Zombie Mix?
Sounds almost cute, doesn’t it? Like something you’d find in someone’s cassette mixtape collection, or in more modern terms – their Spotify playlist. Or go down to the milk bar (corner shop, dairy, bodega) and get some mixed lollies (sweets/candy). “I’ll have the zombie mix, please!”
This particular Zombie mix started a few days before Christmas, right after breaking up for work at the end of the year. I didn’t particularly want to be painting zombies, but Marouda and I do want to get back to playing Zombicide, and we’re up to Rue Morgue and so need Skinner Zombies in order to play. We could of course play with unpainted pieces, or proxy in Berserkers or Toxic Zombies in their place (excepting the crawlers) but I figure if we’re going to play that campaign, and I’m going to (eventually) paint these fuckers, then it makes sense to play the game with the proper painted figures. Even if it means a bit of a delay.
Despite wanting to work on other models, I started on six. And I got them (mostly) done in 2 days. Encouraged, I started on another 10. And got those done in 2 days. And then another 10. The next ones took me almost a week. My enthusiasm was sapped. As I got the first ones in this next batch done, I added in another four. This was to turn the first six into ten. Meaning I’d have a total of thirty zombies painted. Thirty Days of December – Thirty Days of Zombies. While I was still working on the final, added-to batch of zombies, I spent some time doing a bit of blog catch-up from the past few months I’ve been away for. I saw that Dave Stone was starting the Paint What You Got Challenge again (thanks Anne!) and that it started officially on 26th December.
As it happened, I’d been stockpiling all of these zombies until I had them all “done” for the final, finishing touches – the blood spatter. After that, they’re properly completed. So when I finished the final batch of painting and then got them all together on the night of the 27th/early am 28th and spattered them with blood, they were then ALMOST complete. On the night of the 28th, I went in with the brush to add the final bloody touches where needed (around bones, open wounds, etc) meaning these models were actually
finished in time to count towards Dave Stone’s latest Challenge:
Paint What You Got (originally started by Ann, many years ago!) – and I didn’t even plan it that way!
Now the exceptionally observant amongst you might have noticed something wrong with my Thirty Days of Zombies horde here. Something I didn’t notice until taking the photos. That’s right. There are actually Forty Zombies here. As some point in the process, I must have painted an extra 10 and then gotten my numbers mixed-up while pushing my numbers.
Now I somehow need to get that table cleared so I can photograph the December Round-Up and start posting up my January models!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
They’re great, I particularly like the pictures you’ve taken with them all together as a horde.
I’ve never thought of blood spatter on the bases, looks good.
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Thanks Frank! With the exception of just a couple of early Zombicide survivor minis (Shaun of the Dead, etc) I’ve avoided blood spatter on the survivor bases excepting especially rare situations, instead splattering it on the zombies.
This helps to distinguish them at a glance from the survivor minis on a fully-painted tabletop since the zombies have various clothing colours like the survivors – as opposed to painting the Zeds in a monotone, which can look quite good but not the direction I went in for mine.
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Nice horde you have painted there matey, a bit of speed painting if I must say😉👍🏻.
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Thanks Pat! I need to rev up to another batch like this.
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Ice must get back to mine
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oops I meant Nice!
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Thanks Guru. I need to do the same for the next batch myself!
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Cracking job mate, perfect zombie shenanigans – lovely individually but absolutely brilliant en masse!
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Cheers Alex! I’m pretty sick of these even almost a month later here but I need to force myself to get started on another decent sized batch before long!
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That’s quite a lot of (well painted! zombies! Really cool work
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Thanks Suber! I’ll have to get to working on the next sub-horde soon!
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Now that is quite a horde (and therefore a lot of blood spatter! 🙂
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Thanks John – there is certainly a good bit of spatter there!
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Excellent work on your zombies mate, you must have a massive horde in your place now with all the ones you’ve painted over the years.
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Cheers Dave! One day when I finish all of the Zombicide 1st edition models I’ll do a group horde short of them all.
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Very nice working getting so many of these zombies done in a short amount of time. Your effort will pay off when these hit the tabletop for sure. Those bloody bases came out really nicely. I know blood is hard to do well and you deserve kudos for making it look easy!
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Thanks mate. I need to do a bunch more fatties for this lot and then we should be pretty good to start playing. Unfortunately, the fatties are overly busy sculpts that are more tricky to churn out like these ones
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