Today’s post features another Zombicide model, but not from 2nd Edition, but from the original Zombicide Black Plague campaign. Another one of the really wacky Abominations, a sibling of sorts to the three others that I painted a couple of years ago. We have the Abominarat.
Aside from Zombicide, this model does have several other uses in games – when I finish building my Age of Sigmar Skaven (I’ve got plenty of models waiting in the wings), it can serve as a slightly-underscale Hell Pit Abomination (which is good, because I really don’t like the official model) and also as a (more “officially” scaled) Mutant Ratfiend when I use that same Skaven army as Kings of War Ratkin. I’ll just sabot him onto a large MDF square, or we’ll just live with the round-bases in friendlies.
Being a fairly large critter, this model also slots very nicely into the Monstery McMonsterface challenge run by Swordmaster at Path of an Outcast also known as the Monster March painting challenge. Which, let’s face it, is certainly helping me to get these larger models that have been sitting around for literally years (2, in this case) completed…
This model was kind of a tricky one to photograph as it’s very much a 3D model. What I mean by that is that the model has something of significant size sticking out on each of the four angles of the model – the head, tail and both outstretched arms.
Of course, he’s still covered in boils and pustules and growths, so I still gave them the usual red-yellow-ivory look to make them stand out a little from the rest of the Abominarat’s unhealthy looking flesh.
As you can see, I also added a bit of gore to the Abominarat’s left claw – this was made up of the messed-up, congealed remnants of my first pot of Citadel’s Blood for the Blood God paint. I later added some more BftBG over the top – and did the same to the little pile of gore on the model’s base.
The blood spatter was kept to just a bit on each claw as I didn’t want the model to be overwhelmed by little flecks of blood paint as it’s already a pretty busy model with all of the boils and folds and creases and spikes and scars, and of course those bulbous veins that I had to tint with a touch of blue to make them more lifelike. Berkeley once again comes to the rescue and does the hard work to show us a scale shot!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Looks truly sickening mate, so excellent work on it, and I think the minimal blood splatter was the perfect call, it would have distracted from all the other details
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Thanks Dave! I’ve still got one last run of low-detail Zombie Walkers to get to that can be covered in spatter. I just have to steel myself to paint them sometime… 😉
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I think Dave Stone’s comment sums it up very well! 🙂 It’d never go amiss to add “gruesome” to the description!
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Thanks John – looks like a success in that way in that case! 🙂
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OMG, I love that!
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Cheers mate – and thanks for the link! 🙂
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Freaky cool!
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Thanks mate! 🙂
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Awesome work again Az. Loved the blood coated claw.
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Cheers, Guru – glad the old gunked-up BfTBG paint still comes in handy. 😉
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Gruesome! But I gotta say I love those wild eyes the best. And that paw he showcased looks like he must have petted Leonard the wrong way, haha!
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Thanks! I have to say they’re inspired by the artwork, but with big ball-eyes like that you really need to do something with them so leaning in hard works!
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Nicely done mate – that is a screaming nightmare of a mini!
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Thanks Alex! I could imagine this one having a good old screech!
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Holy hell, everytime you post zombicide picks it just makes me want to go out and not eat for a few months and just buy these board games🙂. Great job man. Horned Rat would be pleased
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Cheers Dawie! The core sets aren’t too bad to pick up and there’s a lot of replayability in them – not to mention the solo and co-op options. 🙂
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This is absolutely grotesque, mate! I can’t figure how Marouda minds the spider minis but is okay with this 😀 I’d get in all kinds of trouble if I had this laying around. Excellent job painting up this big Skaven, mate! Those eyes are really something!
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Haha thank you! This one is pretty man-rat though – the arachnid models tend to be more “realistic” in terms of their resemblance to the real ones!
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Awesome bit of work, Azazel, though I do have one question… How the hell does that thing mate!
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Haha! I think this one might be past that point now!~
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I can hear it squeal!! 🙂
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Time to get out the reeeeealy big traps!
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Yuckkk! In a good way 😉
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Haha thanks Roger!
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