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Zombicide “Frank” (Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, P.I.) and “Mitch” (Kev Walker guest artist pack.)

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Zombicide “Frank” (Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, P.I.) and “Mitch” (Kev Walker guest artist pack.)

Today I have a mix – one model left over from February (Mitch) alongside my first completed model from April (Magnum/Frank). I held off on posting Mitch as I do prefer to get my Zombicide models up in pairs (or trios) and so with all of the Femmes in February and Monsters in March, poor old Tom got pushed to the side for awhile.

Zombicide “Frank” (Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, P.I.)

Once again, the first of these two characters is another from Zombicide’s rather extensive range of “homage” models. I know I’ve already mentioned it in the post title, but I wonder how obvious it would be to persons of a certain vintage even without it in the title?

You can pretty easily see where they got the inspiration for on old “Frank” here. As such, I looked up various photos of Magnum and so went with the light/white shoes and belt, as well as his Iconic Detroit Tigers baseball cap.

Zombicide “Frank” (Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, P.I.)

The shirt was the main reason it took so long to get Magnum painted. I reeeeally wasn’t looking forward to painting the pattern on his Hawaiian shirt, let alone doing it twice and needing to match it. Hence, it took a clear bit of time last weekend and the space to just use a “knuckle down” mentality to get it done.

Zombicide “Mitch” (Kev Walker guest artist pack.)

Mitch is a decent little model with a pretty obvious “biker” vibe, though he suffered severely from a bent noodle shotgun, due to the softness of the PVC that the model is made from as well as the pose, having it right out in front of him. I reset it pretty easily with hot water, but I do expect it to re-bend again pretty easily. Mitch’s tattoos from the artwork weren’t terrible to try to emulate, but, as always I tend not to enjoy repeating them on his zombvivor counterpart all that much.

Just thought I’d add in the artwork for Mitch here as well. I pretty much followed it and did my best to emulate the tattoos on the models.

Zombicide “Mitch” (Kev Walker guest artist pack.)

As a little nod to GTA, I decided to paint Mitch as a member of The Lost M.C., which I added to his cutoffs. I may have to go back over his pants with some matte varnish as well.

Reaper Bones 80023: Horace "Action" Jackson, Reaper Miniatures 50153 Berkeley Zombie Survivor, Zombicide “Frank” (Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, P.I.) and “Mitch” (Kev Walker guest artist pack.)

In my last post about Reaper’s Horace “Action” Jackson, commentator Phil Curran mentioned that he found the the model to be terribly out of scale, so I thought I’d check for myself against these two Zombicide Survivors as well as our old standby, Berkeley. He’s certainly chunkier than the Zombicide models, though they’re very much in a truescale proportion, but height-wise he fits right in. And standing next to Berkeley, he’s totally fine. So I guess it depends on which models you’d be using it alongside, as is often the case with different ranges.

Hopefully I can get all of April’s stuff photographed together tomorrow for my round-up post, and then I can get straight into posting May’s other completed work…

And that, my friends – is that!

Zombicide 1st Edition: Male Zombie Fatties – Standard Zombie Fatties Complete!

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Zombicide 1st Edition: Male Zombie Fatties

Here’s my second-last post of models completed in February – the other half of the Zombicide 1st Edition Fatties to go alongside the female fatties that I painted for Fembruary. Quite the bunch of ugly bastards! As you can easily notice, there’s not a whole lot of variety in the sculpts here – just the one monopose sculpt for all the male Fatties! Luckily, their repeated tradie outfit offered a lot more flexibility in the way it could be painted compared to the females (without going into stuff like dress patterns that was more effort than I was willing to do). So four types of overalls/coveralls and a variety of singlets, gloves and boots!

Zombicide 1st Edition: Male Zombie Fatties

I decided not to bother going too far with designs on their singlets (why do Americans call them “wife-beaters”?) …you know what, don’t answer that. I don’t wanna know. Anyway, I gave one a classic Aussie blue-collar logo and two others got easter eggs from a very old decal sheet. You can kinda see here the sweat stains I added to the white singlets around the pits and manboobs, though the spatter adds a lot of visual noise there!

Zombicide 1st Edition: Male Zombie Fatties

I also really didn’t want to go so far as to add ink to these guys, but that many bare arms on tradies just looked completely wrong. I mean, this being 2020, a good half of the female fatties would be just as inked up, but they can pass more easily than these ones. So I did another pass before completing them and added what I think of as “impression” tattoos. Mostly faint, squiggly lines that give the impression of detailed tattoos without being too painful to paint on. It’s not like you can really see what most people have on their skin from more than a couple of metres away anyway, amirite?

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Fatties

And here we are – at long last, all of the Fatties from my Original Zombicide set complete. Now I guess I need to start on working through all of the walkers and runners (and the special walkers and runners). That’s going to be…. a. lot. of. fun.