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Oh yeah got those survivors totally done.

The survivors look good.

I gave up painting all my zombies when I started buying them 100 at a time. After about 50 of them, everything that makes it to the table is just gray.

Thanks. I'm not sure how many you need for zombicide but I'm sure if I ever get to play I'll want to paint enough for everything that spawns. The little game I've been working out isn't going to need that many, I don't think.

Dude, I love those survivors. Apart from Mars Attacks, I have nothing like that. You have corrupted, er, inspired me to fill a gap in my collection.

On the bright side a box of 30 weighs in at less that a dollar a mini full retail. I think I got both the male and female survivor boxes for 15 or 16 dollars each on amazon.

The main downside of the kits is that you get three survivor sprues and one extra weapon/gear sprue per box. Now, some of those poses are very adaptable. There's a body with a long cost that can receive a lot of arms and work as a leather coat, duster, trench, or lab coat. You can make him a priest, cowboy, neo, and so on. The fat lady with the rocket launcher default is very hard to repurpose. So you may get 30 people but some of them will look a tad samey next to one another.

Minor complaint though. The only other thing is that some of the arms don't fit certain bodies well but minimal greenstuff skills sorts that problem right out.

I took a quick look on Amazon.co.jp last night, and WGF survivors are ￥7000 per box. I think I can wait until my next visit to the US...

~70 bucks? Ooouch. No thanks.

Yeah, that's Japan prices for you. When the yen was a little stronger against the dollar, It was cheaper to pay for international shipping through The Warstore than to buy from inside Japan.

Always harder to get stuff when zombies overrun the place you are "shopping" at.

Yeah it's kind of a race to loot useful stuff before you screw up and bring the hammer down on yourselves.

Survivors are looking great, I really need to set aside some time to read through the battle reports. But because of your Mars Attacks fun I will be busy with three sets of the core box later this week .
ACK ACK AkkaACKhttp://www.damncoolteez.com/products/square/1144834.png I'm thinking they might just wind up in bill the cat orange and the civies might come from Bloom County.

Yeah you went in heavy on core sets but its a fun game and excellent value for what you paid. I need to finish my martians and try out my game rules with a different kind of AI enemy.


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I've gotten 6-9 zombies done recently with more bits prepped. Working withantic fantasy and sci-fi zombies and I'm gonna mix in some vixens and probably zimbify some of the less versatile male/female survivors between the fantasy and vixens kits.

By the time I eventually get zombicide I'm hoping to have a pretty fat like if zombies already painted up.

That kid survivor is great. I think I prefer the male group. It is really refreshing to see some different sized models in a range too. Not everyone can be mr universe can they?

Yeah I like most everyone in both sets but I do have my favorites. Gonna put up photos of dungeon saga black fortress tileset in a bit.

No time here's photos:




Used every tile and all of the furniture and doors save one (daughter stole it!)

Looks good. Wait till she gets older and then more things disappear, like your bank account because she figured out your password on the iPhone and downloaded $200+ worth of games . Luckily we got those reversed.

Yeah I'll have to make sure to beef up the passwords on stuff like that when she gets bigger.

The black fortress set is OK. There is texture on both sides but its identical. Apparently the core set IS dual sided with different textures so its not a total wash... My best guess is that they skimped on paying for a second texture because A.) They never promised it and B.) This is a product that may not reach retail.

That's my theory. If it were gonna hit retail why not make it a stronger product. But if they're just making a limited run for backers why bother.

And it IS good enough. A little repetitive but it works.

Bodies all over the damn place too, the artist took queues from diablo games I think. Almost every single tile bit has a corpse on it. Guess it's ed the black fortress for a reason.

The main set contains scenarios where the tiles flip.

I didn't want to spoil that surprise in the KS thread, but I'll blab here.

Ahh that's awesome. Glad they thought it out. Kinda reinforces my theory of black fortress is just gonna be for backers.

Those tiles don't interlock, it looks like. Not good if someone bumps the table. The 3d stuff looks nice enough.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Those tiles don't interlock, it looks like. Not good if someone bumps the table. The 3d stuff looks nice enough.

Nope- all held together with plastic clips.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
I took a quick look on Amazon.co.jp last night, and WGF survivors are ￥7000 per box. I think I can wait until my next visit to the US...

Josh. Go for UK retailers. Free worldwide shipping over 30 quid.

http://www.firestormgames.co.uk/wargames-miniatures/wargames-factory

I'll comment on Grim's stuff tomorrow. Just got to do something real quick before bed now.

 Azazelx wrote:

 JoshInJapan wrote:
I took a quick look on Amazon.co.jp last night, and WGF survivors are ￥7000 per box. I think I can wait until my next visit to the US...

Josh. Go for UK retailers. Free worldwide shipping over 30 quid.

http://www.firestormgames.co.uk/wargames-miniatures/wargames-factory

I'll comment on Grim's stuff tomorrow. Just got to do something real quick before bed now.

Thanks to Abenomics, the yen is frighteningly weak against pretty much any currency, making it difficult to justify buying anything from anywhere. I have a few unpainted minis lying around, though, so I can tough it out a while longer.

 GrimDork wrote:
Oh yeah got those survivors totally done.

These survivors have come up really well, Grim. You totally have to get hold of Zombicide.

Yeah it's on the list. Either for X-mas, or from x-mas derived funds, or from amazon shortly thereafter once the points have built up.

I gotta say so far my least favorite thing between the three WGF kits is how much bigger the zombie vixens' heads are compared to their bodies. They all have relatively poofy hair for some reason and really narrow shoulders so it looks a tad silly in some cases. Doing what I can.

'80's Hair? They should have enormous shoulders for that. XD

Yeah I'm not really sure what was going on in the design process... they heads aren't necessarily too big but they look like it, kind of sort of offputting.

Oh well, eventually they'll be mixed in with a horde of zombicide zombies and when there's over a hundred of them I doubt people are going to stop to comment on one's big hair

Oh here are some zombies will and built.

Just catching up. What fun batreps!

Your stuff is looking great!

Thanks. Probably radio silence for the weekend I've got both kids the whole time...

Thought for the day: daughter wants to play with my poor fragile models. Solution? Buy heroclix. She loves opening blind bags anyway and she'd get to have her own minis.

I know not ng about it but they look to go for 1-2 dollars per which is , again,less than a blind bag toy. I wonder if the extra rare ones sell for more like magic cards? If they did I should almost pay a bit more for newer in season stuff on the chance of mining gold.

Anyone know anything about that stuff?

I know they make great proxies for Batman...

Pretty sure there are some US online stores (MM, I'm pretty sure does this) that allow you to buy single models without needing to buy blind if you're after specific characters or versions.

I know nothing about the game itself, though.