December of Zombies: Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers, Part 2 – More Suits

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in suits

We humans are very much creatures of habit. In November and then December, I got out of the habit of posting regularly. On the other hand, I kept busy with the painting aspect of the hobby. I painted rather a lot of models for Zombicide, which I’m going to post up over the next however many days. I’ll be doing them in more condensed form – these Zombicide walkers for example would probably have been posted across three individual posts as I finished each batch. Lucky you – you get them all at once!

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in suits Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in suits

Five batches of five zombies each in their own suit colour. Not for any particular gameplay reason, just to keep them looking a bit less uniform when in a horde. These first five were done in a “warm stone” colour.

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in suits Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in suits

And the next five in a “silver” blue-grey. I’d write more here, but what is there really to say?

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in suits Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in suits

The next batch are in a lighter, slightly richer blue than the previous set of zombies in blue suits.

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And then we have five zombies in lighter tan suits to give a bit of variety (though it seems less so with the warm stone ones in the same set).

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And lastly for now with these five in a darker grey – though this grey is still lighter than the original set of five..

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in suits

And here we are – a pretty decent little horde of the undead for Zombicide and whenever we get around to something like Days Gone. Of course, we’d need some urban terrain to play something like that properly, so… 

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in suits

I still have a further 13 of these sculpts to go, but I’m going to do them a little differently. A couple of blue shirts for retail workers, a couple of GW redshirts perhaps, a couple of (formerly) suave dudes in 80’s pastel suits at Marouda’s suggestion. Hopefully I’ll get those done in January, but they could well bleed into February or March due to some other projects that I’m working on at the moment….

Still, before I get to posting those, I’ve got to get the rest of December photographed and posted up… 

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers, Part 1 – The Suits

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits

Continuing the stuff I painted in November, we continue with the Zombicide models. In this particular case, we have a subset of the walkers – the Zombies in Suits (or at least shirts and pants).

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits

I had originally planned to work on the Toxic Zombies after completing the Berserkers, but instead pivoted to just regular walkers instead. I figured that while it would be very cool to play though the Toxic City Mall expansion with a fully-painted set of Toxic Zombies, they require a lot more work and mental effort to do that bog-standard walkers – something I was not in excess of during the hellscape of November.

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits

I did them 10 at a time, picking out only models wearing suits – basically leaning into the semi-uniformity of the “salaryman uniforms”. So I plucked out two each of five different sculpts and basically batch-painted them in two sets once I got them cleaned and primed. Black and dark grey were my first sets.

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits

It worked out pretty well – nice and quick – and looking good for faceless undead enemy mooks to be slaughtered by the score – so I then started on a second set of 5×2 pair. These next ones got dark blue suits, and painted up quickly as well.

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits

The final batch of this lot got silver-grey suits. Getting these models painted nice and quickly gives me models that look far better than grey plastic on the table while letting me spend a bit (or a lot!) more time on the survivors – the player characters of the piece. 

Zombicide 1st Edition: Zombie Walkers in Business Suits

I’ve since prepared a second mob of 20 more of these besuited bastards – some have even been started, and then a third mob of the final 18 or so of them still needing to have the mould lines cleaned up. And THEN I’ve still got the other walker sculpts – females in dresses, the punks, and the homeless-looking guys still to paint up. I’ll have the next batch of November models posted up again in a few days. Until then, see you in the comments!