Marvel Zombies: Beast

Marvel Zombies: X-Men Beast Blue Fur

I mean, you knew this one was coming next – surely! Yep, that’s right – we have the blue X-rated version of Chewbacca in both his Survivor and Zombie version from the Marvel Zombies X-Men and Kickstarter Extras sets.

Marvel Zombies: X-Men Beast Blue Fur

The fur on these sculpts is certainly more accentated when compared to the Crisis protocol version – this allows for both easier painting but unfortunately makes the model look more “noisy” and less visually clear in these photos. This isn’t helped by the sculptor’s (or designer’s) choice of giving us the bespectacled version of Beast – so more crap interfering the readability of his face.

Marvel Zombies: X-Men Beast Blue Fur

There was a bit of extra messing around on the bases, since there are a number of sculpted books, pages and flasks scattered about, so it took a little more care than the usual rubble.

Marvel Zombies: X-Men Beast Blue Fur

For the books and pages, I just used some text-strip decals that I got from a KS ages ago. While they’re obviously set up to be useful in 40k, they’re a pretty handy thing to have in your back pocket for this sort of occasion. Trying to add in text lines would of course be doable, but more time than I’d like to spend – and getting row after row of them to be straight would be a nightmare.

Marvel Zombies: X-Men Beast Blue Fur

That aside, they’re really a pretty solid pair of sculpts that weren’t too bad at all to get painted. I may go back to both beasts and darken just the front of their Wolverine-style hairline to be more in line with the comics (as noted by Faust in the last post) but otherwise, they’re done and I’m good with ’em!

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers Pt.4

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

Into the final stretch of Toxic Zombies! We’ve got the first batch of the boys. Naturally, we have no skimpy underwear here – just torn pants and torn t-shirts. I guess there’s that hint of alluiring tighty-whities peeking over the top of their pants in the rear, but other than that, no sign of “sexy zombies” at all for these boys!

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

Following up from the three different sculpts of female Toxic walkers, we have the first of the three male sculpts – with these ones being the ones I judged as the simplest ones to paint, since they only have pants and t-shirts, while both the other sculpts also have jackets. More layers, you see equals more paints and more care needed. With these being simpler, I was able to get them from base-painted to finished over the course of this last weekend.

Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers Zombicide Toxic City Mall Expansion: Toxic Walkers

I would have liked to open these ones up for more t-shirt nominations, and I would have done so if not for the huge tear down the front of this sculpt’s t-shirt, which kinda wrecks any kind of print, and makes them  more trouble than they’re worth for something that would be obscured. I have a couple of them a hint of a print, but really didn’t put much effort at all into them, just enough to imply that some logo or another might be on them.

With these eight done, I’ve got 18 left to go for the Toxic remainders. I’ve started working on them, so the bases are done, and I’ve started on their pants. At some point I’ll probably break them up into two more batches based on sculpt (10 and 8) to get them finished. I’d originally hoped to get a batch done each month, but now I’m wondering if I can get a batch of these bastards done each week instead so I can get these over and done so we can get the expansion onto the tabletop…