Sunday, October 12, 2014

Zomtober 2014 Week Two Recap


Week two comes to an end!  I am loving seeing everyone's zombie themed painting.  So many great ideas to steal!  This week's recap is as follows:

I had a bit of a disaster, my pot of zombie wash got spilled in my work area, and I had to clean up that mess, and remake my wash.  Not that it was that big of a deal, but it slowed me down this week.  I did manage to finish some of the zombicide miniatures.

Two batches:

Batch "blue" WIP
"Yellow" WIP
I did complete the yellow and blue groups, I did a basic wash and then drybrushed the flesh areas.  I also picked out a few details that needed to be cleaned up.  Overall I am pleased with the results, I am looking forward to finishing season 1 and moving to season 2 to see some different poses.
Yellow and Blue lined up
The horde grows!
Close up shot
These are going pretty quick, I just need to get some extra time and I think I can get Season 1 one complete and Season 2 started before the end of Zomtober!  It may be a zombie Christmas, but they should all get done...

Current WIP shot:
Next up, Green and primed
The tally for this week:  16 Zombicide minis complete.  That brings the total this month to 36 zombies, still a mountain to go.

24 comments:

  1. Wow, great strides towards completion, great idea doing them in colour batchs too.

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    1. Thanks! I figured on making different colors, and with the mix of poses, just changing that breaks up the chore of painting the same over and over.

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  2. 16 in a week, my hat is off to you dude.
    Awesome. The batch idea is very smart.

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    1. I had hoped for a bit better progress, but work and lfe keep getting in the way... :)

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  3. That's a lot of zombies. Thumb up for the color theme, it works well.

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    1. I got some great advice - bright colors and then the wash, they turn out pretty well. I am planning on keeping this going for season 2 zombies as well.

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  4. Looking good mate! I've added my Zombicide season 1 stuff to my pile too...but it's gonna be awhile as I have 44 primed zombies and about 20 survivors sitting on the desk right now.

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    1. Thanks! I need to get more primed to be able to get them painted quickly.

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  5. Great progress. The horde's coming together nicely.

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    1. It's growing rather quickly. It will be great to have so many more zombies to play with... Well maybe not...

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  6. Those look really good. I wasn't sure about the yellow and blue when I saw just the block colours, but the finishing is excellent!

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    1. The wash really dulls the colors, so starting with too bright/stark actually pays off later. With so many to paint, its the only way to get them done halfway quickly!

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  7. Hell I'm struggling to get one or two minis done for Zomtober and you throw out a batch posting like this one - great stuff!! I like the road tiles you've popped this merry band on for the photo as wells. LOL moment towards the end as I can just imagine old Bing Crosby by the piano singing "I'm dreaming... of a zombie Christmas, just like the ones I used to know." :-)

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    1. None of these will win a contest, but they do all have paint on them!

      The Bing Crosby reference brings to mind a strange Fallout inspired image for some reason... LOL indeed!

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  8. Looking really good!
    I'm going to have to get me this game that everyone else seems to own. Getting all those zombies would complete my horde, easy.

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    1. Zombicide does have a nice mix of poses and plenty of zombies to build a horde with. The game is pretty fun to boot!

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  9. To be honest your WIP shots didn't impress me much but what a change to see them completed! The finished figures look great grouped together. It is a simple but effective technique you have going here.

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    1. The WIP shots do look rather meh. Individual zombies are still a bit lacking, but they make a decent horde. Hopefully they will work with more colors. I think it will give me a good looking horde without too much effort.

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  10. WOW 16 Zombies in a week. That's 5x what I managed to finish. Well done!

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    1. I may have painted 16 zombies, but they are nothing special quality wise. Nobody can say they don't have paint at least!

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