Monthly Archives: September 2023

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Cosmic Terrain Pack (Part One) – Barriers and Street Lights

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Marvel Crisis Protocol: Cosmic Terrain Pack (Part One) - Barriers and Street Lights

Through September, I’ve kept working on some of the unfinished projects left over from the Season of Scenery Challenge. Here’s a few smaller parts of the Marvel Crisis Protocol Cosmic Terrain Pack.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Cosmic Terrain Pack (Part One) - Barriers and Street Lights

I think these are supposed to be street lights – they “work” for me in that way at least in the same kind of way you’d find interesting lights in a pedestrian mall, so I painted them with an attempt at a glowy manner.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Cosmic Terrain Pack (Part One) - Barriers and Street Lights

Here they are alongside Logan from MCP as well as a couple of models from other well-worn genres. I think the lights would work fine alongside all three scales.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Cosmic Terrain Pack (Part One) - Barriers and Street Lights

Similarly, the Jersey Barriers work with all three. They’re a bit extra-big and britalist alongside the Post-Apoc model, but still very playable.

Marvel Crisis Protocol: Cosmic Terrain Pack (Part One) - Barriers and Street Lights

These may have gotten done earlier, but since I hate the official box art colour scheme, I went through three iterations (shiny metallic, standard grey, desert yellow) before settling on this greenish grey look loosely based on my recent Hydra scenery, but more weathered and worn.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: The Final Toxic Fatties and The First Toxic Runners

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Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Fatties and Toxic Runners

Zombicide has been our go-to tabletop game for what feels like around 6 or so months this year. We picked up from where we left off last year when we replayed the Original campaign, and then played our way through the Prison Breakout missions with all of the painted Berserker Zombies. But in the time we’ve been back on it, it’s started to get a little samey in the last month or so as we work our way through the Compendium 1 missions. But given that we have SO much Zombicide content, I don’t want to play through Toxic City Mall until we can do it in a fully-painted manner. So…. it’s time to shit or get off the pot.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Fatties

I picked up an extra box of Toxic Zombies earlier this year, and so I started with the four new Fatties. I leaned into blue this time since the previous Toxic Fatties I painted didn’t really have any blue shirts, so once mixed in these will balance out nicely. With the extra canvas space available to me on these models, I had some fun with the t-shirts.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Fatties

The drink bottles were an annoying extra detail that I could have done without, but they’re a part of the sculpts and I could at least take respite in the fact that these three are the last cola-bottle-holders I will (probably) ever have to paint.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners

With the runners, I continued to entertain myself with their singlets. As with the fatties and even my own choice of pop culture T-shirts, I generally prefer to go with “if you know, you know” but I did want to throw in one of those grey “ARMY” singlets that you see in various media.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners

Headbands are a bit of an annoying detail on these. I’ll have to paint one in the next batch with one of those “Kamikaze headbands” that were inexplicably popular in the 1980’s.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners

Once again with the T-shirts, we have a nice set of “if you know, you know” – and a mixture again of shirts I like and ones I’d like to shoot at in a game. And one more generic one.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners

They really do look like a dance line when the same model is arranged like this in photos, don’t they? That’s why I paint the models and do so in batches – otherwise it’d look like The Clone Wars!

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Fatties and Toxic Runners

And to finish, one more group shot! This pic of all of the 13 Toxic Zombies that I got painted this month also shows one of the most important parts of these finished models – the blotches of Nurgle Rot paint on their bases – this will be so that we can distinguish the figures as Toxic Zombies without having to do something like paint the rims in a different colour – which is something that absolutely works well for gameplay, but I personally prefer to “embed” distinguishing aspects of models into the paintwork when I can…

There’s still over a dozen more toxic runners to go, and then a big ol’ pile of toxic walkers…. 😮