Painting Zombicide: Game on!

After painting the survivors (pics to come soon), i decided to reward myself with a quick game of Zombicide (since i paint and play in different places, I've not been able to play the game whilst I've been painting the models) - It was a, relatively, simple capture the objectives game. We started with 6 survivors and ended with one, who caught the final objective. All in all, it looked very cinematic*, and cool, with the painted models and has really upped my enthusiasm for painting the final tray of zombies.

(* One problem that came up was zombies getting double activations, due to a lack of models, and killing survivors in droves - thankfully solved by my Kickstarter haul when it arrives)

Anyway, onto the pictures!

Painting Zombicide: One Tray Down!

Ok, so. I finally finished my first tray of zombies. The lessons i've learnt so far? Don't trust that brush-on varnish wont frost your models. As a side note, this was the first time i'd actually seen all the zombies together in a horde (not counting when they were in their tray), and i think they look pretty imposing...

Anyway, onto the zombies!

Team Brown

Team Blue

Team Purple

The whole crew

And Josh, still WIP, post Dip and pre-matting.

Painting Zombicide: The Survivors

Now that I've finished my first tray of zombies (pictures in the next update) I thought I'd take a quick break and start on the six survivor models:

Not much to look at now, but I should hopefully get these guys done over the next week or so.

Small update this time, next time I'll post up my completed zombie tray.

 

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Zombicide Season 2 Kickstarter.

So, Zombicide Season 2 is here and on Kickstarter. And it would be remiss of me to not point out that, rather unsurprisingly, it's preforming quite well (it's at $970k at the time of writing).

On the face of it, it looks like we'll be getting 153 new models (including the Zombie Dogz, but not any of the stretch or extras) which, if your pledging to get everything (-the original game) works out at, as base level, of less than $1 per model. Which seems like a fair enough deal to me.

Now, I missed Season 1 on Kickstarter, so I jumped onto backing this within 5 minutes of the campaign opening (just enough time to miss all the early bird specials). IT's slated for a September release which, knowing CMoN, it's likely to be in my hands early October - which is quite a nice deadline for me to paint my Season 1 set.

Full list of what you currently get at the Fugitive ($150) level after the break...

Painting Zombicide: First 8 Down!

I've finished my first 8 Zombicide zombies - now I've just got the remaining 3 lots of 8. Then the other try of zombies. Then the survivors. Then the Abomination. Ok. Good thing no cool new toys have arrived for me recently...

Ahem....

Painting Zombicide - A Horde Approaches

Ok, a quick update on all the hobby goodness I've been getting up to recently;

I left off last time with the first batch of models spray base-coated... and that was about it. Well, since then I've painted on all the block colours - to speed things up i painted them in groups of 8, picking out one or two main colours to use with each group.

I also dipped all of the models and matted them down (which turned out to be more hassle than i expected) and highlighted them all up, see? It has been a productive week!

Base-coated and ready to go!

And here's the post-dip models in all their shiny glory!

And here's my Progress Fatty!

 I also began painting the blood onto them using Tamiya Clear Red paint - love that stuff.

Once I've finished the blood, all I've got left to do is the bases and the first 32 are good to go! Hopefully I'll get them all done before the next Zombicide Kickstarter launches...

See you next time!

Plague drones of Nurgle

I love them. All GWs Nurgle stuff has been consistently brilliant.

The skull cannon/chariot I'm not sold on - I would of preferred the cannon to look more like the old Epic one (and I might model mine up like that anyway).

The Tzeench stuff is... Well. It's GWs Tzeench stuff. It's odd looking, and not in a good way.

Slaanesh's offering is, we'll, just a big deamonette. Not much more I can add to it really... Except that it has stupid hair.

 

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