I’ve just been trying to catch up on some comments and did the recent Toxic Zombies post – and I had a thought. I’ve got 15 more of these ugly bastards to paint, and one of the things that helps keep painting repeated models like this vaguely interesting/slightly less soul-deadening is the chance to paint some fun freehand on shirts and the like.

So why not open it up to readers of the blog community? If you’d like to nominate/become a Zombie while I work my way through the toxics then please link me a pic to either you in an approprate shirt (your face/head isn’t required) or just a pic of the t-shirt online somewhere (or hosted on your blog).

The two sculpts I’ll be working on are the ones featured in the top two pics of this post – zombieman with t-shirt and backwards baseball cap and zombieman with singlet and headband. Unfortunately there is no running lady toxic zombieman sculpt but that doesn’t preclude anyone from sending in a design for this. (Though there is a female toxic walker sculpt to come later on – which I may throw open in this manner if this experiment is successful and fun.)

Now, I can’t and won’t guarantee that I’ll attempt to paint every t-shirt people might submit – the designs will need to be something I can comfortably paint on a small surface, so that means large logos and things that “read” well at this size and scale work best.

Text isn’t the best thing to include – I typically keep the logo and ditch the text with that sort of shirt design, and more complex designs (like the Ramones logo) are going to be a complete no-go at this size. Sports jerseys are (probably) all fine as they’re mostly at least vaguely related to heraldry and are designed to read from a long distance away. if you want one of those, please do link me the one you like since there’s lots of variations for teams these days.

Innnerested? If so, then just add a link below to your pic on your blog or to a reputable site with the t-shirt image. Let’s have some fun!