Today we have a rather well-known character from CMON’s Marvel Zombies games. Hulk! I’ve only painted the Zombie version here, as the key part of Hulk’s costume is simply his shredded-but-stretchy (purple!) pants.

Generally speaking, I like to keep my characters’ costumes relatively consistent between the Marvel Zombies, Marvel United and Marvel Crisis Protocol versions, but of course, clothing and costume variations will always offer some colour variations as well. With Hulk on the other hand – aside from those purple pantaloons, the rest of his outfit is his …skin.

This has led to a bit of an issue with getting these done – with two versions of Hulk for Crisis Protocol that need to be built and gap-filled (oh, so tedious), one version for United that needs to be cleaned up and also needs to be gap-filled, and then two living and one zombified for Zombies (also needing clean-up prep)… well, it’s a bit of a mental barrier. Not to mention painting a series of them trying to get consistency. But then I realised something. Something obvious. Zombie Hulk only needs his pants to match the others – not his skin tone. Because he’s a freaking zombie!

So then mentally… um.. freed. I was able to get to work on this big boy and get him done. To make things easier for myself, and because the colour worked well, I used a paint by AK interactive called ….Purple for his purple pants. Highlighted with that greyish-toned off-white that I can’t 100% identify because hand oils erase the paint names and numbers on AK dropper bottle labels. And yes, this section will serve to help me in the future in case I want to double-check. For his skin tone I went with some pale, off-whites to highlight and a more olive green for the shading, rather than the richer greens I intend to use for the living versions of Hulk. It also gives a colder tone (unusual for green) against the rich warm tones of the purple pants and red blood and gore.

The AIM agents’s discarded helmets work as a nice little opportunity to add some additional spot colour to the figure, though there’s a lot happening on the model anyway between all that green, purple and red. It does tie him nicely with certain other models in the game at least…

I thought for the final shot I’d have a comparison so you can see what an absolute unit he is for the game – and who better to pair him with than Betty Ross? There’s actually a rule in the “Hero” version of the game where Zombie Hulk will revert to a much-more defeatable Bruce Banner if a hero has a bystander with them – calms him down for a brief moment. I like little thematic elements like that in my dice-rolling miniature boardgames.