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Got about 30 models/scenery Gubbins primed today. The bones stuff adjacent needs washed but will then also be ready for airbrush priming. Gonna paint some mars attacks to get in the groove for survivors who I hope to be building as soon as tomorrow night.

Quite a collection confronting you there. Any particular place you are going to start?

Hmmm. I started painting Deke from Mars Attacks last night and 'finished' Craig too. He was sitting done except for the eyes if you'll believe that, just needs dipped. I'm probably gonna be in a flurry of assembly once those survivors and vixens get here, but I'm probably gonna focus on things that work for modern/post apocalyptic/zombie whatever as that's currently sparking my imagination more than the other stuff.


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Supply drop!

Got a couple of survivors out together. I plan on trying to stick to lighter weapons at least at first. Of course since I'm a snow flake and my models have to be too..

First body is the shirt and tie dude who usually has a two handed swing set for a ball/cricket bat or maybe a golf club. I managed to get the jumpsuit guy's crow bar to look reasonable but the only accompanying left arm around up being the machete. That's OK dual wield ftw. I gave him the glasses though those would work really well for the suit guy as an agent of FBI/CIA/whatever so we'll see. There's a good rich white guy face and a couple others that might work.

Second dude is the tank top guy. He got close to the stock photo as there aren't a lot of bare arms to use but I switched ethnicities with a simple swap of the head.

Then I tried to give the fat lady some different arms off of the men sprue. She's gonna need some greenstuff I think... But I kinda like the pose otherwise.

Thoughts?

Looks good. The fat lady is my favourite. Sort of reminds me of my mum. The dial wielder looks pretty bezerk.

I'm thinking the machete crowbar guy had it rough. Lost his cushy corporate job to downsizing, wife had served him divorce papers and took his sports car. House was foreclosed and he was living off cash in a cheap motel. Then a freaking zombie apocalypse. Just great. He kinda snapped a bit lol.

Those civilians are nicer minis than I imagined. I look forward to seeing them painted up.

Good looking civvies Grimdork .

Thanks for that link, I think the paint job really lets them down, but they look like a good building setup to me.

Nice poses. It can be hard to be too different from the stock poses, largely thanks to a shortage of matching arm types (and a lack of unarmed hands if you ask me... surely not everyone managed to source a military-grade gun come the apocalypse? ) but those are rather well done! I look forward to seeing paint!

Yeah, the level of armament is a bit high. Partly why I got the zomvixens box, at least the women will have some less assault-prefixed weapon options. I mean bare hands, I'll probably arrange one or two as victims to use as plot points or objectives etc.

I don't mind a few survivors with heavy gear, hell I may make a small paramilitary team or something... but on average I prefer the pistols and machetes, and other improvised weapons.

Those are pretty nice models. Haven't seen them before. Stop exposing me to new things and making me buy them!

Muahaha! Inexpensive too!

Fat lady needs greenstuff but I got three total survivors cleaned and built. Got a few specific ideas the rest will be organic randoms.

How do they scale with other lines?

I'll do some comparison photos later but I think my first glance is pretty well.

Ok here you have a comparison shot with what's still down in the hobby dungeon, the painted models got moved clear across the house so those photos will wait for another day. So yeah, relatively tall and slender. Very truescale. Some of the smallest and most realistic weapons I've run across. Gonna have to get my greenstuff on and make some straps for these packs though.






Also a photo of my latest three survivors. In front is a little tribute to Ash from the evil dead series, in his Army of Darkness chainsaw+sawn-off mode. The pose is a bit awkward as there weren't any good bare arms that allowed me to have the shotgun held straight up in the air. I'm gonna do some checking to make sure before there's paint. I think the chainsaw arm works better. I may try the tank-top torso too, and it's standing a bit straighter. Though I was trying to go for the part of a shirt with the left sleeve torn off look. It doesn't have to be an exact Ash anyway, just close enough which it probably is. I just wish the pose was a little stronger overall, the left arm drags it down even if the left hand and shotgun came out well.

You've also got the golf-club-swinging-woman counterpart to the male version I've already done, although just like her predecessor I've opted to replace the two handed swing with some dual wielding action. I need to do one or two with the bats now, get some slightly less proficient looking survivors, so far everyone i've done looks like they're doing this fun

The fat lady's AK47 jammed and I was sure she was zombie food. Was gonna make a zombie out of her with a cleaver, some kind of butcher(ess?), but the cleaver and beer can just worked out and she didn't need to be a zombie to be cool. So I guess she lost her gun and then hacked the zombie up. I'll probably give this one some blood spatter as she's gotta get close to be effective. Will need a dab of greenstuff to make the arms work, they're too thin but most of them are. And the zombie ones were even thinner.

That's enough out of me for the night.

Got some more stuff done. Sorry for sporadic updates. Work, kids, other stuff.

First up, several more survivors. Two of these were from the zombie sprue, but were intact enough to make survivors with arms from the survivor sprues.


So I found that the nurse on the zombie vixen sprue was intact, decided to make a survivor out of her. Golf club is a bit awkward and the pistol arm is missing a sleeve but such things happen in the zombie apocalypse. Lady with the shotgun is the stock arms, I've seen the same head used there before although there's a woman with a vest that also wears it well. Actually three different torsos do the cowboy hat justice. Simple, yet effective. The cop is as stock pose as they get, just opted for the city cop over the texas style or however you want to put it. His brethren will be assembled with the same hat, or possibly one or the other won't have the hat. I'll try to mix it up with pistols for the other two, maybe even give one the grenade launcher for a tear-gas type thing. Not sure exactly what I want to do with them but three cops could be useful for various systems. Next up is the skirt/suit lady. This is her stock pose save possibly the head. I t works very well, though I'll try to get at least one other survivor with different gear. She'll be joining the next two models as 'agents' in their own little theme group. Next up is a business woman zombie who got a second lease on life as an agent of some kind. She's just lost a heel but she's ready to keep fighting. Is that suitcase full of important secret documents, or just bricks? She won't tell. Last is the male agent, pretty much stock.

The next zombies are pretty much all stock too, I'll get creative in a bit. The shopper ended up with two sets of bags because Lolz. She goes BOGOOOOOOZ instead of BRAIINSSSS or whatever.


But so yeah you've got the barely-a-torso crawler, the shopper, the uhh... i duno she's like a runner or maybe in her night clothes, and then the lifeguard. In the back is the knee-less crawler.

So a lot of stock poses lately, they go together the best and some of them are really good poses that I'm happy to have in my collection, I'm not a snowflake to my own detriment

12 survivors and 5 zombies out of a total of 96 models counting the crawlers. I probably won't do all 96 models right away but I think I'd like to use up at least one of each sprue before I move on to another project, so at least 30 people. If that's all, I'm slightly over half way already.

They are looking great so far, zombie shopper for the win .

On another note the Zombicide:Black Plague pledgemanager has opened up. I think you might still be able to late pledge on it. Almost 200 minis at the $150'level and you could use some for dungeons and dragons and still have a fun game to boot.

You dirty temptress! I think I'm more interested in the contemporary version of zombicide honestly. Though black plague did look like an incredible deal even part way through let alone at the end.

Modern Zombicide $60.99 Free shipping, from Target through Ebay

Yeah it's the same thing on Amazon if you're a Prime member. next time I have 30+ dollars in points I may well snap it up.

The black plague is interesting but since I backed Dungeon Saga AND bones 3 now... fantasy models are not an issue.

Good Catch. I'd feel safer ordering from Amazon, and those points do come in handy.

I missed Dungeon Saga, tried to late pledge, but they even though they promised me I could get into the pledge manager, no one on their side followed through, and I got frusterated and gave up. {robably for the best though and I was planning on loading up on undead and Abyssals.

Your survivors are coming along great. I'm sure you make us all proud once you get them painted up.

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Good Catch. I'd feel safer ordering from Amazon, and those points do come in handy.

I missed Dungeon Saga, tried to late pledge, but they even though they promised me I could get into the pledge manager, no one on their side followed through, and I got frusterated and gave up. {robably for the best though and I was planning on loading up on undead and Abyssals.

Your survivors are coming along great. I'm sure you make us all proud once you get them painted up.

Mantic.....Almost. they really aren't trying to help that nickname disappear are they? THough Mantic, Meh is starting to take traction. Plus I'm still waiting on my KOW2 living legend stuff.

At least Mantic never patched your awesome snowflake class spec into being the default raiding AND PvP spec thus ruining its esoteric charm and forcing you to relearn how to play your class different from everyone else...AGAIN. /blizzard

Ahem. Got a few guys painted lately, several need dipped. It's been a choice between hobbying and taking photos/posting the last few days. Spent 9 hours yesterday helping my mom finish, deliver, and set up a monstrous wedding cake, and the girls were all in a bad mood when I got home so late sigh... And today we had a pile break that drains water out through the basement. Not sure which all toilets, showers, or sinks it serviced but it deployed rancid water into the nicy carpeted basement floor and took a few hours to fix as it broke in more than one section.

Still managed to paint another agent, a woman with blouse, skirt, and pistol--maybe a detective or another agent of some kind, got my benches enforcers lined out for finishing too.

Also broke down myast battle systems layout and am in the process of making another. Wanna get a feel for working with it again as well as try something new.

This is inspired by the new battle systems post apocalypse kickstarter. I wanna keep my toes in Warpath for the 115 early bird I have since you can double up on those in the pledge manager later... But we'll see...I could easily and happily drop $500 on the amazeballs post apocalypse terrain. The die cuts look better, there aren't any angular ramps which means more goodies per cost, and the genre is very versatile. The buildings can very easily stack and come apart for games thanks to a new clip type which allows a nearly unparalleled degree of inside/outside playability. I dint think I have 500 bucks to spend on a stacked 4x4 table, though it sounds like 2-3 blocks ~$120 each may affect to meet that size. Still approaching or over $400. If I did that I'd have to drop out of wp entirely save for a PM dollar.

I'm not sure I can justify spending so much on terrain at all, let alone closing with the end of the year.. But ordering this stuff at retail would be far more expensive, prohibitively so, whereas I can probably get similar deals on the warpath stuff at miniature market or through future mantic army deals.

I've got near to three weeks to figure it out. I'm really taken with the post apocalypse stuff at the moment but I'm gonna try to carefully consider the angles.


Enough ramble. Photos soon.

I feel your pain on that terrain. It's freaking beautiful, but it's priced way above what I'm comfotable spending on terrain.

Still vacillating on the terrain. See I could spend $200 ish on warpath and be happy with what comes in, but that's not enough for battle systems. I'd need at least 300-350 and preferably 400-450 to have a really lush layout.

We'll see...

Here are some WGF survivors (well, cops and agents) and some dudes from mars attacks. E erything needs dipped and based.

Figs are looking great.

Read the title change and forgot that I hadn't posted that the walking dead season 5 just popped up on Netflix. I'll be busy this week when I'm not at the hospital.

I'm still churning through season 3 but I noticed that season five just dropped. Season three has been a vast improvement in tempo and pacing for me. People are still arguing morality but now its properly interspersed with gunfights and zombies.

Plus Michone.

So far season five is a bit of a slow start for me, but after season three/four they need to pace themselves. The script flip I was expecting just happened. Won't spoil it though .

Battlesystems stuff looks great, but for what material it is, that is just too much. I think I would rather get stuff from WorldWorks or FatDragon, for a much more reasonable price. Print it out and mount it on something durable.

I have the scifi stuff. It's really really nice. I'm not sure I'd have similar results printing it out. If I'm gonna make something myself I'll just do some kind of mixed medium. I mean printing bricks may not be a bad idea... but I'm not sure how well printed bricks would do along with proper 3d everything else. I'll just have to find a method of doing bricks that I like. Maybe some kind of large scale pressmold shenanigans once I get something sorted. Dunno. I'm pretty sure I can make little tables and chairs and couches and police barricades and so on, and I'm pretty sure I could duplicate the buildings too, though it will take some time and I don't have the eye for detail or precision they do.

At the very least anything I did could readily incorporate proper transparent 'glass' windows as I've been hoarding clamshell plastic from toy containers for years now.