Zombicide Survivors “Oksana” (Milla Jovovich as Alice from Resident Evil: Extinction) & “Thaissa” (Bridget Fonda as Maggie Hayward from Point of No Return)

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Zombicide Survivors "Oksana" (Milla Jovovich as Alice from Resident Evil: Extinction) & "Thaissa" (Bridget Fonda as Maggie Hayward from Point of No Return)

And another pair of Zombicide models! This time we have a pair of survivors that hit two of the month’s themes – Dave Stone’s Paint Whatchoogot Challenge for 23-4 and Fembruary.

Zombicide Survivor "Thaissa" (Bridget Fonda as Maggie Hayward from Point of No Return)

We have Thaissa, who I’ve read is based on Janet Fonda’s character in Point of No Return (aka The Assassin) – which is a remake of Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita. While I have seen Nikita, I have not seen PoNR.

Zombicide Survivor "Thaissa" (Bridget Fonda as Maggie Hayward from Point of No Return)

Stills I found online had her in a black dress rather than this teal number, but then again the stills were mostly promo images so I don’t know if she wears something like this at some stage. Regardless, since I’ve not seen the film, and we already have “Proxy-Ivy” who is based on Angelina Jolie from Mr. and Mrs. Smith (aka woman in black dress) and the long gloves it made my choice easy enough.

Because of all of the above, I just went with the card art, as it’ll be much easier to identify on the table (especially if both Ladies are drawn as survivors in the same game).

Zombicide Survivor "Oksana" (Milla Jovovich as Alice from Resident Evil: Extinction)

The second of today’s survivors is clearly Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil: Extinction. I hesitate to even give it the “based on” or “inspired by” disclaimers here! I’ve only seen a couple of these films at best – I’ve definitely seen the first and maybe the second? Ive certainly not seen Extinction, though. This figure was one that I’ve just been putting off painting for literally years. Why? Look at that outfit! Belts and straps and buckles and pouches and more straps and..  and to be honest, it’s the sort of mid-phase CMoN figure that probably looked amazing as a digital sculpt, but ended up with reeeallly shallow and fine details when turned into an actual tabletop model. I mean, I get it – this is how she appears in the film (except for the gunblades – they should be machetes).

Zombicide Survivor "Oksana" (Milla Jovovich as Alice from Resident Evil: Extinction)

But yeah. So credit entirely goes to Alex and Fembruary for this one, since I wanted to have another female Survivor model to pair with Janet – so I just knuckled down and gave Milla a rough paintjob – which works in this case due to the context of her rough, dirty outfit. And with that, another two survivors join the Zombicide roster!

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers Pt.2

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Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

Back to the Toxic Zombies from Zombicide today. I do have to say that these models have become a complete grind. Something to knuckle down on and get done, segment by segment. I still have 36 more Toxic Walkers and 9 more Toxic Runners to wade through in the next couple of months.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

These particular walkers fall into a trope that’s simply weird to me – that of the “sexy zombie”. Looking at how they’re dressed, I guess they’re supposed to be either Zombie Strippers (a movie I am still yet to watch) or Zombie Streetwalkers. I went for the former, at least mentally. Regardless, the fur-lined vests and tiny bikinis meant that these were a right pain it the arse to paint, even at the lower stanard that I set for zombie models.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

I guess they’re done now and that’s what’s most important. I also found another Zombie Karen on the floor, no doubt knocked off the table by Leonard at some stage, so she got painted as well at the tail end of this batch.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

This set of models not only qualify for Dave Stone’s current Paint Whatchoogot Challenge for 23-4 as well as being my first models that qualify for Fembruary ’24. Because women can be faceless undead drones to be blasted and smashed through by our heroes just as well as men can!