Damned if this post doesn’t have an overly-complicated nightmare of a title. So.. for those masochistic enough to read this… here we go
One of the original bonus survivors from the original Kickstarter of Zombicide 1e, which I missed by like a week was “Dave”, based on Jim Parson’s portrayal of Sheldon Cooper. Along with characters like El Cholo (Danny Trejo as Machete) Nick (Bruce Willis in Die Hard) and Ivy (Angelian Jolie in Mr.&Mrs.Smith), These original bonus figures were never re-released, although their character cards were, and a collected box containing their Zombie versions did become available late (if you got lucky – which I did only about a year ago).
I eventually found proxies for both Bruce and Angie, but old Sheldon has been a much tougher find. Wanting to get the thing done, I recently plucked my Hasslefree HFA066 William – who I understand is a model inspired by Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and just went with “good enough”. I never watched Buffy, so no big deal for me to use this model as Sheldon. So combining William with Zombie Dave and we have a workable pair to use as “Dave” aka Sheldon Cooper in our games, thereby completing the Big Bang Gang in the short timeframe of only… (checks earlier posts) almost-nine years.
Oh.
Our second figure is only slightly less convoluted. We have “Kirk”, who bears no real resemblance to Captain James.E, but instead was designed as a caracature on the increasingly-corpulent former action star and current vatnik, Steven Seagal. Now my original idea for this model was to paint him with a Ruzzian flag on his t-shirt and a big-arse Z – one on the front and one on the back. The problem was that I would then need to occasionally play as this putin sucking, carrot eating piece of shit. Aaaand.. well, I just couldn’t do it. I mean, I have German WWII armies (along with forces from everyone else from the European and African theatre) but when playing the Germans I’m under no illusions or delusions that I’m playing as the “good guys”, even if I’m playing as Rommel’s DAK.
For some reason, I’d be much more inclinded to paint a “Z” modern russian army for Team Yankee, if only as a “supply both armies for games” OpFor for the eventual Ukranian force that I want to paint with an interesting mix of NATO and Pact hardware than to play as an individual like Seagal as one of a few living survivors I’m trying to save. So.. unable to stomach playing as Steven, this model sat on my desk. For over a year. So with the bar set exceedingly low, I eventually settled on painting him bnased on J. Allen Brack. The Warcraft developer from Blizzard Entertainment who is infamous for his “You think you do, but you don’t” comments in response to a question asking for Classic WoW servers – which turned out to be clownishly wrong…
Also not someone I’d particularly want to play as, but better than Seagal, anyway.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Very nicely done! :-) I particularly like zombie Sheldon!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thanks John! I’ll get a group photo of the Big Bangers up as a post hopefully in the next week or so now that they’re finally all painted!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I can see “Spike” in the pose/jacket because you mentioned it, but your painting makes it very much ‘not-spike’. Zombie Sheldon is great. I’ve missed stuff on Brack (which is probably a bonus), but I do love the Horde shirt on both!
LikeLiked by 3 people
Thanks Tarmor! Good to hear that he’s now not as obviosly Spike as before – I guess I’ll have to buy a replacement one day down the line, not that I ever watched Buffy, though it was certainly popular – and that man’s cheekbones – wow!
I added a couple of Youtube links for JAB context into the post, which makes him look/sound that much more clownish. Luckily his shirt leant itself to something like the Horde sympbol.
I’ll get back to you on the other thing shortly – sorry for the delay – it’s been a bit crazy leading into Easter!
LikeLiked by 2 people
I think that’s the record for the longest blog post title mate haha. Great work all round
LikeLiked by 3 people
Cheers mate – thankfully I don’t see another one like this for a long time! 😉
LikeLiked by 2 people
Excellent work on both mate, and you’ve captured their likenesses well, especially as they weren’t the models for those characters. Good choice on changing the second character to the lesser of two evils ! LOL
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thanks Dave – better a douchebag than a genocide apologist for sure.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Great work on the minis and especially the clothes. I don’t know, I’d be tempted to use Seagall as a bad guy. But ehhh, having to look him up to get a resemblance…no thanks!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thanks Faust. Seagull looks like a clown these days anyway – actually pretty amusing to look at in how hard he’s trying to look cool and/or intimidating. Still, there’s no real “bad guys” aside from the zombies in the game, and he’s already got one of those figures there anyway.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I agree with your sentiment on Stevie. Talk about someone who has zero credibility after doing dumb things (in addition to having an oversized ego). I’m glad Mr. Seagal’s actions didn’t totally put you off finishing him either. If nothing else it will be nice to have the full set painted one day, I reckon!
LikeLiked by 2 people
Yeah, I agree. As far as I’m concerned in our games he’s been completely overwritten by JAB, even before he makes the tabletop for the first time!
LikeLiked by 1 person