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Zombicide Survivors “Spencer” (Bryan Cranston as Walter White/Heisenberg) and “Josh”

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Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Spencer” (Bryan Cranston as Walter White/Heisenberg) and “Josh” (Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman)

We have another pair of Zombicide survivors today, but with a Breaking Bad theme – We have “Spencer” (Not-Walter White) and “Josh”, who isn’t anyone in particular.

Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Spencer” (Bryan Cranston as Walter White/Heisenberg)

Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Spencer” (Bryan Cranston as Walter White/Heisenberg)

“Spencer” is one of the more interesting survivors in that his Zombivor form isn’t the same outfit as the living version, but wearing the Hazmat suit seen on Walter White in the show.

I kept my palette on him pretty similar to the artwork, which in turn is pretty similar to how he looks in (certain parts of) the series. My only real change was changing his glasses to the dark sunglasses, at least in the Survivor version.

Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Spencer” (Bryan Cranston as Walter White/Heisenberg)

I’m pretty happy with how he turned out in the end. I’m not sure if we ever played with him in the previous campaign, but now he’s painted we’ll be dropping him into the deck of cards we use to select each mission’s protaganists.

Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Josh” (Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman)

Josh was one of the original core set survivors from the first Zombicide box, and (like Ned) it’s taken until now for me to get him painted.

His original/canon design features a grey hoodie with the Guillotine Games logo on the chest. As I’ve mentioned a few times, there have been BGG/Reddit threads trying to identify who the many homage survivors are supposed to be, as they’re mostly obvious but occasionally less so. One of these threads had someone speculating that Josh was in fact supposed to be Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad because… hoodie, I guess?

I think this is clearly not the case, but when it came time that I started to paint my obviously Walter White/Heisenberg model, I decided to paint Josh as Jesse. Because, well, Josh isn’t anyone anyway, so why not? Finding a hoodie that would work well took a bit more time.

Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Josh” (Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman)

I eventually went with this black/red hoodie as it looked good and was doable with paint. I did the red “Affliction”-style patterning by stippling it on.

I also painted in Jesse’s “Borneo Scorpion” wrist tattoo on both versions of the model.

So another two survivors dropped into gameplay rotation, which is always a welcome thing. This just leaves Amy and Wanda as the last of the core set Survivors needing to be painted.

Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Ned"

Oh, and I went back and added in Ned’s missing Watchmen Comedian badge…

Shadows of Brimstone: Scourge Rats

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Shadows of Brimstone: Scourge Rats

Some more Shadows of Brimstone models today after quite awhile away from them. While my main focus on SoB models when I paint them will (try) to be getting the Core Set models painted, so we can actually play the game, I have a few other sets that (mostly) arrived on loose sprues and have been started in some way or another which I will also attempt to get done and dusted – these Scourge Rats had been removed from sprue, clened up, had their integral kidney bases clipped down and then stuck down to 30mm bases with some putty added to a few of them. Oh, and then they got lost at least twice.

So when I found them the other day while looking for something else completely, I decided to just knuckle down and get them done. No fancy paintjobs or special levels of care for these – they’re low-tier trash-mob monopose enemies from a boardgame. I’ll save my time and energy for more important models, so getting them to the point of looking good on a tabletop was all I needed here.

Shadows of Brimstone: Scourge Rats. Reaper Berkerly, Chainsaw Girl

Glued the ones that had p[opped off the bases back down, added a mud texture paste in a couple of layers to all of them, sprayed black, drybrushed the base back up, and then drybrushed the rats in several layers until picking out the tails and other details, some washes and contrast, and done. Table-worthy models that will look good in context without taking too long to get painted. Win!

As a bonus, Chainsaw Girl Berkerly makes her first size-comparison cameo of 2022.