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Zombicide Survivors “Leroy” (Mr. T) & “Chaz” (Chuck Norris)

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Zombicide Survivors “Leroy” (Mr. T) & "Chaz" (Chuck Norris)

As I mentioned in yesterday’s Zombicide Survivor post, the fact that I wasn’t posting as I finished models for the last couple of weeks and ended up with a little backlog of similar models means I can lightly theme some of these posts even if the models weren’t completed right after one another. So far we’ve had the Game Night Kit pair, a Big Bang Theory pair, and today we have 80’s Action Icons with Mr.T and Chuck Norris.

Zombicide Survivors “Leroy” (Mr. T)

First up, we have Mr. T. if you don’t know who he is, then I can only assume that you weren’t around during the 1980’s, as he was one of the most popular actors and celebrities of the era. If you’re unaware of the phenomenon that is (was) T, then you are a fool whom I pity. Mr.T is the sole reason I got into Pro Wrestling as a child via his involvement with the first Wrestlemania. A curse that lingers to this very day in some form or another.

Zombicide Survivors “Leroy” (Mr. T)

Anyway, the model’s artwork is based on a photo that’s easily found featuring T wearing a camo t-shirt and.. uh.. whatever these bike shorts/short leggings are along with a weightlifting belt and 10 pounds of gold around his neck.

Zombicide Survivors "Eagle Chaz" (Chuck Norris)

Our second model today is that most famous action star of the 70’s and early 1980’s who morphed into a most monstrous meme in the early days of the internet’s rise in popularity and ubiquity on the back of Walker Texas Ranger.

The Zombicide art (and less so, the model’s pose) is based on a rather famous image of Chuck from the cover art of Invasion U.S.A. Even if you’ve never seen the movie, there’s probably a decent chance you’ve seen a form of this image. In fact, the image is so iconic for Chuck at this point in time that I didn’t even bother with the Invasion USA or the name of the character that Chuck played in that film in my post title. Because at this point in time, it’s just goddamned Chuck Norris!

Zombicide Survivors "Eagle Chaz" (Chuck Norris)

The game artwork takes the U.S.A. angle a little further with the American flag embroidered onto Chaz’ shirt, so I went with that over my usual preference to match the actual actor’s photo since it’s just a tweak and it’s very much in character. I mean, the game character is referred to as “Eagle Chaz” right there on their website!

Zombicide Survivors “Kabir” & “Miss Trish” (Kunal Nayyar as Rajesh Koothrappali & Melissa Rauch as Bernadette Rostenkowski from Big Bang Theory)

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Another nice long post title today. I actually went out of my way to shorten it by putting these two BBT homage models together rather than posting the models in chronological order of getting ’em finished.

Painting Raj and Bernadette brings us 4 of the 6 BBT models painted. Remaining are Amy and of course, Sheldon. Unfortunately, while I’ve managed to get the Zombvivor version of Sheldon (or “Dave”) I haven’t got the living version and haven’t yet found a particularly good proxy aside from one half-decent STL on MMF.

Painting both of these was pretty straightforward in the end as their card art was very repesentative of some of their common outfits in the show.

Bernadette’s busy, floral dress is the biggest reason that I took so many years to even attempt her, but a potential solution came to me one night a week and a bit ago while trying to get to sleep. Stippling with a few key colours and then some tiny dabs.

Ultimately, it’s not a perfect representation or Golden Demon-winning, but I think I pulled it off – certainly well enough for a tiny boardgame model.

Raj’s outfit is likewise taken pretty much directly from the show. Perhaps the fatigue pants on my model are a little greener, but GIS appears to shows a few shades of green/brown/olive/khaki, so again, I’m happy with it for the tabletop.

I’m out of interesting things to write about these two. I guess I should get (back) onto painting Amy and have another poke around to find a suitable Sheldon so we can have a Big Bang-themed run through some Zombicide missions!