Draconis: Spring Clean 2024 and onward

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The Dead start Walking

June 3, 2024

3rd June 2024

I played a bit of Mantic’s ‘The Walking Dead’ several years back, and my wife tried it out at a show as well. A friend had the Kickstarter stuff, so at club we played using his stuff, and went for a cooperative style of play which worked relatively well.

As I had fun with it I picked up the starter, then more expansions over time – but then play dried up in club and I didn’t get around to painting any of my stuff.

So, here we are – as a bit of a spring clean I am going to work on the minis from the starter set. This may well become a project of its own in the future, as I have quite a bit more Walking Dead product unpainted.

Going to start out with the zombies, planning to give a dirty/grubby look to them. Then I will paint up the survivor minis.

First step though… the clean up ☹

The plastic is a little awkward to work with, doesn’t scrape away quite as cleanly as sprue based hard plastic. But I will push through. During the cleaning I noticed some of the minis had a slight sheen in places, so I decided to clean them all in some warm water, just in case there was some release agent on them perhaps.