Why hello there! Along with all of the other junk I’ve been painting over July was the first dozen of the Runners from my 1st Edition Zombicide set(s). With four sculpts total, I picked out three of each a couple of months ago, slowly got them cleaned up, and then got a-painting last month – though I did most of the work on these last weekend when I decided to just get the damned things painted and complete.
First up we have “t-shirt guy”. So called because he’s wearing a t-shirt which he is also tearing open. I think for the next batch of these, I’ll paint one with the old Yellow-and-Red Hulk Hogan t-shirt so I can call them the “Hulkamania T-Shirt guys” since Hogan would heroically tear off his shirt back in the 80’s and beyond. In the interim, we’ve got one of them wearing a (probably) soccer/football shirt instead, as it seemed to work for the sculpt.
Our next model is “Apple advertisement guy” because you remember those iPod/iPhone commercials with the silouhette and the iconic white headphone cables, right?
Yeah. Those. ’nuff said.
We then have.. um… “girl”. Because girl. I used three of the most common female hair colours – blonde, brunette, and Mid 2010’s Sasha Banks.
And finally, rounding out the dozen, we have “bald guy”. Because I ran out of imagination two sculpts ago. I decided to convert the middle one to have his hand cut off across the forearm when the painted model fell off the table and the wrist snapped almost clean off, and was clearly not going to glue back together successfully. So I painted the stump red with a couple of white dots, and later added extra Blood for the Blood God (aka Citadel’s version of Clear Red) for seasoning.
All of these Runners wear some sort of athletic clothing, so they all got normal looking runners (trainers, sneakers) as well as what I hope look like fairly normal “sportswear” looking coloured clothing, though I didn’t bother with logos other than picking out some of the embossing on their shoes and shorts. I have another dozen of these still to paint, so they’ll be my next batch of zombies to get painted. They’ve all been lightly sprayed to make mould line removal easier (to see), so maybe, hopefully they’ll get painted over August.
Or September.
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Fantastic looking runner Zombies mate, and inventive and recognisable colour schemes throughout. Great idea on the broken model as well.
If you save the others for October, I will be running the Apocalypse Me challenge again, but then I’m sure you have lots more apocalypse style models that would fit.
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Thanks Dave! There’s no danger of running out of Zombies to paint – I’ve got all of the Zombicide sets and at this point I’ve barely scratched the first edition zombies, so even if I keep on this pace each month (which seems unlikely), I’ll still have an endless horde to paint…
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Nice freehand on #14! I’d likely keep dropping that batch down the paint queue over and over, but you managed to make them look pretty sweet! Great job on differentiating them. I really like the grey shirt on the first trio and the grey hoodie on the second trio.
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Thanks Faust! I’ve been dropping them down the painting queue since about 2013, so they finally got their day with my current Zombicide painting push. Only one complete edition (and countless expansions and side games) later!
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Nicely done incorporating all of that variation into them! 🙂
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Thanks John! Their clothing is a mix of “get them done” and “I have this leftover paint from another model”. 😉
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Very nice. Good paint jobs for a unit that can be quite tricky in the game.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thansk Pete! We certainly don’t enjoy Runners, though they’re better to face than the Zombie Dogs….
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Love the creative choices on this and would love to see a Hulk Hogan zombie!
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I think the shirt is a given at this point – as to one like the Huckster himself, I’ll have to see which sculpts might be suitable in the larger mass of them! 🙂
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Great work Az. I really like the variation and detail!
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Thanks! Only a dozen more of *these* ones to go!
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Very nicely done mate, you’ve added a lot of character to what would otherwise be pretty generic zombies.
Cheers Roger.
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Thanks Roger! There’s something to be said in just having them look like greyed-out masses, but it doesn’t quite match my painting style.
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Very good progress all around and these zombies came out looking nicely. Of course, the wrestling references (and color choices) were entertaining as always! You’ve got a “Boss” runner there it looks like for example 😀
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Thanks mate – and good pick up there!
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Looking great mate!
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Thanks Alex!
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