Recording progress on Zombicide Black Plague – I have been working through the mound of plastic that is Zombicide Black Plague. I’ve not photographed everything yet but the Base Set is completed as well as most of the stretch goal survivors and a few of the extra monsters. One guest box done with a couple more still in the box. I sold on Wulfsberg so I don’t have the burden of that to paint! Which is just as well as I’ve also been painting up Mythic Battles: Pantheon (just completed the base set – photos to follow at some point). Work on Conan has stalled a bit as a result. And I nearly cried when Rising Sun arrived (miniatures look amazing). Green Horde was sold on immediately!
More over, my son and I have been playing the game! Several times now with varying degrees of success. Looks great with painted miniatures and the gameplay is simple and quick. Much less challenging that MB:P
Tribute or Rip Off? Well, I’ve no line on that really but I do like the frequent tongue-in-cheek (non-subtle) popular culture references that CMON play with when creating survivor characters for their Zombicide games. Zombicide Black Plague is no exception (I couldn’t wait to paint up the Monty Python chaps).
Last year I tackled a further batch of survivors. Still quite a few to go. A lot of competition for painting time going on though, especially with Conan in the pipeline which itself has been supplanted as the ‘focus’ by Mythic Battles Pantheon… Oh well. At least I curbed some build up of the plastic mountain by selling on Zombicide Black Plague Green Horde and Massive Darkness as soon as those KSs arrived. And then Rising Sun arrived. Oh dear.
In no particular order…
“Lady Faye” – Snow White (Kirsten Stewart) from Snow White and The Huntsman“Lady Faye” – Snow White (Kirsten Stewart) from Snow White and The Huntsman“Hitch the Bard” – Jareth the Goblin King (David Bowie) from Labyrinth“Hitch the Bard” – Jareth the Goblin King (David Bowie) from Labyrinth“Piper the ‘Werewolf'” – Isabeau (Michelle Pfeffer) from Ladyhawke
If I wait to get any more of these painted I will never do a post on High Heavens.
As far as Kickstarters go, it was the most delayed I’ve backed (including Conan). The range of “Godly” mythological miniatures was too tempting. I was running a risk on quality, as this mini heavy game was coming from a company with little or no track record. It was also the first KS I ever backed – but not the first I ever received!
Well, long story short, the miniatures are not that bad. Not amazing either. I do like the sculpts (on the whole) and really wish I’d gone with the resin option. While the standard PVC ones are “okay” they are not as good as some you will see in other mini-heavy board games – Zombicide and more recently Conan spring to mind. Think marginally below Reaper Bones standard. C’est la Vie.
Out of the box there was some worry – as is the case with ‘softer’ PVC minis, the tales of super-bendy spears, swords, etc seemed to have extended to legs and shields.
Repurposing existing ‘toys’. My son had a small spell of collecting some of the pre-painted D&D miniatures which I came across during a rummage.
This fella struck me as being particularly useful for a barbarian or orcish force in either 15 or 28mm. He’s pretty much a full repaint. The first picture I took before going all-out on the warpaint on him. If he does make an appearance for 15mm I think a scratch built howdah will be in order even though his anatomy suggests he is bipedal.
Miniature figure collector and painter (in that order) and solo wargamer whose opponent has lost his gaming mojo
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