Zombtober: Zombie Astronauts

These guys didn't come out as well as I hoped thanks to the spray primer, but I still like them. 

I bought these zombified spacemen from Etsy a couple of weeks ago. They were pretty cheap, costing $15 for 12, and they combine my love of zombies with the sci-fi kick I'm on right now. I don't know if they'll appear in a Space Station Zero game but you never know!

My initial plan was to spray them with Corax White primer and then overbrush them with Off-White as a fast way of getting their suits done. Unfortunately, as is so often the case with me and spray paint, the primer dried in a very rough coat despite the can being shaken for a solid three minutes. On top of that is the fact that Corax White isn't white, and it isn't even an off-white shade; it's a grey that isn't too far off regular cheap grey primer. I'd have been better off using my $5 can of grey than Citadel's ridiculously overpriced stuff.

Not only that, but it seemed to just soak up the Off-White basecoat, meaning I had to go over each one three times before I got the level of white I wanted. Once dry, they were shaded with Grey Wash and then highlighted with more Off-White and some White.

With the suits done it was time for the details. All their tubing, belts and little canister things were painted Neutral Grey, shaded with Nuln Oil and highlighted with Ghost Grey, which was a bit too light. Their guns are Black Grey drybrushed with Iron Warriors, and finally I did their helmet visors by basecoating them Chocolate Brown and going over that with a mix of Agrax Earthshade and Polished Gold.  

Their skin is my usual go-to scheme of Dead Flesh with green and purple washes to make the skin more rotten, in this case Coelia Greenshade and Druchii Violet. I had a bit of fun working out which bits of the models were actually part of the spacemen and which bits were errant support struts, and some of the zombie areas aren't too well defined, but I go them done in the end.

I didn't really do too much for their bases, mainly because I was over them after such a protracted painting process and just wanted to get them finished (this is also the reason I only painted half the models), and because I had to complete some scenery for the Muppets' next mission. As models go they're really good, and having learned my lesson I'll be doing the rest of them in different colours that don't involve crappy spray primer.

Speaking of the Muppets, the game is set up and I'll be playing it this afternoon. It looks like it's going to be an interesting one, and there's a real danger some of the crew won't make it. Tune in soon!