Zombicide Survivors “Spencer” (Bryan Cranston as Walter White/Heisenberg) and “Josh”

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Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Spencer” (Bryan Cranston as Walter White/Heisenberg) and “Josh” (Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman)

We have another pair of Zombicide survivors today, but with a Breaking Bad theme – We have “Spencer” (Not-Walter White) and “Josh”, who isn’t anyone in particular.

Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Spencer” (Bryan Cranston as Walter White/Heisenberg)

Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Spencer” (Bryan Cranston as Walter White/Heisenberg)

“Spencer” is one of the more interesting survivors in that his Zombivor form isn’t the same outfit as the living version, but wearing the Hazmat suit seen on Walter White in the show.

I kept my palette on him pretty similar to the artwork, which in turn is pretty similar to how he looks in (certain parts of) the series. My only real change was changing his glasses to the dark sunglasses, at least in the Survivor version.

Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Spencer” (Bryan Cranston as Walter White/Heisenberg)

I’m pretty happy with how he turned out in the end. I’m not sure if we ever played with him in the previous campaign, but now he’s painted we’ll be dropping him into the deck of cards we use to select each mission’s protaganists.

Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Josh” (Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman)

Josh was one of the original core set survivors from the first Zombicide box, and (like Ned) it’s taken until now for me to get him painted.

His original/canon design features a grey hoodie with the Guillotine Games logo on the chest. As I’ve mentioned a few times, there have been BGG/Reddit threads trying to identify who the many homage survivors are supposed to be, as they’re mostly obvious but occasionally less so. One of these threads had someone speculating that Josh was in fact supposed to be Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad because… hoodie, I guess?

I think this is clearly not the case, but when it came time that I started to paint my obviously Walter White/Heisenberg model, I decided to paint Josh as Jesse. Because, well, Josh isn’t anyone anyway, so why not? Finding a hoodie that would work well took a bit more time.

Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Josh” (Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman)

I eventually went with this black/red hoodie as it looked good and was doable with paint. I did the red “Affliction”-style patterning by stippling it on.

I also painted in Jesse’s “Borneo Scorpion” wrist tattoo on both versions of the model.

So another two survivors dropped into gameplay rotation, which is always a welcome thing. This just leaves Amy and Wanda as the last of the core set Survivors needing to be painted.

Zombicide Survivors Zombvivors “Ned"

Oh, and I went back and added in Ned’s missing Watchmen Comedian badge…

Battlefront 15mm Sd.Kfz.221 & Zvezda Sd.Kfz.222 – Deutsches Afrikakorps/Panzerarmee Afrika for Flames of War

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Battlefront 15mm Sd.Kfz.221 & Zvezda Sd.Kfz.222 - Deutsches Afrikakorps/Panzerarmee Afrika for Flames of War. 1/100, 1:100, What a Tanker, Battlegroup.

As I said the other day when I posted my 8-Rads, I always loved the look of WWII German half tracks and armoured cars since I was a kid – the “futuristic” look of them really appealed to me. Today we have my favourite of them all – the Leichter Panzerspähwagen Sd.Kfz 222.

Battlefront 15mm Sd.Kfz.221 & Zvezda Sd.Kfz.222 - Deutsches Afrikakorps/Panzerarmee Afrika for Flames of War. 1/100, 1:100, What a Tanker, Battlegroup.

As usual, I’m following the Flames of War Afrika Korps list options for my building, though of course I can then use them in any approriate game. As such, we’ve also got one 221 in this little unit, armed with the 2.8cm PzB.41. I used a Plastic Soldier Company tank commander on the 221 as the much finer (and to scale) detail on the PSC commander works much better on these smaller vehicles than a boofheaded Battlefront one would have.

Battlefront 15mm Sd.Kfz.221 & Zvezda Sd.Kfz.222 - Deutsches Afrikakorps/Panzerarmee Afrika for Flames of War. 1/100, 1:100, What a Tanker, Battlegroup.

As with the 8-Rads, these were started and then sat for a few months before completion as I needed to wait on the Skytrex decals. I’m pretty happy with these 1:100 licence plates. Are they absolutely necessary? Of course not, but they do add a nice little bit of small detail to these tiny models.

Battlefront 15mm Sd.Kfz.221 & Zvezda Sd.Kfz.222 - Deutsches Afrikakorps/Panzerarmee Afrika for Flames of War. 1/100, 1:100, What a Tanker, Battlegroup.

As usual, these models were all painted in the same manner as my previous Panzers, with a little of the milliput stowage added here and there to make the models a little more distinct. No unit numbers or designations again – I guess the licence plates take care of the identification task on these!

Battlefront 15mm Sd.Kfz.221 & Zvezda Sd.Kfz.222 - Deutsches Afrikakorps/Panzerarmee Afrika for Flames of War. 1/100, 1:100, What a Tanker, Battlegroup.

The scale shot shows how small these are copmpared to a reasonably small Panzer III and the 231. I should have put a small coin next to them, but I guess it’d only be truly useful for the other Aussies on here! With the Panzer IV’s shown the other day, I’m pretty sure I’m now complete with my DAK tanks, and these wrap up my armoured cars. I’ve still got a few more vehicles to add – Marders, Sd.Kfz.10/4 Light AA, perhaps some Dianas (the only thing I’d need to purchase) – then some Field Guns/Artillery, a mortar platoon and some extra infantry stands to clean up my options. (and then decide if I want to add enough half-tracks to turn the Grenadiers into Panzergrenadiers!) It’s certainly a large enough and very playable army right now, but I want to add those last options so I can play overly-large games or have the flexibility to really change up the force from game to game.

These were painted in January, (as are the next couple of posts’ models) – so they’re another submission for Dave Stone’s current Paint Wot Cho’ Got Challenge that runs until the end of January. I’ve got… 1 more post already written and queued up, and then I need to take pics for the final two posts of January’s models. Then my January (and Dave) round-ups (which will need to be photrographed and written up. I’m setting these two days apart so as to not be too spammeriffic, so that’s 8 days from when this one goes live. (It also lets me keep a reasonable posting schedule while I’m at work most of the week!)