A group shot with the other two clowns.
Showing posts with label zombies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zombies. Show all posts
Saturday, 12 February 2011
Bubo the Clown
Been working on painting this guy up. Took some test pics pre varnishing. I thought it would be interesting to paint the warty lumps a darker colour than the skin. It turned out to be tricky to do and seemed to take ages, still clown pants are always fun to paint.
A group shot with the other two clowns.
A group shot with the other two clowns.
Thursday, 30 December 2010
Dead flesh!!
Zombies tend to get painted one of three colours, blue, green or some kind of fleshy colour. Digging out some fantasy figures yesterday reminded me how I was always went for the blue flesh with my zombies. That wasn't a surprise as such, Romero's Dawn of the Dead with its blue faced Z's was burnt in to my conciousness in the days of video nasty hysteria. Seeing those old blue skinned figures did make me realise just how green my zombies had gotten of late. Thing is there was never a concious decision to go green, it just happened!
Here are some old blue skinned fantasy zombies. I don't reckon there's a logical reason for flesh to turn such a blue colour but it always looks suitably pale and undead... maybe the blue is something to do with the necromantic magic used to create them.
I remember giving the flesh on some of these figures an orange glaze, which being the colour opposite to blue, greyed the flesh a little.
Some old citadels... I think one of these was from the AD&D range.
The paint job of those figures must be around 10 years old, if not more. I think these were one of the first groups of figures were I stopped using slotta bases and went back to how I based pre-slotta
Anyway as I mentioned earlier all these blue zombies made me realise how green my Z's had gotten recently.... so last night I took a couple of part painted boss zombies I had on the work bench and slapped on some blue toned flesh to see how they compared with my recent green ones!
As odd as this may sound this was the first time I'd painted under artificial light for maybe 15.... 20 years...
Anyway looking at them this morning I'm liking the way these turned out. Sort of look a bit more realistic which in turn makes them more creepy maybe. Actually they ended up being not so blue in the end... certainly not as blue as the old fantasy figs.
On reflection the females Z's breasts look a bit odd, some kind of extreme tan line effect :) but overall a nice dead colour on both of them. The colours used were a dusty peach ( this was an Anita's brand fleshy colour for no other reason than it was on the desk!) and vallejo ultramarine blue. So the shading was done with these two colours alone. Then I used black, green and blue ink to apply really thin glazes to give the skin a mottled look, and dirty it up a bit also.
So here's the taste test so to speak! Last nights' Z's next to some recent greeny ones.
The pic reminds me to mention the little conversion work... adding hair to the male and more lumpy bits to the female here and there!!
Well what's left to say? Here's a group shot of the zombies. Thanks for reading!!!
Here are some old blue skinned fantasy zombies. I don't reckon there's a logical reason for flesh to turn such a blue colour but it always looks suitably pale and undead... maybe the blue is something to do with the necromantic magic used to create them.
I remember giving the flesh on some of these figures an orange glaze, which being the colour opposite to blue, greyed the flesh a little.
Some old citadels... I think one of these was from the AD&D range.
The paint job of those figures must be around 10 years old, if not more. I think these were one of the first groups of figures were I stopped using slotta bases and went back to how I based pre-slotta
Anyway as I mentioned earlier all these blue zombies made me realise how green my Z's had gotten recently.... so last night I took a couple of part painted boss zombies I had on the work bench and slapped on some blue toned flesh to see how they compared with my recent green ones!
As odd as this may sound this was the first time I'd painted under artificial light for maybe 15.... 20 years...
Anyway looking at them this morning I'm liking the way these turned out. Sort of look a bit more realistic which in turn makes them more creepy maybe. Actually they ended up being not so blue in the end... certainly not as blue as the old fantasy figs.
On reflection the females Z's breasts look a bit odd, some kind of extreme tan line effect :) but overall a nice dead colour on both of them. The colours used were a dusty peach ( this was an Anita's brand fleshy colour for no other reason than it was on the desk!) and vallejo ultramarine blue. So the shading was done with these two colours alone. Then I used black, green and blue ink to apply really thin glazes to give the skin a mottled look, and dirty it up a bit also.
So here's the taste test so to speak! Last nights' Z's next to some recent greeny ones.
The pic reminds me to mention the little conversion work... adding hair to the male and more lumpy bits to the female here and there!!
Well what's left to say? Here's a group shot of the zombies. Thanks for reading!!!
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Boss Zombies
Finally got a re-stock of Boss Zombies this morning. Been a while since these were available so it's good to have them back in the shop. Here are some pics of the set painted by Vesa Makela.
Friday, 5 November 2010
LNOE plastic zombies
At this years Gauntlet event, run by Deeside Defenders, I picked up a copy of the Last Night on Earth boardgame. I'd known about the game for a while and a big draw for me was all the figures that come with it, 8 survivors and 14 zombies in 3 poses. Here's some pics of the zombies I ended up painting and converting.
The first thing that I noticed about the figures was how bendy they were. These are real soft plastic. Most noticable around the ankles of the figures, very flexy. Now this is a good thing in terms of the figures as un-painted game pieces. You could probably tread on one of these figures and it would spring back into shape, very durable in that respect, but the flex could cause problems if trying to paint them. Soft plastic can be really tricky to get paint to adhere to, and the flex in the plastic can cause the paint job to crack. Having had some revell 1/72 soft plastics resist every attempt at getting paint to stick to them I didn't hold out much hope.
Still, I'd seen enough decent paintjobs over on Boardgame Geeks for me to do a test on one of the figures to see how durable the paint job was. Just a quick simple job, I also used this figure to try out some blood techniques. As it turned out the paint went on really well.
Because I re-based the figures on coins, to match my metal figures, I tried drilling up into the legs and gluing some wire in place. This really strenghtened the figure, taking away most of the flex. I ended up doing this on the other six figures I plan to paint. Here is the painted figures with the 3 unpainted zombie poses, a the lower profile coin base.
Because there are only 3 poses there is limited variation... but this is where the soft plastic of the figures is a real bonus. The figures are so easy to cut and drill conversions take minutes. I played around with these over the course of a week, and few minutes here and there. I got 6 done and called it a day. The remaining 7 zombies I'll leave unpainted. Here are the six conversions.
These two had an right arm swap and one of the heads was repositioned with bit of wire. Gave the bare-chested guy a t-shirt with some green stuff.
Next two was a torso swap, this worked really well. Repositioned the arms. The zombie with the green body and brown legs is probably my favorite of the conversions.
There is less conversion options with the female since she's the only Z chick, so it was a case of re-positioning arms and twisting the torso around on one of them.... (looks like I need to put a bit more putty on one of the arms..)
All in all in was fun playing around with these, especially since they're so easy to cut and convert... not sure when I'll get a chance to paint them though....
The first thing that I noticed about the figures was how bendy they were. These are real soft plastic. Most noticable around the ankles of the figures, very flexy. Now this is a good thing in terms of the figures as un-painted game pieces. You could probably tread on one of these figures and it would spring back into shape, very durable in that respect, but the flex could cause problems if trying to paint them. Soft plastic can be really tricky to get paint to adhere to, and the flex in the plastic can cause the paint job to crack. Having had some revell 1/72 soft plastics resist every attempt at getting paint to stick to them I didn't hold out much hope.
Still, I'd seen enough decent paintjobs over on Boardgame Geeks for me to do a test on one of the figures to see how durable the paint job was. Just a quick simple job, I also used this figure to try out some blood techniques. As it turned out the paint went on really well.
Because I re-based the figures on coins, to match my metal figures, I tried drilling up into the legs and gluing some wire in place. This really strenghtened the figure, taking away most of the flex. I ended up doing this on the other six figures I plan to paint. Here is the painted figures with the 3 unpainted zombie poses, a the lower profile coin base.
Because there are only 3 poses there is limited variation... but this is where the soft plastic of the figures is a real bonus. The figures are so easy to cut and drill conversions take minutes. I played around with these over the course of a week, and few minutes here and there. I got 6 done and called it a day. The remaining 7 zombies I'll leave unpainted. Here are the six conversions.
These two had an right arm swap and one of the heads was repositioned with bit of wire. Gave the bare-chested guy a t-shirt with some green stuff.
Next two was a torso swap, this worked really well. Repositioned the arms. The zombie with the green body and brown legs is probably my favorite of the conversions.
There is less conversion options with the female since she's the only Z chick, so it was a case of re-positioning arms and twisting the torso around on one of them.... (looks like I need to put a bit more putty on one of the arms..)
All in all in was fun playing around with these, especially since they're so easy to cut and convert... not sure when I'll get a chance to paint them though....
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Hoodie Zombie
I finished this last weekend when I was having a break from sculpting. One of my zombies with an attempt at a logo on the hoodie. The logo is 4mm tall on the figure and looks fairly convincing to the eye, but it doesn't fair very well when blown up in a picture. I messed up the stripes on the left arm but covered the mistake in a big blood stain. The letters were damn tricky... After trying this I'm re-thinking my plans to paint an Iron maiden t-shirt on a zombie...
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