Last Night on Earth is a fun, modern horror boardgame with a zombie theme. While it isnt a huge brain burner it isnt completely random either and it generates the “feel” of the movies that it is based on extremely well. When the game was released some whiners gave out about the game balance making it too hard for the heroes. That was garbage. The game balance, although subject to the occasional blowout one way or another is actually pretty finely balanced.
A big draw of the game for me was the 14 zombie and 8 survivor miniatures that came supplied with the game. They are roughly 28mm scale and therefore they fit in well with the rest of my figures, which was a big bonus. They are made of a flexible plastic but they took and retained paint just fine.
Like the Descent figures, the LNoE figures are an early experiment with the dipping technique. At the time I was experimenting to see how much of a shading effect I could get with dipping over a flat base coat. As a result these paintjobs are pretty rudimentary. For the purposes of playing a boardgame with however, they are fine. If I were to paint them again now I would put a little more effort into them though.
Nurse Becky
Jenny: Farmers Daughter
Sheriff Anderson
Jack Anderson
Sally: High School Sweetheart
Johnny: Jock
Father Joseph
Jake: Drifter
Filed under: Boardgame, Miniatures Tagged: | 2007, Horror, Last Night on Earth, Survivor, Zombie
Great paint job. It’s funny, we were talking about how good painted figures would look the other day.
Thanks for the feedback gameshepherd.
I painted these figures a few years ago and at the time I was going through something of a minimalist phase in my miniature painting.
I plan to go back to these figures and do a few things to them eventually, but in the meantime they are perfectly adequate for gaming with.