The Walking Dead – A tale of boot camps and laughter
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About the Project
In November 2016 I went to the Beasts of War Mantic Games The Walking Dead - All out War Boot Camp and it changed my hobby life. I had already backed the game on Kickstarter at its lowest level (March to War), but this allowed me to sell some duplicates of the exclusives and help me pay for my trip to N. Ireland for the boot camp. I met awesome people and really fell in love with the game. I wanted to show my painting efforts somewhere and share some ideas about terrain and some of the ways we have found to scale and manipulate the game to include more players and different ways of playing. Please comment and offer your ideas and experiences.
Related Game: The Walking Dead: All Out War
Related Company: Mantic Games
Related Genre: Post-Apocalyptic
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Done for now...
Quite the set of shamblers in the end. All done for now. The Army Painter Speed Paints featured heavily. I did actually get a bit of reactivation on two models, but I guess I am using speedpaints as a conventional paint. If you zenithal prime and slapchop minis with no more steps you can have a great looking mini. When I came back in with highlights and additional washes that's when I had a couple of minor issues. I still think they're a fun addition to my painting toolbox.
These are version 1, not the 2.0 version that have just been released. The bag of minis are now painted in fairly quick order and I am happy with the results.Finish on a high.
For the basing I cut a chunk of resin sprue to make a box with packing coming out. I added some horticulture freehand on the back of the shirt and he turned out quite well.Plain Jane
Should probably tried harder with this guy, but after so many bold or interesting looking zombies a bit of a plain Jane one gives me a sense of variety in a way.Salmon and stonewash - Plaid and green
The shirt was Tuskgor Fur with a light dry brush of Wraithbone over the top. The stonewash jeans came out well. Had a wash of Targor Rageshade over the bone white primed jeans. Then when still wet added small drops of Highlands Blue Speedpaint and let it pool more around the ankles and away from the thighs. 
Then to keep the variety going I went for some plaid. The red lines were painted on over a Speedpaint of Pallid Bone. Then when I added a wash of Targor Rageshade a couple of the red lines began to be rubbed away and one red line moved. I tidied it up again and it actually looked more worn and grotty as zombie clothes should be. The basing was fun. Some dead grass and a chunk of resin as a curb.I chose a greener skin tone for one and a yellower skin tone for the other. I quite like the yellow and would use a slightly more thinned, more muted, version in future.
Army Painter grey bases
The Army Painter speed paints (Gravestone Grey especially) are great over bases. The mottling and pooling that would be a problem over most flat surfaces give you a great texture on a base. The lady with the gown had a base mix of Gravestone Grey and Highlord Blue.
Basing and camo walkers
I like the desert modern camo on the hat and green traditional camo trousers. The orange speed paint came out great.
An off chunk of resin sprue made a cool curb and a tuft one side makes it looked like a gone to seed raised bed or something.
Recently found an effect I really like on bases. Glued down urban flock hit with a green dry brush to look like a sprawling plant. 
Speed Paint Walkers
I got the version one basic 10 paint Army Painter Speed Paints box. I am using them to speed up the task, but I am not really judging the task on speed. It's more about adding them to the toolbox and seeing if they are a fun paint type to use or not.
Tried to add variety. I re-positioned the hands and painted him up with a hi-vis vest rather than a tank top jumper.
Maggie Booster
Arnold Greene. Using his fists to fight off zombies. The first rule of Bare Knuckle Zombie Fighting Club is... Well no one has been able to share the details as most of the them die before a fighting lodge gets established.Both minis had a Monster Fur Army Painter prime. Arnold’s jacket was painted with Snakebite Leather Contrast. The hair was Skeleton Horde Contrast Paint. The Trousers were Caliban Green with a Athonian Camoshade wash and Deathguard Green and Caliban mix highlight. The skin was Kislev Flesh, Riekland Fleshshade wash, then a Bugman’s Glow and Kislev mix as a highlight. The shirt went through an odd transition that might have been over complicated for the finish. Steel Legion Drab, then Zandri Dust, then Morghast Bone, then Wraithbone and finally a watery wash of Army Painter Matt White. Then finally a water and Agrax mix of a wash pinwashed into just the wrinkles of the shirt. Probably could have cut half those colours out and got the same effect. Especially as I just splashed it with Blood for the Blood God later on anyway.
Maggie’s trousers and hair were painted with Skeleton Horde Contrast. The hair was washed with Reikland Fleshshade with the face and hands. The shirt was a base of Deathguard Green with Dark Angel Green Contrast lines and Grey Seer lines with an Athonian Camoshade after. The skin was Kislev Flesh, Riekland flesh was then a Bugman’s Glow and Kislev mix as a highlight. The basing was fun. Found a piece of sprue that looked like a curb and inspired me to treat it as a flower bed. I filled the bed side of the curb with a forest floor soil type flock and PVA. Then after drying I added part of a flower tuft. The rest of the base with Nulin Oil washed Grey Seer.
And I think I shared the zombie pic in an earlier entry, but I added the character name labels and took the pic because they all come from the same booster.
