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Zombicide Black Plague: Abominalpha

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Zombicide Black Plague: Abominalpha

Another Zombicide model today – this time a Kickstarter exclusive model from the original Zombicide Black Plague campaign. The Abominalpha. This one is an interesting design, with a mix of several animals sort of smooshed together. We have some elements of (obviously) Human along with Wolf and Rat, Goat horns, and… Badger claws?

As wacky as that design description sounds, the artist actually pulled it off pretty well. Wrapped the whole thing in flayed skin and added a necklace of decapitated heads for extra drip. Unfortunately – the sculpt is one that I can at best describe – with maximum kindness – as wildly uneven. The overall head, body and musculature are pretty decent. The claws and bone spines are a bit too long and nearly as good looking as the artwork, the tail-spine looks like a decoration and the necklace of heads looks like blobs of undetailed, undefined chewing gum.

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominalpha

The result of all this was that I started painting this thing a couple of years ago with the best of intentions (I usually enjoy painting monsters – and they can often be quick and enjoyable), but it’s taken literally years and I’ve basically just hated the model the entire time.

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominalpha

The only way I got through it was by forcing myself to do a whole bunch of work on it last year for one of the Monster painting challenges, and then ran out of steam – only to harness this year’s Monster MayHem ’23 painting challenge for enough willpower to finally get it done.

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominalpha, Reaper Miniatures 50153 Berkeley Zombie Survivor

Well, regardless of how I’ve felt about the model over the long course of getting it painted, I’m hopeful that I can now forget about all of that and just let it become more or less the same as many of those D&D models I’ve gotten painted over the years – nothing special as a sculpt or paintjob, but certainly more enjoyable to look at and use on the table than unpainted grey PVC.

One more Monster to come for the month’s challenge – see you in 2 days!

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat #Monstermarch7

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Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat

Today’s post features another Zombicide model, but not from 2nd Edition, but from the original Zombicide Black Plague campaign. Another one of the really wacky Abominations, a sibling of sorts to the three others that I painted a couple of years ago. We have the Abominarat.

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat

Aside from Zombicide, this model does have several other uses in games – when I finish building my Age of Sigmar Skaven (I’ve got plenty of models waiting in the wings), it can serve as a slightly-underscale Hell Pit Abomination (which is good, because I really don’t like the official model) and also as a (more “officially” scaled) Mutant Ratfiend when I use that same Skaven army as Kings of War Ratkin. I’ll just sabot him onto a large MDF square, or we’ll just live with the round-bases in friendlies.

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat

Being a fairly large critter, this model also slots very nicely into the Monstery McMonsterface challenge run by Swordmaster at Path of an Outcast also known as the Monster March painting challenge. Which, let’s face it, is certainly helping me to get these larger models that have been sitting around for literally years (2, in this case) completed…

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat

This model was kind of a tricky one to photograph as it’s very much a 3D model. What I mean by that is that the model has something of significant size sticking out on each of the four angles of the model – the head, tail and both outstretched arms.

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat

Of course, he’s still covered in boils and pustules and growths, so I still gave them the usual red-yellow-ivory look to make them stand out a little from the rest of the Abominarat’s unhealthy looking flesh.

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat

As you can see, I also added a bit of gore to the Abominarat’s left claw – this was made up of the messed-up, congealed remnants of my first pot of Citadel’s Blood for the Blood God paint. I later added some more BftBG over the top – and did the same to the little pile of gore on the model’s base.

Zombicide Black Plague: Abominarat, Reaper Miniatures 50153 Berkeley Zombie Survivor

The blood spatter was kept to just a bit on each claw as I didn’t want the model to be overwhelmed by little flecks of blood paint as it’s already a pretty busy model with all of the boils and folds and creases and spikes and scars, and of course those bulbous veins that I had to tint with a touch of blue to make them more lifelike. Berkeley once again comes to the rescue and does the hard work to show us a scale shot!