A W.I.P. POST

What's occurrin' then?

What's this weather all about then? The humidity is killing me, I haven't left the fan's area of effect for several days at a time. Sleep? Your having a laugh! Way too hot and sticky at night to sleep.
Due to the sleep/weather situation my weeks productivity is way down, that's even comparing it to the last couple of months' pitiful output.

Enough moaning and on with the mission. You know, the culture thing. Once again another offering from the insanely talented Bryan Baugh. This one is called Ribcage Guts. Enjoy!

My enthusiasm as well as my productivity is at a real low point at the moment. I really can't be arsed to pick up a brush, or stick anything together, or even print out more buildings. So I haven't got much to show you all except these W.I.P. photo's. Better than nothing, eh!?!

STREET WALKING TOXIC WALKERS.

Proving to be a real slog are the Toxic zombies, I don't know why, I was really enjoying painting them at the start. I seem to get this feeling every year, just after my birthday. It must be a reaction to getting old.

The ladies below have been in this condition for months, the last of my Zombicide season 1 to finish off, yet I can't seem to get them completed. The DUDE will make an appearance shortly as well, although I seem to be hitting a wall with him too. Mitch is going to be painted by my son, allegedly. He's got undercoat at least.

MORE WIP ZOMBICIDE HEROES.

What about ATZ? I'm still slowly getting stuff together for that. Having a stab at making some P.E.F. (Potential Enemy Force) markers, using these old Heroquest skeletons. Grim reaper and all that!

From left to right is my painting progression. Using the Army Painter Zombicide paints. First one is painted Boney Spikes. Next one is overbrushed Zombie Skin. Third one is drybrushed Brainmatter Beige. Finally washed with Zombie Shade and typically I broke the blade off the scythe just as it was finished!

SOME P.E.F. MARKERS UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

Using some of my birthday money, I managed to recruit two more members for the Crow Valley Sheriff's Department. These are both by Reaper, from the Chronoscope line. On the right is Sheriff Joe Don Mitchel and to the left is Deputy Wayne Tisdale. Their names not mine.

These are my first ever Reaper miniatures, I must say I'm quite impressed. Although the bases they came with were not my bag. At £4.50 each they are not the cheapest mini's on the market, but they are very good quality and no where near as expensive GW single metal mini's.

They'll be painted up in the same colours as Shane and the gang, finishing off my small town's local police force. Now I just need to find them some budget transport.

CROW VALLEY SHERIFF'S DEPT LATEST RECRUITS.

Let's hope I can get another post in before the end of the month. Maybe even finish that bloody shed, don't hold your breath though.

Well I guess that's all I got for this time dudes and dudettes. So until next time, you should all try and follow the DUDE'S example and "take it easy".

THE HORDE SO FAR. IN HD.

YOU CAN HEAR THEM SHUFFLING OUT OF THE DARKNESS.

THE MOANS ATTRACT MORE AND MORE.

THE SMELL IS OVERPOWERING.

WHERE'S WALLY?

MORE AND MORE STUMBLE AFTER THE LEADERS

MAYBE IT'S TIME TO RUN!

HERE COME THE STRAGGLERS

THE SITUATION SEEMS HOPELESS.

THIS APPEARS TO BE THE LAST OF THEM FOR NOW.

EVERYBODY'S SHUFFLING.

ALTOGETHER IN ONE SHOT.

Somebody suggested that some "horde" photos would be a good subject for a post. It will also act as a record for my progress. So here they are in glorious HD.
The current status is 63 zombies painted, not too bad for a couple of months work I suppose. Still not a proper horde yet.

Nearly all the vixens are painted, only a few more to go, they felt like they were everlasting. I'm glad that I stuck at them now though.
I've got some Studio plastics to pile into now, hope to show some progress with them in a few posts time.

Well that's all I've got for now.You know how this goes by now, the DUDE says "take it easy".

ZOMBIE MASHUPS

ANOTHER THREE SHUFFLE IN TO JOIN THE HORDE

GLAD TO SEE THE BACK OF THEM

      The first two zombies are made from simple conversions/kitbash of Mantic torsos and WGF legs, while the third one is an old Heroquest zombie.

  Left to Right: First up is Baywatch Brin, actually on the beach this time. Next to Brin is Andy the ex-survivalist, obviously his survival planning didn't work out
Finally we have Ivor, he used to be a lab assisstant to a famous science franchise but now he just shuffles about looking for fresh flesh. I'm not a big fan of zombies with weapons, but after re-watching the black and white classic Night of the Living Dead I noticed that the zombie in the graveyard in the opening scenes picks up a rock to smash the window of the car, to get to Barbara, so maybe I'll just let it slide.
   Ivor has been painted with a variation on my basic Grey scheme. The basic scheme starts with a Shadow grey basecoat, overbrush with Codex grey, another overbrush with Fortress grey. Finally a touch of Leviathan purple wash here and there for a little mottling. Ivor differs slightly as he has a Blue Ink wash between the Shadow and Codex grey coats and has another layer of overbrushing on top of the Fortress grey with Space Wolves grey. I try not to use as much Devlan Mud wash on the grey figures, but they do get a splash.
   Hope the breakdown helps.
I must give a massive shout-out to VAMPIFAN who very kindly sent me a package of Studio plastics, the man's a LEGEND, they will get paint thrown at them soon. I've had an incredible amount of pageviews, over 500, I must thank everybody for taking the time to look.
                'til the next time in the words of the DUDE take it easy.

AMAZING THINGS ARE HAPPENING (still in HD)

Oops! Got things arse about face this time.

ABOUT FACE! That's better.

Well incredible things have been happening here at the bunker. Zabadak(I hope I spelt it right this time?) and Vampifan have both viewed and commented on my blog. GAAAAHHHHH! Even better they are my first two followers.You have to understand that these guys are like zombie royalty. Thank you both so much.
 I will  try to remain calm for the rest of this post, but no promises.
 Right then onto the zombies, Left to Right: We have Road Worker Richard, he's a WF zombie. Then we have the first of two Mantic zombies this post, I mentioned last time that their rags were painted orange to represent prison coveralls. His name is The Animal, what he did in prison to get that nick-name doesn't bear thinking about.
 Again sharp-eyed viewers will notice that the next zombie is neither WF or Mantic, he is in fact an old Heroquest figure. I see him as a zombie who was at a fancy dress party when things went south, I'm going to call him Bubba in homage.
 Following Bubba, is another Mantic "prisoner" called Sven, mean as can be, well he was before he turned now he's just another flesh eating dead head. Finally we've reached a milestone, the last of my WF male zombies, who has been called Dai Two-dinners. I don't think I'll be putting any more of the Wargames Factory male zombies together, I think I'll just use the bits left for a couple of conversions.
  Have to mention Mathyoo, he has also left a comment. See, told you amazing things are happening. Did I mention my page views have rocketed to 282, incredible.
  'til next time, in the words of the DUDE, take it easy.