Zombicide Survivors “Dick” (Will Ferell as Ron Burgundy from Anchorman) & “Alyana Heska”

Zombicide Survivors “Dick” (Will Ferell as Ron Burgundy from Anchorman) & “Alyana Heska”

And now my final models for July and the 5th post of this run of Zombicide Survivors. We have an original(!) character called Alyana Heska as well as another “homage” character based on Will Ferell’s role in the Anchorman films (cue Kuribo in.. 3… 2… 1…)

Zombicide Survivors “Alyana Heska”

Ms. Heska’s backstory is pretty simple. She’s a cosplayer at a con alongside her friend “Union Worker #42” but then suddenly, zombies! Luckily for her I guess her Katanas aren’t made from foam but actual cold steel.

I don’t know much about Wrath of Kings but I did finally find the stat card for Alyana. I backed the KS but then never did anything with the stuff. Some of it I’ll (probably/possibly) paint one day and other stuff I’ve long given away. Apparently the game is (was) pretty good but they pretty much saturated the market via the KS and there wasn’t enough interest left at retail, so CMoN eventually abandoned it. I got both Alyana and Union Worker as WoK KS exclusives as they were cross-marketing a lot of their other campaigns with Zombicide at the time.

Zombicide Survivors “Alyana Heska”

For my Zombicide model, I pretty much did my best interpretation of the card art. I don’t love the coloour scheme but it is what it is I suppose. Finished models look decent and so we have another survivor ready for the game!

Zombicide Survivors “Dick” (Will Ferell as Ron Burgundy from Anchorman)

The second model of Ron Burgundy had a few options for paint, and in the end I went with the Burgundy suit from the second film. I know I saw the first one and it was all right, and I think I later watched the second one, which I guess tells you how memorable it was. I also painted his AK as the “Golden AK” which is one of the higher-quality “pimpmobile” weapons.

Zombicide Survivors “Dick” (Will Ferell as Ron Burgundy from Anchorman)

Regardless of how memorable or not the films were, with Ron Burgundy painted there’s once again the nice positive of having another survivor complete and ready to drop into our games.

Zombicide Angry Neighbors Survivors “Tiff” & “Jeff”

Zombicide Angry Neighbors Survivors “Tiff” (Tiffany), & "Jeff" Don Johnson (Miami Vice)

Following with the light theme of theming these Zombicide Survivor posts, the two models we have today both come from the Angry Neighbors expansion. Despite some superficial resemblances to 1980’s celebrities, it turns out that this pair of Survivors simply paid CMoN a shitload of money via the “I Am Legend” pledge level to be included in the game as playable characters. And there I thought we might have had references to Tiffany and Don Johnson.

For some reason.

Zombicide Angry Neighbors Survivors “Tiff” (Tiffany)

Anyway, Tiff(any) was a pretty straightforward model to paint, with her two slightly different shades of double-denim and guitar-axe.

How could I possibly have thought this model was a homage to a certain 80’s pop princess?

Zombicide Angry Neighbors Survivors “Tiff” (Tiffany)

So anyway, she turned out to be a nice, easy model to paint. The raw sculpt looked like it might have been a bit over-detailed and busy and a pain in the arse, but in the end, nope – super easy, barely an invonvenience.

Zombicide Angry Neighbors Survivors "Jeff" Don Johnson (Miami Vice)

As with Tiff, I just followed the card art for Jeff’s scheme. Actually.. that’s not… you, Jeff? …Jeff?

Well, even if it’s not Jeff, there’s certainly no resemblance to Don Johnson from Miami Vice. Nosiree.

I didn’t even change up the colour I painted the shirt – it’s from the card art.

Zombicide Angry Neighbors Survivors "Jeff" Don Johnson (Miami Vice)

Anyway, given that these two are simply based on Kickstarter backers rather than celebrities, I don’t have a lot else to say about them. I’m sure we absolutely won’t refer to them as Tiffany or Don Johnson in our games around here, becauser that would just be silly in a game like Zombicide!

I’ll only do that when I think we’re alone…. now?