Zomtober Week 5

This week was slowed down by a water leak from an upstairs shower to a ground floor closet.  Quite a mess!  This slowed down my progress on my zombie horde...

Water and drywall do not mix!

I worked on two groups of toxic zombies from the Toxic Mall expansion for Zombicide. I added yellow/green highlights to designate them as 'toxic'.

Red group zombies

Yellow group zombies

I also repainted (mostly just retouching the existing scheme) a Horrorclix 'candystriper' which seemed to be a vampire type character of some sort.  I repainted the flesh to be less pale and red and more normal.  I added some additional red touches to her outfit and then based her on a plastic coin decorated with some craft paper to look like a tile floor.

Survivor and scenery

Finally I added a trash dumpster from Reaper Bones.  Great item for the urban landscape.  I left the lid unglued so it opens.

The lid propped open

This week all together now!

Week 5 all together!

Another Zomtober comes to a close.  It was pretty productive, although I didn't quiet hit my goal of finishing my Zombicide zombies off.  At least progress was made! 

I really enjoyed everyone's entries, they were quite inspiring.  Besides the painting, the background stories and mix of survivors and zombies gives great ideas.  If you haven't already seen the other blogs, check out the links from my page - there are some very excellent Zomtober entries out there!

Zomtober Week 4

Another week!  This week it's time to take out the trash...  (You'll see what I mean!)

The prison figures from Zombicide have been completed.  These are groups yellow and pink, for the colors used on some highlights.

Squad Pink

Team Yellow

I also completed two abominations, one from the basic game and one from Prison Outbreak.  I am pretty happy with the red armored portions of the prison abomination, I like how it turned out.

ABOMINATIONS!  (Slipped into a 40K inquisitor voice there.)

Needing some food, I added a survivor.  This is a Dark Reaper Chronoscope figure, Jake Ryan, he is based on a Secret Weapons ruined street base.  I have him in a fairly plain outfit, I figure he may have been a police detective or something before the apocalypse.

Survivor Jake

Finally, I painted up some scatter terrain from Malifaux.  The set is Suburb Props, and is a set of various refuse containers and two sets of wooden crates.  They have fair detail and painted up pretty quickly.  To be fair, I had primed these some time ago, but finished them this week.

Scatter terrain

The whole week together, terrain and all was pretty productive.  More zombies than survivors by a wide margin, but at least I managed one more survivor.

More zombies for the horde!

One week to go for Zomtober!  It's been great seeing everyone's progress.  I can't wait to see where we finish!

Zomtober Week 3

Another week down, and another Zomtober recap!  I am continuing to paint the Zombicide and Zpocalypse minis, similar to last week.  I have a few added zombies from Horroclix and two survivors as well!

Zpocalypse second (and final) batch

Zpocalypse Zombie Horde

Zombicide second batch (with purple highlights):

Zombicide Prison Outbreak, team purple!

Three Horrorclix zombies, first a 'Pod Zombie' from the Lab expansion, the other two are from Freakshow, "Zombie Vendor" and "Zombie Ventriloquist".  They will add a touch of character to things.  They have had their paint touched up, though the vendor is a bit of a conversion.  I removed his box of bottles and repainted his outfit to resemble a McDonald's outfit.

Pod, Vendor and Ventriloquist...is this a joke?

The pair of survivors are a touched up Horroclix "Big Red" and a Wargames Factory Survivors: The Women build.  I love the pose from Big Red, rolling up a sleeve and holding a fire axe.  The woman is apparently a female version of John McClane from Die Hard, as she is missing her shoes...

Big Red and "Joni McClane"

The zombies outnumber the living even more this week!

2 survivors and 20 zombies

Zomtober so far:

The horde grows!

It's been a great excuse to finish some painting and getting some new survivors made without a pressing need.  The Zpocalypse figs are finished off, now I will concentrate on the Zombicide minis.

Walking Dead comes back next week, gotta love Zomtober!

Zomtober Week 2

This week I completed a few zombies and a few survivors.  The zombies are in two groups, Zombicide and the Zpocalypse minis.

Zombicide minis color blocked

Zpocalypse minis color blocked

A quick recap of the zombie painting plan - I just block in a few colors and then hit them with a 'dip' of red and black stain and a green/brown wash.  It's a mess, but it does the trick.  It does make painting zombies a bit easier.

Zpocalypse figs after the dip

These are easily the worst figures I have had the pleasure of painting.  They are not quite 28mm scale, closer to 25mm.  They will work as 'filler' zombies for the horde, but as individuals, they are bad.  The female zombies appear to have had their hair fall down around their shoulders, leaving them bald.  I'm just going to get paint on them and call them done.

First batch done

Two Zpocalypse figs and a Zombicide fig for reference

The Zombicide minis are from the Prison Outbreak expansion, season 2 I believe.  They are the typical good quality of Zombicide minis, much better than the messy Zpocalypse figs.  I am painting them in pretty typical prison colors, orange jumpsuits on the prisoners and white shirts over blue pants for the guards.

Survivors for a bonus!

As a bonus, I have three survivors finished as well.  Two are female survivors from Wargames Factory Survivors:Women box set.  I added some rather poor greenstuff to the RPG armed woman, adding in some sweatpants in place of shorts and shoes instead of flip-flops.  The other woman is armed with a bow and carrying an AK.  The third miniature is from Reaper Chronoscope, Candy, anime hero.  I have based her on a Secret Weapons ruined street base.

Group shot!

I have undercoated some more figs, hopefully next week is as productive!

Zomtober Arrives!

It is another Zomtober, I am planning on painting up some more zombie minis this year.  I still have some Zombicide figs left, as well as some Zpocalypse miniatures that need some paint.  If I need to, I have plenty of other figs to paint...

To kick things off, here is what I have on deck to start:

Zombies in need of paint!

And so it begins!

I haven't made progress beyond some base coating.  I plan on updates each Sunday...

Zomtober 2015, A Beginning

Ahh the first signs of autumn, shorter days, the leaves start to turn colors and the internet spawns zombies and survivor figs being painted!  Another Zomtober has arrived, and I'll be using it as a good excuse to put some paint on some figs.

Zomtober 2014

Last year I painted my season 1 Zombicide zombies, and started in on season 2 zombies.  I'll continue with zombies again this year, I have my season 2 Zombicide figs to finish, plus a few other zombie miniatures to paint.  Much like last year, I'm just trying to get them to decent tabletop quality - nothing outstanding.

Raw materials for 2015

I have more Zombicide figs to paint, plus some of Wargames Factory zombies and zombie vixens, a Zpocalypse set of hospital zombies and a pack of Dark Heaven Bones zombie 'George'.  This should be more than enough to keep me busy!

For the end of the first week, I only have three zombies done.  I have had to remake my zombie wash, so these are a bit of a test for my new wash as well.

First three done

More to follow...

Zomtober 2014 Week Four Recap

This is the final Sunday for Zomtober, it has been a fun month!  I feel I have been pretty productive, I fell far short of my goal, but I did get quite a few zombies painted.  Technically we have until Friday, if I manage to finish any zombies by then, I will get another post up.  I am looking forward to actually getting back to continuing my ATZ campaign, with holidays coming up it will be a bit hit or miss.

This week's recap:

I finished my Season 1 figs, and finished one group of season 2.  As a bonus I did a quick repaint/rebase of a HorrorClix Executed Convict (#054, base set).  On with the show:

More Zombies!

White looks better in person

Anyone remember Fantasy Island?

White was one of the colors I chose for a group.  I know white is a tough color to utilize, but I figured the zombie wash would help, and make it easier.  I was kind of right, the white in the pictures looks much more bright than it does in person.  I know it's probably from the flash, but I don't have good light so - meh.

The season 2 figs were a fun change from the season 1, and a welcome relief!  I will continue painting them, not at the speed I was doing them for Zomtober, but I hope to get them done by 2015.  I'll throw some pics up as I finish them.  To be honest, I am looking forward to playing rather than painting in the near future - I just didn't have time for both this month!

I combined all the zombies from Zomtober for a few group shots.  Not a bad looking horde if I may say so myself!

Zomtober Horde

 

 

I have really enjoyed Zomtober, it was a great excuse to get some painting done.  Now to get these all used in some games!

All together now!

Mark needs more than a bat!

So the final tally this week is 32 Zombicide figs (24 from season 1, 8 from season 2) and 1 Horrorclix, for a total of 33 zombies painted.  My Zomtober total is 95 zombies painted.  I still have a ton of figs left to paint, but at least this made a dent in the unpainted figs pile in my house!

Thanks for everyone's encouragement this month!  It has been awesome to see what everyone has done this past month.  The zombies and survivors have been awesome to see, and the creativity of some people is unbelievable!

Zomtober 2014 Week Three Recap

So far, October has been a pretty good month!  Lots of people have some amazing zombies and survivors to see on their blogs.  As an added bonus, The Walking Dead has started up again.  Always great inspiration for the zombie apocalypse!

This week, I completed a few more Zombicide miniatures, and have the remainder of season 1 primed and ready as well as blocked in for color.  I hope to have the first season completed by the end of Zomtober, and some of season 2 completed as well.  We'll see!

This week's tally:  I finished a few groups of Zombicide figs, the remaining zombies from the Season 1 box are primed or have their block colors started.  If I can match this weeks production, I should have all my season one zombies completed by next Sunday.  As a bonus, I repainted a pair of HorrorClix, Sorority Zombie (#044 base set).

Group Shot!

Blue, Pink and Green

No sign of the living...

Hate to go sown that street...

This weeks total is 26 zombies finished.  That brings my Zomtober total to 62 zombies painted.  I have 24 left from Season 1 of Zombicide.  With some luck I can at least get some of Season 2 started, maybe even complete before Halloween.