Damned if this post doesn’t have an overly-complicated nightmare of a title. So.. for those masochistic enough to read this… here we go

One of the original bonus survivors from the original Kickstarter of Zombicide 1e, which I missed by like a week was “Dave”, based on Jim Parson’s portrayal of Sheldon Cooper. Along with characters like El Cholo (Danny Trejo as Machete) Nick (Bruce Willis in Die Hard) and Ivy (Angelian Jolie in Mr.&Mrs.Smith), These original bonus figures were never re-released, although their character cards were, and a collected box containing their Zombie versions did become available late (if you got lucky – which I did only about a year ago).

I eventually found proxies for both Bruce and Angie, but old Sheldon has been a much tougher find. Wanting to get the thing done, I recently plucked my Hasslefree HFA066 William – who I understand is a model inspired by Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and just went with “good enough”. I never watched Buffy, so no big deal for me to use this model as Sheldon. So combining William with Zombie Dave and we have a workable pair to use as “Dave” aka Sheldon Cooper in our games, thereby completing the Big Bang Gang in the short timeframe of only… (checks earlier posts) almost-nine years.

Oh.

Our second figure is only slightly less convoluted. We have “Kirk”, who bears no real resemblance to Captain James.E, but instead was designed as a caracature on the increasingly-corpulent former action star and current vatnik, Steven Seagal. Now my original idea for this model was to paint him with a Ruzzian flag on his t-shirt and a big-arse Z – one on the front and one on the back. The problem was that I would then need to occasionally play as this putin sucking, carrot eating piece of shit. Aaaand.. well, I just couldn’t do it. I mean, I have German WWII armies (along with forces from everyone else from the European and African theatre) but when playing the Germans I’m under no illusions or delusions that I’m playing as the “good guys”, even if I’m playing as Rommel’s DAK.

For some reason, I’d be much more inclinded to paint a “Z” modern russian army for Team Yankee, if only as a “supply both armies for games” OpFor for the eventual Ukranian force that I want to paint with an interesting mix of NATO and Pact hardware than to play as an individual like Seagal as one of a few living survivors I’m trying to save. So.. unable to stomach playing as Steven, this model sat on my desk. For over a year. So with the bar set exceedingly low, I eventually settled on painting him bnased on J. Allen Brack. The Warcraft developer from Blizzard Entertainment who is infamous for his “You think you do, but you don’t” comments in response to a question asking for Classic WoW servers – which turned out to be clownishly wrong…

Also not someone I’d particularly want to play as, but better than Seagal, anyway.