Hello again. Long time no post, I know. It’s because while you Northern Hemisphere people are enjoying what we’d call a warm summer afternoon, we’ve been in the depths of a hellish and freezing winter – which you’d call “it’s a bit chilly, maybe don’t just wear a t-shirt out”. Anyway, as a result of this I’ve been in the way of Sneezy, Drippy and Coughy. While the RATs have been negative, I’ve still had to stay home from work so as to not share the misery and because negative RAT or not, nobody wants a coughing, sneezing, snotty nose-blowing bastard working next to them – especially in 2022. So yeah, time off work, but not exactly being in the most productive state.

So in the time so far this month I started on the other half of my Zombicide 1st Edition Runners. The other 12 of them. Twelve. The second dozen. We have a guy who likes all-Adidas everything, and another who enjoys Jello.

The red on one of the ladies turned out a bit (a lot) more Magenta-ish than I’d planned. I wonder if Kuribo will pick up on the reference in this row of Zombies?

Oh, after I finished the dozen models that were the last of my Runner, I found another pair of them – so I had to prep and paint those two before blooding and photographing the ones I’d just completed. So we have 14 here. I find t-shirts tend to be the best surfaces to add modern pop culture references to. Shouldn’t go too far overkill, though – not everyonme wearing a t-shirt has a print, especially a back print – not that these zombies offer anything else. The one in the yellow and red outfit is either a superfan or Tomoaki Honma, but let’s pick those references!

Why hello there! Along with all of the other junk I’ve been painting over July was the first dozen of the Runners from my 1st Edition Zombicide set(s). With four sculpts total, I picked out three of each a couple of months ago, slowly got them cleaned up, and then got a-painting last month – though I did most of the work on these last weekend when I decided to just get the damned things painted and complete.

First up we have “t-shirt guy”. So called because he’s wearing a t-shirt which he is also tearing open. I think for the next batch of these, I’ll paint one with the old Yellow-and-Red Hulk Hogan t-shirt so I can call them the “Hulkamania T-Shirt guys” since Hogan would heroically tear off his shirt back in the 80’s and beyond. In the interim, we’ve got one of them wearing a (probably) soccer/football shirt instead, as it seemed to work for the sculpt.

Our next model is “Apple advertisement guy” because you remember those iPod/iPhone commercials with the silouhette and the iconic white headphone cables, right?

Yeah. Those. ’nuff said.

We then have.. um… “girl”. Because girl. I used three of the most common female hair colours – blonde, brunette, and Mid 2010’s Sasha Banks.

And finally, rounding out the dozen, we have “bald guy”. Because I ran out of imagination two sculpts ago. I decided to convert the middle one to have his hand cut off across the forearm when the painted model fell off the table and the wrist snapped almost clean off, and was clearly not going to glue back together successfully. So I painted the stump red with a couple of white dots, and later added extra Blood for the Blood God (aka Citadel’s version of Clear Red) for seasoning.

All of these Runners wear some sort of athletic clothing, so they all got normal looking runners (trainers, sneakers) as well as what I hope look like fairly normal “sportswear” looking coloured clothing, though I didn’t bother with logos other than picking out some of the embossing on their shoes and shorts. I have another dozen of these still to paint, so they’ll be my next batch of zombies to get painted. They’ve all been lightly sprayed to make mould line removal easier (to see), so maybe, hopefully they’ll get painted over August.

Or September.