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In the Pink… Painting Zombies

Not more zombies I hear you cry….

Yep afraid so.

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I ran into a bit of a problem with these last night. The red would just not cover effectively; this was after me coming down with repetitive strain injury shaking the bottle.

I went back to the old tried and tested method… make a nice pastel shade (in this case pink) and then cover with the required colour.

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It worked a treat and red cuffs and helmet crests are a nice vibrant red.

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However, looking at the pink, it did look rather good.  If I hadn’t already painted my units in blue I would have gone with the pink.

 

The other thing I managed to do was to fix this resin figure.

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He was one from my mate’s collection and painted by Alternative Armies. He had snapped off at the ankles.

It wasn’t just a case of superglue him back on as he was leaning at a bit of a funny angle. Therefore, I resorted to superglue and Bicarbonate of soda.

Luckily, I had a useful assistant who could lob the soda onto the superglue as I held the model in an appropriate position. The soda reacts instantly with the superglue leading to a hard, almost plastic bond. As it was his ankle, I did not file it down, as I wanted a larger surface area to hold together. Luckily, it looked like he had a bit of a raggedy bottom to his trousers.

With having to shake the paint bottle so much I am seriously considering one of these nail polish shakers!

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Zombies, Zombies Everywhere!

I have gone off Piste with these.

My whole army is red and green, so we have red and green… and blue. The chap behind the Officer is my newly promoted sergeant. Hence the red and white piping on the cuffs.

He became the sergeant after his predecessor had an argument with a 9lb round shot it would seem.

Still a long way to go, but getting there.

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Bedtime Zombies again!

Highlights on greatcoats and breeches. Not that you can tell from the photo.

The officer has been given a silvered cuirass whilst the rest are not as swanky.

Still a long way to go before they are done. I am wondering whether to head away from the red cuffs as shown on the website to something else instead. A bit of research is required methinks.

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Morning Zombies

Very little achieved last night as I was sorting out my shed.

I managed to get a wash on the cloaks, a second coat of red on the breeches. I also added some dark green on the command section tunics. I did consider white as befits an elite cuirassier unit but decided on the Russian Green. The other conundrum is the musician. Quite often these had reversed colours to the rest of the unit. I was worried that it would look like a figure from a different regiment.

I have ordered the necessary green paint to do the cloaks for these and the two resin ones. Hopefully it will come soon as I want to crack on and get them finished.

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Bedtime Zombies….Again

At least these are Zombie cuirassiers!

Here we have Preserovitch’s Elite cavalry unit who have dismounted to hunt for Ferach stragglers in the Witchlands. I have basically just blocked in the cloak and breeches. I started quite late so I haven’t got as far as I would have liked. In reality the officer would have had a silver-grey greatcoat but I felt if I went down that route the unit cohesion would be lost. I might give him a silver breastplate to allow him to stand out a bit.

I am either going to put a wash on the cloaks or paint them in some grey-green paint. They aren’t as bright as they look here, but I am just not too sure if I like them or not.

The ones in the background are being painted up for my mate’s birthday. I need to find out the colours used on the prepainted ones so I have some hope of matching them in.

I really do like these figures and tried to buy just these from the starter set; instead I have had to wait a bit before I managed to get some.

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Undead line Finished

I eventually got these painted…

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As per normal, they look better in the flesh so to speak. They are in fact highlighted which is not visible at all on most of them 😦

Next up is this merry lot:

 

The Savant Zombies will be first. The ones for my mate have to match into the ones he got painted from Alternative Armies.  I will check with Gavin to see what colours he used ( I have a pretty good idea as I am using the same paints myself).

Mine can be a different colour as I see fit/fancy the look of. Mine are the ones on the circular bases and his are on the square bases.

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Undead line and more purchases

Adding lights into my shed took a bit more time than expected.

I still managed to slap some paint on these tonight. I am not sure you can actually tell in this picture.

My purchases are thus:

The new Savant zombie colour party with sergeant, drummer and standard bearer. The rest of these in the range are resin, these however are white metal.

Below the zombies are a selection of Ferach troops from the Witchland’s campaign. These poor souls are wrapped in blankets and heavy coats to keep out of the cold. I will be painting these up for my mates birthday present.

The one thing I was not expecting was the amount of flash on the flag bearer. This, I can honestly say is a first. It will take a couple of minutes to sort out so there are no issues there. The other two zombies have a bit of a mould line so I think it was a bit of a wobble with this individual figure.

Next up are my toys.

Another four Savant zombies to take my initial squad to ten. I really do like them in their cloaks. If the colour party had been modelled wearing them I might have been tempted to get some (I am still not sure about kettle drums in a skirmish game).

A bit of a clean up is required but it won’t take long.

Next up are another couple of civilians.

An Othari aristocrat and a hobgoblin miser. These are full of character, the Aristo is wafting his, no doubt perfumed, handkerchief whilst the miser is writing something down in his notebook.

I really do like the civilian figures from the various ranges. It is my aim to collect them all.

Last of all was my free pile of carrots 🥕. As I got these models under an offer I received free postage and another set of carrots.

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Undead Line

I got a bit more painting done tonight.

These half dozen zombies are all in greatcoats. Instead of giving them a contrasting cuff I decided to leave them as either brown or grey. Bizarrely enough there are three identical pairs. Even though I picked them up at random I have managed to paint one of each pair in brown and the other in grey.

Their flesh tone is skeleton bone at the minute, but once dry I will add various washes. Some greenish and others a more khaki colour. Even though I have been painting lots of zombies and other undead I still haven’t got the hang of painting their flesh.

The greatcoats have yellow epaulettes, mainly to add a bit of a brighter colour, but also because I saw them in the Osprey book on Russian Napoleonic infantry and I quite liked them. I will try and add a number on each, however it may lead to a repaint 😁.

My MDF bases have arrived so I can base up to 100 infantry on the 2p sized base. I managed to find one to base all six of the lot I am painting now.

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Objective Markers

I decided to get these finished tonight.

I am really happy with how they came out. All of the items are GW plastic components saved up over the years.

I still think my favourite is this one.

It tells a sad little tale of someone being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Poor soul was having a rest behind the chest when a cannon ball spilt him in half.

Next up is another mini diorama

What information does the book hold or what lurks in the chest behind the wheel.

Here we have a scroll left on a barrel. Is it an important communication or simply a list of items sold at market. Perhaps the barrel contains something of value or is a booby trap to confound the unwary.

Finally is the way to Bogenwald…

This is a bit of a wierd one. When I started this blog I wanted a name for it. Rather than my name I thought I would come up with something a bit different. In my Wierd war campaign many years ago the heroes had to infiltrate a secret base near the town of Bogenwald. The name evidently stuck as it came to me when contemplating a title. Roll on a few months and as I am mooching around in my bits box I come across the sign showing the way to Bogenwald, oh and Schwartzhelm too.

To be honest I think I need to do a bit more work on the drum. It wasn’t the easiest thing to paint as there was very little detail.

Because of these my painting of figures has dropped behind tonight.

I managed to add a wash to the greatcoats and that is about it.

I hope to get them a lot further on tomorrow night.

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Longship

I had a break from painting uniforms…

I built this for a friend of mine. It was pretty much already painted and 90% built. I only really had to make a sail and raise the mast. As it was missing the steer board I scratch built one out of offcuts of MDF.

The kit comes with some MDF shields and oars as well.

I want the mast to be removable and was struggling to vote up with a concept to release the ropes. It suddenly dawned on me to use a nautical device. So I nipped back into the bin and pulled out some more scrap and made some belaying pins.

The mast was made out of three sheets of kitchen roll trimmed to size and toughened with PVA. The rigging etc is made from my linen thread from my leatherwork box.

All in all I am happy with the build. The manufacturer is Dark Ops really not a bad model for £14. The only thing I added was the sail and the rigging.

I didn’t get much done painting wise apart from base coating some more objective markers and a rather large wild boar.

I also went off gallivanting to a beach nearby as it was such a lovely day.