Deadzone painting and gaming

So a bit fitting but mantic have made their solo play rules tor deadzone free on their site for people who are getting gaming withdrawals like me. So I assembled quickly and painted up 20 plague zombies plus my first edition deadzone doctor simmonds.

Dr Simmonds was a gcps researcher looking into the plague on nexus psi before she herself got infected. In second edition she’s a cool specialist for the plague!

Now to paint the lab tech zombies and doctor Simmonds uniform I primed them all with Vallejo white primer, then covered all their uniform with gws apothecary white contrast paint before a drybrush of army painter matt white.

For the soldier zombies I primed them with army painter AP desert yellow, covered the armour plates in AP oak brown, washed everything with AP strong tone, then drybrushed the uniforms desert yellow before then doing a rough highlight/layer of desert yellow mixed evenly with AP skeleton bone. The skin for all my zombies was a layer of AP barbarian flesh, followed by a wash of AP red tone, and then once that was dry followed by another wash of AP flesh tone. I then picked out the extrusion with skele5on bone, the eyes and the yellow hoods of the lab techs with AP daemonic yellow. The bases were just Gws dust base mix, drybrushed in AP skeleton bone when dry. I went for different basing because that’s the system I used for my other plague minis and what I’m using for my marauders and eventual gcps (the idea being some of my armies are based similarly for storylines in my head).

These guys took me a few days after work to paint and I’m glad I did them as now I can go ahead and do solo play missions and post write ups here for the future!

I know it’s been a while but I have been painting more rats for this project in between regular life stuff and painting for my goblin project, and here’s proof!

All in all I’m really enjoying painting these rats, the colour scheme and painting method are basic but it’s refreshing to just let myself do the army painter splash on technique and not worry about multiple layers and highlights for a change. Here below you can see the whole gang together! I think I’ll be painting rats for months to come!

So I decided I wanted to do up two opposing forces for deadzone and eventually warpath from mantic games. These minis had been sat around too long and as part of this year’s goal of actually reducing the pile of shame I decided to go ahead and use two quick and easy methods to do both a yellow (veermyn) and a white (enforcer) force.

For the veermyn went ahead and decided to use the army painter method of painting. I started with a thin white primer layer followed by a regular layer of the army painter daemonic yellow. I then filled in the paints with TAP Matt black, the straps with oak brown, the teeth and bandages with skeleton bone, the chemical canisters with elemental bolt and finally metal parts and chips with gun metal. The models were all then given a coat of soft tone and once dry based with Luke’s APS base ready Mars Earth.

For the enforcers I first primed them with Vallejo white from my airbrush before being given a coat of apothecary white before being drybrush with wreck white and then pure white, the black weapons and soft material was done in black templar, the blade and jetpack exhausts talassar blue, the leather wyldwood, and the red eyes in blood angels red. The yellow is the army painter Phoenix flames. The models were allowed to dry before being based the same as the veermyn with Luke’s APS base ready Mars Earth.

These two strike teams took a few hours each over two days on the weekend which bodes well for getting two whole armies done this year! The next steps will be an extra 50 points for veermyn to make them a 200 point strike team and to do a strider for the enforcers.