Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners Pt.2 (Wanna be a Zombie 2?)

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Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners

Back in October, I posted asking if any of the regular readers would like to be immortalised (in a form) on tabletop by nominating a t-shirt for me to paint on a zombie to (sorta) represent them. Obviously if this post is a thing, then I got some takers – so here’s the second half of them!

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners

In the first group we have Faust in the Nine Inch Nails singlet, Wudugast in the No Fox Given t-shirt, Kuribo in the Kirby Singlet, Guru PIG in the Meow t-shirt, and then a generic North Melbourne AFL singlet to round these first five out.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners

The No Fox Given shirt didn’t come out that well due to lack of contrast, so I’ll try a new version of it down the line when I have another approriate zombie to work on…

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners

In the final four there’s Guru PIG (again) in the retro Cat t-shirt, a Wolfpac nWo shirt I threw in, a generic-ish “army” t-shirt very loosely inspired by the DUST character box I got the other day and finally we have and Wudugast (again!) in his Pirate t-shirt!

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners

And that’s it for the Toxic Runners – I still have a whole lot of Toxic Walkers (and regular Walkers, too!  So when I get to another t-shirt-friendly sculpt, I’ll be putting out the call for designs to the community here once more!

33 thoughts on “Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners Pt.2 (Wanna be a Zombie 2?)”

  3. Fantastic work, mate! Its cool how eclectic the shirts were this go around. Kirby looks very nice and I like the choice to put him on a black background. It makes the pink stand out nicely. Out of curiosity, which shirt was the hardest to get right? Some of them look like a good challenge to me!

    And finally, Brian is full of surprises. I wouldn’t have guessed he is a NIN fan, though they have a pretty huge and die hard fanbase so maybe I shouldn’t be.

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    • Well, funny enough…I hated NIN the first time I heard him/them. Took me a few years to get into. With Teeth really did it, very accessible. But I like pretty much all of Trent’s albums and the soundtrack work he’s done is great to code to.

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      • One of my favorite bands was that way for me so I can relate. Trent has done a very good job of maintaining a diehard fanbase. That is not easy to do, especially if you don’t tour and make a lot of new music which I don’t think he does.

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      • I’ve ran into that a lot. Songs I liked right off the bat, I usually get bored of. Songs/bands I didn’t like initially, end up becoming a favorite. Probably because they were doing something so different that it was a challenge.
        Yea, I’m not sure how bands keep their fan base that way. The one NIN concert I saw was an amazing light display. Crazy ahead of its time. He seems mostly focused on soundtracks these days, which turn out great. But probably aren’t what most NIN fans are looking for? But he worked on Social Network, Girl with Dragon Tattoo (American version), Watchmen (HBO series), and a lot of others.

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      • I think you’re right that its something different that takes some adjusting to. Even though I don’t know that I can name a single NIN song, I’ve always thought that Trent is talented, if that makes any sense. Being versatile and doing soundtracks versus being in NIN is impressive in its own way!

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      • “Hurt”? Almost everyone knows it, especially the Johnny Cash cover. Which got a tons of attention. I still like the original a bit better, but they are both good in their own way.

        Not sure if you know this, but Trent composes all the NIN music. I think he started as a keyboardist/drummer. After he has the songs, he auditions musicians to play them live on tour. So “NIN” is really just Trent. It’s a weird way of doing things, but I get the impression he’s a control freak.

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      • I had forgotten that NIN covered Hurt. I was expecting an industrial version of the song but its actually more of a ballad!

        That is interesting about NIN’s process. There is a strange but enjoyable indie/emo band called Reggie and the Full Effect that is somewhat similar. Its really just one guy and he taps other musicians to play on a tour or album with him. Essentially its a revolving door by design. With all of the egos in music, its hard to believe that works!

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      • LOL….oh no, no, no!! Cash covered NIN’s Hurt. Unfortunately, people have mixed those two up quite a few times. Yea, originally a NIN song. Along with a creepy video!

        Trent was the first I ever heard of managing his rock band that way, but I don’t think it was uncommon in other music like jazz for instance. I also wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t the first. I guess part of it comes from him being a multi-instrumentalist and a strong composer. Personally, I don’t think I would want to work for him. It’s probably his way or the highway, but I guess it’s good to put on your resume if you’re an up and coming musician.

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      • I don’t like Country at all and I don’t know NIN so you have the perfect confluence of ignorance there haha! I would agree that working for someone like Trent probably isn’t going to lead to much joy. He should really just go full-on solo but as long as people are willing to work with them, I guess he doesn’t have much incentive to do that.

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      • I had a friend who was really into Pretty Hate Machine, which I just found okay – kind of like Ministry’s Twitch/Land of R&H (though I preferred Ministry’s stuff).

        Mint to taste is where Ministry got better, and then really peaked with Psalm 69.

        For me, NIN’s “Psalm 69” moment was when I heard Broken (though I thought Fixed was trash). Since then it’s been periods of highs and lows and indifference at different times.

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      • I actually listen to Pretty Hate Machine off and on now. I wasn’t into it when it came out, so it’s interesting to hear a young Trent banging away trying to figure out what he’s doing. I don’t have Fixed, but I’ve probably heard the songs. The only ones I don’t listen to much are Bad Witch, Year Zero/Not the Actual Events, and Ghosts. I’ve never gotten into Ministry, but I see it suggested to me all the time. Maybe I should check it out.

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      • I admit, I haven’t listened to Ministry a lot in recent years. I’ll laways have time for Psalm 69, but that musical slot in my life that NIN and Ministry used to hold has kinda been taken my Rammstein in more recent …decades (damn, we’re getting old!)

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    • Thanks mate! I had a hard time with the shading on Kirby’s feet and then getting his tongue right on the small bumpy space there, but I guess the final version didn’t turn out as bad as I’d feared.

      The hardest one was by far Wudugast’s “Zero Fox Given” shirt – the original is an earthy tone on another earthy tone, which just didn’t work out right – so that’s one I’ll redo for sure on a later model. It also influenced my putting Kirby on a black background to increase the readability of the image.

      I’m honestly not surprised that Brian is into NIN. He’s from the right part of GenX and he’s spoken in the past about alternative music from that era (that I know so well myself!)

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      • That makes sense. I can see what parts were challenging now but I think you handled it all well. You and Brian were in one of the last generations before music got more specialized. It was still that way when I was young but the by the time I was in high school and college, there were a lot of subgenres and people tended to find their own niche in alternative/underground music.

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      • Kinda yes and no. The stuff that we were into was actually Alternative compared to the mainstream (not just called such) and there’s a lot of diverse genres in there.

        The difference was that after Nirvana kicked down the doors there was more room for bands like RHCP and Pearl Jam and Soundgarden and so many more to haver a few radio hits and chart. I was working in the music industry (low level) for several of those years there, so I was exposed to all sorts of stuff that I would not have heard otherwise, but it was all kinda lumped in together as “Alternative” as a catch-all label – from Nirvana to Einsteurzende Neubauten.

        Kinda like the “genre” known as “World Music”.

        But, I mean, a lot of people who were into Public Enemy and NWA probably hadn’t heard of Daisy Chainsaw – so I don’t think it’s that much different to today.

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      • What a time to work in music. The bands coming out at the time, and trying to avoid labels was pretty amazing. I never really
        followed punk, but it was a very similar feel. There was an anti-corporate/mainstream motivation. With everything being so profit driven later on, I feel like a lot of that went away. If you don’t have a label, people won’t find your music. Alienating your fans by changing your music direction is also likely to be a career killer, that a corporation probably isn’t going to let you do.

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    • RE Trent going full-on solo – I mean, that’s what NIN has more or less been for decades in a sense. It’s Trent plus collabs, much like Revolting Cocks, Lard or 1000 Homo DJs have kinda been for Al.

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  4. Glad we could offer some inspiration! All the shirts look cool, but I think you really outdid yourself on Retro Cat and the Pirate one. Hmmm, now I’m getting some more shirt ideas! 😉

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    • Thanks for that, Faust! The next couple of batches of zombies don’t seem to have approriate clothing, but when I get to the next ones who do, I’ll be putting up the next of the submission posts! 🙂

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      • Oh man…I think now I forgot what me idea was already! 😂 Wait, I think it was a Commodore 64 logo. But looking it up, it wasn’t what I was thinking of anyways. I guess the Apple IIe logo might’ve been it, but that would be a challenge on small minis.

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      • No rush, mate – I foudn mroe zombies that have approriate clothing last night but they’re from a future expansion once I finish painting the remaining toxic/regular walkers, so a while out yet!

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