Is this my longest post title yet? We’re certainly right up there, but it’s descriptive so whaddayagonnado?
I haven’t posted for awhile because, well, let’s just say “life happens” sometimes. I have been painting when I can, and so now I present you with day 1 of 5 that will each feature a pair of Zombicide Survivors. Why not post them all at once, you ask? Because I generally like to do ’em in pairs – easier for me to find later on using search – and I finished 10 of ’em…
Kyoko is an interesting figure. I had seen someone reference this one as based on Lucy Liu sometime in the long distant past, but I simply put that down to a lot of players habit of trying to attach every Zombicie Survivor to some sort of celebrity, so I kinda ignored that and went with the artwork.
Well, I did manage to match her skin tone in the artwork pretty much perfectly. I was dubious at first, though I do like to vary my flesh tones on models a fair bit so I gave it a go, but it was preeeety yellow. So much it looked like either Hepatitis Flesh or Cartoon Racism Flesh. I wasn’t super down with that and noped right out – I mean, that sort of base looks fine for an undead zombie, but maybe not a living human – so I returned to the interwebs and did some more googling and found the above image. “Fuck me dead!” as various people used to say as a slightly odd exclaimation. The model with this rather unliklely combination of clothing and weapon was actually based on ol’ Lucy.
So with that I decided I was going to repaint the skin tone with a similar saturated tone, but leave the red pvc rather than repaint it in black – both because I felt the red added more interest than another all-black wearing survivor, and because I felt it looked decent and I didn’t want to repaint it.
The second model is a pretty “mid” one, as the kids these days say, and is based on Austin Powers. Possibly on his bright orange outfit from the third film which I have not watched. Makes sense, since the Not-Beyonce Zombicide Survivor and her outfit also comes from the third film, but I felt like the blue velour suit was more iconic for the character, even if the model didn’t have a large flamboyant cravat.
I went with a different take for the glasses with the white lenses, trying something different. Not sure if it worked that well. I also tried to represent Austin’s janky dental work on the Survivor miniature as well.
Well, that’s all for today – I’ll be back tomorrow with the next pair of survivors!
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Excellent work on all four mate, and I think your colour choices suit the models perfectly, creating interest points where with the other colours you mention, could be lost on them.
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Thanks Dave. They’re good enough for the table top and now finally painted so I’m happy with that level of outcome!
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Nicely done! 🙂 I really like your colour choices! If there is one personality I just can’t stand it’s Austin Powers (although I do like your mini)!
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Oh behave, John!
I enjoyed the first one well enough as a film back when it came out and I know that I saw the second one but don’t recall anything about it at all. The third I’ve just never gotten around to watching at all, but maybe I need to watch the three of them and see again with my current sensibilities…
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Great work on some old classics.
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Thanks mate. 👍
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Like John, I’ve never been into Austin Powers but I recognized the character immediately thanks to your painting skills. “Lucy” looks good too though I think the sculpt is much harder to “read” as her if she is indeed meant to be Lucy Liu. Either way, these look great and I hope things settle down for you soon!
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No Austin Powers! No Big Bang Theory! I can’t believe that you totally hate dumb fun, but you’ll have to give us some examples of things that you do enjoy now…
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I don’t like dumb humor that much. I tend to prefer dry humor though I don’t watch a ton of comedies overall. I really the American version of the Office (the first few seasons anyway, the show went downhill the longer it went) and Reno 911 (which probably didn’t make it to Australia and if it did, I wonder if the humor travels). There are a couple of other TV comedies I like but not as well as those two.
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Looking good mate! 👍
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While I was quite the Lucy Liu fan back in the day, I don’t remember that black suit. Which should have been etched into my memory! I like that Austin Powers model more though, as you can see the likeness.
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