Category Archives: Zombicide

DCeased – Gotham City Outbreak: Batgirl & Zombie Catwoman

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DCeased - Gotham City Outbreak: Survivor Batgirl & Zombie Catwoman

The second last pair of models for May today – posted on the last day of June. Somehow I missed this pair, even though I’d taken the photos ages ago. We have Catwoman as a Survivor Hero as well as Catwoman as a Zombie.

DCeased - Gotham City Outbreak: Survivor Batgirl & Zombie Catwoman

I’m not super happy with the way Batwoman’s face came out, but then it’s a pretty bad mask design to use for a miniatures game where people are likely to paint the models. Apparently this no-face-but-stiched-details-all-in-black mask design and outline-only Bat-Symbol are from some Birds of Prey comic. Neither was fun nor easy to paint, and so it caused this model to take literally months to get finished – which in turn causes a delay to the next couple of Zombicide heroes! I probably should have just used contrast-style paints instead of traditional painting!

DCeased - Gotham City Outbreak: Survivor Batgirl & Zombie Catwoman

With Catwoman, I went for black-highlighted-as-blue which is a common comic trope that sometimes gets used for her. I know a purple costume is more common with Catwoman, but since I’d already given her a purple tinge to her skin to represent her being a Zombie I felt the contrast was a better choice for my palette. When (if!) CMON deliver on the full Kickstarter package, I’ll paint my living Catwoman in Purple tones.

DCeased - Gotham City Outbreak: Survivor Batgirl & Zombie Catwoman

Catwoman’s costume was a bit confusing as well. I had no idea that she had an outfit with exposed armpits. Certainly an …interesting choice! The painting frame she’s standing on forced me to figure out how best to fill in that particular space.

DCeased - Gotham City Outbreak: Survivor Batgirl & Zombie Catwoman

Who’s that girl?

Anyway, the DCeased Gotham City Outbreak box is the retail-only pre-release companion product for the DCeased Kickstarter, much like Heroes’ Resistance was for Marvel Zombies. They act as introductory products where they still have value for All-in KS collectors due to the characters having alternative scultps and stat cards. The zombies are represented by cardboard standees, but I just use zombies from my existing collection instead. If you’re a Zombicide fan, or a new Zombicide fan, then I’d certainly recommend picking up both while you still can… especially since it’s not that hard to merge any Zombicide content from one game to another, so Marvel and DC can play vs Zombies, and it’s also pretty simple to add Supes into your regular games to have them fighting Zombies alongside your normal survivors…

Marvel Zombies: Foggy Nelson and Karen Page

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Marvel Zombies: Foggy Nelson and Karen Page

It’s been a long, long time since I read Daredevil comics. I had a good chunk of (one of) Frank Miller’s runs, but I don’t recall all that much about them. I watched part of the Netflix series and I do remember both Foggy and karen from the series, but didn’t especially like either of these characters, finding Karen particularly annoying. I much preferred Rosario Dawson’s character, as well as, obviously, Matt.

Marvel Zombies: Foggy Nelson and Karen Page

The good news here is that as miniatures, I don’t need to listen to either of these characters annoy or bore me. I can simply save them or eat them, depending on which version of the boardgame I’m playing, and they both work just fine as generic civilians as well. They both painted up fairly smoothly with schemes chosen to match the card art. Since I couldn’t get Karen’s sculpt to look particularly feminine or attractive, I think I did manage to make her look like she really does need to speak to your manager while Foggy looks on with a resigned sideeye.