The Zombicide Black Plague Hoard gathers

 

Smelly. Very smelly.

My Zombicide Black Plague hoard gathers! I've been powering through these and I have to say that using Army Painter's Strong Tone Wash on these miniatures makes all the difference between a crappy paintjob and a more than passable paint job on the table.

I have elected to use a sand base, which I wash in Agrax Earthshade. This has made basing the miniatures extremely quick and looks like the zombies are walking on muddy earth. This has sped up the primer to table time and, as I will be using these for D&D as well as Zombicide, makes the preparing of them for the table much quicker whilst making them blend in with more than just a cobblestone street underfoot.

The paint jobs are fairly simple as well. I use no more than four colours per mini really. Some mini's may get an extra additional painting. But other than that, that's really it. Once washed and then sprayed in anti-shine varnish, I use GW's Citadel Blood for the Bloodgod technical paint for the blood.

I posted about this dude over here before.

So what's with the eye's marker?

The eye markers on the base of the some mini's is for use in D&D. It indicates that the zombie is more lethal than the standard zombie. So it will have more hit points and do more damage. This gives some grades between the types of zombies available, e.g. Walker, Red-eye Walker, Fatty, Red-eye Fatty, Runner, Sprinting Red-eye, etc. Something like that anyway.

This is also reflected on the mini by the zombie's eye's being painted. So the players can, if they are astute enough, work out pretty quickly which zombies to run from.

Now. Enough of that. Back to painting!