Zombicide 1st Edition: Murder of Crowz

Zombicide 1st Edition: Murder of Crowz

Today we have the entirety of the Zombicide 1e Boxed set “Murder of Crowz”. I think I had two sets of these, and painted five of them a year ago with rural/fantasy-style basing – as I’d picked them out to use as Dark Eldar Razorwing proxies years ago (still need to set up 40mm nesting bases for those ones) I never found the rest of that boxed set – so there’s 10 more of these Crowz missing somewhere!

Zombicide 1st Edition: Murder of Crowz

I found the contents of this set in a tub under the painting desk, and suggested to Marouda that we work together to try and get them finished as quickly as possible – asking her to help with the fun task of mold line trimming. In short, we succeeded, and they went from bare grey plastic to painted, varnished and blood-spattered within 24 hours over this Easter weekend.

Zombicide 1st Edition: Murder of Crowz

I just gave them simple grey, lightly-textured bases. I mulled over adding some road markings to them, which would have looked a bit better, but this way they’re very usable in Black Plague as well as still being fairly incongruous in any other fantasy games. Like, if I ever need Ravens alongside Vikings – or Razorwings for my Dark Eldar/Drukhari. Not to mention a Hitchcockian nightmare for our Zombicide games.

Zombicide 1st Edition: Murder of Crowz

Sure, they’re simple, but they’re comppletely fit for purpose for boardgames and miniatures games, they pass the “four foot” test, and most importantly – they’re now painted!

And then, between finishing them and writing this post, what else did I happen to find? Yes.. that’s the Black Plague box version of the same figures. very much direct echoes of my last post’s postscript when another box of Death May Die investigators arrived just as I was finishing my “last” Investigator!

December of Zombies: Zombicide Black Plague: Murder of Crowz Part 1.

Zombicide Black Plague, Zombicide 1st Edition, Murder of Crowz, Zombie Crows

A quick one today! While looking through tubs of models in late December I found these models sitting there with some texture paste on their bases and sprayed in black. These were from one of the Black Plague expansion boxes that I opened and got out long ago in order to use as Razorwing Flocks for my Dark Eldar/Drukhari in 40k.

Zombicide Black Plague, Zombicide 1st Edition, Murder of Crowz, Zombie Crows

Of course, I never got around to painting them back then, and since in Decemebr I was in full Zombicide mode, I decided to get ’em done. These Black Plague Crowz are the Five won’t be enough to incorporate into any games, so these will just go into storage until I can get at least 10 more cleaned and painted. The painting is pretty trivial, but the mould line cleaning will take a bit longer…

Zombicide Black Plague, Zombicide 1st Edition, Murder of Crowz, Zombie Crows

The only difference between the two types of Crowz for regular modern Zombicide and the fantasy Black Plague will be in my basing, since they’re identical sculpts – so I’ll be able to use both sets across both games. Once they’re painted, anyway…