#Femarch 2024 Completed!

A quick one today – I’ve got a draft of the monthly round-up, but it’s already pretty long and I have a lot of stuff to do this weekend, so I thought I’d highlight the female models I painted in March. For those who may not know (not many regular readers here, Id wager) Several years ago, Alex of the Leadbaloony blog started a thing called “Fembruary”, where the community was challenged to specifically paint some female models.

Obviously, how easy or not this is to accomplish depends a lot on what you’re painting and the models available for those ranges. Anyway, Alex has set the idea free and hasn’t actively moderated the month’s participants for a couple of years, but a good number of us still make an attempt anyway. This year I was really just getting re-started painting again in February after a bit of a hiatus, and so challenges weren’t high on my mind, so I made a specific effort in March instead, with a focus on getting a few models from speicifc games completed or entirely painted. This first trio were part of trying to get the last of my Cthulhu: Dead May Die models painted – three of the four were these ladies, who now are indeed complete!

The next pair are the simplest of Femarch’s models – a pair from Last Night on Earth.

The third game to feature was Marvel Zombies, one of CMoN’s endless Zombicide franchise. These five models are all “Bystanders” rather than “Survivor Heroes” – these being easier to focus on for a variety of reasons. In the end, I got 10 models painted for “Femarch” – a pretty good showing I think. Next year I’ll see if I can manage to do this during February instead, but I do tend to get a decent number of female models painted every month regardess when I’m painting Zombicide and/or Marvel/Cthulu/boardgame-centric models. Which is basically all the time these days.

Last Night on Earth Timber Peak Survivors: Alice, Diner Waitress and Nikki, Bush Pilot

Last Night on Earth Timber Peak Survivors: Alice, Diner Waitress and Nikki, Bush Pilot

A second pair of models that didn’t quite make the finish line for Fembruary, we have Alice the Diner Waitress and Nikki the Bush Pilot from Last Night on Earth’s Timber Peak box.

Last Night on Earth Timber Peak Survivors: Alice, Diner Waitress and Nikki, Bush Pilot

I don’t have anything especially interesting to write about this pair. As with last posts’s Marvel Zombicide models, they didn’t get completed in time for Fembruary, so they can be FeMarch models instead – though there’ll obviously be more than just female models painted this month. I haven’t played LNoE in an age now, but I guess these can also be turned into customs for Zombicide. They’re both smaller and lower/softer-detailed than the Zombicide models, but they’ll still work ok on the tabletop.