A quick one today! While looking through tubs of models in late December I found these models sitting there with some texture paste on their bases and sprayed in black. These were from one of the Black Plague expansion boxes that I opened and got out long ago in order to use as Razorwing Flocks for my Dark Eldar/Drukhari in 40k.
Of course, I never got around to painting them back then, and since in Decemebr I was in full Zombicide mode, I decided to get ’em done. These Black Plague Crowz are the Five won’t be enough to incorporate into any games, so these will just go into storage until I can get at least 10 more cleaned and painted. The painting is pretty trivial, but the mould line cleaning will take a bit longer…
The only difference between the two types of Crowz for regular modern Zombicide and the fantasy Black Plague will be in my basing, since they’re identical sculpts – so I’ll be able to use both sets across both games. Once they’re painted, anyway…
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
They look excellent mate, remind me totally from the Resident Evil scene !
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Good call there – I went straight to Hitchcock for the initial reference!
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Tidy job mate, I love solid utility pieces like this – just a shame that the mould lines were a pain!
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Yeah, I won’t be working on any more of these until February or March at this rate since I’ll want to clean up the lines on the rest of them and then do them en masse.
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Nice minis that convey the motion well! 🙂
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Thanks John! They’re pretty nice sculpts all in all!
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Oh, quite impressive! They do look scary, nice job!
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Thank you!
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Great job on these pretty straightforward sculpts. They will look great in your Zombicide games, I reckon! If I remember correctly, Bioshock Infinite has an ability where you can sick crows on enemies and it might even be called the same thing as in Zombicide (i.e. Murder of Crows). I wonder if there is a reason why concept that was popular around that time. I guess we’ll never know 🙂
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Well, the correct collective noun for Crows is actually a “Murder of” (rather than flock, as with many other birds), so it does fit right into a lot of game genres pretty easily. 😀
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You’re probably right and I’m over-analyzing it 🙂
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I’m pretty sure I’m always right! 😀 😉
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The crows look good. Hard to believe you will need 10 more? I was just thinking of forwarding you a Reddit post of a finished Ashardalon set.
I know you’ve made some great strides on those games too. Which amazes me, as those minis look tough to work with.
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Yeah, in gameplay terms Zombicide games have a number of spawn points on the board, and then you draw cards for them each turn (as well as when you open a door into a new, previously-unopened building) – and depending on the danger/alert/experience level of the game at that point, you get greater numbers of mobs spawning. So if you’re at orange or red and you could easily get 4 or 5 in the one spawn. Not to mention the other spawn points, and other crowz that may already be on the board…
Feel free to link the Ashardalon set – always nice to have a look at. I’ve actually finished the Monsters from that set a while back:
Not sure about the heroes, I’ve done some of them but since they all get mixed together as we play the next game, I can’t remember which ones are from Ashardalon or other sets for the most part…
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Ah, that makes sense about the number of bats. In the D&D rpg, I tend to remove minis when the players move to a new area and can’t see them. So I don’t need as many as in boardgames or war games.
I looked for that Reddit post again, but unfortunately couldn’t find it.
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Yep – even in the D&D Adventure Boardgames you only tend to have 1-3 of a specific type of monster at any one time.
Zombicide often ends up looking like this or worse..
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Very effective those- love them.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete!
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I have been trying to source some of these for ages to no avail. Yours look great.
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I got mine from the KS fulfilment. I’d probably try keeping an eye on eBay and/or Amazon – or just finding some prints – these are pretty nice with a free STL
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/crows-zombicide
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Thanks Az.
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These are brilliant mate!
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Thanks Pat! 🙂
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