13 October 2021

Zombtober: Six more shamblers

Another group of crumbling corpses make their way past what's apparently the most popular convenience store in existence.

There's still no sign of the Hasslefree survivors, but yesterday I found these Brigade Games minis in the mailbox and got them on the painting table 10 minutes later. Like last time, I painted all the skin first then the clothing, which I've found to be the easiest way to get them done. I think they took around 2½ hours in total, but more like four in real time as I did them in between dishes/laundry/stopping the bloody dogs from barking at every car that goes past the house.

All these rotting roamers are from the Drug War Z line of minis.

I'll start with the kids, as despite having a couple of survivor children these are the first pint-sized zombies I've painted. Oh wait, no they're not. Anyway, they were pretty easy to do, and I even stretched myself by doing the girl's dress in yellow. As the boy has lost his right arm I've named him Andy, and the girl Louise.

Andy's painted with Blue Green, Sombre Grey and Red, and Louise is done with Yellow Ochre, Lemon Yellow, Pink and Off-White. They look really good and I'm well happy with them.

I'm guessing both kids were bitten on the way to school as they still have their backpacks on. Andy's is well detailed with books and a travelling mug in it. Pink was the blindingly obvious colour for Louise's. I did something a bit different when painting these two by using Army Painter Strong Tone to not only shade them but also make their clothes look dirty.

The four adult zombies are just as good as the last set from Brigade Games. I'm not sure why the one on the right is wearing a raincoat, unless he's a flasher? They're all solid sculpts with plenty of rotting detail, including the one on the left having a flayed face with his skull showing through.

In the interests of full disclosure, the paints I used for their clothes were, from left, Andrea Blue and Khaki; Black, White, Purple and Cavalry Brown; Orange Brown and Mutation Green; and Dark Prussian Blue and Mahogany Brown.

In order to vary the background a bit I put my burnt-out Nissan GT-R in front of the store. The models are all on my new gaming mat, a post on which is coming soon. Ish. Honest.

16 comments:

  1. Wow! You are a Zomtober painting machine currently Matt, with absolutely no sign of quality being disregarded for quantity. They all look excellent and I must pay a visit to Brigade Games' Drug War Z range as a result.

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    1. Thanks! Luckily the zombies are pretty easy to paint and can be done fairly quickly. It also helps that zombies are one of my fave things to paint!

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  2. More excellent looking Zombies Matt, the speed you're painting them is astounding.

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    1. Cheers! They're straightforward to paint with not too many details, so it's really a case of slapping the paint on, shading and highlighting. Andy took longer thanks to his backpack.

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  3. Great additions, with the kids being the star of the show imho' children in zombie games creep me out a little.
    Well done too keeping the gore to a minimum.

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    1. Thanks, Joe! I agree, zombie kids are way creepier than adults. I did think about putting gore on my zombies when I started painting them back in 2018 but decided not too as it can go wrong too easily :-)

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  4. Good group of zedheads mate! How big is your undead horde now?

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    1. Cheers, Dai! I think it's in the 30s or so? I'll have to do a head count at some point :-)

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  5. No end to your zombies, Matt! These look wonderful. I expect a NMRIH AAR on PM Painting soon!

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    1. Oh I'll never end the zombie painting, sir! And I am hoping to finally get a game of NMRIH at some point soon if I can work out a few things with the rules.

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  6. These are great Matt, love the two kids. thought the adults are crackers too, strangely I thought "flasher" when I saw the one in the "rain mac" seems filthy minds think alike mate!

    Cheers Roger.

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    1. Thanks, Roger, and I had a feeling you'd be the one to also think the one in the raincoat looked like a flasher LOL!

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  7. Alright, mate. You're starting to make us all look bad with your productivity! All of these zombies look great and there might be something wrong with me because I think its clever to own some zombie kids to hang out with the rest of the zombies. The idea of a zombie flasher made me chuckle which makes me question my morality/sanity even further so thank you for that :D

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    1. Haha! The zombies are really straightforward to paint, just a couple of colours each, so they can be banged out in no time. And I'm always happy to make my reader(s) question their morality and/or sanity LOL!

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  8. A great set of Zombies Matt. I love the attention to detail, like the tie and the bag contents...

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    1. Cheers! Doing the details is half the fun :-)

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