Monthly Archives: June 2026

DCeased – Gotham City Outbreak: Batgirl & Zombie Catwoman

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DCeased - Gotham City Outbreak: Survivor Batgirl & Zombie Catwoman

The second last pair of models for May today – posted on the last day of June. Somehow I missed this pair, even though I’d taken the photos ages ago. We have Catwoman as a Survivor Hero as well as Catwoman as a Zombie.

DCeased - Gotham City Outbreak: Survivor Batgirl & Zombie Catwoman

I’m not super happy with the way Batwoman’s face came out, but then it’s a pretty bad mask design to use for a miniatures game where people are likely to paint the models. Apparently this no-face-but-stiched-details-all-in-black mask design and outline-only Bat-Symbol are from some Birds of Prey comic. Neither was fun nor easy to paint, and so it caused this model to take literally months to get finished – which in turn causes a delay to the next couple of Zombicide heroes! I probably should have just used contrast-style paints instead of traditional painting!

DCeased - Gotham City Outbreak: Survivor Batgirl & Zombie Catwoman

With Catwoman, I went for black-highlighted-as-blue which is a common comic trope that sometimes gets used for her. I know a purple costume is more common with Catwoman, but since I’d already given her a purple tinge to her skin to represent her being a Zombie I felt the contrast was a better choice for my palette. When (if!) CMON deliver on the full Kickstarter package, I’ll paint my living Catwoman in Purple tones.

DCeased - Gotham City Outbreak: Survivor Batgirl & Zombie Catwoman

Catwoman’s costume was a bit confusing as well. I had no idea that she had an outfit with exposed armpits. Certainly an …interesting choice! The painting frame she’s standing on forced me to figure out how best to fill in that particular space.

DCeased - Gotham City Outbreak: Survivor Batgirl & Zombie Catwoman

Who’s that girl?

Anyway, the DCeased Gotham City Outbreak box is the retail-only pre-release companion product for the DCeased Kickstarter, much like Heroes’ Resistance was for Marvel Zombies. They act as introductory products where they still have value for All-in KS collectors due to the characters having alternative scultps and stat cards. The zombies are represented by cardboard standees, but I just use zombies from my existing collection instead. If you’re a Zombicide fan, or a new Zombicide fan, then I’d certainly recommend picking up both while you still can… especially since it’s not that hard to merge any Zombicide content from one game to another, so Marvel and DC can play vs Zombies, and it’s also pretty simple to add Supes into your regular games to have them fighting Zombies alongside your normal survivors…

Cthulhu: Death May Die – Veronique & Olmstead

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Cthulhu: Death May Die - Veronique & Olmstead, CMON Comics Vol.2

Another painting tangent today, one that chronologically followed my Marvel Zombicide models in terms of when I painted and finished these two, and in a big way the painting connection is pretty obvious – while painting a bunch of bystanders in civilian clothing it’s not a huge leap to paint some Cthulhu investigators also in civilian clothing.

I do want to get back to sprinking in at least a couple of Death May Die miniatures into my paint queue each month, and unfortunately the pair of monsters I was working on didn’t get finished, mostly due to a lack of inspiration from the models and a desire to keep on painting my way through all these humans.

Cthulhu: Death May Die - Veronique & Olmstead, CMON Comics Vol.2

The first of this pair is Veronique, a fixer of problems from Brockton, Massachusetts. The second figure is Olmstead, a corrupt cop from Providence. They’re both from the CMON Comics Vol.2 set, which arrived right as I was getitng to the point of completing the Season 1 and 2 Investigators – and was actually pretty off-putting rather than a “yay” moment. I missed the Vol.1 set as I hadn’t purchased or played DMD at the time, and so saw little point in purchasing it. Now with Asmodee having taken over the game, there’s actually a possibility of a reissue.

I did choose to paint these two because of the similar palette, thoiugh in the end, aside from sharing some of the mid-highlight colours in the mixes, the rest of their paints were entirely separate, even most of the “yellow” tones.