Today we have the entirety of the Zombicide 1e Boxed set “Murder of Crowz”. I think I had two sets of these, and painted five of them a year ago with rural/fantasy-style basing – as I’d picked them out to use as Dark Eldar Razorwing proxies years ago (still need to set up 40mm nesting bases for those ones) I never found the rest of that boxed set – so there’s 10 more of these Crowz missing somewhere!
I found the contents of this set in a tub under the painting desk, and suggested to Marouda that we work together to try and get them finished as quickly as possible – asking her to help with the fun task of mold line trimming. In short, we succeeded, and they went from bare grey plastic to painted, varnished and blood-spattered within 24 hours over this Easter weekend.
I just gave them simple grey, lightly-textured bases. I mulled over adding some road markings to them, which would have looked a bit better, but this way they’re very usable in Black Plague as well as still being fairly incongruous in any other fantasy games. Like, if I ever need Ravens alongside Vikings – or Razorwings for my Dark Eldar/Drukhari. Not to mention a Hitchcockian nightmare for our Zombicide games.
Sure, they’re simple, but they’re comppletely fit for purpose for boardgames and miniatures games, they pass the “four foot” test, and most importantly – they’re now painted!
And then, between finishing them and writing this post, what else did I happen to find? Yes.. that’s the Black Plague box version of the same figures. very much direct echoes of my last post’s postscript when another box of Death May Die investigators arrived just as I was finishing my “last” Investigator!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
That’s a lot of crows! :-) They look really good en masse!
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Thanks John! I’ll get a group shot done with the original five as well sometime after I finish this second batch.
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Nice work on these. Simple colours sometimes make a model hard to paint and look good but you nailed it.
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Thanks mate – sometimers it’s nice to have these simple and straightforward models – as long as they can get finished quickly!
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Damn that’s a lot crows! If GW makes a crow army, you’ll be all set! 😂
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That was my response exactly looking at the first image (in regards number)!
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Thanks guys! I’ve kinda been putting off doing the next 15 of these. Maybe next month…. 😮
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I can’t believe you gave the worst part of miniature painting to Marouda! You owe her something nice after that, mate 😉
In all seriousness, kudos for getting all of these done. They look impressive when assembled and it took some persistence to get them all finished I would think too.
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Oh, I had to go through each of the models again to finish them – she needs to get her reps in on the very important task of mold line cleaning, though!
They were a nice less-than-24-hour project from beginning to end – just one that I had to keep dipping back into every couple of hours once X had dried.
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Haha, fair enough! I’m impressed you were able to get them done in 24 hours. I would think it would take me longer though I might be wrong on that.
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They were really very straightforward – most of the time taken was essentially drying time –
spray, wait for spray to dry,
base texture, wait for base texture to dry,
drybrush the bases, wait for base drybrushes to dry/cure enough for the base wash,
base wash, wait for base wash to dry,
clean up the black on the crowz, wait for the black to dry
drybrush 1, drybrush 2, wait for the drybrushes to dry/cure enough to safely wash over them
then black wash, then wait for the black wash to dry.
Dot the eys and add red to the one mouth,
then satin varnish, then wait for the varnish to dry,
then matte varnish the bases, wait for that to dry,
then rim the base edges, wait for those to dry,
then blood spatter, then wait for that to dry.
Done.
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Excellent looking murder of Crows mate, and can fully see your idea for using them as a razorwing flock, as the amount of models GW did never screamed flock to me ! LOL
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Thanks Dave – not to mention the pricing on the old GW metal flock! (I think I have one blister, somewhere!)
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