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December of Zombies: Zombicide Survivors “Cardboard Tube Samurai” and “Union Worker #42”

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Zombicide Survivors “Cardboard Tube Samurai” and “Union Worker #42”

A couple of the more interesting (in some ways) Zombicide survivors today – certainly both are on the rarer side.

Zombicide Survivors “Cardboard Tube Samurai” and “Union Worker #42”

First up we have the Cardboard Tube Samurai – a licenced model that was a KS exclusive from the very first Zombicide campaign (that I missed by a few days – in the early days of KS before $1 pledges, late pledges and pledge managers) I have managed to get hold of a few of those original exclusives over the years, though I still lack quite a few more of them. CTS was pretty easy to paint overall – my new favourite Contrast colour, Ironjawz Yellow did most of the heavy lifting.

Zombicide Survivors “Cardboard Tube Samurai” and “Union Worker #42”

As one of the very first ZC models, the CTS is a very simple sculpt relative to later models. I did see his conical hat as an opportunity to practise freehanding details and shading into an otherwise pretty …straightforward model. I’m pretty happy with how it worked out.

Apparently, the Cardboard Tube Samurai is the only model from the 1st edition not to have gotten a card in the second edition, due to the licencing issues with Penny-Arcade. Guess I’ll convert him myself (or find a card online) when we get to second edition. Marouda managed to get him killed in his very first outing the other day, so maybe it was fate?

Zombicide Survivors “Cardboard Tube Samurai” and “Union Worker #42”

The next survivor is one of two Promo survivors that were released with the Wrath of Kings game’s Kickstarter years ago. Basically, even then, CMoN knew which side of the bread that their butter was money’d on (did I mangle that metaphor badly enough?) So this Porky-Pig-Mask-Wearing-Cosplay-Motherfucker was released, alongside another – “Alyana Heska” – their backstory being that they’re a pair of gamers who love WoK so much that they were wearing their cosplay gear at a con when the Zombie Outbreak… broke out.

Zombicide Survivors “Cardboard Tube Samurai” and “Union Worker #42”

Anyway, while I’d hoped to have finished the pair of them, they both have a lot of fuck-about details that become more painful when attempting to replicate them across two almost-identical models – so in the end I was able to force myself to complete the simpler of the two – Untion Worker #42 here – while his partner Alyana, in her much more sophisticated cosplay outfit- still waits, part-painted, on a painting handle on the painting desk…

December of Zombies: Night of the Living Dead: A Zombicide Game – “Zombicide Mode” Survivors Pt.2 – Chief McCelland, Barbra, Deputy Vince, Helen & Tom

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Night of the Living Dead: A Zombicide Game - "Zombicide Mode" Survivors - Chief McCelland, Barbra, Deputy Vince, Helen & Tom

More Zombicide models today, but instead of the Zombie hordes, we have the other half of the cast from the Night of the Living Dead edition of Zombicide, the first half of which I painted in November and posted up in December. Now in January I’m posting these ones that I painted in December… This little lot of five completes the “Zombicide Mode” versions of each of the characters. I’m not entirely sure which direction to go with using the “Romero Mode” versions, which are less well armed on the models and have much lower profiles in the actual game. I painted these ones as we can easily roll them into the regular Zombicide games, while the Romero ones won’t fit at all. 

Night of the Living Dead: A Zombicide Game - "Zombicide Mode" Survivors - Chief McCelland, Barbra, Deputy Vince, Helen & Tom

The bigger difference is that I feel like the Romero Mode survivors (and the Zombies – or “Ghouls”) should be painted in Greyscale so that they fit the film. Of course that also kinda lowers the cross-compatability of the Zombies/Ghouls with the other games AND would be pretty tricky to pull off in terms of model painting for a minimal visual or aesthetic payoff (painting grey platic models into B&W greyscale) So with that in mind, I’ve just dropped them down to “maybe one day” on the painting priority queue. Plenty of other models to paint in the interim!

Night of the Living Dead: A Zombicide Game - "Zombicide Mode" Survivors - Chief McCelland, Barbra, Deputy Vince, Helen, Tom, Johnny, Harry, Ben, Judy & Karen

I thought as a final pic, I’d take a shot of all 10 cast members from the game. You can very much see the overall shared palette of blues, beiges and pink/salmon across all of them with only a few divergent colours. These figures were overall pleasant models to get done, with nicely sculpted and defined detail without being too full of details as many GW models are. I did have to paint another model using OSL, with a much larger flame this time. I can’t say I enjoyed it, but hopefully it came out decently. Oh, and it turned out that I misnamed Judy as Barbra in the last post. I’ve fixed that up as Barbra was somewhat upset about it. (I assume that’s why she was upset!)

That’s it for this batch of Zombiecide models. Stay tuned for tomorrow when we’ll have a different batch of Zombicide models!