Zombicide Rue Morgue Survivors & Zombivors Dan & Maddie

Zombicide Rue Morgue Survivors & Zombivors Dan & Maddie

I did not get much Zombicide completed in the last couple of months – so if I’m hoping to ever complete this mega project of 1st edition I need to pull my fist out. So then, we have this pair of characters from Rue Morgue – Dan the Fireman and Maddie, the …angry Twitter user? Seriously, her profile states “Maddie doesn’t think about her past anymore. All she sees are the simple facts of life and death, and right now she’s at war. A war against zombies in general and capitalist zombie pigs in particular!” She certainly looks like someone who fits the part there, anyway!

Zombicide Rue Morgue Survivor & Zombivor: Dan

Zombicide Rue Morgue Survivor & Zombivor: Dan

Dan was a pretty straightforward mini to paint – nothing crazy here nor anything really worth discussing, really. I used flouro yellow over the top of regular yellow for his satety stripes and added the ones in on his pants, so with the flouro, he pops a little more in real life.

Zombicide Rue Morgue Survivor & Zombivor: Maddie

Zombicide Rue Morgue Survivor & Zombivor: Maddie

Maddie on the other hand took ages to get finished – with a big break of several weeks until the final push to get her finished. She’s another one of those unnecessarily busy models with too much happening – I thought she was another one of the “I am Legend” KS backers but apparently not – she must be someone at Guillotine’s friend instead given the level of finnicky details – teddy bear, suspenders, 2 bound wounds, fucking buttons on her cutoff vest, etc. The mace she’s weilding is a little weird as well, and on the artwork it’s got something on it, so I painted it as an 8-ball.

Anyway, another two Survivors and Zombivors down! We’re nearing the end of the endless stream of boxed-game survivors, though there’s still more than a few “inspired by” Survivors and then “Guest Artist Box” Survivors to go after that.

Archon Studio – Masters of the Universe Battleground: Moss-Man & Turbodactyl Pack

Archon Studio Masters of the Universe Battleground: Moss-Man & Turbodactyl Pack

Another new game? Yes. Yes it is. I backed this project some time ago as it had a pretty good rep and the models looked cool. Unlike a lot of people around my age bracket, I didn’t watch the cartoons (though I have an awareness of them) or have any of the original toys. In fact, the only MotU figure I’ve ever owned was a later-edition Skeletor that I picked up on holiday in 2000 or so because I saw it in a discount shop and decided that it looked cool.

Archon Studio Masters of the Universe Battleground: Moss-Man

My nephew on the other hand, collected them as a kid, so when I went to visit I also played with his MOTU figures with him as I was only 5 years older. As I got a bit older into my young teens, I’d create little narrratives for him using his MOTU figutres which we ended up calling “movies”. So with that background established, I have some nostalgia for and knowledge of many of the characters, but I’m not deeply aquainted with “the lore” or one of those people with an encyclopedic knowledge of the characters.

Archon Studio Masters of the Universe Battleground: Moss-Man

So… Moss Man. I know that he was a reuse of the Beast-Man moulds in green and then flocked – with that same flock that they used to use on toys back in the day and possibly still do, though I don’t buy a lot of stuff from the toy aisle these days to be up to date on these things.

Archon Studio Masters of the Universe Battleground: Moss-Man

He also had a re-use of someone’s mace, but I guess weapon re-use was common enough across multiple toy lines, and presumably continues to this day.

Archon Studio Masters of the Universe Battleground: Turbodactyl Pack

Turbodactyl? I have NFI about this one. Presumably he was released later in the line, after my nephew had grown out of or largely lost interest in MOTU figures. Or maybe it was just a more expensive and limited release? Dunno (and don’t care, to be honest!) This pack is subtitled “Preternian Heroes Faction” which appears to be independant to the “Masters of the Universe (He-Man and friends) and Evil Warriors (Skeletor) factions.

Archon Studio Masters of the Universe Battleground: Turbodactyl Pack

I copied the colour scheme that I found online based on the original toy. So mostly brown with a bit of green down the top centre and then some metal bits and pieces. I can see I forgot to pick out some of the smaller rocks on the smaller, round base because I did do so on the larger hex base. I’ll have to sort that out sometime shortly.

Anyway, you can expect to see some Masters of the Universe figures mixed into the raondom stuff I paint and post up here from time to time now, until I finish the Kickstarter models!