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I agree. I've been doing a lot of boardgame stuff lately and the simplicity is nice.

The simplicity is so nice that I am almost ready to box up some of my paints and clear the desk . Seriously I love to build stuff, but lately I haven't been getting any games in except a train game with my kids. My brother in law has been so busy and I just hate trying to set stuff up at the FLGS with peeps I don't know. Especially since I work so many strange hours (most nights are out) three mornings a week are out and Sunday is a no go. Then I have to fit my family in there too.

Just watching the videos of the Zombicide Black Plague made me appreciate the fun of gaming again. No worries about terrain, painted figures or points.

Also in other news I've gotten pretty fed up with one of the kickstarters (creaturecaster) . I've just sent a private request to see about a refund, which if it happens will just get turned around into more Zombicide stuff. I'm also tempted to cancel my Conan pledge and go CRAZY with Zombicide Black Plague (all in sorts of crazy), but I think I'll hold out there as there's some great sculpts amongst the over 200 figs I'll be getting.

Zombicide looked cool but ehh, meh, had to pass. Probably gonna pass out on bones 3 too, though it does have a nice selection.

I do wanna paint some more boardgame stuff ala mars attacks!, but I've been feeling the need to terrain it up once things settle down a bit.

I hear you about the no gaming... its kind of rough with the kids.

Well, finally some breathing time. Quick update as I have lots to do before leaving on vacation Thursday to catch up to the family who started the vacation yesterday. But before they left the iPad got dropped again , making this take a lot longer than it should as I have to rotate the screen different directions because some spots are dead.

Speaking of dead....walking or otherwise, here is the first of the Angry Servo Skull Hostile Organic Life-form Elimination Squad members.





They eschew regular marine armor in favor of utilizing their mechandrites and the meat shields that are in the battlezone they get deployed too.

Your meat shield is... meaty! lovely build and concept.

Thanks Graven,

The second member of the squad has joined the fight.

where is the referee ??? that is a non legal move with a folding chair if i ever saw one...mebbe the ref got belted with that one already too....oh my...
the other mechandrite throwing servo skull...(i think these skulls are done with serving anyone...actually they ´re angry skulls...always angry, always sulking skulls...) i thought the one mechandrite (tentacle...) was in the poor fellows armpit...*YUCK*


IF i had the funds...which i don´t... then i would do exactly as you pictured your alternative plan... switch everything to zombicde and leave conan...but that s just my own deep dark idea...


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and since the first skulking skull is literally choking the poor guy... i guy this was because that fether watched too many Japanese onrop movies...kind of a retaliation done fetish style^^

So I did some thinking last night and got over a bit of "I want all the cool exclusives from all these different games". I sent refund requests to Conan, Blood Rage and creaturecaster (which I had done last week) and I am currently waiting on hearing back from all of those. I will be channeling all those funds into Zombicide: Black Plague......and maybe regular zomicide too . Though I won't be getting all the regular Zombicide exclusives. Since they've already done three seasons and two expansions the best I will do is get them and maybe some of the add on boxes. I think what really pushed me over the decision breakpoint was watching a video of how to easily paint up the zombies.

Sorastro's Zombie painting guide on youtube

I have never watched painting videos, and haven't really bothered to become a better painter of the years, but he pointed out some really basic steps that I just jumped over or took the wrong direction with all this time. One of those things being green flesh....as you may have seen my previous zombies all had regular skin tones. I was always getting frustrated by painting the skin dark green and then trying to bring it up to a lighter tone and achieve the results others were getting. But not anymore. Quick coat of Rotting Flesh, then brush on Waywatcher green (which I picked up for my servo skull boys last week) and your basicly done till you weather and seal. Four steps to his method, but you can do more. So I'm going to give it a go.

Giving it a go means I need moar Zombies . Miniaturemarket had a couple boxes of the toxic city mall expansion for half price last week due to damages. Then they emailed ME (no one else, just ME) that if I came in and spent $25 i'd get 500 points ($5.00) off my next visit. well at half price that box was $30.00 so that was the plan......plans go bad though and as I went in today I saw they also had a tin of Armypainter strong tone, which is the guys secret recipe for weathering zombies. Normally $30 on its own, since it was dented I got it for $10 . So here is what I walked home with


oh and the "Damage"


well off to unbox my 43 new figures (plus other content) and get zombie painting.


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Professor

Soccer player


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Valdermort

Fat momma

UPS driver

Jogger

Mohawk

These are the seven types that came in the walk of the dead box I bought a couple weeks back. Three of each sculpt, so I'll just vary the clothing colors a little bit. They are still very glossy, a side effect of the armypainter strong shade. they need the gore added, and I have to decide on the color I'll go for the eyes, but seven figures in about an hour.


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Stupid Miniaturemarket.com

I start painting my new buys (got the A-bomb and two new fatties primed and base coated the skins), and they sent out an email on a special one day sale which has Zombicide Angry Neighbors in it . Well there went another $25.00. Now I'm back up at their place picking it up and trying not to buy more .

A sllight dry brush of normal looking flesh for the green to show thru on will help make those guys look corrupted enough to turn stomaches!

lol valdermort...lol...

the z´s look very good... and i agree after the dip is dry a dry brush and you´re good...

and boy... all these sums make me faint...

Thanks Shaso, I'll do more touch ups when I get back from vacation, including more skin tones

@Vik, yeah it was more than I was planning on spending....but.....reasons

Well two more fatties down and an Abombination.



I love the Abombination sculpt. Tightie whities and purple bunny slippers along with a sleep mask.

Looking good, a nice matte/dull/flat/etc coat/cote would do them some good in my book, but if you like slimy zombies then you're ready to game

i agree...theyßre mighty shiny currently... that needs to be solved... but the fatty is funny... what is he wearing around his neck? comiccon pass?

i will soon try my hand in Z´s too...competition demands^^...

@grimdork, yes a dull its is planned, but I want to get a bunch of zombies completed before that step, and more detail work done to them too.
@Vik, yes a zombie challenge. Are you going Zombicide too? I was wondering how zombies sound with a German accent

I leave for the airport in 5 hours, just woke up for no reason, now I don't know if I'll try and go back to sleep or go knock out more zombies....
I'm going to be gone till Tuesday and we supposedly don't have WIFI where we're at because the people we rented the house from gave us the wrong WIFI code , this could be a long couple of days with limited DakkaDakka access .

BRAINZ....probably...

watched warm bodies recently... that was actually an intelligent if romantic movie ...
and for the diorama of mine i plan to enter for the LoER terrain comp i want to make a suitable amount of Z´s...

and i feel your pain about the WIFI... it´s always a great struggle being on holiday with no internet access.......but i recently found that i can wire my mobile to our laptop... so if push comes to shove i am still in business...kinda...as the amount of bites is limited...ach...

have nice trip matey! you certainly can do with a bit of time to let the hair down...

WIFI activated

So far on the trip my flight out got delayed, missed connecting flight, and had a woman thrown in jail for drunk and disorderly after cussing my kids out and throwing (and hitting ) my son with a rock. Local cops were excellent and took the away, she won't be arraigned till we leave town anyway so we don't have to deal with her again. My sons alright, the rock hit him on the inner side of the elbow, not even a bruise. She is obviously off her meds for bi-polar condition (which her neighbor told us about), and has had multiple issues before where the police were involved.

Michigan fudge is great
Old lighthouses are cool
Swimming in cold lakewater is fun for my kids but not for me

Wow sorry about your crazy run in! Glad to hear people are still having fun.

Admire your self control in relying on the police (probably like you should), not sure I would have had the restraint..

Yeah, crazy happens anywhere

under such circumstances i would probably be the one sitting in jail...i would have punched that person...if someone would touch my kids...the red veil would cover my eyes and i would go ballistic...

fact: today my son felix was nearly bitten by a dog...the dog was bound to a bicycle post, but it had enough room to run at him and hit him with its teeth...it didn´t bite, just hit him with the teeth... no puncture...i was too far away to react in a bodily way... but boy the dog was reacting due to my booming voice...the way i yelled all peeps in the shop we were about to do the grocery where shocked......well we were shocked as well...but i have to say the family of the dog reacted very politely and caring ... and i understood that the dog is otherwise a family friendly one... really no killer one...so we settled in a friendly way... and felix is also totally unharmed and well on top of it all...

but really... human against kid... i´d be a loose canon...

a blessing your kid was unharmed....hopefully he has recovered fully too...

@Vik, I'm glad Felix is okay , the red veil was over my eyes too, luckily my brother, sister and brother in law were with me otherwise I'd be in jail.
@all, crazy happens all the time and it happens double around me.

We spent the day swimming at Lake Michigan, and stopped for ice cream on the way back to the place we are staying. The rest of my relatives have left so now it's me, my wife and the three little pigs. We told them "no dinner until you have desert!" They are completely besides themselves with what to do. I think they believe we have been taken over by pod people or something.

Packing everything up besides tomorrow and Monday's clothes shortly. We will leave in the morning after packing the rental van and head for Chicago. Planning on hitting Shedd's Aquarium and the Field Museum before going to our hotel. Monday morning will have a little time for Navy Pier, then the ride home to St.Louis.

I can't wait to get back to my zombies

Field Museum, isn't that the one with SUE the T-rex right? Enjoy

It is indeed .

They also had (almost 15 years ago on our honeymoon) the Lions from Ghost and the Darkness. Just so you know that was a real story. Man eating Lions working together and cunning enough to figure out traps..... .

Damn everywhere I go everyone seems to have lifted there game, your painting style has improved and loving the zombies.

Sorry to hear about your son that's pretty fethed up, sounds like that woman needs to be committed especially as she is known to the police.

Glad the rest of the trip is going swimming (see what I did there ) and at least you ain't buying more models

The museum does not sell models does it ?????

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It is indeed .

They also had (almost 15 years ago on our honeymoon) the Lions from Ghost and the Darkness. Just so you know that was a real story. Man eating Lions working together and cunning enough to figure out traps..... .

Love that film. Those lions are badasses!!

@LDD, thanks, the museum did sell models, just no Zombie Dino's or anything cool. The got a two day(at least) stay in county prison, as no one "saw" her throw the rock there won't be any additional charges from our end. Plus I don't want to drive 12+ hours again just for her to possibly be remanded to custody of the state.
@angelofvengence, it was a cool movie from my recollection....I think I have it on VHS somewhere

Well I had a couple hours to paint so I did some more zombies, including my angry servo skull hostile organic life-form elimination squad members.



Chair shot on a priest....think I'll name him John



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Inmate

Banzai ganger

Punk

And a couple survivors

Grey widow

Grey widow's ASSets

Survivor guy.

no rest for the wicked... or should we call im chairman...?...naww...that´d be too easy^^

mabe the two days behind bars will trigger something that prevents further chaotic happenings...who knows...at least that is one person you can do without...and won´t have to anyway...

god looking Z´s managed by your skulls...tho...whenever someone wanted to utilize Z´s before it went pear shaped in less time than to say "wow, look at that cheap workforce of zombies..." ...


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lol...ninjaed...
grey widow...remember not only is it important in case of the zombycalypse to be armed at all hours, but to wear skintight spandex when you have curvy bum and bewbs...it´s kinda the appetizer attire for z´s...

We'll least she is of the streets for a couple of days like you said if the justice system is like the UK nothing will happen anyway.

Some great looking zombies and love the character stamp you put on them, especially the vicar and servo LMAO

@Vik, they aren't utilizing the zombies so much as the servo skullwresing that one down while shooting more zombies....probably in the back. Or using it as a meat shield from the survivors wide shots as it comes in to rescue some poor civilians....so he can enjoy killing them himself.
@LDD, I didn't even plan for him to be a priest/vicar, just painting the suit black and then realized it could be a priest.....God had his hand in this figure getting created.

Well, still undecided on refunding my Blood Rage and Conan pledges, got replies from both of them on how to do it or wait till the PM and then get the refund. Blood Rage has some awesome sculpts, especially the Giants and Fenrir (who I'd use as the alphabomination), as well as a bunch of cool Viking looking guys. Still it would cover a $100 pledge for Zombicide if I got rid of the Blood Rage pledge. Conan has just so much stuff in it that would be useful including fantasy terrain, lots of character sculpts and.... a game. Now I just have to wait to hear on creature asters decision. If he refunds me then that's a knight level pledge in itself, then I'll just drop blood rage and it get a knight level and a basic pledge so I get all the extra goodies (tons of Zombies), more boards and more dice. Might even pick up some extras like the NPC-2 set which has Bruce Campbell's boomstick.

Might even pick up some extras like the NPC-2 set which has Bruce Campbell's boomstick.

before that it was all gibberish...can´t help you with all that...sorry mate... but where we are with army of darkness stuff.... grooovy... if ya know what i am talking about...

If the Kickstarters have not finished you can just cancel your pledge, so I am little lost as to what your problem is unless they have finished which they usually don't let you refund anyway.

Plus you should have backed route 666 it has awesome sculpts great gangs and is like a newer version of Dark future but way better.

Plus you can make your own gang vehicles using cheap 1/64 cars, so if anyone has any old toy cars knocking around you want rid of let me know I might be interested