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Ugh-- that giant rat thingy is nasty. I can't wait to see it painted up.

Awesome Almost regret backing now.

@graven, thanks, I'm liking them even more without the gloss coat.
@josh, he is finished now, back a page
@Grimdork, wait you DID back, or did you leave off the not?

Well I got them all primed now and started sorting the models this morning. I decided to lay out all the hero cards with the models.
That's the Knights pledge level with 1extra box of heroes (4 models). Can't say the game is lacking options

The most important 6 heroes with my scratch built giant wooden bunny and the not so little not-killer Ratbite of Caerbannog

Though this time "Chauncey" bravely ran away and I was about to have an aneurism when I couldn't find him. He turned up in the painting box, guess he was telling me something.

Then decided to paint what should be the easiest model to paint. The Ablobination.




Given its size I think I'll nickname home the Not So Great Unclean One

Really like that sculpt! The Minotaur is really great too. Didn't realize all these big, undead-ish fantasy things happened!

- Salvage

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Really like that sculpt! The Minotaur is really great too. Didn't realize all these big, undead-ish fantasy things happened!

- Salvage

The abominarat and abominalpha (the one that looks like a wrath of kings figure) were both Kickstarter exclusives, I almost did a double pledge just for a second abominarat. The other three: Ablobination, abominotaur, and the Abominitroll come together in a separate box for $30 retail.

Campaign size comparison chart . Bar wentch comes in the core box. The sculpts are soooooooo much better than the ones for Massive Darkness in my book.

I'd be all over that if the wench was included Good price for the three all the same. Cheers for the info!

- Salvage

Yeah wtf.. meant regret not backing. Silly phone.

That's a lot of heroes... You'll have to do the KoW KoM army made of all heroes

Boss Salvage wrote:I'd be all over that if the wench was included Good price for the three all the same. Cheers for the info!

- Salvage

I'm sure you wouldn't mind getting the core box with the other 70 or so figs and a great game to boot

GrimDork wrote:Yeah wtf.. meant regret not backing. Silly phone.

That's a lot of heroes... You'll have to do the KoW KoM army made of all heroes

THAT IS THE MOST BRILLIANT IDEA EVER.......EVER

Now I will be spending endless hours trying to figure out an army list for them all


Wiped out. Mowed the lawn this morning, worked at church, had Chinese buffet with my son (I ate way too much), did shopping for a picnic tonight all in 90+ degree weather with high humidity feeling like 100+. The picnic is at Forest Park here in St. Louis (think Central Park but larger and much fewer muggings ) where they are doing an outdoor festival and performing Shakespeare's a mid summers night dream.

Need to rest up for this one. Stupid culture .

Good for Frostgrave as well......

 Llamahead wrote:
Good for Frostgrave as well......

I still haven't gotten into frost grave, are there free rules anywhere for it? The way everyone is jumping on it seems like it should be fun.

Had the idea of doing heroic party regiments for awhile, something like 4-7 hero minis replacing a 20 person block of infantry.

Fighters in front, cleric behind to hold them up, rogues and the like flanking , and potentially wizards raised above in the back representing the units ranged capacity.

Truly epic heroes can still take up hero and monster slots of course, and you can also use warmachine slots for wizards too. If there are supposed to be crew use them as low level bodyguards.

Love that rat.

Great progress Theo, liking the models a lot.

Thanks Cam
Grimdork, I'll have to research more Tonight about that army.

Well had an hour today to paint.




Abominotaur with his Ablobination buddy. Thought I had messed up the Minotaur, I had forgotten to use the green shade wash before hitting him with the deep tone flesh wash. He looked good, but not my favorite green looking zombie tone, so he got the wash afterwards. I think he turned out well regardless.

Loving these models mate- Might get the Abominotaur actually for some interesting stuff in my Beastmen

@Aov, thanks, the abominotaur comes with the Ablobination and the Abominitroll, but luckily enough all those would work on n a chaos army as well.

Well the car is packed and we are off for vacation hours in the car with my wife and kids I love them but close quarters and an early morning wake up make for a fun start and finish to a vacation.

ZBP is going with us, but my paints are staying behind. My brother in law and his family are coming so we will get a game or two in this weekend when we have had enough outside time by the lake. I'll try and snag pictures.

Have fun Probably something going on our way too but nothing so cool as to involve zombicide

That plague minotaur thing is a brilliant sculpt, am looking forward to see how these turn out.

spreading the plague i see Theo! very nice work! you really are getting into that diseased look!

Frostgrave isn't available free from anywhere I'd recommend. Although it is £15 for the basic rulebook so it won't exactly break the bank and it is also totally model agnostic as well.

Have a great break Theo and family, pics will be great.

I complain about journeys with the family also, and I complain about technology ruining my children, but this is the one occasion I love the modern world, each kid gets a tablet full of their moves and games and they are entertained for hours, you could load one up with "night of the living dead" get the kids in the mood for Zombicide fun!

Seriously though, really wishing you a great vacation, see you when you get back bud.

That Black Plague stuff is looking sweet! From the latest CMON update I could well be waiting another month for my stuff to arrive. Bah!

Enjoy the vacation! May you have better luck than the Griswolds!

Nice work on the Black Plague stuff so far, such cool minis.

EDC

 Theophony wrote:
@Aov, thanks, the abominotaur comes with the Ablobination and the Abominitroll, but luckily enough all those would work on n a chaos army as well.

Well the car is packed and we are off for vacation hours in the car with my wife and kids I love them but close quarters and an early morning wake up make for a fun start and finish to a vacation.

ZBP is going with us, but my paints are staying behind. My brother in law and his family are coming so we will get a game or two in this weekend when we have had enough outside time by the lake. I'll try and snag pictures.

Have fun and be safe. See ya when you get back.

@Everyone, thanks for the well wishes on the vacation. We just arrived back home safe and sound. There was lots of crying and whining, but my kids forgave me for doing it . No driving off cliffs or stops at amusement parks, but we did see a dam and a fish hatchery and swam in a lake for a while. While we did go to Branson, MO we did not go to any of the overpriced attractions yet still had lots of fun. We also got in 3 long games of zombicide Black Plague, mainly using Monty Python figs . I hope season two has an AbomiNItion knight or Black Abomiknight or even a French abomitaunter .

All is unpacked now and I painted for about an hour, Abominitroll is almost completed and will be shown later.

Yay for surviving!

Surviving Zombicide is kind of the goal , but surviving the vacation was also the goal.

Well back from vacation and from working at church this morning. I decided to start thinking of the kingdom of men army that Grimdork suggested. There might be 50+ survivors from Zombicide, but not all of them fit the KOW human empire scheme, so how do I supplement what I want to build.....This sent me into a Blood Rage ( ) which reminded me I have all these Blood Rage figures that need painting and a home. I could use them for their game, but since I don't ever leave anything alone......


I was in on the kickstarter so I got the 6th player expansion and the 5th player expansion and the wizards too. So all together I have 6 groups of figs each with 11 models in it (2 wizards, a standard bearer, and 4 each of two sculpts of fighters). I could leave them by individual clans and find some survivors to help fill in the ranks, or mix them all up to help blend the whole army and disperse the duplicates. I think the second route would look better visually across the board, but the mix of weaponry might make it more challenging to decide what is what.

The other obstacle is the fact that I don't have any mounted knights besides the ones from Battlemasters to fill the ranks of cavalry. I guess they will have to do......or I use my Monty Python figures for those and create a base for them as mounted knights. Too bad we don't have squires with coconuts .

Oh well. Now to calculate an army....

Haha cool. Wanted to do this with my bones minis but it would be a long time coming. Looking forward to your progress.

Well it might be a while before I even tackle that army. I took a quick look at the armybuilder app for KOW and then decided to paint.....

The Abominatroll that I painted yesterday but was too worn out to photograph.





Sorry for the flowery napkin usage, but I think the pictures turned out better than shooting the pics on the wood grain of the desk. Plus it looks like the evil zombie troll is afraid of the flowers I think he will make a nice general for my dungeon saga zombie trolls . I forgot to use the green ink wash on him, but I like the color variation between him and the other abominations I have done, so I think he will be spared the rod so to speak.

Today I tossed the rotting flesh color on 42 zombies. so there are plenty that need detail work to finish them off. No pics of this as it's not even at a basic stage yet. Hoping to get a slew done before the end of the month and the end of this 6 month painting blitz that Azazelx has set up. I'm already enrolled for the next 6 months with what else.....zombies

Also also.....I am testing a color mix for my next not KOW army. It'll possibly get me back to my gaming roots. I got the inspiration from someone else here on dakka with the colors and I have always wanted to do this super secret plan...... stay tuned.

Dun dun DUN!

Nice monster.

So was the Dun Dun Dun supposed to mean green giant? Or the mystery?

Well I finished the flesh tones this morning on the zombies, so here's the task at hand for zombies....


Edit: got some painting done today. Only a couple hours total including the flesh tones on those 42 zombies. I wanted to try some of the notorious plagued characters and the last basic abomination.

And a close up of devito and Schwarzenegger.

And this guy seems to have lost his head over the belly dancer.


Also on a sad note, just found out our pastor has decided to step down. He has taken an offer in Texas to be a youth/assistant pastor. Good for him, but not so great for us .