zombies

I can’t believe I haven’t written about these guys since I primed them. >.< I don’t know if I have a really good idea of what the base layers were, but here’s a guess:

Sotek Green and Florou. Yellow uniforms, Dheneb Stone skin, Mithril Silver metals and I think Dark Flesh on the bases.

From there I put some Drakenhof over the Sotek to try to make the uniforms actually blue. I didn’t want green, but Sotek looked cool. I ended up using Enchanted Blue over the Drakenhof+Sotek as a mid-layer to bring the colour back to blue.

The yellows was that Vallejo yellow I’ve been playing with, with a lot of layers to make it actually yellow. I did Seraphim Sepia over it to give some depth, then back up with P3 Cygnus Yellow.

The skin I think I Sepia’d over the Dheneb, then did some Waywatcher Green in places to make the skin look deader.

The bases after the Dark Flesh were Sepia’d twice, I think, and then drybrushed up with Snakebite Leather and Zamesi Desert, similar to how I based my Antares Concord recently. 😛

The front of the bases is being left black, so I can paint skills onto the area so it’s super easy to tell what skill each model has.

After that, a bunch of little things. Like highlighting up the pants, then washing them down. Re-silvering the edges of the metal and the face guards. ‘ardcoat on the helmets. Some gloss in the guts.

I also black lined the yellow against the blue uniforms, which I think makes the yellow pop a hell of a lot more. That was the start of me actually liking these paint jobs. >.>

These guys are all done! Thankfully, as I have a lot more models to paint before July when the next season of CHOP begins.

I picked up the Vortice miniature mummies and wights, because they are awesome. So that’s 4 models. I also need to convert 4 ghouls and 1-2 skeletons to make a total of 15 models. Maybe do 3 skeletons to make it an even 16. I think skeletons have their use in an undead team, although the common wisdom is that their -1 AV isn’t worth their +1 MV as compared to the zombies.

Writing that down, I swear I had a better plan for the ghouls than the GW hunched guys. I think I was thinking of using Wyrd Punk Zombies for them. But…that’s not a great plan. I dunno, the GW hunchies aren’t terrible. Any thoughts?