Today I have a mix – one model left over from February (Mitch) alongside my first completed model from April (Magnum/Frank). I held off on posting Mitch as I do prefer to get my Zombicide models up in pairs (or trios) and so with all of the Femmes in February and Monsters in March, poor old Tom got pushed to the side for awhile.
Once again, the first of these two characters is another from Zombicide’s rather extensive range of “homage” models. I know I’ve already mentioned it in the post title, but I wonder how obvious it would be to persons of a certain vintage even without it in the title?
You can pretty easily see where they got the inspiration for on old “Frank” here. As such, I looked up various photos of Magnum and so went with the light/white shoes and belt, as well as his Iconic Detroit Tigers baseball cap.
The shirt was the main reason it took so long to get Magnum painted. I reeeeally wasn’t looking forward to painting the pattern on his Hawaiian shirt, let alone doing it twice and needing to match it. Hence, it took a clear bit of time last weekend and the space to just use a “knuckle down” mentality to get it done.
Mitch is a decent little model with a pretty obvious “biker” vibe, though he suffered severely from a bent noodle shotgun, due to the softness of the PVC that the model is made from as well as the pose, having it right out in front of him. I reset it pretty easily with hot water, but I do expect it to re-bend again pretty easily. Mitch’s tattoos from the artwork weren’t terrible to try to emulate, but, as always I tend not to enjoy repeating them on his zombvivor counterpart all that much.
Just thought I’d add in the artwork for Mitch here as well. I pretty much followed it and did my best to emulate the tattoos on the models.
As a little nod to GTA, I decided to paint Mitch as a member of The Lost M.C., which I added to his cutoffs. I may have to go back over his pants with some matte varnish as well.
In my last post about Reaper’s Horace “Action” Jackson, commentator Phil Curran mentioned that he found the the model to be terribly out of scale, so I thought I’d check for myself against these two Zombicide Survivors as well as our old standby, Berkeley. He’s certainly chunkier than the Zombicide models, though they’re very much in a truescale proportion, but height-wise he fits right in. And standing next to Berkeley, he’s totally fine. So I guess it depends on which models you’d be using it alongside, as is often the case with different ranges.
Hopefully I can get all of April’s stuff photographed together tomorrow for my round-up post, and then I can get straight into posting May’s other completed work…
And that, my friends – is that!
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Stunning work on the shirts mate, and the Tats are your usual very high standard, making some cracking models on show, size wise I think all the models on show fit together well, as we are all different shapes and sizes after all.
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Thank you, Dave! That’s always been my thought on mixed ranges as well
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Very nice mate – loving that short!!
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Cheers Alex – not fun to paint, but not so hard once I buckled down at least!
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Magnum’s shirt is amazing! I have Horace too and he does seem to be a tad larger than most of Reaper’s 28mm figures. But it’s not too noticeable.
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Thank you Matt! I figure his afro raises his height a little, and he’s clearly a bigger guy. People are all sizes IRL, after all! 🙂
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I like the GTA reference on Mitch! Truthfully, while I know Tom Selleck, the reference is totally lost on me though I still think he looks like a fun mini to use in Zombicide. Great job painting these up and your freehand is impressive and inspiring as usual 🙂
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Thanks Muribo! Magnum is juuuust out of my own proper memory. I remember it being on TV when I was a kid, but not really anything about the show itself. Painting this model has actually made me want to check out a couple of episodes and see what all the excitement was about! 🙂
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Muribo!? That doesn’t sound like a terrible screen name honestly 😀 Tom Selleck is still acting and has been in a cop-focused show lately so I’m certainly familiar with him. I’m with you in that I want to see where the hype comes from too 🙂
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Muribo, Son of Rambo.
I should try and watch a couple of episodes soon.
I should also look up some Burt Reynolds movies, speaking of 80’s moustache men! 😉
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Very nice. Like the mean looking biker.
Cheers
Pete.
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Thanks Pete! I’ve got a few others from Copplestone and CMoN to paint up sometime as well!
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Maree has always been a Tom Selleck and magnum PI fan so she loved this post. great work and love the shirt.
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Hahah thank you David – and Maree! 😀
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Love the Hawaiian shirt!
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Thanks Eric! Now I need a MCP model to paint in one!
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Now that is a head scratcher, I’m not sure I can remember any Marvel Comics with a Hawaiian themed shirt! Might just have to take creative license!
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An STL of Deadpool would probably work!
Logan perhaps?
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Really like these two! 🙂 Well done on replicating them in their zombvivor form!
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Thanks John! Though I’m really quite looking forward to getting to the end of these 1st Ed Zombicide models so I no longer have to paint their Zombvivor doppelgangers!
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