Zomtober 2021 week 4!

This week’s offering is four zombies, absolutely gorgeous sculpts that were purchased eons ago from Tengu miniatures, which I believe are available from CP models these days. Typing the words Tengu miniatures also sent me off on a quick Google to see where the other minis from their range ended up, especially those Kappa that I had no need for originally but having since started a fantasy samurai project could probably find a home for…

Lovely to daub paint on, and then great fun to weather. My favourite of the four sculpts is probably the Afro girl in hoodie, who also got adidas stripes after my attempts last week:

The mini on the far left almost delayed this posting, as unfortunately as I was putting them away one evening after finishing painting them ready to photograph the day after, she took a tumble off the table and somehow managed to get chipped on both her chin and the rear of her ankle, which necessitated some sneaky cover up work to hide! I was initially tempted to hide it with a judicious coat of blood effects, but thought that might be overkill…

Finishing these, as well as the satisfaction of another deadline met, brings the Tally to:

28 vs 23 = +5

(Halfway to the goal of averaging a mini a week, with only 2 months until the end of the year…)

Next week: the final week of Zomtober 2021!

Zomtober weeks 2 & 3

Too late for last week and too early for next week, I've decided to split this offering and have it count for both!

So here we have 4 zombies sans clothing:

These were originally bought from Tengu miniatures, who I believe are no longer trading, although these particular sculpts are now available from CP models.

Their lack of clothing was the reason they got painted, as I figured that t would take me roughly the same amount of time to paint any amount of skin on a zombie, so the less other colours needed the faster they would get finished! All else failing, if I don't manage to finish anything else for this Zomtober at least I've hit my original challenge of completing 5 models!

I'm sure you're all wondering: why grey zombies? Honestly, at this point it's mostly because I've got over 100 of the things painted grey, but way back in the mists of time when I started this zombie project (March 2009, according to PMs on the Lead Adventure forum sourcing my first Horrorclix zombies from a nice chap in Spain) fresh faced past me decided to go for a Romero influenced look. He also decided to go with 30mm lipped bases, whereas older wiser me is leaning more towards smaller bases, but that's a discussion for another time! When I get round to converting and painting some miniatures for the The Last Of Us inspired project I should get to paint a zombie in different colours, so there's always that to look forward to!

These four bring the Tally to:

30 vs 130 = -100 (the more eagle-eyed of you may have noticed that my acquired figure has gone down by one since the last post - I sent off a figure in a trade over the weekend!)