Monthly Archives: February 2024

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers Pt.1 (January 2023 Round-Up)

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Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

In mid-January I started painting again after my close to 2-month break from the hobby, and so with a sense of “get these bloody things done” combined with wanting to do something relatively simple to ease myself back in, I went for some more of the Zombies that are a priority task. So I painted this batch of Toxic Zombie Walkers.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

I amuse myself by thinking of them as a pack of Toxic Karens, posting endlessly on social media and then when out in the world endlessly demanding in their zombie-grooooans to “speeeeak to your maaanaggerrrr”. I think it’s the combination of the haircut and face along with that outstretched hand, swiping away at their now-long-lost phones.

As it happens, these will be my first entry in Dave Stone’s in the current Paint Whatchoogot Challenge for 23-4. These seven models also serve as my January 2024 Round-Up, since they’re all that I got done in the first month of this year. I’ll have the first of February’s models up in a day or two, though…

 

November 2023 Monthly Round-Up

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Now we have a very belated round-up for November of 2023. As you can see with the count of only 11 models, this was when I just petered out and stopped painting for the year – taking a break from painting and blogging to pretty much just play video games and do other things until mid-January when I started painting again, and mid-February and a resumption of posting.

So let’s do the numbers. I had 364 models at the end of October – we add the 11 more and I’m barely over my personal annual “soft target” of 365 with a total of 375 models painted in 2023.

Obviously I could have gotten far more done if I’d kept painting in November and then gone hard in December, but to be honest, the end of year stretch at work was a lot more taxing for multiple reasons than it’s been the past few years, so another excursion into Azeroth was what I needed instead. I’ll do one of them “hobby reflection and new years goals” posts a bit later, but in the meantime I understand that Dave Stone is still running challenges, so I need to get the stuff I’ve done in 2024 posted up before February ends…