Soldier Zombies for Zona Alfa

 

Fresh from the Brain Scorcher, these Soldier Zombies are from the Zombicide game and are just what I needed for the soldiers that survived the first Zone Emission.

The second batch are on the way.

Mongrel Dogs for Fallout Wasteland Warfare and Zona Alfa

The Wasteland and the Zone are both full of mongrel dogs that pose an ever-present threat to Wastelanders and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s alike. As such, I needed some feral dogs to go on the table. These are the Modiphius Fallout Wasteland Warfare Mongrel Dogs, a very nice set of miniatures.

So far, I have one box of these miniatures painted. I plan to do a second one to put a total of twelve miniatures onto the table.

Making Junk Fences for Fallout

 This is the work in progress of my latest project, that of Junk Fences for Fallout.

This will become the Junk Fence gate.

Using tongue depressors (or stirrer sticks if you prefer), hot glue, PVA glue and sand (for the base), I set about making the fences as you see here in the pictures.

The corrugated iron is just cut up cardboard coffee cup holders from my local bakery take away that has been PVA glued to the fence.

A bit of brown spray paint gives the undercoating I'm after.

There is still more to add and paint. But you can see where this is going and how it came to be in the photos above. I thought I would share this to inspire others on how to make cheap and easy Junk Fences for their post-apocalyptic games.

Horse of the Apocalypse - War

This funny looking fellow is from an expansion to the Zombicide - Undead or Alive boardgame. Here I've painted it up to look like one of the four horses of The Apocalypse, albeit missing its rider. Sadly, these photos don't really show you the subtlety of the colour transitions from brown to orange. But it gives you an idea of how you can turn your Zombie Abomination Horse into something a little more than just your average Abomination (and there's nothing average about those blighters!).

The inspiration for this one came from be replaying the original Red Dead Redemption - Undead Nightmare again. In the game expansion, John Marston can tame the four Horses of The Apocalypse and I thought that for my games of Last Days - Timelines, this would be a cool miniature zombie to have on the table. It could set zombies alight, like in the video game, or rile them up for greater savagery like, in Zombicide - Undead or Alive.

The Horse of War in Red Dead Redemption is rather dark and muted in its colours and so I was going for that subtle glowing ember's theme with fire around its feet.

All I need now is a John Marston type miniature to be able to ride it :) That would be cool.

Who's a good boy then?

 This guy is Hamlet from Hasslefree Miniatures.

I've painted him up as a companion for a Fallout Wastelander for our homegrown d20 Fallout game. For games of Fallout Wasteland Warfare, this guy will use the Dogmeat Scout card profile. But right now, I'm working on my own home-rules Fallout skirmish game based on the excellent rulesets of Stargrave and Last Days-Zombie Apocalypse. So more on that later. If you don't own Stargrave or Last Days, you really should have a look at them as they are great skirmish games.

The crew set about camping for the night

Yes, Hamlet is a boy dog!

Hmmm... I want that juicy...radrabbit?

I'll show you more on this little gathering in a future post. But that's all for now.

Zombie Bolt-hole for Zombicide, Fallout and TNT

 

A quick one today.

I like these cardstock Zombie emergence holes that came with one of the Zombicide games. But not to fussed about the 2D aspect of them. So, I decided I'd give making a 3D version a go.

Using a 60mm flat round plastic base, I applied pre-made plaster gap filler around the outer rim. I then added some small pebbles to the plaster. Once it had dried, I used PVA glue to apply sand in the gaps. Pointing it was easy, just a black undercoat, followed by successive darker to lighter shades of grey acrylic paint. I then used a lightened up green paint to drybrush around the inside of the hole to give the impression of a radioactive light source from somewhere in the depths of the hole. I was careful to keep the centre of the base black to give the impression of a deep hole. This becomes the spawn point for the zombies or Fallout Ferral Ghouls. The hole can be sealed with a well-placed grenade toss, or dropping a grenade down the hole to case a cave in.

Feral Ghoul proxies from Zombicide

 

Happy New Year everyone.

I needed some feral ghoul proxies for our upcoming home grown d20 Fallout roleplaying game adventure that I was going to subject the players to. These feral ghouls needed to look like former soldiers who had suffered from too much radiation exposure. Looking around my supply of mini's I came across my Zombicide mini's and felt that these would do nicely. So, I painted up a bunch of these guys in military fatigue colours. This included a bloated zombie to be used in one of the boss fights they will eventually encounter. So here they are finally finished.

Now, I need some turrets and some standard Bloatflies...

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!