Friday, March 25, 2016
Zombicide Black Plague: Survivors
Here are my finished survivors from Zombicide: Black Plague. It was a long process, taking me weeks of on-and-off painting (while I work on my children's book/illustrations.)
It had been a while since I had painted medieval/fantasy figures; I forgot the amount of detail sculptors like to cram into those figures. Ugh. The modern Zombicide figures were great to paint fast -- Shirt, pants, shoes and gun, done -- but the fantasy figures: belts, baldric, armor, satchels, swords, daggers, scabbards, jerkin, boots, overload! But they do look pretty if I can get everything painted properly; half of my problem is identifying many of those details.
Now, I have a bunch of zombies to get done fast (my friends and I are playing on Sunday.) But they'll be getting the monochromatic treatment, so they shouldn't take more than a long afternoon. I'm going to try out brown for my monochromatic base color, and go from there.
Oh right, speaking of the children's book I'm working on -- as a little vanity project, I commissioned Steve Barber (of Steve Barber Models) to sculpt me my little friends who are the subjects of my book. I showed the assembled sculpts in my previous post, but here they are all painted! I have a few more vinyl animals to paint and a couple more sets of Raccoon, Rabbit, Mouse and Duck yet to paint.
I better get them done fast (after my zombies): Just put into the mail are my copy of Soccer City, along with three teams worth of minis. They look a little bit more cartoony, so painting might go quick. I'll get a better idea once I see them in person.
They are beautifully painted!
ReplyDeleteInstead of giving the zombies the grey treatment, you may try dipping them. It's what I did to all of them and it was fast and not too bad: http://javieratwar.blogspot.com.es/2016/02/zomibicide-black-plague.html
Cheers,
The dip looks ok, but I need to get these done fast (so I don't have time to shop for some dip -- I'm painting the who bunch all today.)
DeleteAnd I still prefer my drybrushed monochrome look -- that and the figures are almost instantly dry and ready to go :)
Nice, love those animals too - brilliant!
ReplyDeleteI've seen your cartoons from earlier posts, but to see them transformed into figures is just bloody fantastic! I would love to get some of those for my grand children.
ReplyDeleteCheers
Kevin
They're not in the catalogue, but I'm pretty sure you could probably email Steve Barber to get a set :)
DeleteThere is some assembly (and maybe a little bit of filing to fit.)
A bit of tech info:
Mouse is one piece (at 28mm). Raccoon has separate head and tail (and is 54mm tall).
Rabbit is around 40-50mm and is the most difficult to put together with a separate ear piece as well as separate bottom feet.
Duck is one piece (at about 40mm.)
I've scaled them to fit 1:12 scale furniture (technically, they may not be that scale, but that's how big I draw them :)
I'm lucky to have a local friend with a 3D printer who makes furniture for my set.
By the way, if you (or your grandchildren) would like to see more of Mouse and his friends, I have a Facebook page for them; it's all kid-friendly, too:
Deletehttps://www.facebook.com/artofmouseandfriends/
Fabulous work Carmen. The Black Plague figures are stonkingly good but I have to say I'm quite enchanted with your storybook characters. Lovely stuff.
ReplyDeleteFabulous work Carmen. The Black Plague figures are stonkingly good but I have to say I'm quite enchanted with your storybook characters. Lovely stuff.
ReplyDeleteAmazing work! Carmen, are you available to do commission painting work? Where are you based?
ReplyDeleteThanks.
DeleteSorry, I don't do commission work. The closest I get to selling painted figures is when I sell off finished stuff. That's why I have this blog, so I can show others how to do it :) (Or at least answer questions on how to do it, since I haven't posted many proper tutorials lately.)
(And I'm based in Iowa.)