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December of Zombies (Redux): Zombicide Rue Morgue Skinner Zombie Mix

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Zombicide Rue Morgue Skinner Zombies

Zombie Mix?

Sounds almost cute, doesn’t it? Like something you’d find in someone’s cassette mixtape collection, or in more modern terms – their Spotify playlist. Or go down to the milk bar (corner shop, dairy, bodega) and get some mixed lollies (sweets/candy). “I’ll have the zombie mix, please!”

Zombicide Rue Morgue Skinner Zombies

This particular Zombie mix started a few days before Christmas, right after breaking up for work at the end of the year. I didn’t particularly want to be painting zombies, but Marouda and I do want to get back to playing Zombicide, and we’re up to Rue Morgue and so need Skinner Zombies in order to play. We could of course play with unpainted pieces, or proxy in Berserkers or Toxic Zombies in their place (excepting the crawlers) but I figure if we’re going to play that campaign, and I’m going to (eventually) paint these fuckers, then it makes sense to play the game with the proper painted figures. Even if it means a bit of a delay.

Zombicide Rue Morgue Skinner Zombies
Despite wanting to work on other models, I started on six. And I got them (mostly) done in 2 days. Encouraged, I started on another 10. And got those done in 2 days. And then another 10. The next ones took me almost a week. My enthusiasm was sapped. As I got the first ones in this next batch done, I added in another four. This was to turn the first six into ten. Meaning I’d have a total of thirty zombies painted. Thirty Days of December – Thirty Days of Zombies. While I was still working on the final, added-to batch of zombies, I spent some time doing a bit of blog catch-up from the past few months I’ve been away for. I saw that Dave Stone was starting the Paint What You Got Challenge again (thanks Anne!) and that it started officially on 26th December.
Zombicide Rue Morgue Skinner Zombies
As it happened, I’d been stockpiling all of these zombies until I had them all “done” for the final, finishing touches – the blood spatter. After that, they’re properly completed. So when I finished the final batch of painting and then got them all together on the night of the 27th/early am 28th and spattered them with blood, they were then ALMOST complete. On the night of the 28th, I went in with the brush to add the final bloody touches where needed (around bones, open wounds, etc) meaning these models were actually finished in time to count towards Dave Stone’s latest Challenge: Paint What You Got (originally started by Ann, many years ago!) – and I didn’t even plan it that way!
Zombicide Rue Morgue Skinner Zombies
Now the exceptionally observant amongst you might have noticed something wrong with my Thirty Days of Zombies horde here. Something I didn’t notice until taking the photos. That’s right. There are actually Forty Zombies here. As some point in the process, I must have painted an extra 10 and then gotten my numbers mixed-up while pushing my numbers.
Now I somehow need to get that table cleared so I can photograph the December Round-Up and start posting up my January models!

July-August Monthly Round-Up (Season of Scenery)

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Well, this one has certainly been a long time coming! My model Round-Up from July and August finally showing up at almost the end of September! Usually this would be two separate ones, but I’ve been busy – and posting to the blog isn’t always the top priority, so it’s constantly ebbs and flows – or perhaps more accurately: lull and catch-up!

So yeah, in the end I got quite a decent amount of stuff completed in those two months, despite the various distractions that life throws up and at you. Nothing on what turned out to be September’s distractions, though!

Over both of those months, and even still now, I’ve got a bunch of pieces that are waiting on a day that fits a bunch of specific criteria so I can get outside and just spray away for a few hours. This day needs the following 1. Not at work, 2. Not Raining, 3. Not overly-windy, 4. Not too sunny or hot. I’ve not had any luck. I can get two of those at the same time, but all four? Buckley’s even now that we’re almost a month into Spring here.

I figure I’ll now just throw a bunch of photos up so you (and I) can see what I got painted in this couple of months. As is plain to see, the primary focus was very much on terrain for the Season of Scenery, which Dave Stone runs each year. Dave has had some health issues recently and has now been MIA since his last update post at the end of July, which is quite concerning – so we’re all hoping/wishing/praying for the best for Dave and his family.

Frank the Tankfanboy was asking about a cityscape photo the other day. These are all a bit crowded, but they’re the best I can do for the moment. If we get that nice day for spraying I was mentioning earlier I might be able to do something a bit better shortly with a gaming layout or something crazy like that!

In all, I completed 1x Custom Zombicide survivor, 13x Zombicide Zombies of various kinds, 23x pieces of Cities of Death Terrain, 1x printed Guillotine for Zombicide, 8x Fabricator’s Lair Horton Spheres, 2x Wargame Forge Bunkers, 2x Simple MillerBro Buildings, 2x Corvus Shopfronts (shout-out Dave & Kuribo!), 2x Damaged FL buildings, 2x FL Nuclear Cooling Towers, 3x WF Octagonal buildings, 2x WF “Jetsons” buildings, 4x Shiac3D Battletech Buildings, 4x Hextech Fluid Storage Tanks, 9x FL ruins, 4x WF Generators, 6x FL Fountains, 5x FL Spires, 9x Tanks for FoW (Battlefront & printed), 3x printed Glaive tanks for Legions Imperialis and 4x Catalyst Battletech Battlemechs.

I hope I didn’t miss anything there! That list comes to 109 models completed in July & August. If we add that to the 229 painted up to the end of June, it gives me a running total of 338 completed so far for 2025, not counting the stuff I’ve finished so far in September that I’ll start posting in a couple of days. A few of these last couple of photos are pure “Season of Scenery” ones with the non-valid Zombicide models removed.

A lot of the stuff I finished over July and August were things I’d been chipping away at for awhile. I’ve usually got way too many things going on at once which both makes things seem to take forever to finish, but also results in little floods as a set of this or that can be finished off in quick succession when I have a bit of time to work on them.

With a bit of luck, September’s models will start being posted before the end of September. Crazy, I know!