Following on from my first post, I can now present some more Zombicide Invader figures, this time I'll start with some Survivors, in this case a group of five humans and a friendly alien.
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| In white we have two soldiers in power armour, on the left a nobleman in his own power armour suit, whlist to the right we have a green insectoid aliean and a young civilian human woman. |
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| Close-up of the nobleman in red body armour, a balistic pistol in his right hand and a chainsword in his left hand. |
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| Close-up detail of the chainsword and attached 'cutter' at his left elbow. He wears a fur lined red cape. |
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| First photo of one of the mining stations, soldiers, who provide local security for the facility. in th egame each survivor character has their own stat card and background lore, this is a guy called 'Inshish Vak'. |
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| Slightly different view, you can see his balistic carbine, breathing apperatus and bionic eye |
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| This is Lt. Jee-Hye, a South Korean officer in the Galactic Armed Forces. |
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| This guy is armed with a balistic pistol and a 'stun stick', basically an electrified club, used in hand combat |
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| This alien is 'Ix-Nix-Zik', armed with a sword and a balistic pistol, this insectoid is a friendly at the mining station. |
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| Allyson, is a civilian worker at the mining station, arned with a balistic pistol and carrying her small pet furry in her backpack! |
Next we travel to ancient Egypt for a short interlude!
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| Here we have the first of a few undead cat swarms, that I will be using with my Undead Egyptians Army. |
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| You can see that there are four distinct creatures on the base, I'm only claiming points for the combined casting! |
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| Other side view of the Cat Swarm.... |
Next we have a group of Warhammer Skaven, this is an army that I have been toying with for some time now and I finally took the plunge to paint-up some of these horrible little ratmen.
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| Two units of 10 x 28mm Skaven, on left areth enewer models and to right are the slightly larger classic models. |
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| Close-up on the newer figures, all carrying spears and shields, unit includes a musician, standard bearer and a leader. |
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| View of the classic Skaven unit, armed with hand weapons and a shield. Note the skull hanging form the banner, see points claims below! |
These little guys were fun to paint, the group has a mix of old school models and the relatively new models released by GW in the last couple years. All were undercoated in a cream colour and then Army Painter Flesh tone was used to add definition to all feet, hands, tails and hads before highlighting with regular flesh coloured paint.
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| First of a couple more views of the Classic figures, as I expand this army I'll mix and match newer and older figures within units. |
All fur was painted with GW Gore Grunta Fur contrast paint. Steel was painted using GW Lead Belcha and leatherwork was added using GW Snakebite Leather contrast paint. All was then given a light watered down black ink wash to add with definition before varnishing.
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| Lastly a shot o fthe newer unit, I have about 20 more of these little guys ready to go, but I might be tempted to do some Orcs first! |
I deliberated long and hard on how best to base these guys, my usual fine sand and electrostatic grass combo for figures in the Warhammer world seems so tame for ethese putrid guys, so instad I opted for a dark brown muddy appearance with a smattering of grass and debris. What I was really going for was for them to look like they'd just crawled out of the naerst sewer, not sure I have achieved this! Worst case I may change it!
Now back to some more Zombicide Invader Xenos, with eight new guys to add to the growing horde. This goup includes 5 more Drones / Workers, 2 new Tanks and a huge Abomination that will hopefully only make occational appearances...
I'll not repeat the painting process in thi spost as I went into this last week, the Drone and Tanks were painted in exactly the same manner as before. It's worth noting the size of teh Abomination, this figure stands 40mm tall toe to head, but it is about 60mm across! Hence I have taken the liberty of claiming for a 40mm figure in this case.
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| Two new Tank figures, both in same pose. For future figures I'm going to have to immerse them in boiling water to reposition some of the limbs & tenticles to add more variety! |
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| Five new Drones. Four of these are in the same pose, so again additional figures will get the boiling water treatment! |
Painting the Abominationwas a joy to do, basically the same approach as the other figures except that its on a bigger scale! Lots of lovely detail to pick put. This figure seems to have some kind of loincloth cvered in paterned disks, I interpreted this as a brown cloth with broze coloured disks.
Having made that choise it answered a couple of doubts I'd had when doing the TAnk figures previuously, in that they also seem to have loin cloths with a smattering of disks on them. THus these new to Tanks have been similarly painted - I will need to go back to the already painted figures from last week where I left these areas grey...
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| The monsterous Abomination! I interpreted the three large domes on his body as huge puss filled boils - sorry if you are eating whist reading this! |
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| The back view, lots of tenticles and claws |
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| Final view, overall I'm pleasewd with this guy |
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| Size comparison of the three Xenos types painted so far. The Drone / Worker is a regular 28mm figure. |
I'm waiting for some more Xenos to be delivered, I enjoyed painting these so much - I have to get more. Also looking t invest in a second hand copy of the game to get all the playing aids....
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| The Xenos Horde so far |
