November 2022 – Personal Painting Round-Up – Micro Arts Terrain and lots of Zombicide!

Zombicide 1st Edition Walkers, Zombicide 1st Edition VIPs, Zombicide Night of the Living Dead, Zombicide 1st Edition Dogz, Micro Art Studios Crate Heaps, Micro Art Studios Processing Plant, Zombicide 2nd Edition Urban Legends Abomination Pack Area 51 Alien & Chupacabra

Belated Round-up for November today! In this last month I finally got these four largish Micro Arts terrain pieces off my desk and put them away out of the way, and continued to paint more Zombicide Zombies and Survivors!

Zombicide 1st Edition Walkers, Zombicide 1st Edition VIPs, Zombicide Night of the Living Dead, Zombicide 1st Edition Dogz, Micro Art Studios Crate Heaps, Micro Art Studios Processing Plant, Zombicide 2nd Edition Urban Legends Abomination Pack Area 51 Alien & Chupacabra

Another batch of Zombie Doggoes done and dusted. Still way too many more of them to go still, unfortunately!

Zombicide 1st Edition Walkers, Zombicide 1st Edition VIPs, Zombicide Night of the Living Dead, Zombicide 1st Edition Dogz, Micro Art Studios Crate Heaps, Micro Art Studios Processing Plant, Zombicide 2nd Edition Urban Legends Abomination Pack Area 51 Alien & Chupacabra

I started to get some regular Zombie Walkers painted, though – something that had an immediate positive effect on our games of Zombicide – at this point our games are fully painted in their entirety for the fast games, and for a good chunk of time for the deeper, longer games until the numbers of spawns get out of control.

Zombicide 1st Edition Walkers, Zombicide 1st Edition VIPs, Zombicide Night of the Living Dead, Zombicide 1st Edition Dogz, Micro Art Studios Crate Heaps, Micro Art Studios Processing Plant, Zombicide 2nd Edition Urban Legends Abomination Pack Area 51 Alien & Chupacabra

A couple of fancy, new Abominations from the 2nd Edition game. They won’t see the table for some time, but they still made for a mostly-enjoyable diversion to the other stuff I spent my tiome working on.

Zombicide 1st Edition Walkers, Zombicide 1st Edition VIPs, Zombicide Night of the Living Dead, Zombicide 1st Edition Dogz, Micro Art Studios Crate Heaps, Micro Art Studios Processing Plant, Zombicide 2nd Edition Urban Legends Abomination Pack Area 51 Alien & Chupacabra

I also got a few more of those VIP walkers painted. Still quite a few more of those to go. I’m on the verge of completing another batch of four of these – they’d have been done if I weren’t typing this thing up – so hopefully they’ll still get finished tonight.

Zombicide 1st Edition Walkers, Zombicide 1st Edition VIPs, Zombicide Night of the Living Dead, Zombicide 1st Edition Dogz, Micro Art Studios Crate Heaps, Micro Art Studios Processing Plant, Zombicide 2nd Edition Urban Legends Abomination Pack Area 51 Alien & Chupacabra

And of course, some survivors – the first in what felt like bloody ages – with half of the Night of the Living Dead cast completed.

edit – forgot to do this at the time – Adding up all of the models from November, I have 48, which is a good amount done, espcially for a month that was such a full-on work month. I had 469 done by the end of October so that gives me 517 from January to the end of November. Not too shabby.

I should have one or two more posts before Christmas with some of my December models. I’ve gotten a decent number painted over the ocurse of this month, but haven’t had a chance to do any photography at all yet and we’re still at work for a few more days before the break-up, so we’ll see when I have time for some more pics!

 

October 2022 – Personal Painting Round-Up – Zomb’tober!

Well, so October is now done and dusted – and despite the best of intentions, I managed to get none models completed for either Dreadtober or Orctober. I even had models out and ready to go. I did at least manage to do some work on a mob of 25 Orks, but none completed, so…

What I did manage to do was get a whooole lot of Zombies painted. We’ve been getting back into playing Zombicide again over the last couple of months, and so that served as a rather effective impetus to work on Zombies.

That wasn’t quite all, though – I did start the month by completing the Lich King and his three Abominations for the World of Warcraft Pandemic board game.

But yeah, all my berserker Zombies are now painted. Yep, ALL of them. Finally. I certainly don’t want to find more of them somewhere.

On a similar note, all of the 1st Edition walkers are also now painted. Even the extras that Marouda found.

I also managed to finish the first few VIP Zombies and Zombie Doggoez

There are also a few other models I got done in October that didn’t get their own posts – another set of Concrete Walls from Battlefront’s Battlefield in a Box range. They’ll work for Flames of War, Team Yankee, and can even work as short walls for 28/32mm games as well – as can be seen here with the size comparison with Mr.Fatty!

And finally, (though painted early in the month) there’s this pair of Levers from War Cry. I didn’t give them their own post because they’re not especially significant, and hoped/planned to get more War Cry stuff painted to go with them, but ended up leaning really hard into the Zombicide stuff instead. Still, I think they turned out pretty nice for such simple pieces.

I also added some extra distinguishing details to a trio of Fatties painted some time ago so they’re less likely to be confused for Berserkers, though I won’t be counting them in the tally for the month as they already got counted as painted earlier this year.

Most of this stuff qualifies for  Dave Stone’s Apocalypse Me/Zomb’tober painting challenge(s) for November, so that’s not too shabby on that front. Now.. how many models did I complete in October…? Time to count them….

4 Warcraft
43 Orange Berserkers
14 Guard Berserkers
10 Runners
4 Dogz
6 VIPs
10 weathered walls
2 levers

So… 93 models completed in October. That’s ….a lot. I guess I can really point to the batch-painting nature of all those Berserker zombies in their prison uniforms as the biggest reason I was able to get so many models done. I don’t expect to be topping that anytime soon, but it’s still pretty cool. Just a shame I didn’t get 7 more done. Now that really would have been something!

By the end of September I had 376 models completed, so this brings me to 469 to date for 2022. With under 2 months left in the year, it’ll be interesting to see how far I can push it…