YET MORE ZOMBIES

Finished a couple more zombies for the Horde and managed to get some better shots of the two previously painted mini's

Here's the finished fat zombie from the previous post from Heresy mini's, he's supposed to be a fantasy fig I think due to his rope belt but I think he works well as a modern day zombie tramp in his skanky tracksuit bottoms:

 

 

He's a fantastic sculpt and even has nipples which I've noticed quite a few mini sculptors seem to forget on male figures.

Next up is a zombie from Copplestone Castings future War range which again is a great sculpt with tons of character:

 

 

I couldn't for the life of me get his face to focus on camera but you get the general idea,

I also managed to snap some better shots of the RAFM dimensional shambler and Heresy zombie child, it makes a huge difference shooting against a black/grey background rather than the previous blue:

 

 

 Finally here's how the current Modern horde stands:

SOME OLD DRAWINGS

Here's a couple of drawings of mine from awhile ago, I've not put pen to paper for a long time and keep meaning to get back into it but there are not enough hours in the day to do all the things I'd like to do.
If anyone's interested in prints let me know and I can see about actually creating some prints :)

NEW MINI'S

Sorry for the lack of recent updates, my internet at home has been playing up and it hasn't helped changing over to a different supplier so I'm currently running my blog on my lunch break at work.

Not a huge amount of progress since the last update:

Another Zombie child for the horde, she's part of this set from Heresy: (http://www.heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_11_26&products_id=122)
 Not sure on the pics though I may retake them as they're a little on the dark side, I think she came out pretty well and I'm so glad my freehand double yellow lines are relatively straight on the base.
Next up is a RAFM dimensional shambler from their Chthulhu range
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RAF&Product_Code=RAF02923&Category_Code=COCM.

Similar to the flesh ghosts from the previous post I think my zombie apocalypse scenario is leaning towards some kind of virus that animates dead organic matter so this guy could be animated plastic surgery off-cuts and leftovers... it also gives me more scope for mini's and a bit more variety. When ever I ever get round to actually playing a game or creating a board I think I will come up with some more concrete back story but in the meanwhile I'll crack on painting up a heap of zombies and monsters.
Next up is this guy from the same range as the zombie girl, he's not finished yet but I think the flesh is some of the best I've done so far, I'm not to sure on what to do with his trousers but may give recreating denim in 28mm scale a go.

This week I also received these mini's from ebay US from the Spinespur range:
http://www.comfychairgames.com/range.php?range_id=6
The zombies are a little on the skinny size but should fit in with the rest of the horde quite nice when painted up. The other guy will fit in nice as a post apocalypse psycho butcher and is an awesome mini that I've had my eye on for awhile.

On my usual Saturday mooch around the charity shops my local British Heart book shop had this gem,

It seems that you can also get it used from Amazon for £0.01 which is considerably less than I paid for it but I get more free Karma points with my purchase as it was for Charity
It's similar in presentation to a D&D Monster manual in that you get info on Habitat Culture etc on a series of different Alien species from classic sci-fi novels. Looking at Amazon Wayne Barlow also has a Fantasy guide out too which I shall keep an eye out for:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Barlowes-Guide-Fantasy-Douglas-Barlowe/dp/0061052388/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1335963623&sr=8-9

Lastly if anyone knows what the hell this is let please me know? He was a last minute ebay purchase and looks suitably veiny to fit in with the other chunks of animated meat and flesh

FLESH GHOSTS and BLOG FANZINE

Inspired by Fighting Fantasists post http://fightingfantasist.blogspot.co.uk/

Her's my blog as an 80's fanzine:

I've tweaked the rules slightly as my last few blog posts looked boring as article titles in my fanzine as they were all mostly Zombie, Zombies or other variations, doing this has also made me realize that I need to header my blog posts a little more creatively and limit my use of ZOMBIES as a title.

The image I used is one of my drawings from an old sketch book that I think looks like it fits in with the fanzine theme, if anyone's interested I can post up some more of my drawings.

I finished these three Grenadier Ghosts that I snapped up on Ebay for 99p, I thought that if I went with a  John Carpenters 'Thing' colour scheme they could fit in with a post apocalyptic zombie setting as kind of failed experiments or animated biological matter. The photo's have made them all look a little too similar on the colour front in reality they're all tonally different and are supposed to be representative of (from left to right) skin, blood and organs. 

The Horde Rises

Just finished the first Zombie for my modern zombie horde, I think this is the smallest model I've ever painted and was a little fiddly but in the end I think he turned out ok.  

Here's a shot of the growing horde and the post apoc type survivors, its a mix of loads of different manufacturers, Foundry, Lead Adventures etc, all told I've got around 70 odd zombies now I just need to paint some of them up and I should have a decent set up for some Zombie gaming.

MORE ZOMBIES

Just finished a couple more Zombies, more of the citadel C-series, I'm trying to keep the clothes on these guys time period neutral so that they can be used for modern day or fantasy. As I've recently purchased the 2 Hour Wargames All Things Zombie ruleset that I'm trying to get my head round at the moment I'm aiming to gather up a Zombie Horde for future post apocalyptic gaming.

Here's the new paint jobs:

It was mine and my dad's Birthday at the weekend so spent most of the weekend back up north in Cumbria with the family. My brother got me some awesome mini's (Cheers!) three of them being Hell Dorando figures, a range I've never owed any figures from but from the quality of the sculpts I'll be getting more, wallet permitting.

The top three are, Jinx (a Zombie baby), Foulques the Black (hunchback fella) and Wormpile, (a massive pile of worms), the bottom one is 'The Old Death' from Enigma Miniatures. I think I might give him a fancy base but I'm not sure what yet but I can envision some kind of pillar of souls/skulls?

Also as it was my Birthday I've spanked a ton of money on some min's to add to the lead pile from various places that should turn up over the next couple of days, I've got enough fantasy so I decided to go for post apocalyptic and zombies for a change. I've got an order through for some Foundry street Violence stuff, Copplestone future wars, RAFM zombies, Alpha Forge Zombies and some Forlorn Hope figures that all should hopefully turn up this week and take their place on the lead mound.