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Great job on the zombicide models and chaos mate. Hope your mothers health and thenl nurgle's blessing in your mouth improves soon.

I'm now on a third set of even more powerful antibiotics. My left lymph node in my neck is about twice the size of the righthand one, and I had to go in for a jaw x-ray yesterday. Wheeee!

I did get deferred from Jury Duty until Feb next year, as I told them I could come in tomorrow (which is now today) but I may have to go back to the doctor or dentist next week, and they need me available for a solid 1-2 week block. Need to fax them through my medical docs when I go back to work tomorrow.

As for Zombicide - I missed S1 entirely, but picked it up at retail. So until I find, buy and paint some suitable proxies for the exclusives, we're not using those characters at all.

Still, (almost?) all the exclusive character "sheets" are available as free downloads from Guillotine's website, so it's still very doable to pick up the retail sets, print the character sheets for the exclusives and just drop in your own suitable models. I think the game is enough fun that it's a viable/worthwhile option. There are enough broadly similar characters out there in physical terms that proxying is easy (there's 3-5 sword-wielding women models, about 15 "some guy with a pistol" models...) we proxy a lot of the models even now since I stopped opening survivor boxes until I get more painted, and we've got well enough already opened.

Oooh that makes me more confident about buying the game, thanks for that insight Azazelx. I wasn't gonna let exclusives talk me out of it, but knowing I can get the rules for them makes it a wash entirely.

Feel beetarz!

Here 'tis
http://zombicide.com/en/promo-survivors

The boxed games would also be a great source of more Zombies for you, and would also provide interiors if you went for a homebrew variation of your Zombpocalypse rules.

Thanks for the link, holy crap so many! Zombicide is definitely on my x-mas list and next in line for what gets bought with my amazon credit card credit, just waiting for whichever happens next!

 GrimDork wrote:
Thanks for the link, holy crap so many! Zombicide is definitely on my x-mas list and next in line for what gets bought with my amazon credit card credit, just waiting for whichever happens next!

Also on sale through walmart and target for slightly cheaper than miniaturemarket.com. Wife might not look twice at a walmart purchase on the credit card

A couple of weekends ago, I was doing a little bit of procrastinating at my paint desk, trying to figure out what to work on. I spotted a pair of Mantic's plastic Zombies, primed and based that have been floating around for bloody ages. I'm not sure when or why I initially assembled them, especially just as a pair. I haven't been able to find any more of them either, though I have plenty on sprues. So this time, instead of shoving them to the side, I decided to speedpaint them.







It took just a couple of hours to get these painted. It helped a hell of a lot that they were already fully prepped, but still. Very easy to paint. I used some mixes of the usual wash colours to subtly influence the stain on the flesh tones, and then blended up the highlights post-wash. I kept the palette very simple, because Zombies. I went with dark grey rags to keep them in theme with Marouda's Undead army scheme (dark grey standing in for black on these filthy creatures). Citadel's Blood for the Blood God paint over Tamiya Clear Red, since BFTBG is easier to clean up.

Due to my (poor) photography skills, you can't see the individual teeth that are picked out. I need to either get a better cheap camera or learn how to use my good camera properly. It's taken me ages to actually paint any, but really I have to reiterate how good these HIPS Zombies from Mantic really are. These came up really well for so little time and effort. Now I want to paint up more of them. Gotta finish clearing the desk though, first.

These will obviously get used in Kings of War eventually, when I paint about a million of their mates. Obviously they're useful for any Fantasy RPG. Age of Sigmar? Why not? (If I ever play it!). They might even provide some Walker action for Zombicide at some stage.

Agreed on the quality of the HIPs zombies, the best plastic kit that Mantic have ever released due to a combination of sculpting and the work of Renendra. The details are awesome and as you say they take minimal time to paint, they smash the GW Zombie kit into the ground.

I have painted over 150 of the things, though to nowhere near your quality, and never once got bored of them. As you say they are usable in any zombie related fun.

Good that you are back painting on a regular basis Az, these look grand. More please.

You put a lot more work into those zombies than I did with mine. They look really nice. Do you remember having any issues where the torsos join the hips? I ended up puttying over the ugly gaps mine had.

Thanks guys. I can't remember pretty much anything about their assembly, but there was remnants of liquid greenstuff around the necks and torso/hips, so I'm guessing I had the same issue.

Super stuff Az! I've painted a few of the sci-fi Zombies, but I need to get my hands on some of Mantic's plastic fantasy undead (and other stuff) at some point...

They look great and the poses are actually pretty menacing. I think the really pallid tones work well and wonder if the addition of a little green to a few in a unit to show extra rot would work.

Nice work on those Mantic Zombies. I like the gruesome grizzly loom they have.

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Wow those zombies look genuinely creepy haha. Nice work!

Agree with the above, nice zombies . They do fit a little loose at the waist, especially if you mix zombie/ghoul kits, bit its easy to fix.

Nice work as usual! Looks really good for a speed paint!

Thanks guys. I'm really quite happy with how they turned out for the time it took. These next three are kind of the same, and kind of the exact opposite. I had this trio of figures sitting around for a few years, doing nothing. I always found them pretty uninspiring, so really had no plans to do much with them or buy more. I'm not entirely sure why I bought them - probably just collecting the different LotR figures before GW went super-ridiculous with embargoes to AU and such a few years ago. You know how it goes. At some point in the last year or so, I decided that since there were only three of them, and their outfits as seen in the films were basically a mixture of dirty rags, I should paint them quickly and get them done.

So it turns out that painting figures which you don't especially like in an uninspiring colour scheme does nothing for getting them done, so they languished with a few base colours for a year or so. Until recent, when I tried again. That attempt was a failure as well.

So. Thoroughly uninspired, I turned to Google image search to find some inspiration to paint these little suckers and get them off my painting desk. As luck would have it, I found some images from FunkyBrush's painting blog, (posted on Lead-Adventure) with his Dunlanders converted and painted as Celts. This led to some further poking around, and the images on Bennett Blalock-Doane's blog cinched the deal.



I didn't convert the weapons or add shields as FB did, as I tend to like to keep my "first" one of any given figure untouched, unless I purchased it for that purpose, or it's otherwise an irredeemable/seriously flawed sculpt. So these guys are Wildmen of Dunland, and when I have a bunch of my Warlord Games Celts painted up, they will also be Wildmen. Sometimes. Except in games where they're all used as Celts, including the Wildmen. Who knows what the future of the table holds? Kings of War games with Saruman leading his Uruk-Hai army alongside his Celt allies led by Boudicca? Why not?



I repainted this guy as a ginger, as opposed to the dirty unkempt grey/white beard that he originally had when I was trying to be more movie-accurate to Jackson's films. When I threw that out and decided to go Celt, I almost painted the top guy as blonde, until I remembered the comments about Rohirrim as "straw-heads" in the (books? films?), so I toned it down to brown. Of course, that just applies to these three, and my actual (eventual) Celts will have plenty of blonde and bleached hair amongst them! There is a fourth sculpt that I don't have. I'm not going to chase it, but if I happen to see it for a reasonable/cheap price someday, I'm sure I'll pick it up.



The Celtic theme was a real inspiration. Adding a woven tartan pattern to these guys was a real godsend, as it allowed me to have some fun on them and do something I like with freehand. So ultimately, after pretty much hating these hard-to-paint models for the longest time, they finished up as a trio that I'm really quite happy with and got done in about a day. I like it when that happens. Gotta love the internet for inspiration!



...now I gotta keep looking for that Undead Chaos Warrior that Josh just posted...

Those tartan patterns, along with the crazy eyes, redeem those otherwise uninspiring minis quite nicely. The aged metal on the weapons looks great as well. These guys would make a nice little SoBaH or Open Combat warband.

The cloth does look excellent, well pretty much what Josh said. Always useful when someone makes a more elegant post than me first and I can just kind of glom on

A very beardy lot.

Thank you, gents. Now I can forget about those guys until I get around to doing some Celts sometime in the future.

Here's some more Citadel Black Númenórean Warriors!



These guys are queue-jumpers, via the "stuff I can paint at work" clause - as opposed to stuff I've been working on for ages. That's pretty much it for these ones. I mean, there's not a lot interesting that you can write about more of the same three sculpts you've shown before, all painted more or less identically. These are all new, though. None of the first batch are shown in the mob above. I'll make the lot of them more interesting soon, but for now. this bunch is done!

Impressive, especially how consistent the whole lot are and how epic they look en masse!

Nice fancy picking up a few of those for Frostgrave shenanigans!

Thanks guys. They'd look a lot better to me if they were more varied, but with three poses and not a lot else that fits with them there's little I can do. Ah well...

As a followup to some of the previous posts that featured WarZone 1e Dark Legion Demnogonis (WarZone's version of Nurgle) models, I've gotten off my arse and painted these four, that I found and photographed as a post-script to that last post. I actually found them next to my light box, where I'd left them and forgotten about them months ago. Whoops!



Once again, they painted up damned quickly - within a day and a half from start to finished, most of which was drying time and time spent playing with my PlayStation. As with the previous post's Black Númenórean Warriors, there's not a lot to say about showing more figures from a range I've painted and shown off before, painted pretty much in the exact same manner. I'll have the other seven, more military-themed ones done soon(er or later). The Auscam that I plan to give them will make it all take a bit longer, no doubt.

Once all are done I'll probably do another group shot of sci-fi zombies. And then more again when I bust out the plastic Mantic ones. Bloody zombies never end....

Ooo some nice Nurgle cultists

Ooo I like those Warzone zombie things. Very cool indeed.

EDC

They do look really good. A good quality paint job can go a long way on Warzone figures. What is the mwthod you're using for their skintone? I like the greenish hue, looks good and rotten.

I used the easiest method for these guys. I use a mix of colours for the skin base - anything from light greens through to lighter-mid browns, maybe do a simple highlight on brow ridges, lips, cheekbokes, shoulder tops. So much the same with the rest of the model, including wounded areas, then hit the lot with AP strong tone (the dropper bottle one, not the paint tin). Add Tamoya Clear Red/BFTBG at the end and you're golden!

The skintone bases for these ones are from L->R: Vallejo Model Air Duck Egg Green, Vallejo Model Colour Brown Sand, VMA Dead Flesh, Vallejo Game Colour Plague Brown (I think!)

Really though, when doing this sort of zombie flesh now, I just grab some random light green/brown tones and flesh-ish tones from the desk and go with it.

Here's some more new-ish stuff recently finished:

This pair of Goblins are from 4th Edition Warhammer Fantasy Battle. Not quite "proper" Oldhammer, but close enough for me, as they were some of the first models out in that time, and more impoerantly are Kev "Goblinmaster" Adams sculpts.



I skipped freehanding a shield for the champion, and used a sculpted shield this time. I did it for two reasons in about equal measure - being too lazy to freehand one, and the (bright) sculpted shield being totally in keeping with the era and nature of these figures. My concession to the "red period" of GW which these models helped to usher in is the chestnut/red-brown that I use for the boots and staves.



I also skipped adding flames to the rims of their hoods. I might keep that sort of thing for the Fanatics, Clubber/Netter guys and some of the Squig guys. I've also disliked the checkered pattern that GW gave their Orcs and Orks around that time, so you'll rarely if ever see that sort of thing on my greenskin models.

There should probably be a standard bearer to go with these guys. If I manage to find him and get a banner painted up, I'll show the three of them together. For now, it's just the pair!


I've been thinking lately. My painting has changed focus a couple of times this year. At the start it was simply to "paint models and maybe get an army finished" with a hopeful goal of getting 365 models painted in the year - which I've never managed to do. It then shifted to getting my Gondor Army (for KoW, etc) completed, then the Moria Army was added to that hopeful focus. Then it shifted to getting things that were started (often years, or even decades ago) finished before starting new units and projects. I've been reasonably happy with the way most of it's all gone, but in a few weeks I'm taking some leave from work, so I'll have pretty much all of December off.

I thought it would be a nice thing to paint something new/different/interesting/cool, to celebrate my holidays. The question is: What to paint? I don't really want to slot a unit of models or even a vehicle or Knight in here - I'd much prefer a cool character, or monster, or walker. Something I can enjoy, that can be a bit of something special and cooler than my usual endless Rank & File, but not something that's going to be off-putting in terms of assembly like a vehicle or knight. Or scenery.

I've got a LOT of models across a lot of ranges so there's a lot of scope/potential for something interesting here. GW, Forge World, Warhammer Forge, Fantasy, Raging Heroes, Avatars of War, Reaper, Blood Bowl, Citadel-Oldhammer/Rogue Trader, 40k, Historicals.... so I reckon I'll ask here, and then just disqualify any suggestions people make that are out of my scope or preference (Mantic or Reaper Bones models for example are probably not up to the level of what I want to have fun with doing as a special job.)

Any suggestions?

Got any Inquisitor figs?? Theyre usually pretty characterful and you could give them a small retinue of savant, tech dude, bodyguard etc to go along

Perhaps pick out a 'commander' model for each of your main armies and give them a nice paintjob; keeps them as something you can put down on the table, while also being able to spend some real time and effort on.

Failing that, you've been doing a lot of old stuff recently, so how about some stuff that's somewhat newer. I know you mentioned you had a few AoS box sets, all the character models in those are pretty stunning.