Into March’s models today – we start with a pair of models that I’d hoped to finish in February for Fembruary, but instead they’ve been completed this month instead. (FeMarch?) I have to admit – at first I thought the Betty Ross was actually Moira MacTaggart, but apparently not. It’s actually Arwen instead.
There’s nothing too special to write about either of these models really – they’re both just pretty well sculpted human civilian models that happen to be of Marvel characters. They’re both “bystanders” for the Zombies game, much like Howard and Blind Al who I’ve painted previously that confer bonuses if they’re rescued/eaten (depending on whether you’re playing Hero or Zombie mode)
Longer-term, I’ll get around to making custom survivor cards for all of these “Bystander” characters (as well as the Cthulhu Death May Die characters and Last Night on Earth ones), since the Bystanders in Marvel Zombies aren’t really much more than tokens that get removed quickly when saved or eaten, so it’ll make them more fun to be characters that we can actually play with, even if it’s only in regular Zombicide (because Mary-Jane with a machete and pistol still might not scale all that well next to Hulk or Thor…)
Category Archives: Zombicide
Zombicide Survivors “Oksana” (Milla Jovovich as Alice from Resident Evil: Extinction) & “Thaissa” (Bridget Fonda as Maggie Hayward from Point of No Return)
And another pair of Zombicide models! This time we have a pair of survivors that hit two of the month’s themes – Dave Stone’s Paint Whatchoogot Challenge for 23-4 and Fembruary.
We have Thaissa, who I’ve read is based on Janet Fonda’s character in Point of No Return (aka The Assassin) – which is a remake of Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita. While I have seen Nikita, I have not seen PoNR.
Stills I found online had her in a black dress rather than this teal number, but then again the stills were mostly promo images so I don’t know if she wears something like this at some stage. Regardless, since I’ve not seen the film, and we already have “Proxy-Ivy” who is based on Angelina Jolie from Mr. and Mrs. Smith (aka woman in black dress) and the long gloves it made my choice easy enough.
Because of all of the above, I just went with the card art, as it’ll be much easier to identify on the table (especially if both Ladies are drawn as survivors in the same game).
The second of today’s survivors is clearly Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil: Extinction. I hesitate to even give it the “based on” or “inspired by” disclaimers here! I’ve only seen a couple of these films at best – I’ve definitely seen the first and maybe the second? Ive certainly not seen Extinction, though. This figure was one that I’ve just been putting off painting for literally years. Why? Look at that outfit! Belts and straps and buckles and pouches and more straps and.. and to be honest, it’s the sort of mid-phase CMoN figure that probably looked amazing as a digital sculpt, but ended up with reeeallly shallow and fine details when turned into an actual tabletop model. I mean, I get it – this is how she appears in the film (except for the gunblades – they should be machetes).
But yeah. So credit entirely goes to Alex and Fembruary for this one, since I wanted to have another female Survivor model to pair with Janet – so I just knuckled down and gave Milla a rough paintjob – which works in this case due to the context of her rough, dirty outfit. And with that, another two survivors join the Zombicide roster!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 