HAPPY NEW YEAR. WHAT I GOT FOR CRIMBO. THANK F#%K THAT'S OVER.

Happy New Year everybody! Just coming round from a fortnight's whisky induced frolics and festivities. Oh and the pagan rituals of force feeding oneself on turkey and chocolate. The human sacrifices where good this year too.

We shall continue in the way that has become custom, by presenting you with another piece of zombie art. Again another piece by the very talented GRIMBRO.

This piece is called Toxic. Again I don't think it's based on a celluloid image.

TOXIC!

I have to show you all what I had for Crimbo. I wasn't expecting much as I had been a naughty boy. Satan Claws out did himself this year though. Firstly my son bought me a lovely warm pair of zombie slippers, they're great. Only one minor problem, they are not suitable for the apocalypse, I'd keep tripping up in them.

YOU PUT YOUR FEET IN THEIR MOUTH!

Then his girlfriend, who's a massive Anime fan, bought me the first season of HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD. I've watched Anime before but never seen this particular series. It was wonderful, great ideas for scenarios and set pieces for gaming. Also great to see how another culture deals with a zombie apocalypse. If you haven't seen it, you should. I mean Japanese school girls in short skirts with katanas killing zombies, what's not to like. Even though it's Anime, the handling of the zombie uprisng is pretty realistic and the character stories are very well done. Now I have to buy season 2 when it comes out.

SCHOOL GIRLS WITH KATANAS KILLING ZOMBIES. AWESOME!

She also got me a book, called Gothic Dreams Zombies. It's pretty cool, giving you a history of zombies in movies, literature and art. It filled a few gaps I had about the zombie mythos but what was really outstanding was the suggested further reading and loads of links to some superb zombie artwork. I guess this means the art "thing" will keep going and will progress beyond my GRIMBRO obsession.

A COOL LITTLE SOURCE BOOK FOR ALL THINGS ZOMBIE.

Then my daughter really came through and surprised me with a box of survivors from Wargames Factory. Wicked! Having had a good look at them, they seem a vast improvement on the zombie horde and even the zombie vixens, which can only be a good thing.

No doubt this means the first couple of months this year will be spent painting survivors. I don't really want to plan any further than that at the moment.

SHINY NEW SURVIVORS!

After the dust has settled from the fallout of a riotous and ridiculous Crimbo, things should get back to at least approaching normal next post. Gulp! That means I've got to get my paintbrushes out of storage and crack on.

Well that's all I got for this time dudes and dudettes! So until next time.,try and follow the path of the DUDE and "take it easy".

MERRY CRIMBO!

What's occurrin'.

HAVE A GRIMBRO CRIMBO!!!!!

Another fine piece of work by the fantastically talented GRIMBRO. Only a quick post to allow me to extend yuletide greetings to all my commentors, followers, visitors and lurkers. So, MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL.

Whilst I'm here, I'd also like to welcome my latest follower. Bear with me as I drag the welcome wagon out of storage. Right then, a big BZA welcome goes out to Stephen. WELCOME STEPHEN. If you have a blog Stephen, let me know, I couldn't see one listed for you.

Nothing to see, the adorable Mrs. K has packed away my hobby supplies for a couple of days, so I'm on shutdown. The machine must be lubricated.

Let's hope for peace and positivity in the coming year.
Well, that's all I got for this time dudes and dudettes. So until next time do as the DUDE does and "take it easy".

CABIN FEVER CONSTRUCTION CRISIS.

I've started work on the wonderful free download by Carl Stoelzel, it's to accompany Crooked Dice's 7ombie TV I believe, anyway it's my first go at card modelling and no amputated digits yet.

As it was my first attempt at card modelling I only printed it on to regular paper, figuring that mistakes would be made and it would be a waste of tidy paper. I wasn't wrong..

I decided to stick the floor to 5mm foamboard for "strength and stability" reasons. The rest of the templates were stuck to cereal packets as I had no mounting board. All this was accomplished without reading the instructions. The internal walls were stuck to slightly thicker card from a cat biscuit box. Again without reading the instructions. What could go wrong.

Well after reading the instructions I realised what I did wrong, that's OK I thought the walls will be extra sturdy, hmm. Folding the card over, even after scoring was challenging but not impossible. However sticking the floor to the foamboard left an unsightly white tab around the base of the walls. Bugger! Never mind I'll sort that out with something.

The best bit came, when after the rest had gone relatively smoothly, I put the end walls on and realised that there had been some kind of printer malfunction and one of the walls had printed out a little short. Arse.

I can't wait to do the roof, as I stuck that to foamboard as well. Great! Oh well back to the drawing board.

That's all the fun and frollicks for this time. 'til next time do as the DUDE and "take it easy".

QUICK UPDATE SORRY NO PICS

 Just a quick update, downloaded Akula's AR:SE rules and Grekwood's free rules, thank you gentlemen. LEGENDS both. Also downloaded the Crooked Dice free cabin, my first go at card scenery.Fingers crossed or at least not cut off.
 Tonight is game night for the WNI (Wednesday Night Irregulars) so no painting or construction this evening, but there will be zombie mayhem thanks to my christmas pressie of Zombicide.
 Sheldon our resident analist has already painted his copy of Zombicde, but he only one-coated and washed his zombies, not good enough for me as I will be using my zombies for ATZ, so they need to be painted properly.
     In the words of the DUDE "take it easy"