The Walking Dead – A tale of boot camps and laughter
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About the Project
In November 2016 I went to the Beasts of War Mantic Games The Walking Dead - All out War Boot Camp and it changed my hobby life. I had already backed the game on Kickstarter at its lowest level (March to War), but this allowed me to sell some duplicates of the exclusives and help me pay for my trip to N. Ireland for the boot camp. I met awesome people and really fell in love with the game. I wanted to show my painting efforts somewhere and share some ideas about terrain and some of the ways we have found to scale and manipulate the game to include more players and different ways of playing. Please comment and offer your ideas and experiences.
Related Game: The Walking Dead: All Out War
Related Company: Mantic Games
Related Genre: Post-Apocalyptic
This Project is Active
Terrain - cardboard and bin bags
Used a sticky bread bag tie for the white strap over the cardboard. For extra realism yourself try to wrap it around the pallet too. (oops, forgot that myself. )
Just cut up cardboard and sellotape for the shrink wrapped delivery and coffee stirrers for the pallet.
The bin bags are just black corner shop plastic bag, cut into squares and gathered up into a scrunch and tied off with thread. For the contents of the bags I used dried paint from citadel pot tops. It isn’t too light or heavy and it is a way of getting your money back from wasted paint. ?
Also began to systematically add leaves to all my terrain.
And i also have a comparison for you below.
Contrast Paints on the right Police gun bag and conventional paints on the left.
Ultramarine Blue and Black Templar mainly, with some silver and gold for the metal elements.
Wes - M16 to the fore
I have bought the Humble Bundle website Walking Dead comics bundle which gives be about 30 or more of the comics. ?
I am only about 4 volumes in so far. Haven’t met Wes yet. Don’t remember Wes from the TV series either. I think Wes is African American by the features and the image on the stats card and perhaps I haven’t gone dark enough on the skintone. I used Darkoath Fleshshade over the Israeli Sand primer then a Mournfang Brown and Bugman’s Glow mix as a heavy highlight.
For Tyreese i used my normal go to of Black Red from Vallejo, but i won’t go back and change Wes unless it bugs me more.
Until he went in the photo booth I thought he was more brown. I think I will leave him with this skin tone anyway.
Glenn blister
Mantic Games had a sale on and low price free postage cost, so I picked up a two blister bundle that I wanted and decided to paint up Glenn in his riot gear and a riot gear walker first.
I used my standard prison basing. Some hard waring green municipal style screed. With broken prison wall rubble on the walker bases and no white rubble on the survivors bases.
I used brush on Vallejo Israeli Sand primer and left it over night to dry.
I used Contrast paints for most of the model, Black Templar and Turquoise, with Nulin Oil wash for both models. No highlight for the walker to try and suggest more grime. Glenn had Macragge Blue highlight over most of the padding. Vallejo Medium skin tone for the flesh highlight, after some Darkoath Contrast as a base skin colour over the sandy coloured primer.
Sheriff's pickup
For some reason i ended up with three green pickup trucks. No idea why. Can’t even think it was down to priming them that way. With the potential for lights on top (turquoise and red contrast over silver) law enforcement seemed the way to go. ?
Theft of litter in the apocalypse
Someone on the Mantic Games Walking Dead Freaks Facebook page shared their efforts with their painted terrain. They included some well executed leaf litter where it would build up around the corners and the screens. So i stole the idea to pimp up my own terrain. ?
Prelude to Woodbury box completed.
I started a couple of these minis a while ago, but i am glad I finally finished the set.
During isolation i will get the solo scenarios played. ?
Safety Behind Bars
Santa brought me an expansion for The Walking Dead.
Safety Behind Bars.
I know it is only a wave 2 or 3 box, but i am glad to have it. I have the neoprene play mat already to replace the paper mat that supports this expansion.
I have gone for a dark green flooring. The type of coloured concrete or supermarket hard wearing mottled laminate that hides the dirt a bit. ?
The walker has some crumbled concrete wall on his base. I like to think that some prisoners had to break their way out of the cells, break their way into stores etc. And some walls have been damaged or knocked down.
I finished the Safety Behind Bars Expansion paint jobs. ?
Looking forward to playing some of the scenarios out. Tabletop horror based games obviously lack the jump scares you get from movies, but making things claustrophobic and building tension that way can give you some suspense and make some dice rolls have that do or die edge. I can imagine walkers chasing my heroes from room to room and having to deal with tricky event cards will make this quite cool to play out.
Nil By Mouth
From the Warlord Games /Wargames Factory zombie sprue. Not my best work but at least i got a gag on the base and paint on the mini.
Dale the Peg
The Dale alternative sculpt with one leg is not bad. He comes from an event day only expansion pack. Picked him at Salute.
Carlos, after the rain has fallen
Carlos from the Tyreese booster pack.
The effect on the base was trying out a new product to me. It comes in small round screw top lid pots. The material has like a brittle sponge type feel. These are from a selection made for general arts and crafts and card making. Placed on a Mournfang Brown thin coat on the base, in between the clumps i used Wyldwood Brown that finishes quite glossy.
To me it looks like there had been heavy rain and there is a layer of leaf litter over an almost grassless muddy patch of dirt.
TWD TLC.
Loot markers getting some love.
Contrast Paints a plenty.
The Ultramarine, Flesh Eater Red, Aggros Brown, Darkoath Flesh, plus my latest Black Templar and the leather colours all had their uses.
Morgan, Ronnie and a walker makes 3
Got the bug for Walking Dead minis painting again. Got the Call To Arms book, so looking to paint as much as i can quickly. The more i can get painted, the more i can pick by points and stats rather than sticking to what is painted.
Sorry about the pics. Not great focus.
The base name labels were found on the Mantic Games Walking Dead Fanatics Facebook page.
Tyreese
Tyreese towering over a dead camp fire.
Kitty litter and a sprue log painted up to be blackened and ashy. Cheap dark green grass tufts with some light green paint at the tips to make it look more lifelike.
Tyreese came out OK. Used a Templar Black and Ultramarine Blue contrast paint mix over a brown primer and it looked ok. Highlighted with Macragge Blue but needed a good dose of anti shine to drag the shine of the coat down.
Playground nightmare.
Nothing says Atlanta playground like Hop scotch, a paper plane and a Zombie child.
Enjoyed the basing again on this one.
I used the copper verdigris tech paint for the sky blue of her t-shirt. Ultramarine contrast blue for the jumper. Death Guard Green trousers with washes of Nulin Oil and Camoshade.
Reassuringly i think, i got the hop scotch course wrong. The numbers should ascend from 1 as you write them i think. My numbers are facing as though someone has started with a higher number and are building towards a 1 at the end of the course.
The paper plane is literally a folded scrap of paper glued down and washed a bit, plus a splodge of blood on it to maximise the unnerving potential.
Amy of the Dump
I think the mini is from the Prelude to Woodbury box.
I got a bit obsessed with the base. ?
Meant to be a scrap heap type area.
Scrap metal fashioned from Leadbelcher dried up lid paint. Bits of orange and Typhus Corrosion added.
The red, blue and green wires are pieces of clear plastic clothing tags wire that i painted.
The plank with nails in is a cut piece of coffee stirrer with 3 short pieces of brush bristle glued along it and painted up.
The blue plastic is just a scrap of textured plastic i found and i can’t identify where it came from.
The scrap of metal at the front of the base is a piece of postage packing strap like you find around boxes of reams of paper or bulky deliveries. It has a great texture that looks like metal flooring or shuttering once painted black or gun metal.
Harold Abernethy
Harold Abernethy.
The plank with nails in is just an off cut of coffee stirrer with 4 short pieces of brush bristle glued at each end and painted up.
I used contrast paints for almost everything.
Freehanding the 15 was awkward but it was the number shown on his cap on the stats card image.
Prison walker
I always enjoy painting walkers. I got finished and realised i had no ideas on how to base it. I tried to come up with a utilitarian green flooring that i imagine might be in a prison. It looked good, but tried to think of items that might be on a prison floor. Then i saw a chewed up piece of square base and a broken tank aerial and decided that would make great reinforced concrete from a fallen prison wall.
I think it came out well. ?
Rick in riot gear.
I chose the Rick Grimes riot gear expansion mainly because i enjoyed painting my Zombie in riot gear and will eventually buy the prison expansion box.
I used Black Templar paint for the majority of the model and used Macragge blue Leadbelcher for the straps and padding, Mournfang brown for the holster and washed with Nulin Oil.
Zombie Rick
Zombie Rick from Salute and Rick from the core box.
I tried to get the same colours though they were painted years apart and think I got close enough.
The basing being similar looks good too. ?