Zombie of the Week #74: Stuart

Stuart

Another of the cool Necromunda plague zombie figures.  I have always liked these figures, despite the fact that they tend to wield weapons.

A quick paint job from over a decade ago.  Stuart has seen a lot of action and has probably been involved in 90% of the zombie figure games that I have played, which is quite a bit.

Zombie of the Week #71: Amelia

Amelia

Another sexually indeterminate Citadel zombie miniature from the eighties.

Like all of my old Citadel zombies Amelia was painted and converted (if clipping weapons off counts as converted) to fit in with a Necromunda setting.

Zombie of the Week #69: Mary

Mary

Mary is a vintage Citadel zombie that I originally speedily batch painted back in 1998.  The figure got a minor touch up of the gorier areas a couple of years ago to bring it a little more in line with my more recent zombie stuff.

Enthusiastic Ex-Gardener

Mary was an old figure even back in 1998.  I bought it along with a number of other older Citadel and Marauder figures for use in Necromunda.  There were no plastic zombie kits available at the time that I was aware of.  Considering that I didnt even have an email address back then, buying online wasnt an option.

I generally tried to get zombies without weapons or with weapons that could easily be removed, but the occasional armed zombie was included due to lack of options, Mary being a case in point.

Mary here is gender indeterminate, but due to the general skewing of the miniature population in favour of males, I choose to see the figure as female. Thats how enlightened a modern man I am…

Zombie of the Week #62: Jagger

Jagger

Jagger contemplates who his next recycled meal will come from.

Pipe Wielding Corpse

Jagger is one of the first zombie figures that I ever painted.  The figure is a Necromunda zombie that I painted for a scenario around the time that I was playing Resident Evil 2 on the PS1. A fun figure that I would approach differently if I were to paint it these days but still perfectly adequate for gaming with as is.  Apart from the hand weapons (which I would rather avoid in my zombie figures) the Necromunda zombies are nice figures that are great fun to paint.

Zombie of the Week #55: Tabitha

Tabitha

Tabitha never made it home after bingo.  Months later she still wanders through the ruined city looking for her next brain filled jackpot.

Androgynous

Tabitha is an old gender neutral GW zombie that I painted in 1998 or so, with a minor tweak and facelift in 2009.  The figure has seen a lot of action over the years.

Zombie of the Week #51: Eoin

Eoin

Unrecognisable as the accounting technician that he once was, Eoin came to his bathrobed end when he was bitten at the health spa.

 

 

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Eoin is another eighties GW zombie painted in 1998 or so that has seen a lot of action.  I heavy handedly ladled a whole load of gore on in 2009 to help the figure to fit in a little better with more recently painted zombies.

Zombie of the Week #50: Marjory

Marjory

Marjory crawls from the depths of the sump only rarely, when her hunger cannot be sated by sump spiders, ripper jacks and milliasaurs.  On those occasions her rotting frame can only be sustained by those hivers unfortunate enough to be in the wrong part of the underhive at the wrong time.

Giant Mutant Frog Zombie

Marjory is a resin figure from the old Leviathan tabletop wargame.  I cant remember what the figures title was but it essentially filled the same role in the game as a GW Great Unclean One of Nurgle: a vast rotting zombie demon thing.  The Licker to the left is included for scale.

Marjorys paint job was simple and fast.  A few different layers of greenish drybrushing.  As is always the case when I look at miniatures that I painted a long time ago I would approach it differently now, but that doesnt necessarily mean that I dont like it fine as it is.

Marjory was originally pulling intestines and the like from a small lizard/dinosaur/dragon thing that featured in Leviathan.  This wasnt suitable for my uses as I painted Marjory up to be used as a boss zombie in Necromunda “It Came From The Depths” sort of scenarios and the lizard thing was a little too fantasy for my tastes.  I filed the lizard parts to look like a rock or piece of masonry.  I left the intestines in Marjorys hands as they were too hard to remove and fit with my vision of a Necromundan zombie sump monster anyway.

Marjory was varnished to a pretty glossy sheen.  While a gloss finish isnt to everyones taste, I am reluctant to matt Marjorys slimy look as I think that its quite appropriate.

Marjory has been used in zombie games, sci-fi games and fantasy games.  She gets around.

Zombie of the Week #49: Clayton

Clayton

Clayton never has to worry about keeping up with the Joneses again.  She ate the three of them a couple of months back.

Faded Catwalk Chic

One week later than planned todays ZotW is a gender indeterminate 1980s metal GW figure.  The skin was drybrushed and the crude but functional layering of the raggedy clothing was done back in the late 90s.  The gorier areas were made to look like that in a revamp of my older figures performed last year.

Clayton was deliberately bought because s/he was a generic enough looking figue to fit in with almost any setting that I might game in , fantasy, modern or sci-fi.

Zombie of the Week #46: Webb

Webb

Webb just ate an Escher ganger.  What little is left of the emotional centre of his brain still managed to register some disappointment as the Escher was just as tough as the Goliath that he ate last week (Toughness 3 in fact).

Club Wielding Undead Techno-Savage

Webb is one of the handful of zombie miniatures designed for the GW Necromunda game like Phelan, Jonah, Páidí and Steve.  Although (and perhaps because of the fact that) they have some sci-fi trappings that make them less versatile than generic figures, I am quite fond of them.  Nice crisp sculpts all.

Zombie of the Week #44: Phelan

Phelan

Another rotting rank and file member of the undead horde of Karloth Valois, Phelan stumbles through the ruins of a pillaged world.

Gangly Flesh Eating Corpse

Better late than never heres Phelan.

Phelan is a gangly old GW zombie from the 80′s that I painted up in 1998 (or possibly even 1997) or so.  At the time I was playing Necromunda a fair bit, as I never played much 2nd ed 40K because it was absolutely awful.

While I never played most of the cool oddball style games derscribed in the Necromunda Outlanders supplement, I did very much enjoy reading about them and thinking about playing them.  That was where I first became inspired to collect zombie figures, in order to stage a zombie incursion  in the Necromunda setting.

Phelan was one of the figures that I bought for that purpose and as such he has been used in a lot of games since.

Like all of the figures in the that stage of my ongoing zombie project, Phelan was painted to a lower standard than the other figures that I was painting at the time (my Sin-Eaters are good examples of that standard) simply because I wanted to get a reasonably large horde on the table as fast as possible.