I’ve started the next batch of Poxwalkers – seven of them this time (I found a couple of baggies of Poxwalker bits, but not all of them until a week after assembly). Now I’d usual;ly hold off until I had, well, more than one model of this sort, but the thing is that the Zomtober 2019 challenge asks us to post up the undead fellas on the Sunday. Now, given that I’ve already had a Sunday post, but my timezone is +10, (+11 at the moment, because we’re on Daylight Savings now), so this post will go up early on my Monday morning, but still on Sunday for Western Europe, the UK and the US. So I’m calling that good. I’m typing this Sunday nighgt my time as I wait for the PVA on the flock to dry, so I can take this little orange bastard outside and photograph him, so I can then edit the photos, insert them into this post, and then set the timer for 6am my time…
So yeah, this is the only Zombie I got done in the last week, and I only managed that by concentrating on the one of them today and putting the other six aside while I worked on thsi one and a few Orks. Pity my Dreadtober, which is looking like a bleak non-finish at this point as this working week’s going to be punctuated by a 12 or 13-hour day on Wednesday. Yeah, break out the tiny violins, but it does mean there won’t be much more time to paint before the end of the month, and definately not enough time to finish something as involved as a Dreadnought…
Something I really like about a numbe ro fthese Poxwalker figures is that they manage to tell a bit of a story in their sculpt. This guy for example wearing a torn protective suit with a cannister and gauge hanging off it. I decided to enmhance it a little by showing exactly what was in the cannister with a bit of freehand, and how much was left (none!) with a touch of colour. It doesn’t really come across in the photos, but the yellow strips on his outfit are a flouro yellow, and I’ve tried to get a rubbery grey appearance to his boots, gloves and hood.
I’ll see, but I don’t know if I’ll manage to get any more Poxwalkers done in time for Zomtober, let alone the four Zombicide Abominations that I started or the Survivor/Zombvivor. They will, however, most likely be finished not long afterwards, and if I manage to complete anything else before the end of the month, I’ll get them posted up. I’ve also got a few more greenskins I’m close to completing for Orctober, so they might pip the Zombies to the post as I need to have 25 of them completed by the end of this year…
Please tell me those aren’t maggots? That guy looks disgusting, so you must be doing something right! I can say “well done” only because it doesn’t involve scrolling back up to have another look at him! 🙂
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They’re small bumpy areas of texture on a plastic miniature that happen to be painted in a pale off-white and shaded with a (contrast) brown wash. If they happen to resemble the larval stage of some flying insect or another, I assure you that it is purely coincidental.
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So . . . they’re maggots! Yuk!
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No, they are not maggots. It is ok because they are actually only larvae or “soul larvae” which all good Chaos Ladies, Dungeon Masters and other kindred spirits know are “souls of mortals corrupted by evil that were unclaimed by fiends.[and are] captured by predators such as night hags, rakshasas or liches in order to be consumed or sold.”
My theory on their use by the Death Guard is the larvae actual as Spiritual Directors for their poxwalker sheep, whispering sweet canticles into their ears (assuming they haven’t rotted off yet), directing them in battle as well as acting as spies, etc.
So rest easy, brother, they are not maggots! 🙂
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I know you’re trying to help Ann, but I think it was way easier accepting that they were maggots! 🙂
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Well, you know, I’m always here for you, John! 🙂
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Heh. Nothing I need to add here….
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You’ve got him looking nice and gross – the contrast paints really work well on these don’t they? Funnily enough I was just thinking the same thing about my poxwalkers, I’ve been wanting to finish the horde by the end of the year but it’s time to turn all my attention to the Orks for a bit and come back to the poxwalkers only if there’s time. Otherwise they’re a job for January.
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I need to get another unit-based month challenge happening soon. I need to find where I backed up my textfile with the months pencilled in and work out what comes in December. I know January will be something + terrain because it’s my personal best month for painting terrain (warm weather, long days, time off work!)
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Sounds good – I’m falling behind with my terrain but I’ve got so many other projects I’d like to see to before Christmas, January might be a perfect time to get back into it.
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You can bet on January’s focus being on terrain – at least one of them, anyway!
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Great work as always.
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Thank you, IMP! 🙂
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What John said ! Fantastic work on all the elements especially like the work on the hazmat suit
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Thanks Dave – only my second model with this kind of clothing – and the only one I’ve actually completed! 😉
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They look suitably disgusting.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thank you, Pete!
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For experiment the result is frankensteinly awesome !
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Cheers, Le Bim – I’ll need to work out which other models will fit best alongside.
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Welp. Looks like the Mk XIV environmental suits aren’t good enough either. 😉
That came out awesome. As you said, it totally tells a story, and stuff like the hi-vis orange and yellow and the empty gauge on the oxygen tank add to that wonderfully.
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Thank you, Alexis – it’s a great sculpt. I do like the poxwalkers for that element overall, and I think this is one of the best of them.
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I’m really starting to love these Poxwalkers ,they certainty give this old guy a chortle !
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Thanks Pat. You’ve just remided me of the other half-dozen I started with this guy and shoved aside and still need to paint. And yeah, I know I probably mentioned them in the post…
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You definitely achieved a rubbery grey look to the boots and gloves and the orange pops. Great job Az
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Thanks, IRO. Hopefully I don’t need to exactly duplicate it on too many models.. 😉
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