Monthly Archives: February 2024

Scarlet Brethren “Good Ole’ Boys” – Demonblade Miniatures

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We have something a bit different today – a trio of miniatures from a company that I did not recall the name of – big thanks to Mr.C in the comments for refreshing my memory of the manufacturer – Demonblade Miniatures! Back in the late 1990’s or early 2000’s, during the days of 40k 2nd edition, WarZone 1st edition and playing games with semi-regularity in Mind Games Melbourne, one of the gang ran a few demos of a skirmish-sized game that used 40k-esque models. I don’t recall the name of the game, or the manufacturer (hence the above title), but I did pick up a few of their figures. Mostly their Not-Cadians, but also some of their Not-Orks. So far, so uninteresting – but it turns out that at some stage GW gave them the old threatening letter, and their “Orcs” or “Orks” or whatever quickly morphed into a faction called “The Org” (for ORGanised crime) and their models turned from Kev Adams Orc-alikes into models that look like they may have been sculpted by Bob Olley’s apprentice.

Anyway, this trio of ugly bastards are from a blister a pack of Demonblade models that I purchased, oh-so-many years ago, and while their realistic chance of getting painted was slim to none for several decades, I came across them while sorting out my “simple paintjob armed civilians and militia types” batch a year or three ago that recently resulted in painted Hobbits and Ruffians. You see, I more-or-less semi-randomly took a dozen models out of the tub and got to painting them, and one of those three was mister folded-hat here. Since the end of February was approaching, I made an effort over the past few days to get the other pair painted, so all three of the set would be done so I could post them together.

In the end, they got much better paint jobs than these models deserve, probably because they’re metal and they gave me a chance to work on something very different to my norm with low pressure. Would they have looked better with tattoos or even just implied tatoos? For sure, but, y’know. Too much effort for these. I also noticed last night that the guy with the cap has a little Confederate Flag on it. Since the model was designed in the 90’s when the context of such things in pop culture was a little different and people were less easily triggered, I’d assume the simple explanation of the designer just shitting on people from the U.S.’ South with these three yokel-looking motherfuckers. Still, I was painting him with echoes of Super Mario gone done broken bad and even a Confederate Flag wasn’t going to stop me! As far as games go – I dunno. I guess I could use them as Chaos Cultists, or Cthulhu Cultists, or something like that, with their unsettling, weird-looking fucking heads. It’s not really important. They’re done and so I can get on with finishing much more improtant other models.

If someone recognises these things, I’ll of course credit you and amend the post title. In the meantime, it’s another three models for Dave Stone’s Paint Whatchoogot Challenge for 23-4 wot ends tomorrow. Though I do still have 1 or 2 more posts to come for that…

Zombicide Survivors “Oksana” (Milla Jovovich as Alice from Resident Evil: Extinction) & “Thaissa” (Bridget Fonda as Maggie Hayward from Point of No Return)

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Zombicide Survivors "Oksana" (Milla Jovovich as Alice from Resident Evil: Extinction) & "Thaissa" (Bridget Fonda as Maggie Hayward from Point of No Return)

And another pair of Zombicide models! This time we have a pair of survivors that hit two of the month’s themes – Dave Stone’s Paint Whatchoogot Challenge for 23-4 and Fembruary.

Zombicide Survivor "Thaissa" (Bridget Fonda as Maggie Hayward from Point of No Return)

We have Thaissa, who I’ve read is based on Janet Fonda’s character in Point of No Return (aka The Assassin) – which is a remake of Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita. While I have seen Nikita, I have not seen PoNR.

Zombicide Survivor "Thaissa" (Bridget Fonda as Maggie Hayward from Point of No Return)

Stills I found online had her in a black dress rather than this teal number, but then again the stills were mostly promo images so I don’t know if she wears something like this at some stage. Regardless, since I’ve not seen the film, and we already have “Proxy-Ivy” who is based on Angelina Jolie from Mr. and Mrs. Smith (aka woman in black dress) and the long gloves it made my choice easy enough.

Because of all of the above, I just went with the card art, as it’ll be much easier to identify on the table (especially if both Ladies are drawn as survivors in the same game).

Zombicide Survivor "Oksana" (Milla Jovovich as Alice from Resident Evil: Extinction)

The second of today’s survivors is clearly Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil: Extinction. I hesitate to even give it the “based on” or “inspired by” disclaimers here! I’ve only seen a couple of these films at best – I’ve definitely seen the first and maybe the second? Ive certainly not seen Extinction, though. This figure was one that I’ve just been putting off painting for literally years. Why? Look at that outfit! Belts and straps and buckles and pouches and more straps and..  and to be honest, it’s the sort of mid-phase CMoN figure that probably looked amazing as a digital sculpt, but ended up with reeeallly shallow and fine details when turned into an actual tabletop model. I mean, I get it – this is how she appears in the film (except for the gunblades – they should be machetes).

Zombicide Survivor "Oksana" (Milla Jovovich as Alice from Resident Evil: Extinction)

But yeah. So credit entirely goes to Alex and Fembruary for this one, since I wanted to have another female Survivor model to pair with Janet – so I just knuckled down and gave Milla a rough paintjob – which works in this case due to the context of her rough, dirty outfit. And with that, another two survivors join the Zombicide roster!