Zombicide Survivors “Kabir” & “Miss Trish” (Kunal Nayyar as Rajesh Koothrappali & Melissa Rauch as Bernadette Rostenkowski from Big Bang Theory)

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Another nice long post title today. I actually went out of my way to shorten it by putting these two BBT homage models together rather than posting the models in chronological order of getting ’em finished.

Painting Raj and Bernadette brings us 4 of the 6 BBT models painted. Remaining are Amy and of course, Sheldon. Unfortunately, while I’ve managed to get the Zombvivor version of Sheldon (or “Dave”) I haven’t got the living version and haven’t yet found a particularly good proxy aside from one half-decent STL on MMF.

Painting both of these was pretty straightforward in the end as their card art was very repesentative of some of their common outfits in the show.

Bernadette’s busy, floral dress is the biggest reason that I took so many years to even attempt her, but a potential solution came to me one night a week and a bit ago while trying to get to sleep. Stippling with a few key colours and then some tiny dabs.

Ultimately, it’s not a perfect representation or Golden Demon-winning, but I think I pulled it off – certainly well enough for a tiny boardgame model.

Raj’s outfit is likewise taken pretty much directly from the show. Perhaps the fatigue pants on my model are a little greener, but GIS appears to shows a few shades of green/brown/olive/khaki, so again, I’m happy with it for the tabletop.

I’m out of interesting things to write about these two. I guess I should get (back) onto painting Amy and have another poke around to find a suitable Sheldon so we can have a Big Bang-themed run through some Zombicide missions!

Zombicide Gaming Night #1 and #2 Survivors “Kyoko” (Lucy Liu as Alex Munday from Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle) & “Thiago” (Mike Myers as Austin Powers)

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Zombicide Gaming Night #1 and #2 Survivors "Kyoko" (Lucy Liu as Alex Munday from Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle) & "Thiago" (Mike Myers as Austin Powers)

Is this my longest post title yet? We’re certainly right up there, but it’s descriptive so whaddayagonnado?

I haven’t posted for awhile because, well, let’s just say “life happens” sometimes. I have been painting when I can, and so now I present you with day 1 of 5 that will each feature a pair of Zombicide Survivors. Why not post them all at once, you ask? Because I generally like to do ’em in pairs – easier for me to find later on using search – and I finished 10 of ’em…

Zombicide Gaming Night #1 Survivor "Kyoko" (Lucy Liu as Alex Munday from Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle)

Kyoko is an interesting figure. I had seen someone reference this one as based on Lucy Liu sometime in the long distant past, but I simply put that down to a lot of players habit of trying to attach every Zombicie Survivor to some sort of celebrity, so I kinda ignored that and went with the artwork.

Well, I did manage to match her skin tone in the artwork pretty much perfectly. I was dubious at first, though I do like to vary my flesh tones on models a fair bit so I gave it a go, but it was preeeety yellow. So much it looked like either Hepatitis Flesh or Cartoon Racism Flesh. I wasn’t super down with that and noped right out – I mean, that sort of base looks fine for an undead zombie, but maybe not a living human –  so I returned to the interwebs and did some more googling and found the above image. “Fuck me dead!” as various people used to say as a slightly odd exclaimation. The model with this rather unliklely combination of clothing and weapon was actually based on ol’ Lucy.

Zombicide Gaming Night #1 Survivor "Kyoko" (Lucy Liu as Alex Munday from Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle)

So with that I decided I was going to repaint the skin tone with a similar saturated tone, but leave the red pvc rather than repaint it in black – both because I felt the red added more interest than another all-black wearing survivor, and because I felt it looked decent and I didn’t want to repaint it.

Zombicide Gaming Night #2 Survivor "Thiago" (Mike Myers as Austin Powers)

The second model is a pretty “mid” one, as the kids these days say, and is based on Austin Powers. Possibly on his bright orange outfit from the third film which I have not watched. Makes sense, since the Not-Beyonce Zombicide Survivor and her outfit also comes from the third film, but I felt like the blue velour suit was more iconic for the character, even if the model didn’t have a large flamboyant cravat.

Zombicide Gaming Night #2 Survivor "Thiago" (Mike Myers as Austin Powers)

I went with a different take for the glasses with the white lenses, trying something different. Not sure if it worked that well. I also tried to represent Austin’s janky dental work on the Survivor miniature as well.

Well, that’s all for today – I’ll be back tomorrow with the next pair of survivors!