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Vlog: Creating The Ultimate Zombie Apocalypse
September 1, 2016 by dignity
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Can’t wait fingers crossed I can get a ticket to hopefully both.
Hey guys, I made piles of corpses for my hobby lab last month. I think they would be ideal to use as scatter and to build into the terrain that you’re putting together for this. Just give us an address and I’ll drop a bunch in the post 🙂
http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/painting/forum/topic/hobby-lab-open-challenge-bodies/
this a thousand times over!
Could do a full blown “when there is no more room in hell, then the dead will walk the earth” table
If there’s anything a post apocalyptic zombie themed table needs it’s a ton of dead bodies everywhere …
Nice scatter!
Hmm.. i am torn i have concert tickets on the 12th November… Argh
you know you want to…..
It will make you happy
but the band i am going to see are on my list of bands to see before they die….lol
Well I would think that Oscar winning director Peter Jackson’s Brain Dead would be a no brainer (pun very much intended, just not funny) and if you haven’the seen the new Evil Dead TV series by now Warren shame on you.
With that in mind a trailer park board would be a nice addition.
Hopefully I will grab a ticket and see you guys there.
What you really need is my Z section from my DVD hoard, 60+ zombie and splatter films of varying quality.
So without it here are some films to watch/endure/survive mwhahahahahaha:
Zombie Flesh Eaters 1 & 3 ignore 2 its a name cash-in worse than halloween 3: seasons of the witch…
The zombie dead
Night, Dawn & Day of the Dead (romero, not the rubbish remakes)
Susperia not so much a zombie film, but its what i think of when i think 70’s horror decor
Zombie nosh
Brain Dead
Bad Taste (how i wish there was LOTR out takes going, “jesus christ mate, frodo’s gone apeshit”)
And if you havnt seen it, the nostril picker should be on the list just because its brilliantly awful, how can you not love a film whose tag line is “He picks his nose, He turns into a woman, She kills people”…
zombie flesh eaters 1, is that the one on the island? @nakchak
@zorg yup and the glass shard to eye scene, best use of a lychee in ZFX ever lol
nice one.
Night of the living dead : Shopping Mall
There is one zombie film i have watched, but i can`t remember what it was called………………But from what i remember of it, you had this town / city that had a river that was used as a barrier to stop the dead from getting in, and it did not work. Through the film, you where taken back to the river every so often, where you saw a zombie looking at the town then at the river. This goes on for a while, then the last time you see the zombie at the river he takes a swim (well a walk in the river), and you guessed it the other zombies see this and follow him. End result being is the town get`s over run.
So thinking on with @Warren`s idea of basing the game in the country side, you could have a small river section with a destroyed bridge, but the zombie`s have found another way to get a cross……………”Zombie Bridge”…………where there where so many dead going in to the river, they formed a bridge of bodies.
How about an old southern plantation big house, that`s the last defence strong hold in that region of the country side.
If i think of anything else, i`ll be back……………………
Land of the Dead
Night of the living dead
dawn of the dead
day of the dead
land of the dead – Dead Reckoning!!!!
return of the living dead
planet terror – Rose McGowan hubba hubba, sorry ladies
shaun of the dead
zombieland – big yellow hummer, yes please
Dead Sno – have to have some zombie nazis
Black Sheep – baaaah!!
28 days later/28 weeks later (not technically zombie movies)
Z-Nation – zombinado, was hilarious
@warzan Z Nation restarts from episode one tonight on Ch153 pick 0.00Hr if you want some weird zombie stuff
How about
Warm Bodies the ultimate Zombie Romance film.. Lol it has an airport asa location and is actually not bad when you get past the zombie sees girl falls for girl, saves girl, girl falls for zombie they find a cure and live happily ever after.
sees girl, falls in love with girl and eats her obnoxious boyfriend’s brains, who says romance is dead
@warzan I love zombie movies so this list is a must see of the best the genre has to offer
La horde – a French made non stop action zombie thriller, love this one
Dead set – I believe it’s a 6 part mini series. Takes place on the set of uk big brother and one of my all time favs. Really catches the feeling of impending doom and dread. Not Not mention some great comedic moments sprinkled in but not overdone.
Cemetery Man – another French masterpiece and it’s a dark comedy
Return of the living dead – fast zombies, great action and also some great comedic moments
28 days later – cmon it’s a zombie film and a damned good one, Including its sequel
Shaun of the dead – funny and well done.
Peter Jacksons hilarious and outrageous zombie movie Dead Alive
Of course the classics night, dawn and day of the dead by Romero
I could go on but those are the must see for zombie movies
Re-animator is another dark comedic masterpi ce to watch
Planet Terror
Zombi 2 – from the master of horror Dario argento
Rec – great series of films from Spain. American version is called quarantine
Second thumbs up for Zombi 2/Zombie, although that was Lucio Fulci who directed, not Argento. They did collaborate a lot, so an honest mistake. Regardless, it’s the only film that has a Shark vs. Zombie underwater scene. So yeah, come for the shark vs. zombie battle, stay for the excruciatingly slow eye impalements. 😀
@warzan behind a can of Red Bull then we know that there is the smell of bootcamp in the air
He has switched brand
Two things I’d certainly arrange for considering it’s The Walking Dead: Hershel’s Farm (including a barn full of walkers!!) and The Prison. Should be easy enough to do and will set the scene nicely 😎
A multi story shopping mall with car parks, food courts, spread over a number of tables with an escalator/elevator mechanic to travel between tables to get different things you need.
I think it would be unique to have it set in the early stages of the zombie apocalypse and to have other non zombie NPC’s in the game. These characters are also just trying to stay alive by taking what you have got to add another depth to the game that you don’t normally see.
i remember watching the Evil dead with my cousins when they paid us a visit as a kid. like @warzan the trip to the VHS video rental shop detour for sweets and not really knowing what to expect as i had a sheltered upbringing video wise lol
what i can remember though is the point when i was so engrossed with the movie both transfixed and horrified, my uncle grabbed my ankles and dragged me across the living room carpet where i nearly sh!t myself and screamed like a girl……….mmmm families……
even with such traumas i still love the Zombie genre but recently Z nation has given many chuckles the cheese rolling from shore to shore complete with zombie arms and legs, zombinado its pure gold, although zombie babies really freak me out lol
i also have a friend who is a brute of a bloke size and looks wise who bought a zombie game for a well know console only to have to put the lights on when playing it because it really freaked him out and he thought they were behind him?
Remember if its got zombies in its usually great only do not be fooled by one called Walking Dead in the West it is sooooo bad it needs all stock burning immediately you have been warned……….
Love to see you guys’ take on suburban terrain. Something like you see at the start of the Dawn of the Dead (the newer remake).
Always imagined a zombie movie called “Dai of the Dead” set in the Rhonnda Valleys. Think Stella meets Walking Dead. Lots of terraced houses on hills, lots of disgusting braindead zombies.. and the living dead.
“F*ck off butt. Bite me again and I will f*ckin slam ‘ew.”
lol
The burbs would be interesting to try and tackle
@warzan @dignity you guys should take a rest you look like s%$t in that picture?
when you said the burbs the first thing I thought of was the Tom Hanks film, I suppose an eastern european family stockpiling corpses in the basement of their house could give rise to a zombie apocalypse
American suburbs would be nice if you can come up with all the same type of building in different colors. The uniform lawn size would also make it easier to section off the map in discreet zones where people can run from fortress ranch house to fortress ranch house.
If pursuing a more rural map like what you show in the video though, I would recommend a lot less hedging. Usually in America here in the south or midwest, you will generally have a house that you live in surrounded my a normal green lawn with a few trees, a shed, and a barn that is either still in use, or more likely just dilapidated and left unused a bit away from the main house. Anything beyond that is usually going to be fields consisting of just one crop of something. We really don’t break up the fields since that would just make it harder for tractors and harvesters and all that to get in and out of. If you wanted to break up the scenery you would probably be better off to break it up with old rusted trucks, small sheds, farm vehicles, watering ponds with a few trees if it’s more of a livestock operation instead of crops. and so forth. With the table of that size using 28-32mm scale, you could do one very small farm, and some tree line at the edge of it, and that’s about it.
where we can fly to for boot camp again @warren? I am trying to book fly ticket.
Belfast International, or the George Best City of Belfast airports are closest. Dublin will be cheaper but will add about 2 hours to the travel on the ground.
After the BoW crew is done creating those tables they will look like zombies 😉
Looking forward to seeing what kind tables you’re going to create.
Evil dead … definitely. There’s been an ‘Evil Dead 2’ boardgame kickstarter, which made me wonder if a 3D version of that board could function for both games.
As for zombie themed movies ?
I seem to remember one where the zombies were the result of toxic pollution of some kind.
– Herbert West : Re-animator ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089885/ )
– New Kids : Nitro ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2043932 )
It’s a Dutch movie. Think of it as our version of urban rednecks vs zombies.
They even made a German version …
(just a word of warning: the humour is very very crude … so don’t watch if Southpark and similar things offend you )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fAbxXU7gMY
You got to have a table based around the BoW studio`s…
Finley have a use for that Ice cream van..
Totally forgot about this one : ‘Zombibi’
info : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombibi
It’s got subtitles in the trailer :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTxh8rDKLsI
I haven’t seen it myself, but there’s a movie called night of the comet. It’s set mostly in a shopping mall and I’m told it’s “very eighties”.
No other suggestion than, yay vlogs!
Doesn’t the Walking Dead take place all in Georgia?
Some suburban terrain would be cool.
Also lots of southern US woods, Australian pine, ash, birchwood, cypress.
Should one board feature a prison complex? 😀 Fans of the show know what I’m talking about.
And for the love of God, and this is not negotiable . . . if you guys are doing zombies . . . the post-zombie-apocalypse ICE CREAM TRUCK of Justin and Warren must make an appearance somewhere. 😀
Sadly, I can’t come to the zombie boot camp. But if the zombie boot camp goes off WITHOUT the ice cream truck, I WILL get on a plane, fly 4300 miles to Coleraine, and eat Justin’s brains.
You have been warned.
Yar, both the comic and the original TV series are both set and filmed in Georgia. Which makes one wonder why everyone isn’t more heavily armed. 😀
Hmm, you BoW guys ever been to suburban America? The way you think it looks, would be like me thinking that suburban Ireland and England is thatched roofs on huts with blankets for doors, live stock roaming in the front yards. Maybe in Appalachia and 20 miles outside cities, like Atlanta, where Walking Dead is supposed to take place, but Fear the Walking Dead starts in Los Angeles. Other zombie movies occur in other densely built up cities where a horde might pop out of any alley (28 Weeks Later comes to mind and that was in downtown London). Less people = less zombies. And you would burn the dead, not bury them to rise again. I was always confused as to where all the fresher corpses came from in the start of Night of the Living Dead and others like it.
Evil Dead and its sequels had demon-possessed corpses, not mindless zombies.
I know, I’m a party pooper, but there needs to be one for every party. But, we’re coming to get you, Justin.
@oriskany you also can do full urban as you have fear the walking dead (takes place in LA)
For table, I would look at the buildings from TT combat stuff as they have a load of new terrain and scatter terrain for the games.
I have to suggest Outpost as a movie A: Nazi zombies B: I used to play airsoft on bits of the set…
Probably not the best idea for the boot camp per se, but a large map to made out of modular walls to represent multiple floors of a skyscraper that you have to fight up or down for some macguffin of some sort. Kind of a modern zombie take on a dungeon crawl. Think Dawn of the Dead meets The Raid.
I’m not a big zombie fan, but as other have mentioned, Shaun of the dead is great. And I think a table incorporating the Winchester tavern would be cool.
I would definitely recommend playing The Walking Dead Telltale Games point and click, that all happens out in the suburbs and due to the episodic nature the settings tend to be very self-contained, perfect for getting ideas for the tables (including things like a forest, a barricaded motel, a defended farm and a derailed train).
By the way, the Zombies Hi guys are called Uproar Comics, here’s their address:
http://www.uproarcomics.co.uk/category/zombies-hi/
They often go to events where they offer a drawing service to draw you as a zombie.
@warzan You need a Prison !!!
Lol He’s not that bad a bit of therapy and hell be fine?
The 4Ground Chicago Way buildings are incredible, I have a full set. I think the houses would fit perfectly in the Walking Dead theme, the shops not so much.
Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies has a scene at the start with Zombies in the woods…
How about a crashed aeroplane or de-railed train on your rural boards?
Watch all The Walking Dead episodes before the bootcamp, Warren, then you too can keep asking ‘where’s Darly?’ lol. Alternatively, read the comics. It’ll be quicker, will get you ahead of the TV show, is just as good, and you’ll know who everyone is in the game.
As for great zombie movies to watch –
Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder remake)
28 Weeks Later
World War Z…
….I’ll get me coat
Darly? Clearly I mean Daryl…
Lol forgot it was fulci not argento who did zombi 2. Suburbs is a great setting and one I would choose. I think farmland myself is not that interesting. Sadly I couldn’t afford to go to the boot camp so my preferences really don’t matter.
Anyone seen ‘Dead Snow’ yet ? ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1278340/ )
trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R19KagZyU40
two words : zombie nazis …
Zombie Holocaust. I don’t know if it’ll inspire you but you’ll laugh your asses off! 🙂
someone may have said this but what about a maze with all the hedges you’ve made for the table’s @warzan
I think you ought to use at least two sets of the Battlesystems terrain (the city block an shanty town), three if you add in the SF stuff.
Two immediate terrain thoughts :
The new Sarissca Americana terrain could be great for this, get some motels, trailer parks and sleepy suburbs in there.
Also check out the ttcombat backalley accessories set. It is a cheap resin set witha tatty old sofa, fridge, busted tv and bins that could be a nice bit of scatter.
The seasons of The walking dead have had some interesting focal points. A rock quarry, an almost plantation style farm (with a VERY important Barn), the CDC (Center for Disease Control), a prison, and several others. You need an RV (Winnebago 70s style). There are tons of great set ideas, so have fun!
As someone else mentioned I think the Skyscraper idea is a cool one.
I think you have to have a prison board to play there’s no way you can’t. Or combine the two and have an interior of the prison board, I can just imagine fighting through dark and cramped cell blocks. After all there are episodes where action takes place within the prison itself so would fit perfectly.
Maybe if we are going all out a zombie cruise ship, with the aim of getting to the lifeboats or the bridge.
I am so looking forward to this!!!!! Zombies rock!!!!
I would love to see you guys make a large board starting with the outskirts of a city, towers and brownstone buildings, going into suburbs and then into farmland and then into a small built up area, like a motel or trailer park and then woods. There are a load of companies that make MDF buildings and other cool stuff.
sarissa precision – retro and city block http://www.sarissa-precision.com/Retro/cat1603369_3377239.aspx
TT Combat http://ttcombat.com/collections/city-scenics?page=1
Knights of Dice http://knightsofdice.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=51_80&sort=20a&page=2
4ground http://www.4ground.co.uk/28mm-city-center
and if you want to do a UK board, timeline minitures https://www.timelineminiatures.co.uk/store/index.php?page=28mm-scale-buildings-28mm-modern
I would love to see some hobby labs om how to paint zombies and MDF buildings. I also love the idea of doing a PDF of wallpapers and carpets/flooring as I have tried to find stuff like this and it is a brilliant idea. Even do things like insides of office buildings and shops.
I would also recommend reading the walking dead comics, then trying to binge watch them.
Here’s an idea : create a fictional ‘not America’ setting like they did with Loydoslavia (sp?) for Team Yankee bootcamp.
The tables would represent various sections of the city/nation as it is overrun by the undead.
From the cabin in the woods via the suburbs and perhaps even an industrial area or an army base.