Zombicide has been our go-to tabletop game for what feels like around 6 or so months this year. We picked up from where we left off last year when we replayed the Original campaign, and then played our way through the Prison Breakout missions with all of the painted Berserker Zombies. But in the time we’ve been back on it, it’s started to get a little samey in the last month or so as we work our way through the Compendium 1 missions. But given that we have SO much Zombicide content, I don’t want to play through Toxic City Mall until we can do it in a fully-painted manner. So…. it’s time to shit or get off the pot.

I picked up an extra box of Toxic Zombies earlier this year, and so I started with the four new Fatties. I leaned into blue this time since the previous Toxic Fatties I painted didn’t really have any blue shirts, so once mixed in these will balance out nicely. With the extra canvas space available to me on these models, I had some fun with the t-shirts.

The drink bottles were an annoying extra detail that I could have done without, but they’re a part of the sculpts and I could at least take respite in the fact that these three are the last cola-bottle-holders I will (probably) ever have to paint.

With the runners, I continued to entertain myself with their singlets. As with the fatties and even my own choice of pop culture T-shirts, I generally prefer to go with “if you know, you know” but I did want to throw in one of those grey “ARMY” singlets that you see in various media.

Headbands are a bit of an annoying detail on these. I’ll have to paint one in the next batch with one of those “Kamikaze headbands” that were inexplicably popular in the 1980’s.

Once again with the T-shirts, we have a nice set of “if you know, you know” – and a mixture again of shirts I like and ones I’d like to shoot at in a game. And one more generic one.

They really do look like a dance line when the same model is arranged like this in photos, don’t they? That’s why I paint the models and do so in batches – otherwise it’d look like The Clone Wars!

And to finish, one more group shot! This pic of all of the 13 Toxic Zombies that I got painted this month also shows one of the most important parts of these finished models – the blotches of Nurgle Rot paint on their bases – this will be so that we can distinguish the figures as Toxic Zombies without having to do something like paint the rims in a different colour – which is something that absolutely works well for gameplay, but I personally prefer to “embed” distinguishing aspects of models into the paintwork when I can…

There’s still over a dozen more toxic runners to go, and then a big ol’ pile of toxic walkers…. 😮