Zona Alfa - A Club Donation
I Am Quite Surprised!
Hi everyone,
So I stated painting up my miniatures. I started with the mutants which I took from the Plague box set for Deadzone 1st edition. The leapers I used as mutants and the big guy as a large mutant – as per Zona Alfa rules.
I decided to paint them as their original colour scheme so they can be used in Deadzone in anyone needs to.
I also noticed that I over-sprayed the white foundation, so I gave all the models a thinned down black wash. This way I darkened up the crevices.
I had prepared and put together the zombies over the weekend. The rat swams were full of mould lines which I did not bother with – way too much work.
After using the Speed paints – just two colours – red and bone. The miniatures were basically ready. This took me 25mins.
I went on to do the 16 zombies as well as 6 rat swarm bases – another hour.
When they were dry, I decided to help the paint cure a bit better by hair-drying them.
I then proceeded to dry-brush the models with lighter colours (including the bases), and pick out details like the teeth, eyes and tongues. This took me another hour and a half.
Viola! I had finished 26 miniatures in a bit under 3 hrs. I have been painting miniatures since 1985 and I have never managed to paint more than 5 in 3 hours with my conventional techniques!
I basically used the basic Speed Paint box set to paint all the miniatures here.
My mutants painted as the box art for practical reasons.
Mantic Zombies. I mixed Speed paint green and yellow (1:3) for the skin.
I used red Speed paint directly over the skin in the open wounds.
The easiest models on earth to paint up.
I drybrushed these first with a light grey, then lightly with an off-white.As you can see for yourselves, these miniatures a very good tabletop standard. What I find amazing is that this level was achieved so quickly and with such little effort!
I still prefer to paint with conventional paints and in a conventional method, but this is certainly something I will look into more.
A special thanks to Marco Frisoni from NJM on youtube for his tutorials. Watching his videos made me take the plunge into using these types of paints.
I will be back tomorrow with more fully painted miniatures. Heck at this rate I will be ready by Friday with time to spare!
Until tomorrow,
NR
Really impressed with the quality and speed at which you hammered these out. I’m adding the speedpaints to my shoppinglist for my FLGS!
Thanks. I am not even a fan of this type of painting, but I cannot argue with the effectiveness and efficiency they give you. If I ever decide to paint the miniatures of my board games (like Blood Rage etc). I will definitely go down this route again.