Well, all I can say is thank goodness I used some throw away figures for my first go at painting in what has been forever, lol! And thank goodness they were zombies, because the paint job turned out pretty awful - though I can attribute some of that to a bad product which I'll talk more about later.
As I mentioned in my last post I have joined in on the Zomtober painting challenge - here. I honestly can't remember the last figure I painted from beginning to end, it's been a full on focus of terrain for the entire year really. I definitely didn't want to use my new Walking Dead All Out War zombies for this first go, so I remembered that I had an old box of Wargames Factory zombies.
I powered through it the best I could and got 8 built and ready to be primed.
I purchased some of Army Painter's Necrotic Flesh a week ago in anticipation of getting zombies painted up quicker. And I have to say I really liked the color on the models.
I just did really quick, for me anyway I'm still super slow with the paint brush, block painting on the figures as I knew I also wanted to try the Army Painter Quickshade on them - again, to get more zombies completed more quickly.
One thing I found interesting about the figures was the ones that looked like doctors - the coats are just awkward looking. And the Butch Deadlift/Bolt Vanderhuge figures with the monster sized chests were awkward too - dudes need to do some cardio and get off the free weights.
I've had this can of AP Strong Tone Quickshade for several years now, and hadn't opened it since I did work on my old west figures - so that's been about 3 years now. When I shook the can everything seemed ok, but when I actually opened it the top had completely solidified.
And it was thick too, probably about an 1/8 of an inch. I finally punched through that and stirred up the Quickshade for a good 10 minutes straight, but I could just tell it wasn't right.
And with some really bad judgement I went ahead and applied it anyway to the figures. Bigly mistake. But again, thankfully they are zombies and can look like doo doo.
I didn't use all the figures I painted because I thought some were just awful, but I did base a few that I had done years ago to get the six shown here for this first try. Like all my pulp figures I'm going to go with clear bases for all of these zombies and then all TWDAOW figures as well.
I've been getting a lot more boosters and expansions in for TWDAOW as you can see here.
So overall, a great big fail on my first attempt at figure painting, lol! But with sticking with stuff I'm kind of good at, I'm making great progress on 4Ground's Emma's Diner, with a zombie apocalypse twist :)
Ivor
It might just be the case with zombie's the worst the better Ivor.
ReplyDeleteI like your thought process Frank!
DeleteI think they turned out just fine. :) Even though the source kit is not a favourite, I think you did a good job nonetheless. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks PC, appreciate it! But I think your being extremely kind lol!
DeleteThey all look pretty good, a productive week it seems.
ReplyDeleteThanks Fred! Baby steps for the guy who hasn't picked up a paint brush in forever :)
Deletelol ... anything that is painted and ready to play is hardly a fail! I've never been a fan of anything that Wargames Factory has done ... poor quality figures in a strangely cast way (also, the plastic they use is odd). I did chuckly reading thinking about Arnold S. showing up to "pump them up" (for the large chested Zombies) ... hahaha.
ReplyDeleteI'm right there with you on Wargames Factory, almost immediately when I opened the box I remembered why the box was closed the last time!
ReplyDeleteExactly, the sculpts are just wrong proportionately - I'd been sitting on that cardio joke for a few years after hearing it in one of the new remake Looney Tunes cartoons!
lol! My feeble brain forgets jokes if I don't use them right away ;-) I also recall them being the worst multi-part kits I ever dealt with ... but that was a quick lesson learned - they made "the list" after the first time I tried to use some of their figures.
DeleteYeah, they are definitely on the "list" for good this time! I just need to find some new test fodder until I feel confident enough to try to paint the Mantic figures.
DeleteHi Ivor,
ReplyDeleteYou could find some inspiration here : http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.fr/2017/08/mv-zombie-community-project-update-06.html
impressive project !
Wow! Yeah, that is absolutely amazing jaw dropping stuff! Thanks for the link!
DeleteSorry I'm late with a comment here Ivor, I thought I'd visited EVERYONE on the list, but only just caught you before 'week two'!
ReplyDeleteI go along with all the above comments - they're fiddly to assemble, but you did a great job and they've painted up just fine. They'll look great as part of "the horde" :-)
Thanks for the heads-up on AP Necrotic Flesh - I've not tried it, but you've sold me on the idea of getting some :-)
Appreciate the kind words! But I do feel everyone is being extremely generous with the praise, lol! The AP paint is great stuff, expensive but definitely recommended :)
DeleteThe WF Zombies are awful, and they are particularly bad with shades and washes as there's no detail to pick out.
ReplyDeleteAt least you've had a dry run with models you're not too worried about.
TWD zombies are a million times better, and so you're results will be too.
Keep at it. :)
Thanks Kieron! Doing the test run was one of the few times I actually made a smart decision, so glad I did!
DeleteAnd you are absolutely 100% correct about the Mantic figures, I'm finishing up one now and the difference is night and day :)