Night of the Living Dead: A Zombicide Game – “Zombicide Mode” Survivors Pt.1 – Johnny, Harry, Ben, Judy & Karen

Night of the Living Dead: A Zombicide Game Miniatures - "Zombicide Mode" Survivors Pt.1 - Johnny, Harry, Ben, Judy & Karen

Painting all those walkers and other Zombies in November got a bit mentally taxing, so I took a break to paint something a little different – some Zombie Survivors! In this case it was half of the cast from the Night of the Living Dead edition of Zombicide, which I backed on Kickstarter some time ago. We’ve played through the campaign twice (I think) now, and since all of the character skills are either the same or compatable with Zombicide 1st Edition (and probably Second Edition as well) I decided awhile back that I’d prep the figures to paint at some stage. That time came in late November, and they tuirned out to be a pleasure to paint – so the one quickly turned into five before the month ended. Nicely detailed models but without all the extra accoutrements that so many models seem to have.

Night of the Living Dead: A Zombicide Game Miniatures - "Zombicide Mode" Survivors Pt.1 - Johnny, Harry, Ben, Judy & Karen

Since NotLD is a black and white film, the artists at CMoN filled in the palette of the characters’ clothing. They went for an overall shared palette of blues, beiges and pink/salmon across the ten survivors from the game and one small expansion box – so I basically just followed that. Judy’s got the whole double-denim thing going here, but it’s not her fault. Probably. I still hate painting OSL, so I did a simple job on Harry and his mason jar. Hopefully it looks decent while not being too garish or too subtle. I did enjoy the opportunity to practise my work on painting hair on these figures, and it’s something I’m still slowly improving on.

Anyway – this is the final individual post for November, so expect the belated Round-Up in a couple of days, then followed by the first of December’s models shortly afterwards (and yes – there are some Zombicide models in there!)

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers, Part 1 – The Suits

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits

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).

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits

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.

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits

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.

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits

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.

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits

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. 

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits

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!