Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Runners, Part 1

August 4, 2022 by Azazel

Why hello there! Along with all of the other junk I’ve been painting over July was the first dozen of the Runners from my 1st Edition Zombicide set(s). With four sculpts total, I picked out three of each a couple of months ago, slowly got them cleaned up, and then got a-painting last month – though I did most of the work on these last weekend when I decided to just get the damned things painted and complete.

First up we have “t-shirt guy”. So called because he’s wearing a t-shirt which he is also tearing open. I think for the next batch of these, I’ll paint one with the old Yellow-and-Red Hulk Hogan t-shirt so I can call them the “Hulkamania T-Shirt guys” since Hogan would heroically tear off his shirt back in the 80’s and beyond. In the interim, we’ve got one of them wearing a (probably) soccer/football shirt instead, as it seemed to work for the sculpt.

Our next model is “Apple advertisement guy” because you remember those iPod/iPhone commercials with the silouhette and the iconic white headphone cables, right?

Yeah. Those. ’nuff said.

We then have.. um… “girl”. Because girl. I used three of the most common female hair colours – blonde, brunette, and Mid 2010’s Sasha Banks.

And finally, rounding out the dozen, we have “bald guy”. Because I ran out of imagination two sculpts ago. I decided to convert the middle one to have his hand cut off across the forearm when the painted model fell off the table and the wrist snapped almost clean off, and was clearly not going to glue back together successfully. So I painted the stump red with a couple of white dots, and later added extra Blood for the Blood God (aka Citadel’s version of Clear Red) for seasoning.

All of these Runners wear some sort of athletic clothing, so they all got normal looking runners (trainers, sneakers) as well as what I hope look like fairly normal “sportswear” looking coloured clothing, though I didn’t bother with logos other than picking out some of the embossing on their shoes and shorts. I have another dozen of these still to paint, so they’ll be my next batch of zombies to get painted. They’ve all been lightly sprayed to make mould line removal easier (to see), so maybe, hopefully they’ll get painted over August.

Or September.

Zombicide Survivors “Curro” (Al Pacino as Tony Montana from Scarface) & “Derek”

July 8, 2022 by Azazel

And now part 1 of rounding out my June models, we have “Curro” which is pretty clearly based on Tony Montana alongside Derek, one of the original characters from the Toxic City Mall box.

I wasn’t super excited by the prostect of painting Tony’s suit from the film, given the fact that it has a subtle grey pinstripe. Of course, Tony did have two iconic outfits from the film – the white suit (which would have been easier to paint) along with this black pinstripe suit, but the pinstripe is the one that goes with the M16/AR15-203 combo as depicted on the figure (the figure has an M4 rather than an M16) but still… I did attempt to give Al a slightly more olive complexion, as befiting Tony Montana, and also the coked-up “crazy eyes” that he shows in various parts of the film.

The white suit is also a pinstripe, but it’s even more subtle than Tony’s dark suit, so while it would have been much easier to paint, as you can see, both figures are taken from some pretty iconic stills from the film, so that left me with little choice on the best way have Curro tell those “fucking caca-roaches” to “say hello to my leetle friend”.

Spoiler alert if you haven’t seen the film. Which you absolutely should do if you haven’t.

So anyway, it was thinking about work from the Master of Pinstriping, Dave from The Imperfect Modeller that convinced me to just suck it up and give it a go. They’re far from perfect or at Dave’s level, but they’re good enough for a tabletop boardgame. Curro here was also the second-last model I completed in June.

We then have Derek, the original creation from Toxic City Mall, (alongside Neema and several others) – though my understanding is that Derek is based on a backer via the pledge level that got a version of you into the game. I actually completed Derek in July, but I like to post up my Zombicide models in pairs since it works better for me being able to find my models later, not to mention google search terms.

I pretty much just used the character art as my guide with old Derek, since I… don’t… care…? I mean, there’s no celebrity/actor/character likeness to try to match, and there’s also no real space to freehand an interesting t-shirt design, so, you know, whatevs…

In the next couple of days, we’ll have a model that I finally managed to find and update, along with my final model from June, (along with another one completed in early July). And then after that, the June round-up that – which will obviously be pretty heavy on the Zombicide models…

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Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Runners, Part 1

Zombicide Survivors “Curro” (Al Pacino as Tony Montana from Scarface) & “Derek”