Continuing the stuff I painted in November, we continue with the Zombicide models. In this particular case, we have a subset of the walkers – the Zombies in Suits (or at least shirts and pants).
I had originally planned to work on the Toxic Zombies after completing the Berserkers, but instead pivoted to just regular walkers instead. I figured that while it would be very cool to play though the Toxic City Mall expansion with a fully-painted set of Toxic Zombies, they require a lot more work and mental effort to do that bog-standard walkers – something I was not in excess of during the hellscape of November.
I did them 10 at a time, picking out only models wearing suits – basically leaning into the semi-uniformity of the “salaryman uniforms”. So I plucked out two each of five different sculpts and basically batch-painted them in two sets once I got them cleaned and primed. Black and dark grey were my first sets.
It worked out pretty well – nice and quick – and looking good for faceless undead enemy mooks to be slaughtered by the score – so I then started on a second set of 5×2 pair. These next ones got dark blue suits, and painted up quickly as well.
The final batch of this lot got silver-grey suits. Getting these models painted nice and quickly gives me models that look far better than grey plastic on the table while letting me spend a bit (or a lot!) more time on the survivors – the player characters of the piece.
I’ve since prepared a second mob of 20 more of these besuited bastards – some have even been started, and then a third mob of the final 18 or so of them still needing to have the mould lines cleaned up. And THEN I’ve still got the other walker sculpts – females in dresses, the punks, and the homeless-looking guys still to paint up. I’ll have the next batch of November models posted up again in a few days. Until then, see you in the comments!
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For the limited palette you’ve used mate, they look awesome all massed together, I was worried they would look boring but your added effects just brings them all together.
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Thanks Dave! Boring is, to an extent what you’re after in having a mob of models wearing suits, I reckon! 😉
As long as they look solidly decent but unremarkable on the table, they’re doing their job, as there’s all those flashy VIP Zombies and Runners and so on that we need to focus our attention on much more! 🙂
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Great stuff mate. 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂
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Smashing stuff mate, the suit colours are perfect matches of the real things, and just different enough to give a good bit of variation overall.
Cheers Roger.
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Thanks Roger. I really need to knuckle down and get the next slight-variation batches of these things done. Hopefully another 20 before the month is out!?!
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These are great! 🙂 I’m pretty sure I’ve worked in an office with some of ’em!
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Ha! I believe you! 😀
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Nice – looks exactly like the last corporate event I attended! 😂
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As with John – I do totally believe you! 😀
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Those look great- that sort of batch painting really worked well.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Cheers Pete! Breaking them down into smaller batches to keep them a bit more individual (and completable) works best for me. 🙂
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Those are some sharp-dressed Zeds there, mate! I think you did a great job getting them done quickly and efficiently while still managing to keep them all unique. Your work is inspiring as always! 🙂
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Thanks mate – since they’re zombies and have been dead for at least some time for the most part, I want them to look rough – which works perfectly in that there’s (I think) 58 of these things to get painted to play the lowest-level enemies in the game. (And that’s just the ones in suits/shirts!) I could have gone further and made them look more realistic(!) by dirtying them up as well, but they’re certainly fit for purpose as they are. 🙂
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You know, I think I worked with some of those guys… Really nice work here and I’m impressed with how you manage to catch the textures and colors of modern fabric so well. What did you use for the grey suits, the colors look really nice!
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Thanks Faust! The dark grey suits are …VMC Dark Grey or Black Grey, with a couple layers of drybrushing and then a wash, and the silver-grey is based off either VMC Blue Grey Pale or the old Army Painted Uniform Grey (Codex Grey?)
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Cheers buddy! I’ll have a look, I’m pretty sure I have those colors and probably some AK equivalents.
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Looking great Az
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Thank you! So many more to paint yet…
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Sweet – more scary than regular zombies as they’re zombie wage-slaves!
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Heh, yep – very much in line with Romero’s commentary on much of society!
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