xD
I like that bike, and want one for all its bits and bobs. I never run bikes but I see many uses for the kit!

The Zombies are shaping up well- Nice to see other people doing some Zombicide! I kinda like how youre naming em as ya go!

vik - Sooner rather than later

Now what makes you think that I'd hack up a perfectly good model to make something else entirely


Rogue - Yeah, it's not bad, gonna have to check out some more of the orx range methinks.


Ramos - Thank you man!

Couple of interesting bits on it, but only 12 pieces in total - if I remember I'll try and get a bitz shot. And your guys seem to have turned green

Cheers, I doubt the naming will continue all the way through the set



So just some quick and cheerful (read shoddy and rushed) GS and wash action.



Lois and Clark, still waiting on pretty much everything. He bent his arm, lost his tie and grew some hair. That last isn't usual behaviour for zombies is it? She's shoved some badly mauled pillows up her shirt and nicked some-one else's head and arm. Rude bitch!




Billy-Jo and Mikey Mikey needs a serious re-paint, that's horrible - time, proper lighting and concentration are required when painting kids

That's a remark aimed at kids, not about colouring young children or goats


And once Mike was on the scene it was obvious what was gonna happen.....





Keep those dancing feet attached peeps...

i think this says it all :



i think mickey needs a repaint... as his skin isn´t quite right...

for referrence