Category Archives: Zombicide

Zombicide: Green Horde – Trebuchet

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Zombicide: Green Horde - Trebuchet

I really haven’t been painting much from the Fantasy Zombicide games over the last couple of years. I get a large Abomination done every so often, or some “3D terrain elements”, but getting to work properly on the game itself is still a ways off, as even with a somewhat renewed Zombicide focus, it’s mostly on the modern stuff. So after sitting on my painting desk for a good couple of years, and pretty inspired by the quick and easy job I got done on the Journeys in Middle Earth Siege Engines, I spotted this thing buried under some junk and decided to just get it done.

Zombicide: Green Horde - Trebuchet

The only differences I really made to the standard playing piece was to heat-treat the rope’n’rocks so I could pull it out from inside the body of the machine and leave it on the ground alongside, and to add that ground alongside by putting it onto an oval base, from Reaper. I’m not sure what all those other ropes are for, but it’s probably best not to ask…

Zombicide: Green Horde - Trebuchet, Gondor Battlecry Trebuchet

The now-completed model can be used in a variety of fantasy games besides Zombidie – it’ll fit into the Warhammers and AoS and LotR and Kings of War games – sure, the base is a bit smaller than standard for a lot of these, but I needed to keep that base small for the model’s primary use – Zombicide.

Zombicide: Green Horde - Trebuchet, Oldhammer WHFB Iron Claw Goblin Catapult Bob Olley,

Using the Gondor Battlecry Trebuchet as well as Oldhammer WHFB Iron Claw Goblin Catapult (couldn’t find the goblin crew easily) show a good range of size comparison with other fantassy game war machines – so as you can see, it’s very usable.

Zombicide Ghostbusters Crossover – Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Gozer & Slimer (Monster MAYhem ’22)

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Zombicide Ghostbusters Crossover - Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Gozer, Slimer, Terror Dogs, Keymaster, Gatekeeper, Zuul, Vinz Clortho

Amazingly, I managed to finish more models from this set before 2024.

Zombicide Ghostbusters Crossover - Gozer & Slimer

I finished Gozer and Slimer late last weekend, and so they were photographed and ready to have a post written about them, though I hadn’t had a chance to write and queue one yet. Both are a little more nuanced in hand than in these photos. Gozer’s skin and outfit have a ferw layers of pearlescent purple in the midst of the rest, so she has a nice sheen in hand that you only get a hint of in these pics. Slimer was painted with layers of mixes of Vallejo’s Mecha Colour Flouro Yellow and Green, with Citadel’s Tessaract glow added in towards the end for some shading.

Zombicide Ghostbusters Crossover - Gozer & Slimer

We haven’t yet used any of these Ghostbusters models or characters ingame, but Gozer is a custom Abomination, while Slimer is actually a companion card to the Ghostbusters. Not sure how that works in practise, maybe something similar to the Zombicide Dog Companions?

Zombicide Ghostbusters Crossover - Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

Then there’s the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Unsurprisingly, he’s also an Abomination. I just completed this one late on Friday night/Saturday am. A tricksy one to paint, as it’s a large model without much detail and a smooth soft form.

Zombicide Ghostbusters Crossover - Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

I used Contrast Apothecary White with some greys mixed in at some points over a white prime, then drybrushing over the top. It’s a little manky, but I figure that’s okay since it’s representing an animated advertising dummy… thing in the “real world” rather than a fully-spectral creature like Slimer, so it doesn’t need to be perfect.

Zombicide Ghostbusters Crossover - Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

While neither Gozer nor Slimer are extra large and so may or may not count, Stay Puft certainly is large enbough to count for the Monster MAYhem challenge. This just leaves the four Ghostbusters to go for the three sets to be completed. They’ve been cleaned up, spray primed and given a wash, so once I complete the two “regular” Zombicide survivors and their Zombvivor counterparts that are on the painting desk, they’ll be next up!