Sunday 6 October 2013

Zomtober Part Deux

I had to resist the urge to subtitle this post "The son of Zomtober". No Cliches here. Honest. Definitely. This figure is something of a quickie paint job. It's the only figure I think I am going to get done this week because I am really short of time and sleep. The only reason I have had the chance is that me and the cat are hiding from the new puppy (and the smell of what are being called piddle and poop).

I've just watched a PBS UK programme about Custer which seemed almost appropriate. I have this mentally image of a Zombie Custer roaming North Dakota. Given that this figure was painted for Deadlands I'm not even sure that Custer would be dead in that alternative reality.

This for me is an old school zombie paint job. Most of the zombies I have painted over the years have been of the early Romero type (or very low budget makeup so lets just put green grease paint on the white guys and blue grease paint on the black guys). My painting techniques have progressed a bit since I last painted zombies so I think it's not too bad a show. Not sure I would win any prizes but I am quite happy.
 

6 comments:

  1. A great start to Zomtober and a suitably characterful paint job. Nice one.

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    1. Cheers. I still like the Romero zombie look and tried to stick with that.

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    1. Cheers. Appreciate the time you took to post.

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  3. I do love these weird west characters, lovely job Fred.

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    1. I used to hate the idea of the weird (wild wild) West. The idea is kind of growing on me at the moment. I have some stuff in 28mm and some in 15mm. A substantial set of wild west stuff is on the cards.

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