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Zombicide Rue Morgue Survivors “Cathy” & “Laurie” (plus a Bonus Taz!)

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Zombicide Rue Morgue Survivors Cathy & Laurie

Despite everything else going on, at the start of the month, I did still manage to paint another pair of Zombicide Survivors from the Season 3 Core set – Rue Morgue.

Zombicide Rue Morgue Survivors Cathy

I wanted to give Cathy here a rougher looking leather jacket. Not sure if it looks like rough material or just a rough paintjob, but experimenting is the name of the game, and the model is certainly good enough for the tabletop!

Zombicide Rue Morgue Survivors Cathy

Her sword(s) have a bit of wonk to them due to the soft PVC that the model is made from. It’s one of those “not much I can do about it” kinda things when it comes down to it.

Zombicide Rue Morgue Survivors Laurie

Cathy’s partner in crime today is Cathy. Just as with Laurie, there’s not much to say about her as both characters’ models are pretty straightforward. Just a person in civilian clothes with a few weapons.

Zombicide Rue Morgue Survivors Laurie

The thing that amuses me the most about this pair is their names actually. Because they’re hilarious to say out loud together in both a stereotypical hollywood thick French accent as well as in the stereotypical strine, flat bogan Australian accent. Simple things, as they say…

Zombicide Gaming Night #5 Survivors “Azaghal”, AEW Taz Miniature

As a little bonus, I did a small repaint on the T-shirt that “Azaghal” is wearing to complete his transition into Taz. If you know Taz, you can see the start of his Team Taz shirt under his arms on the front.

Zombicide Gaming Night #5 Survivors “Azaghal”, AEW Taz Miniature

And on the back we have the Team Taz “T” Logo. It looks a bit shitty here in the photos, but it’s actually painted in a fluorescent orange and stands out rather strongly in hand. You can almost see it in the torn version. Photos, eh? Regardless, these are going to be part of my smaller-than-expected contribution to Dave Stone’s Apocalypse Me challenge. I know that Zom’tober is actually being run this month, but I’m not famiuliar with the blogger running it this year, and I don’t have the energy right now to go throught he introductions for what looks to be just a few models this year…

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu & The Mummy

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Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu & The Mummy

It’s again been a good while since I’ve finished any of my Zombicide Abominations, and so in September I forced myself to finish a couple of the models that had been sitting on the desk since the end of the Monster-themed challenge months. Sure, I could have finished them in October for Apocalypse Me, but it’s not like I’ve got any shortage of other qualifying models to get painted, right? 😮

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu

Cthulhu was actually the second one of these to be completed, as The Mummy was much further along – but since when does Cthulhu give second billing to anyone?

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu

For Cthulhu I once again more-or-less followed the cues from the official artwork. The “something-under-thin-translucent-skin” effect of it’s head was something new for me to try and play with, so that suited me as well, and added a nice splash of colour to a model that could just be painted nothing but green and fit into Guru PIG’s Venn Diagram.

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu

I also ran with the contrasting colours much more than indicated in the artwork (stomach and wings) by continuing to add more warm tones through the palms of Cthulhu’s hands, elbows, and then some glazing elsewhere on the body, shoulders, etc. I also extended the cold tones from the head-sac further down the head. And of course, more blue veins on thick appendages! 😮

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu

Both of these models were sculpted by Jason Hendriks, who maintains a blog sharing his WIP progress on many of his models, including Cthulhu and often some design thoughts.

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: The Mummy

The Mummy was a fairly straigtforward model to paint, if a little busy with the bandages loosely draped over the mummified flesh underneath.

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: The Mummy

With The Mummy, I took the cue of grey flesh, but just went with whatever felt like it worked after that as far as colours go. As long as the model matches the art broadly, I’m good, and we’re not overrun with overized mummies.

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: The Mummy

Once again, Jason has an entry for The Mummy where he mentions that CMoN didn’t particularly want an Egyptian theme to this model – which explains the more ragged appearance of this sculpt.

Zombicide 2nd Edition Abominations: Cthulhu & The Mummy, Zombicide Brad Clint Eastwoord Dirty Harry, Reaper Miniatures 50153 Berkeley Zombie Survivor

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I do like the way that they leaned into various cryptids and other mythologies and mythos for a bit of a different flavour to these stretch goal abominations. It certainly gives you more of an interesting variety of models to paint. Berkeley and Not-Clint here provide scale reference for both of these A-Bombs – as you can see, they’re hefty models for this particular game and put the regular zombies to shame!