January-February 2025 (Duo)Monthly Round-Up

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Round-Up time! Today we have the combined post for both January and February as I’ve had a few hiccups when it comes to posting my stuff lately.

Despite my best intentions, I didn’t get much of my “large” terrain done over the summer months – I did finally manage to finish the Forge World Tyranid Capillary Towers after many years sitting unstarted and then several years sitting part-painted – but none of the others!

I did manage to do my usual and get a whole bunch of scatter terrain painted – particularly a bunch of crate barricades and picket fences from Mantic’s TerrainCrate, as well as some 3d printed barrels and more bloody treasure chests.

Overall, it was still a productive period of time for hobbying, even though I wasn’t really posting.

What did I get done?

3 Tyranid Spikes, 5 Ms.Marvels, 12  Zombicide Survivors & Zombivors, 4 Mars Attacks models, 6 barrel stacks, 46 chests, 14 Mantic crate barricades and 30 Mantic picket fences for a total of 120 pieces. A big number overall, but a huge proportion there is of course bits of smaller, scatter terrain – even though all of the figures there are “hero” figures.

And – oh yeah – all this crap counts towards Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 24-25 as well! Now I’ll take a couple of days to catch my breath to give my poor typing fingers a rest, and then get onto posting March’s Models shortly…

Zombicide Survivors & Zombivors “Bill” (Ian McShane as Deadwood’s “Al Swearengen”) & “Ralph” (Woody Harrelson as Zombieland’s “Tallahassee”)

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Zombicide Survivors & Zombivors "Bill" (Ian McShane as Deadwood's "Al Swearengen") & "Ralph" (Woody Harrelson as Zombieland's "Tallahassee")

Last post for January and February, aside from the combined round-up that will be next. Both of these figures are “inspired by” promo figures. “Bill” is from the “Gaming Night 3” set, and “Ralph” from Season 2’s extras.

Zombicide Survivor & Zombivor "Bill", Ian McShane, Deadwood's "Al Swearengen Zombicide Survivor & Zombivor "Bill", Ian McShane, Deadwood's "Al Swearengen

The first figure is Ian McShane as Deadwood’s “Al Swearengen”. Getting the pin-stripe suit was a real bear at this scale, so hopefully the impression of it works well enough on the figure in photos. Of course at actual size it works a bit better, and then on the table at arm’s length the stripes kind of disappear into the subliminal as they do in real life at a distance. So good enough for a Zombicide model, anyway! I do need to get around to watching Deadwood as well!

Zombicide Survivor & Zombivor "Ralph", Woody Harrelson, Zombieland, Tallahassee Zombicide Survivor & Zombivor "Ralph", Woody Harrelson, Zombieland, Tallahassee

Our second figure today – and the last for January-February is Woody Harrelson’s “Tallahassee” from the rather excellent film, “Zombieland” and it’s incredibly disappointing sequel “Zombieland: Double Tap”. Painting Tallahassee was really straightforward and easy – I can’t figure out why I kept putting him off for so long! Then again, there’s always a huge pile of figures waiting and so often selecting the next Zombicide survivor for the painting queue is a combo of randomness and “feel” at the moment I’m looking through the figures.

Zombicide Survivor & Zombivor "Ralph", Woody Harrelson, Tallahassee, "Lea", Emma Stone, Wichita, Zombieland,

I do also have the “Wichita” figure that I painted a few years ago. It seems a little odd that CMON never produced a Jesse Eisenberg/Columbus figure. The lack of Little Rock makes a bit more sense as the character was a kid, and back in 1st edition the game didn’t have “youth” characters. These are my final models for January and February, and as such the last for Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 24-25. I’ll have the round-up post up in a couple of days, but for now, I’m taking a couple of days off after all these daily posts before getting onto March’s stuff!