The Walking Dead – A tale of boot camps and laughter

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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. ?

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 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. ?