Thursday, August 27, 2015

Denny and her SDE Zombies

I have been doing some painting recently, so we have a bit of a larger update today. First up are the different zombies for the Stilt Town Zombies box for Super Dungeon Explore. I wasn't sure how to paint zombie skin so I tried a couple ways until I was happy with it.

Stilt Town Zombies - Pudges

These first models I basecoated the skin with P3 Ryn Flesh. Then washed twice with 1:4 P3 Thrall Flesh : water and then twice with 1:4 Vallejo Blue Violet : water. This was followed up with a liberal drybrush of 1:1 Ryn Flesh : GW Ushtabi Bone and then a little Ushtabi Bone for the top highlights. My ending thoughts with these guys are that they look a little too healthy even with the purple undertones to their skin.

Stilt Town Zombies - Swampies

For the Swampies I basecoated their skin with P3 Thrall Flesh to start out with a more unhealthy skin. They then got a liberal drybrush 1:1 Thrall Flesh / Ryn Flesh. Then with a light wash of 1:1:4 Vallejo blue violet : Vallejo dark blue : water. A final light drybrush of GW ushabti bone finished them off. I think this almost makes the skin look too much like a clean bone color, but with my bone for SDE being a much dirtier/browner looking bone this should work out.

Stilt Town Zombies - Homunculi

These guys got the same zombie flesh as the Swampies, with their outfits inspired by Crockett and Tubbs from Miami Vice. Gotta love 80's fashion.

Stilt Town Zombies - Shamble Priest

Finally we have the leader of the zombies who I'm guessing isn't a zombie at all, just a witch doctor. The white jacket with black hat and gray pants was inspired by Baron Samedi from Live and Let Die. This is my first attempt at chibi eyes and I think I made them too small. I might have to go back and redo them. The two houses he's with are the spawn points for the group. They must be clown houses if all those zombies can fit inside of them...

Stilt Town Zombies

And here we see all of them together as my first pair of painted spawn points. Yay! That's two of five spawn points ready for the goal of a fully painted Halloween game in October.

Last but not least we have my first painted warcaster for Cryx - prime Deneghra. I'm pretty happy with how she turned out, though I almost wish I did the cloak a little bit brighter of pink. Will play around with that shading on future models.

Prime Deneghra - Cryx Warcaster