Zombie Survivors progress

In a move unseen by my gaming collection I've actually been playing more Zombicide than istting down painting the thing. I'm not sure if this idea will catch on, or if everyone will give up on the game as soon as I finish painting....

Anyway I'm still working on the survivors 1st before I start tackling the zombie hordes. I've finished up Sheldon (Dave in game) and added Lucas to the mix (custom character) the great Fanboy sculpt from RAFM. Oh and if you were wondering where the Bride and Ash came from. The Bride is also from RAFM's USX Modern Day Heroes line. Ash is from Studio Miniatures Survivors. Must say I'm awful tempted to add their Scrubs doctors and patients zombies to the horde, you know if I didn't already have like 100 or something zombies to paint.







I got the idea from the Zombicide tiles to add some junk to my bases like drink cans made or plastic sprue and I found some tabloid newspapers with zombie headlines and an odd issue of the Onion and scaled them down in Illustrator to about 1cm across and printed out a heap of them to cut out, fold and glue onto bases. With a coat of thin PVA glue I could aslo do washes on them to dirty them up without it soaking into the paper.



















still a lot of work to go

New Camera: Good excuse for some New Photos

Last week I finally bought myself a DSLR, I've been meaning to get one forever and maybe find adaptors for my old SLR lenses (I'll work on that). I picked up a Canon 600D single lense kit and have been experimenting taking photos of anime figures and my miniatures between the ZOMG WHY IS EVERY BIG GAME TITLE COMING OUT NOW drama of Borderlands 2, Assassin's Creed III and Halo 4 all at the same time, gah.


Anyway here are some photos of stuff in my comp minis cabinet:














































I'm going to have to set up some sort of lightbox to take some better photos of my winning models from the past. God knows GW took terrible pics of them.

Zombie Hunters - Ash and the Bride

I started my Zombicide survivors with my metal sub in minis. Just got in the mood for painting so started off with the Bride since I kinda thought yellow would be a bit different to work up.

She painted up so quickly using P3 paints and GW washes that I didn't even get WIP shots, she just got done. Ash also painted up very quickly. I'm experimenting with using more washes on the survivors to get them done quickly for game use rather than comp quality. I do kinda want to repaint his pants though, the colour seems a bit too yellow and too drybrushy for my liking.

Dystopian Wars demo fleets

I got asked by my friend to have a crack at a couple demo fleets for Dystopian Wars. I can't say I was immediately enraptured by the tiny ships but I eventually thought up a way to paint them up and I have to say they really are nice detailed little models to paint.





























My approach to painting them was to start with a simple grey prime. I painted the decking a flat light cream colour and the metal parts got cold steel straight over the primer. The sides were painted in space wolf colours for the Antarctica fleet, drybrushing up to highlights. For the FSA I started with goblin green then highlighted up through a khaki then zombie flesh for the highlight. After all that was dry they pretty much got a very heavy Devlin Mud treatment, using a big wash all over the deck and metal areas. For the coloured sides I was more careful and only put wash over the rivet areas. After all that I added highlights to the metal areas and added in details like yellow in the windows and the glowy green sections on the Antarctic ships and the glowy forcefield generator on the FSA ship.