Zombie hunters

2 of Reapers' Zombie hunter and a Zombie Hunter from Zombiesmith
The Zombiesmiths figure was reworked a bit and I added a Shotgun to him. I based him on the character of James from the game The Outbreak (still looking for figures for the rest of the cast) Its a fun little choose your own adventure live action game you can find on the web and is worth a few minutes to play. http://www.survivetheoutbreak.com/
The second two are from Reaper The one with the Guitar was painted as is and I really enjoyed trying to get the guitar right(I think I did) the other one I swapped out a handgun for the rolling case he was dragging behind him. i just wanted him to have a bit more firepower.

King Zombies Zombies

Kingzombie has just come out with a new of Zombies. 28mm (?) 1st responders and survivors for $39.99
You get 20 figures in the set. 19 humans and 1 dog. All of them are nicely sculpted (but big somewhat comical and chucky) and very gory.

1st up are the survivors. You get 5 in the set.

2 females; 1 paramilitary and one Milla Jovovich type and 3 males; one with a shot gun, one with a big handgun and a machete and 1 Swat type realoading his weapon. All of them have a nice look to them with some personality if as I mentioned a bit comical. All the figures in the set come with bases already molded on(some will like that and others wont) I would rather not have the bases but they are done well so I will do them as is.

I am still not sure on the base for the Swat guy but I am pretty sure that he is standing on a mound of ammo clips and casings (talk about holding your ground)

The male with the machete is also a nice figure but the Machete is very thin and more realistic than those over sized thing some figures have (you know the tree trunk spears) That being said within a few seconds of painting it snapped right off, like I said very thin. I had trouble with the paint on these and you really need to give them a good scrubbing so the paint sticks. I now have to strip the paint and redo them.


The Zombies in the set are all either SWAT, National Guard, Cops or Paramedics.
The paramedics have 1 male, 1 female. The male has his back torn open and is in the process of eating a hapless victim; the female is in a jump suit with her jaw torn off (like I said Gory) she is carrying a very nicely sculpted and realistic medical bag over her shoulder and you can tell that there was some research done on these sculpts.
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Next are 2 Cops: again 1 male 1 female. The female has the ugliest face I have seen but because of that she painted up really nice and scary looking. The male cop is one of my favorites out of the set he is on his knees having lunch(what's for dinner, the other white meat)
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There are 4 Swat Zombies Three seen here in various stages of zomibfication the one on the ground is missing the lower half of his torso and is dragging his guts along the way.






The Dog came as a Zombie dog but I don’t like my animals to be zombies(just people) so I filled in the bite marks so now he is just a pissed off K-9.

The rest of the set has 2 fire fighter 1 dragging the Jaws of life behind him (how ironic) another cop being shot through the eye and blowing the back of his head off, another SWAT team member who arms I broke off during some paint stripping and 2 male/1female national guard troopers.
It was unfortunate that I had must not have cleaned the figures enough during preparation for my paint just seemed to bubble up, crack and peel off as you can see in the photos. I would recommend taking extra time with these and give them an extra good scrubbing before priming.

So far I am enjoying painting this unique and interesting Zombie/Survivor set and I would recommend these for anyone into the Zombie figure craze.

Zombie hunters

Next a few survivors and zombie fighters. 1st is a Griffin miniature fire fighter, Coppelstone agent, and a West Wind golfer. I had reworked the golf bag to make it a bit more realistic, it’s really awful the way it came. The photo also gives you a bit of a comparison look; I think they look pretty good together. Next would be the guy with the a Bat also from West Wind and two kids from a clix game (?) they came as one piece so I had to saw them apart then fill in with some putty and sand down and then a repaint. I t was not hard to do and there are some nice clix base figure out there and they are cheap. Next are the Cops the two males are West Wind and the female is from Griffin. The West winds are not bad figures but not great either I just wish they put more effort into getting the police equipment right. Check out the review on http://thescreamingalpha.com/ He does some nice reviews. I had liked the female cop from Griffin at first I though her gun was malformed but then I realized she is in the process of pulling back the slide on the weapon I thought that was a nice touch. Lastly is my Baseball guy again but next to him is a Thugz Figure of a girl with her baby, I love this figure! It is beautifully sculpted and well proportioned. I think the baby came out nice even though it’s a bit cabbage patchy, but it still looks like a baby. Oppps sorry the pictures are out of order :)

Zombies

Zombies
I got a lot of painting done this week. 1st the Zombies, all of them are from Studio Miniature except for the Zombie Cop which is from Crocodile Games. My pictures really don’t do justice to the figures but they are really nice with lots of details. I used some green stuff the various items on the ground (newspapers, magazines, coffee cups, cell phone, and purse. Film reel and clap board) just to add a bit to the bases. The Wendy’s sign was made from a broken up Wendy’s spoon (I got with my chili) it worked really well, and I have saved a few to use if I build a Wendy’s building.

Zombie hunter

Next is my self portrait, using Hasslefrees Zombie Hunting Kev, adding some hair and a beard and making it a Zombie hunting bandit86 instead. I had loved the figure because I usually wear a Black hoody with an embroidered Badge and cargo pants at work. I was even able to add a cleft in the chin to make him look a bit more like me (what a handsome chap)

Zombie hunters

These are some of my military Zombie hunters in chemical gear. They are from EM-4/ Copplestone castings. The Military, in green were painted as they were. The Scientist, in white were reworked with bits added for the catch poles, Geiger counter and flame thrower.