And back to the dip....

The other week I noticed that my can of Minwax polyshades had dried up. It's been so long since I used the dip method that it must not have been sealed properly. Any, so I bought a new can and decided to clear some stuff of my painting table that's been sitting for way too long. 

 I got all this done in the span of a weekend. I really can't argue with that kid of output. Doing the layered shading and shadowing could take me weeks to get through a group of figures this size. 

 ...I didn't paint these...that really saves time. 

 Investigators from Mansions of Madness

 Civillians...and a monkey

 Zombie George, the Master and his ladies. Big Pimpin'

 I like "Flip Top Nurse" 

 "Surfer with a bite taken out of him" is one of my faves.

Lost Highway...

So for a few years now I wanted a cheaper wrecked car option in 28mm than buying cars and smashing them with a hammer. A long while back I found this link:

http://www.terragenesis.co.uk/infopages/page423.html

Seemed like a good idea but it also seemed messy and a like a lot of work. Recently I landed a box of old dental plaster and decided to give this a go. I'm extremely happy with the results. I basically ended up with a whole highways worth of wreckage for the price of a couple feet of aluminum foil. SHIPOW! I did a little more detailing on the windshield using a white colored pencil to make them look cracked. 

This is my BOOMSTICK!!!

I just finished up a batch of some Studio Miniatures zombie survivors. I did a few for some friends as late Christmas gifts, but I kept this one for myself. This the "Cole" miniature who bears a striking resemblance to the a certain big chinned Candarian demon killer. These miniatures were a blast to paint, probably the nicest I've ever painted. I have started picking up more 28mm stuff lately, especially a bunch of Reaper's new zombie survivors from the Chronoscope line. I'm having trouble focusing on 15mm right now.

I always wanted to try doing a fall foliage basing and found a great website that suggested using oregano. Loving to cook, but not being overly adventurous with spices I found our oregano still had the original seal on it. So here we go. I really like the effect.

No More Room in HELL!!!!

Last week we had our first playtest of "No More Room in Hell", the new zombie rule set that I'm writing for Iron Ivan Games. The rules are based on Doctor Merkury's "Where Heroes Dare!" pulp rules. Players create Survivors that will have to make their way through the zombie apocalypse. The game will include extensive campaign options that will show the wear and tear that a Survival Party suffers from repeated encountes with the living dead and with unfriendly survivors.

Al searches a building and "finds an explosion in the distance". HA!

Doctor Merkury gets stuck in a tight spot between multiple Zombie Hordes.

"Do you have any rocket pops?"

I don't want to give too much away at this point, the game went pretty well, and we had a lot of fun. The playtest definitely showed some of the things that still need tweaking and gave me some new ideas as well.

I'm a LOOOONG time zombie fanatic and I've really been working hard to try and make this game encompass all the things that I've wanted to see in a zombie game and I'm hoping that zombie fans will REeeeALLY dig this book, it's going to have a lot of flavor and zombie fans will hopefully have a smile on their face when they read this one. I'll keep you updated on the progress. Happy Hunting!

Mongo of the Undead

15mm Post Apocalyptic Zombie Tiles

So I got the idea for these 6x6 terrain tiles while watching Akira with Doctor Merkury, more specifically the tiles with the burnt out cars( I had planned for some time to break up pieces of the Child Guidance building sets for 15mm ruins). The idea came while watching Tetsuo or Toshio, or Yu-Gi-Oh, or whatever the hell his name was blow up big chunks of Neo Tokyo. Anyway, I ordered a bunch of pre-cut MDF boards and started making these up. The cars are all dollar store cheapies. I'm pretty happy with the results. The tiles will fit nicely on my city streets gaming mat that I made and should look pretty cool for my zombie games and post apocalyptic games. In case anyone is wondering the LOTR 15mm fantasy projects will be put indefinitely on hold. I am doing some commission work right now as well as a secret zombie project with Doc Merkury.....more on that later.

Modern 15mm Gaming Mat

So I know that this isn't that big a deal or anything, but it's something I've wanted to make for a long while now and finally just got enough of a fire lit under my ass to do it. What you're looking at is a city steet gaming mat for 15mm. I wanted something with city blocks, sidewalks. and street lines basically painted on it so that the mat would have a little more detail than just throwing down a black mat like i do in 28mm. I figure once I make some ruined modern buildings it will look good as a post apocalyptic city or Zombie infested city.

Why has god forsaken us!!!!!!

The escape point

Dr. Merkury has been here, he's diabolical!!!