The Walking Dead: Zombies (III)

Here is another batch of zombies.

Painted in the same way as the others, with a bit of experimenting on flesh tones.

I have slightly adjusted the bases to add a bit of dirt, still pending some paper or boxes that I will add at the end.

Now, onto the survivors!

Painted in 2020

The Walking Dead: Zombies (II)

 Here is the second batch of zombies, another five. Only seven to go.

Done in the same way as the previous ones, and still having lots of fun with them!

Painted in 2020.

The Walking Dead: Zombies (I)

Here is the first batch of zombies for The Walking Dead.

I have to admit that it was really funny painting these figures, from choosing the clothing to the blood splatters, skin colour and even basing! I am having a blast going over them, they are great sculpts, fast and easy to paint, what else is needed?

As I am trying to make them look like they have been roaming around for a while, I followed this recipe:

1. Paint all base colours
2. Apply Agrax wash over the whole mini
3. Highlight a few details (just in some miniatures that I felt was required)
4. Paint base
5. Weathering and blood

As you can imagine, it is quite fast since after step #2 the miniature is basically done.

Jeans and modern clothing

These figures are quite different compared to what I am used to paint. They wear modern clothes as opposed to chainmail or space suits. Therefore, I have tried to make them look realistic. I have used real clothes as model and in some cases t-shirts or pullovers that I really own.

Since so many of the figures wear jeans, I made several tests before settling on a particular colour. In the end, I always made it with a combination of the following two:

Basing

As opposed to other wargames in which the figures are usually on a more or less unified scenery, in The Walking Dead, they can be on top of many different surfaces and I tried to be consistent with that.

I looked around for inspiration, and found that this blog post helpful; and also did some experiments, not all of them successful, but helped me find a technique with which I was comfortable with.

The different types of bases I can have are:

1. Outdoor
1. Sidewalk
2. Tarmac
3. Grass/outdoor
4. Mix of all of the above
2. Indoor

For this batch, I painted only Outdoor bases. These outdoor bases match nicely the printed board I have, as can be seen below.

Skin

I have basically two types of skin, dark or fair. In the case of fair skin, I tried mixing different colours to give the impression of different states of putrefaction. Greys and browns were used freely to achieve different and interesting combinations. You can see the two main colours used below: Neutral Grey and Highlight HSMC from Panzer Aces Vallejo. For the skin I used Dwarf Skin and Pale Flesh. Sometimes mixed with Bone.

I did not paint the eyes for now. I did a few tests and did not like how they turned out, therefore I left them with just a shadow. I might anyway revisit them at a later stage.

And here are the photos, painted in 2020.

Here one can see that the bases fit the board

The Walking Dead Scenery

Here is the very first post of painted TWD!

I have decided to start with the scenery to warm up. Although they are quite straight forward to paint, I decided to take my time and enjoy doing them. I used plenty of pigments on the cars and let my imagination go wild with the dirt and blood splatters. Hopefully, I did not overdo it, as it is easy to go down that path.

A few minor details were added here and there, to add a little bit of "life" into the figures and give them some context, as if each piece would tell a story. Some warnings here and there, a blood pattern of someone trying to escape and a few pieces of cloth used to sleep or hide. In the comics the scenario is always like that so I am trying to capture the same feeling. I want to add in the future a few leaves and pieces of paper, plastic and such to simulate a bit of garbage accumulated over time. But that will come in later as I will do it at the same time I do it for the bases of the rest of the gang.

Here are the photos, unfortunately, I have not captured properly the colours. The blue of the pickup is totally off and the black of the Mercedes looks very different as well

Now, onto the zombies!

New project: The Walking Dead

Hello everybody!

It has been quite some time since my last post. I have been off the painting board for almost two months... good thing that all the goals for the year are already completed :)

Today I am starting with a new project: The Walking Dead from Mantic Games. 

I have been a fan of the comic book series since the beginning and since I am a huge fan of both wargames and boardgames, it was about time I bought the game and started to play.

My goal is to paint everything you see in the photo (the whole box) in the next two months.

Let's see if I can make it!

HeroQuest: Group picture

This is the very last post for the HeroQuest project: the mandatory group photo!

With this post I am closing up the last of the goals for the year.

So far, I have painted 117 miniatures this year and with still a few months to go I hope to reach some of the stretch goals, let's see about that. I am looking forward to start 2021 with around 30 miniatures only in the to-do. For the first time since 2014, my stockpile of unpainted miniatures is below 100 and will not grow more until the end of the year.

Overall painting HeroQuest was a blast. Not too many details on them, but lots of character. I made some poor decisions along the way like with the Chaos Warriors and the furniture, but hey it is done now and my daughter loves it.

I hope you like the group pictures!

Painted in 2020

HeroQuest: Furniture

And here are the last pieces I needed to paint for HeroQuest, the furniture!

They are not as sexy as the heroes but definitively very interesting to paint. I loved applying different textures and techniques to them.

My only concern is that I did not check the browns I was using against the reference with the right light, and I ended up with a darker shade of brown. I used chocolate brown and I should have chosen red brown. Anyway, it is done now and I am not planning on repainting it.

For the tomb I made a similar mistake, I chose bluish grey instead of pale one, but that one was not due to the light, I simply forgot about the reference.

As for the doors, I thought hard about them. I was not sure whether to paint them or leave them with plastic grey, which is what I did in the end. If some day I decide to paint them, I will try to do them like this, which is amazing! But there are so many doors that I am not sure if I have the necessary willpower.

This is the first time -ever- that I paint any furniture or scenery, and I have to say that it was nice for a change.

In any case, they are all done now and I can close up the project, I will do that in the last post as a recap.

Painted in 2020