Sure, they’re not a set of models that placed highly in the pre-February poll, but they’re something I did need to get done – Zombicide is one of those evergreen games that we play around here, and as I’ve slowly been working my way through the survivors (and zombvivors!) and the Fancy types of zombie fatties, it was time to get the basic ones done. This month being February, it made sense to concentrate on the Fembruary challenge set of them first, and so we have this set of ten models. They weren’t as fun as some of the others I’ve painted, due to the limits of only two sculpts, both wearing pretty similar dresses (and me not wanting to bother to go to town on them with repeating dress patterns and such) – but they’re now (finally) done and will be a regular feature on the table from here on in. Now I’ve still got the eight male ones, which have a slightly better/more flexible sculpt to paint in interesting ways – but there’s only the one sculpt!
Oh, and to make a point on the whole Contrast vs Speedpaint thing – here’s my “first draft” with these the other week, using Contrast. Didn’t like how they came out. The black, blue and green ones were immediately painted over with normal acrylics. The red and yellow ones were overpainted with acrylics to make them look decent. No waiting, no varnishing needed. Also, the skin tones are made from thinned contrasts, and in most cases, multiple layers of thinned contrasts to give mixed purple-over-green and green-over-brown (etc) tones. Again, wait to dry, no varnish, no reactivation. At this point, these are pretty much exclusively the ways I use Contrast paints – very rarely does the “official” way of one thick undiluted coat “and done” work for me on anything.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
You’ve got quite a varied look to them considering there are only two poses! Nicely done! 🙂
LikeLiked by 3 people
Thanks John – I tried the old GW method of angling them differently to they read as slightly less identical at a glance! 😉
LikeLiked by 2 people
Excellent work mate, the varying skin tones and dress colours adds a great deal to the variation between the two poses.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Cheers, Dave! It’s the only easy-ish way to make them look less like clones!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Lovely work as usual mate, they look suitably disgusting (in a good way).
Cheers Roger.
LikeLiked by 3 people
Thanks Roger. Now to getthe other half of them done! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Love these – the hen-do from hell!! I certainly wouldn’t want to bump into these ladies in a dark alley 😳
LikeLiked by 3 people
I’m sure they’d love to bump into *you*, though Alex 😀
LikeLiked by 2 people
Omnomnomnom! 😱
LikeLiked by 2 people
Dang those look good. I might need to pick some up.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thank you – cheers, mate!
LikeLike
I had a bast painting zombie for zombicide, these look really good!
LikeLiked by 4 people
Thanks Eric. Working on the male fatties now! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Having painted mini’s for this game really brings it to … life? Or would that be un-life? LOL
LikeLiked by 2 people
Agreed, Eric – I’m not looking forward to all of those walkers, though!
LikeLike
Looking good! I think Alex said exactly what I was thinking! Well done on getting them all looking so individual just by painting them differently, that makes a world of difference when you look at them as a group.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks Wudu! I’ve just got the blokes posted up – they allow a lot more diversity in the way that you can paint them, so mixed in with the females, I reckon they should all work pretty well on the board!
LikeLiked by 2 people
They look great- the effect you get from the contrast paints is very nice. The layered skin tones especially so.
Cheers,
Pete.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks Pete! Not something you could easily do with Speedpaints! 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
These look very nice and the variety in attire really helps the sculpts from looking repetitive. More importantly, it sounds like these will see some use on tabletop which makes it all the nicer to have them done! 🙂
LikeLiked by 2 people
Cheers, Kuribo! The newest batch are even mroe repetitive as sculpts, but they will certainly see a lot more table time than most of my other models if the past half-decade or so is any indication!
LikeLiked by 2 people