Another pair of Not-figures from the various sets of Zombicide models I’ve accumulated over the years and seemingly-dozens of Kickstarter campaigns. This time we have “Lucius” (Jean Reno: Leon: The Professional) and “Seth” (Liam Neeson: Taken)
Both of these models had something in common – an almost-entirely black wardrobe. Of course, black clothing is never truly black-black, so I used a variety of very dark greys and blue-greys to give the appearance of different textures and materials over the two figures.
Again, I’ve had these for years now and it’s taken me until now to get to painting them. Zombicide and all of it’s many, many expansions and seasons and add-ons have produced a hell of a lot of survivor models over the years, and I’ve got quite a lot of them, and so outside of times when Zombicide is actively being played on the table, getting motivated to paint these isn’t so easy to keep up, so painting the Last Night on Earth models has been useful in getting motivated to get some Zombicide models done as well, as I kinda alternate between the sets…
The second model from this pair is Leam Neeson playing that well known character from Taken – the one that everyone refers to as “Taken” since the character is such a no-name creation.
These two characters were pretty straightforward and quick to paint up, largely due to their simple and not overly-detailed form and dark clothing. Even though I used different tones on their jackets, pants and shoes, I doubt anyone would even notice if I wasn’t pointing it out here! 😀
Anyway, another set of Zombicide models done that will work for the actual game, as well as a lot of other moden and Zombiepocalypse-type post-apoc games. Notsomuch the full on Mad Max/Fallout type of setting, though at least Fallout is actually broad enough that these could probably still work…
This pair (foursome) of models are all perfect fodder for Ann’s “Neglected But Not Forgotten” painting challenge.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Nicely done, especially the tones of (not) black.
I’ve never seen either of these films, but I imagine these are pretty close to the movie versions.
Cheers Roger.
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Well, broad strokes and close enough to be identifiable if you know who/what you’re looking for! 🙂
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Nice mate, as Roger says, the black looks good.
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Thanks mate!
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Excellent work on all four models, especially like the extra detailing on the action models as it’s a messy business they’re in
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Cheers, Dave – they’re the Zombified versions of them (not that we ever used those rules) but they can be used as action versions, wounded versions or just extra-nasty zombies in various games as needed!
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Nicely done with the black! 🙂 It’s a colour I hate doing, but I rarely paint yellow so I’ll have to gripe about black!
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So an Imperial Fists kill team is next on your plate, then?
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Well it might be, but I’d have to know what an Imperial Fists kill team was first! 😉
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A small group of bright yellow space marines! 😀
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Really like the blacks. Not too grey or blue, nice shine on the leather jacket and a bit of texture here and there.
Also cool yo see a Zombie Leon and Mr Taken. Both will sure find and kill you.
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Thanks! Admittedly, the varnishing does seem to add a bit of shine in places that there shouldn’t be, along with obscuring some of the texture work. Ah well, this is one of the things that models like this are for – to puzzle out these things before working on more important ones!
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Leon is a fantastic film, so I totally appreciate this fella gripping the plant 😄 both brilliantly painted minis, nice one
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Agreed on Leon. One of the classics from my younger days. 🙂
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A winning performance from Gary Oldman as well, love it
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Black is tough when it’s so dominant in the figure! I think the best compliment is when someone sees the miniature, comments on the black color, but doesn’t specifically mention all the textural changes – it’s as if you’ve don’t such a great job of making all the black not “all black” that you’ve fooled their eyes and they see it as they would in real life. Nice job!!
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Thank you, and agreed – Sometimes it’s nice to work with a model in a very limited range to see what differences you can achieve between the elements – wheas in more colourful models we tend to just default to whatever our standard methods of painting black (or red, or whatever) happen to be.
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Nice models- you’ve made a better go of the black than I’ve ever managed.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete. I appreciate it! 🙂
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I haven’t seen The Professional in quite a long time but I really enjoyed it as a youth. Jean Reno is an underrated actor and that movie definitely taught me how great of an actor Gary Oldman is. Regardless of that, the likeness to Jean Reno is not great (but this is a pretty old board game mini so that’s probably to be expected) but I think the Liam Neeson one isn’t bad. You did a great job painting these. Black is a challenging color and both of these gents are sporting nice looking clothing 🙂
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Yeah, it’s a movie (a pair, actually) that I *do* want to/need to re-watch. Both of them are older boardgame minis in PVC, true, and they’re also very truescale, so lacking the exaggerated detaails and definitions of GW and other brands. As long as you can tell who it Not-is on the tabletop is the most important thing for models like this! 😉
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