Monthly Archives: February 2024

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers Pt.2

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Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

Back to the Toxic Zombies from Zombicide today. I do have to say that these models have become a complete grind. Something to knuckle down on and get done, segment by segment. I still have 36 more Toxic Walkers and 9 more Toxic Runners to wade through in the next couple of months.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

These particular walkers fall into a trope that’s simply weird to me – that of the “sexy zombie”. Looking at how they’re dressed, I guess they’re supposed to be either Zombie Strippers (a movie I am still yet to watch) or Zombie Streetwalkers. I went for the former, at least mentally. Regardless, the fur-lined vests and tiny bikinis meant that these were a right pain it the arse to paint, even at the lower stanard that I set for zombie models.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

I guess they’re done now and that’s what’s most important. I also found another Zombie Karen on the floor, no doubt knocked off the table by Leonard at some stage, so she got painted as well at the tail end of this batch.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

This set of models not only qualify for Dave Stone’s current Paint Whatchoogot Challenge for 23-4 as well as being my first models that qualify for Fembruary ’24. Because women can be faceless undead drones to be blasted and smashed through by our heroes just as well as men can!

Zombicide Survivor “Chuck” (Nick Frost as Shaun of the Dead’s “Ed”) & Hasslefree Miniatures HFA026 “Tony”

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Zombicide Survivor "Chuck" (Nick Frost as Shaun of the Dead's "Ed") & Hasslefree Miniatures HFA026 "Tony"

Zombicide Survivors are back with this post! Today we have two representations of Nick Frost’s character “Ed” from classic ZomRomCom Shaun of the Dead.

Zombicide Survivor "Chuck" Nick Frost as Shaun of the Dead's "Ed"

The first of them are the two figures from Zombicide’s promo survivors – we have actually a pretty good pair of representations of Nick Frost from the film (spoiler alert, I guess?)

Zombicide Survivor "Chuck" Nick Frost as Shaun of the Dead's "Ed"

Zombicide’s Not-Ed is a much better model and likeness than their Not-Shaun, where the sculptor apparently had never seen a cricket bat before in any form including a photo, and just gave “Fred” a pathetic little bat-tennis bat-looking-thing.

Hasslefree Miniatures HFA026 "Tony" Nick Frost as Shaun of the Dead's "Ed"

Hasslefree’s take on Ed is a bit less accurate and a lot more generic feeling. “Tony” here is a lot less interesting and just doesn’t especially inspire much. I mean, it’s a decent enough figure but it doesn’t really evoke Ed at all to me.

Hasslefree Miniatures HFA026 "Tony" Nick Frost as Shaun of the Dead's "Ed"

Regardless, I still painted him up alongside the Zombicide version to keep the paint consistent for the character. I don’t recall Ed wearing a cap in the film, let alone a backwards one, but I could well be wrong. It’s been awhile after all.

Hasslefree Miniatures HFA007, Ray HFA026 Tony, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Shaun of the Dead's Shaun and Ed

Hasslefree’s Ray figure on the other hand is a really nice sculpt. Both of them are, in fact – and whenever we play Zombicide we have one or the other out in case we draw that survivor. Here’s the one that I had handy alongside Ed – together again for the first time, with only nine years in between the two of them being painted. Damn that makes me feel old!

These are of course another trio of figures for Dave Stone’s Paint Whatchoogot Challenge of 2023-4!