The Walking Dead – A tale of boot camps and laughter

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.

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.

The jeans on Lilly was Nighthaunt Gloom tech paint with some distressing with a bit of Grey Seer dry brushing. First time using it that way and quite happy with it.

I like my new Green Camo Contrast Paint on Tom’s trousers. I think the Blood for the Blood God technical paint gore went well.

Used the same theme as with Rick and Glenn in their gear. The metallic ribs might look unrealistic but the theme started with a zombie winning me a speed painting mug at Salute so the theme continued.

The basing style is a continuation too. Smudges and splashes of Grey Seer with a liberal coat of Orcflesh Green Contrast to give a prison utilitarian flooring look.

Sorry for posting the wrong mini in here earlier. But back on track and determined to keep this game alive I will keep posting my efforts. I managed to play a work colleague a few weeks ago on a night shift and it was yet again well received. Everyone that I have played has enjoyed the experience. Looking forward to my first look at the Mantic Games resin minis with Maggie and Sophia and the Whisperers being high on the list.

The game is only dead when the players let it die. Mantic Games won’t have the rights to create content or sell the Walking Dead game from the end of March 2022. I had my eye on some expansion packs that I was going to add to my May Birthday list, but I have had to bring some purchases forward. These zombies are from my last set of expansions that I hadn’t got around to. Looking forward to my delivery sometime in March.

Glenn Rhee.

Based the colours on Glenn’s early appearances on the TV series.

The cap and the jacket and the black jeans and dark t-shirt especially.

I used Contrast paints for the black, red and blue.

The base.

The drain / grate was made from a left over mdf part from my log cabin I finished recently. It seems to be an alternative chimney top, but I was able to build up a pavement around it. The bars of the drain were made from cut up pieces of loon band.

The leaves were cut from onion skin. ?

Batch painting the duplicates that cropped up when I got Here’s Negan. Always fun to paint walkers.
Not sure what the bunting is for, perhaps an international food day in the café? Just saw the languages on the back of a box, flags designating the different language sections when all you need to do is scroll down until you find the one that makes sense, duh, and I cut them out and glued them down.

Not my best work. Basing was an attempt at a barber shop floor tiling. Not sure why comic book fans ?

Had comments i should add flock as hair strands. Might do. Might not.

Mantic Points well spent. ?

I had always wanted this mini since I saw it on the bootcamp.

The studio painted minis were produced from a case and laid out for everyone there to see. There were sculpts we wouldn’t see for a wave or two and this guy caught my eye.

For whatever reason I missed the opportunity to buy this mini first time around so was thrilled to find it in the Mantic Points section of the store recently.

Used the gel glue gore technique I saw online years ago.

Roughly speaking it goes like this…

The nozzle of my UHU glue tube was applied to the mini’s chin, a delicate pressure was applied to produce a small gob of glue (an imperial gob, not metric… a third of a grain of rice size?), then I moved the nozzle slowly away from the chin, maintaining a strand of glue between nozzle and chin, and finishing the strand by wiping the nozzle off carefully on the deer’s wound. Hopefully when you remove the tube you will have left a strand in place. It can be fiddly. As long as you are relatively quick if you apply way too much glue or the glue strand doesn’t want to detach and gets glue everywhere etc. you can just wipe the glue way without it causing to much damage to the paint job. (Or you could be smarter than me and do it immediately after priming and just paint around it until you do the gore.) If it looks too delicate / too slim of a strand you can bulk it up with some PVA and paint. Without paint the strand will dry relatively clear and on the right model can be a cool drool effect without even adding paint.

Maggie. Nice to paint and looking forward to tagging her up with Glen at some point in game. ?

I used Contrast paints as a base for the trousers, belts, hair and the gun.

The shirt is Zandri Dust, a wash of Agrax, with a white and Zandri mix highlight.

A wash of Camoshade on the trousers after a Death Guard Green highlight.

I will add the labels to some of these characters, including Maggie, soon. I found the printed names sheet during a bit of a tidy up.

This kit has been pushed around in piles of papers, boxes and from room to room, maybe even survived a house move without being assembled.

It was given to everyone as part of the bundle at the bootcamp by 4Ground. I felt guilty that I never got around to building it. I initially didn’t feel it meshed well with all the other urban and city terrain we were given, but now I can see that with just a few additional pieces this will actually be a great piece for custom scenario.

It was easy to build. The instructions were great. Once assembled and glued together it was ready to play, but I stained the roof with a diluted mixture of Citadel washes and some Snakebite Leather Contrast and added leaf litter as I thought the pale fresh wood slates, though maybe accurate, just didn’t look right to me.

This mini is from the initial Maggie expansion blister and apparently the walker is based on a Walking Dead mega fan Eddy Brennan. I shared my efforts on Mantic’s The Walking Dead Fanatics Facebook page and Eddy annouced that this mini was based on him and shared a picture of a clear plastic prototype Mantic had sent him.

After the first pics I went back and added Warlord Games Japanese tank decals to give the look of a Japanese cult metal band t-shirt. ?