Deadzone painting and gaming

So a bit fitting but mantic have made their solo play rules tor deadzone free on their site for people who are getting gaming withdrawals like me. So I assembled quickly and painted up 20 plague zombies plus my first edition deadzone doctor simmonds.

Dr Simmonds was a gcps researcher looking into the plague on nexus psi before she herself got infected. In second edition she’s a cool specialist for the plague!

Now to paint the lab tech zombies and doctor Simmonds uniform I primed them all with Vallejo white primer, then covered all their uniform with gws apothecary white contrast paint before a drybrush of army painter matt white.

For the soldier zombies I primed them with army painter AP desert yellow, covered the armour plates in AP oak brown, washed everything with AP strong tone, then drybrushed the uniforms desert yellow before then doing a rough highlight/layer of desert yellow mixed evenly with AP skeleton bone. The skin for all my zombies was a layer of AP barbarian flesh, followed by a wash of AP red tone, and then once that was dry followed by another wash of AP flesh tone. I then picked out the extrusion with skele5on bone, the eyes and the yellow hoods of the lab techs with AP daemonic yellow. The bases were just Gws dust base mix, drybrushed in AP skeleton bone when dry. I went for different basing because that’s the system I used for my other plague minis and what I’m using for my marauders and eventual gcps (the idea being some of my armies are based similarly for storylines in my head).

These guys took me a few days after work to paint and I’m glad I did them as now I can go ahead and do solo play missions and post write ups here for the future!