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Bonus Post: It’s October – Wanna Become a Zombie(?)

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I’ve just been trying to catch up on some comments and did the recent Toxic Zombies post – and I had a thought. I’ve got 15 more of these ugly bastards to paint, and one of the things that helps keep painting repeated models like this vaguely interesting/slightly less soul-deadening is the chance to paint some fun freehand on shirts and the like.

So why not open it up to readers of the blog community? If you’d like to nominate/become a Zombie while I work my way through the toxics then please link me a pic to either you in an approprate shirt (your face/head isn’t required) or just a pic of the t-shirt online somewhere (or hosted on your blog).

The two sculpts I’ll be working on are the ones featured in the top two pics of this post – zombieman with t-shirt and backwards baseball cap and zombieman with singlet and headband. Unfortunately there is no running lady toxic zombieman sculpt but that doesn’t preclude anyone from sending in a design for this. (Though there is a female toxic walker sculpt to come later on – which I may throw open in this manner if this experiment is successful and fun.)

Now, I can’t and won’t guarantee that I’ll attempt to paint every t-shirt people might submit – the designs will need to be something I can comfortably paint on a small surface, so that means large logos and things that “read” well at this size and scale work best.

Text isn’t the best thing to include – I typically keep the logo and ditch the text with that sort of shirt design, and more complex designs (like the Ramones logo) are going to be a complete no-go at this size. Sports jerseys are (probably) all fine as they’re mostly at least vaguely related to heraldry and are designed to read from a long distance away. if you want one of those, please do link me the one you like since there’s lots of variations for teams these days.

Innnerested? If so, then just add a link below to your pic on your blog or to a reputable site with the t-shirt image. Let’s have some fun!

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: The Final Toxic Fatties and The First Toxic Runners

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Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Fatties and Toxic Runners

Zombicide has been our go-to tabletop game for what feels like around 6 or so months this year. We picked up from where we left off last year when we replayed the Original campaign, and then played our way through the Prison Breakout missions with all of the painted Berserker Zombies. But in the time we’ve been back on it, it’s started to get a little samey in the last month or so as we work our way through the Compendium 1 missions. But given that we have SO much Zombicide content, I don’t want to play through Toxic City Mall until we can do it in a fully-painted manner. So…. it’s time to shit or get off the pot.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Fatties

I picked up an extra box of Toxic Zombies earlier this year, and so I started with the four new Fatties. I leaned into blue this time since the previous Toxic Fatties I painted didn’t really have any blue shirts, so once mixed in these will balance out nicely. With the extra canvas space available to me on these models, I had some fun with the t-shirts.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Fatties

The drink bottles were an annoying extra detail that I could have done without, but they’re a part of the sculpts and I could at least take respite in the fact that these three are the last cola-bottle-holders I will (probably) ever have to paint.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners

With the runners, I continued to entertain myself with their singlets. As with the fatties and even my own choice of pop culture T-shirts, I generally prefer to go with “if you know, you know” but I did want to throw in one of those grey “ARMY” singlets that you see in various media.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners

Headbands are a bit of an annoying detail on these. I’ll have to paint one in the next batch with one of those “Kamikaze headbands” that were inexplicably popular in the 1980’s.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners

Once again with the T-shirts, we have a nice set of “if you know, you know” – and a mixture again of shirts I like and ones I’d like to shoot at in a game. And one more generic one.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Runners

They really do look like a dance line when the same model is arranged like this in photos, don’t they? That’s why I paint the models and do so in batches – otherwise it’d look like The Clone Wars!

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Fatties and Toxic Runners

And to finish, one more group shot! This pic of all of the 13 Toxic Zombies that I got painted this month also shows one of the most important parts of these finished models – the blotches of Nurgle Rot paint on their bases – this will be so that we can distinguish the figures as Toxic Zombies without having to do something like paint the rims in a different colour – which is something that absolutely works well for gameplay, but I personally prefer to “embed” distinguishing aspects of models into the paintwork when I can…

There’s still over a dozen more toxic runners to go, and then a big ol’ pile of toxic walkers…. 😮