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!?!
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.
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!
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.
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".
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!?!
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| 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.
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| 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!
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| 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.
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| 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".
Your skeletons recipe looks just right, now to just keep going with the street walkers, looking forward to seeing them when they are done.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike.
DeleteI'll try to keep on trucking dude.
Huge fan of WIP shots Bob, as well you know, as its always interesting to me to see just how other people paint their miniatures. I love the different greens you;ve gone for on your Zombie Walkers. Nice variation indeed :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Bk.
DeleteYes, you do like your WIP shots. Now you can see how I paint my mini's, badly. Went with green as it looks most toxic to me.
I'm certainly impressed by anyone who doesn't cheat and use a black line like me, in order to separate the colours. Does your wash need a small white gap to work its magic between colours, or not? Those different greens do look very good, so I'm looking forward to seeing the finished models.
DeleteLOL! No little gap, just block colours and wash, it has to be easy otherwise I wouldn't be able to do it. I used to do the whole 3 colour minimum, not any more though. Too slow as it is!
DeleteLooking good! Hope the weather cools down for you soon....in fact, you can take some of our weather! It's the height of summer here...and we've had nothing but rain for a couple of weeks now!
ReplyDeleteThanks Gordon.
DeleteIt's not so much the heat but the humidity. Not so bad now we've had a good couple of days of solid rain and some wicked thunderstorms.
During these periods of malaise, I find a spot of retail therapy lifts my spirits, nothing like the dull thud of new shinies hitting the mat to get the interest going again.
ReplyDeleteThanks Michael.
DeleteI had hoped that the Reaper cops might have done that, proving to be more elusive though. Although one is still waiting on a delivery from WestWind, due any day now, I'm hoping it's the toe in the backside one needs.
I know only too well the problem of getting motivated to paint figures, I've only just pciked up a paintbrush for the first time in four months, but I'm sure something will spark you into action. Good luck finding "suitable transportation" for your cops, I've had little to no success finding suitable US cop-cars at a proce I can afford.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joe.
DeleteAt a real low point atm. Things will change, they always do. Just a pain in the arse waiting sometimes.
I have had a little success finding some cop cars in card, they'll do for now.
Great to see the old heroquest skelletons come to use!
ReplyDeleteThanks Andre.
DeleteMy hoarding is finally paying off!
Its been one hell of a sticky summer here too Bob. Yes Reaper figures are very good quality and the chronoscope line as all of their zombies & survivors in it. I'm sure the heroscape skeleton can be easily mended.
ReplyDeleteThanks Robert.
DeleteI don't like humidity dude! I was very impressed with my Reaper figures and I'm sure I'll order more in the future. The skeleton is plastic which should be an easy fix.
I agree with Mike. The skeleton colour scheme is simple, easy to apply and most importantly looks just about right.
ReplyDeleteAs for humidity ... look on the bright side. It moisturizes your skin and prevents that zombie dry skin look. ;)
Thanks F.E.M.
DeleteIt's got to be simple and easy, otherwise I couldn't pull it off!
Now we've had plenty of rain and thunderstorms the humidity seems to have passed on.
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DeleteThat skeleton recipe is just the ticket, Bob.
ReplyDeleteThanks Finch.
DeleteCheers dude!