Zombie of the Week #18: Marv

 

Ex-Officer Marv

Marv still wanders around the precinct, dimly remembering his past life.  He jangles his keys, crudely “types” at keyboards and picks up phone receivers and moans into them, all the while waiting for his next meal.

 

The Thin Reddish-Blue Line

Marv is a repainted Horrorclix.  They rest of Marvs undead precinct can be seen here.  I quite like how the flesh tones came out on Marvs face, they work well with his rather nicely sculpted features.  You could be forgiven for not realising that upon looking at the factory painted versions.

Resident Evil: Albert Wesker – S.T.A.R.S. / Undercover Operative

Albert Wesker

Wesker is the main recurring villain in the Resident Evil games.  When first encountered in the original game he appears to be part of the S.T.A.R.S. team.  As the story progresses it becomes apparent that he has his own agenda.  By the end of the game he has been exposed the T-virus.

Conveniently, the effect that the T-virus has on Wesker involves a whole lot less brutally ugly physical mutation than it tends to have on everything else that it comes into contact with.

The overall effect on Wesker after Resident Evil is the usual suite of enhanced senses, stamina and agility plus his eyes take on a glowing and reptillian look.  Also conveniently for Wesker, he always wears sunglasses, so even that mutation wasnt a big problem for him I suspect.

None of that matters in the context of this figure anyway as it depicts Wesker as a S.T.A.R.S. member during RE but before the viral exposure.

"The ultimate lifeform. Tyrant".

Wesker is a miniature from Recreational Conflict/Lead Bones, like all of the RE figures that I have posted recently, barring Ada Wong. Like all of the Resident Evil figures, Weskers paint job is basic and functional.  The figure is very recognisable as the character from the games, which is the most important thing.

Zombie of the Week #17: Sadako

  

Sadako

 

Subject exhibts symptoms and behaviour similar to that of subject ZoTW:10.  Also note that subject remains in possession of a firearm (nearly fully obscured by bodily fluids).  Although whether subject still retains the ability to discharge the weapon is unknown, the fact that the subjects regards the weapon as worth holding on to despite massive bodily trauma is of note. 

Infected Screamer

 

I painted Sadako at the same time that I painted Samara, and I used the colours above for the same reasons.  As I have painted more miniatures to represent the various “special” zombies from L4D, I have used the same flesh tones on them.  It helps to match them to the look in the game and it distances them slightly from the rest of the horde.

  Samara and Sadako are the two names used for the creepy little girl in the US and Japanese versions of “The Ring”.

Resident Evil: Jill Valentine – S.T.A.R.S.

Jill Valentine

“Jill is a member of S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team.  She is a highly intelligent agent who possesses both quick reflexes and common sense.  She has been decorated for her bravery in many dangerous situations where her cool judgement kept herself and others alive!”

So says the Resident Evil rulebook with regard to Jill Valentine.  Like Chris, Jill is one of the two main player characters in Resident Evil (players got to play RE1 using Rebecca for a short period when Chris was bitten by a “Yawn” (a huge mutant snake ), but Rebecca wasnt a fully fledged playable character until RE0, a prequel made about a decade later).

Jill also appeared in RE3: Nemesis but she was wearing a different outfit from that shown above.  That outfit is more or less the same as the outfit worn by Sienna Guillory when playing Jill in the pretty rubbish Resident Evil: Apocalypse movie.

Jill is probably best known in gaming circles for being the “Master of Unlocking”.  This is what her team mate Barry Burton calls her when handing her her signature lockpick early on in the original PS1 version of RE.  Although you probably had to be there, trust me: its unintentionally hilarious.

Check out a few of the worst PS1 RE dialogue clips here.  Of particular note is Barry and Jills light hearted discussion or her near fatal run-in with in a trap room with a descending ceiling.  Barry talks about his team-mate nearly becoming a “Jill sandwich!”.  Then they both laugh, the scamps.

Master of Unlocking

Like the rest of my recently painted RE figures, Jill got a pretty basic paint job.  Base coats, some washes, one or sometimes two highlights: nothing too fancy, plenty good enough for gaming with.

Like Chris and Wesker, I didnt have the patience to paint “S. T. A. R. S.” on her back (I barely have the patience even to type it).  I simply painted five lines where the letters should be and left it at that.

Like Leon, Jill is one of the better and more recognisable sculpts in the range IMO.  Its nice having such a recognisable rendition of such an iconic character of the genre for gaming with.  If you like toy soldiers and Resident Evil video games then you should definitely keep an eye out for Jill.

Zombie of the Week #16: Dave

Dave

Dave roams the post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of food.  Dressed in rags and sodden with gore he still retains enough brain power to wield a knife, albeit in a crude fashion.  It seems to have served him well enough so far.

Undead, yet modesty still prevails

Dave was assembled and painted in 2003.  It was a crude job from start to finish.  In 2009 I went back over nearly every one of my zombie figures to repaint the bloody areas a little better.  In some cases I may have gone overboard a little, such as in Daves case.  On the other hand I quite like the hyper-messy, blood spattered 28 Days Later/House of the Dead: Overkill look to be honest.  In the context of a large horde of zombie figures, Dave fits in just fine.

Resident Evil: Rebecca Chambers – S.T.A.R.S.

Rebecca Chambers

According to the Resident Evil 0, Rebecca Chambers is:

“The most recent member of S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team.  An intelligent woman who graduated from university at the age of 18.  A highly organised agent who knows how to take control of any situation”.

Rebecca has a small playable role in Resident Evil but was one of the two main characters in RE0.

"The name is Rebecca Chambers, but that's *Officer* Chambers to you".

Rebecca is obviously a medic.  I rushed the cross on her back a little too much.  It could do with being a bit neater.

Zombie of the Week #15: Hannah

Hannah

Hannahs service in the National Guard had not prepared her sufficiently for an assault by the reanimated corpses of her countrymen. After turning on her comrades she wandered until an unknown large bore weapon ripped her in two.

Hannah is a miniature from Kingzombie that I painted up toward the end of last year.  As you can see, Hannah is sculpted in the middle of experiencing intense firearm trauma: nice and gory.

I am anything but a military uniform expert but rather than paint a pretty generic military figure in the usual “Army Men” green I decided to see if I could pull off a more recent military camouflage without going to extraordinary lengths.  I think that it worked.

Exit Wound

The scheme looks a little bit more like the “Desert Storm” era camo pattern than the more recent look (which I think that its called “digital” pattern, but I could very easily be wrong).  Of the more recent US schemes that I looked up this one seemed the easier one to paint, so thats what I did.

For what its worth I have no idea whether the US National Guard wear or have ever worn a pattern like this, but that doesnt really bother me very much.

Resident Evil: Ada Wong – Covert Operative

Ada Wong

Ada first featured in Resident Evil 2 although I dont think that she was a playable character at any stage (I might be wrong though.  Its a long time since I played it).  She reappeared in RE4 where she had a pretty substantial unlockable minigame.

Ada conforms to a pretty standard femme-fatale-assassin-with-a-heart-of-gold archetype in the games.  In addition to always being shown to be a powerful adversary she has a “will they, wont they” relationship with Leon.

"You know what this is about... so just hand over the G-Virus..."

The figure that I used for Ada is from Hasslefree.  The other RE figures that I have been putting up recently are Recreational Conflict/Lead Bones, but those guys dont make a not-Ada.  Although the figure isnt perfect for representing Ada, it is a really nice figure.

Although the paint job was pretty simple (and I decided not to attempt Adas signature butterfly motif anywhere on her dress) it worked put pretty well.  Apart from her crossed right eye that I only spotted once I photographed the miniature.  I will get around to fixing that when I get a new prescription for my glasses Id say.

Back to two posts a week for a while…

 

Due to other “real life” commitments, I will be cutting down on the volume of posts on Sho3box for a while. 

Until further notice there will be two posts a week, one on Wednesday and a Zombie of the Week on Sunday.