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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Dr. The Viking on December 07, 2009, 08:50:48 AM
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I found out that I have enough 20mm zombies, H0 railmodel housing and matchbox cars to do a gaming board now.
The aim is to make a 4x4 table with small gardens, a railway station, a fire station and perhaps a hot dog kiosk.
I hope to litter it with H0 stuff (furniture and stuff), small newspaper bits and other stuff to make it look really freshly deserted.
I will of course use the lovely elheim minis for the game:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/clovermilk/zombies/P1130731.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/clovermilk/zombies/P1130734.jpg)
With my lacking paint skills I've tried to give an impression of how I want it to look:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/clovermilk/zombies/eksempel.jpg)
State troops and center for disease control:
(http://elhiemfigures.com/images/st/st_nbc02.jpg)
Zeds: (I already have plenty of these)
(http://elhiemfigures.com/images/tdsc02.jpg)
Survivors.
(http://elhiemfigures.com/images/st/st_tdsc06.jpg)
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i'm selling a few 20mm zeds on normal GW round bases if your interested, plus i'm intrigued if you pull off that settup.
TW
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Looking great Thorbjørn. 20mm must be a great scale because there's loads of modeling stuff that can be easilly purchased and abused, it's always made me wonder why its not a more popular scale.
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i'm selling a few 20mm zeds on normal GW round bases if your interested, plus i'm intrigued if you pull off that settup.
TW
Thanks but no thanks. I already have all the zombies that I need. (and I want to paint them myself).
Looking great Thorbjørn. 20mm must be a great scale because there's loads of modeling stuff that can be easilly purchased and abused, it's always made me wonder why its not a more popular scale.
Yes! It will in fact be ingenious when it's done. Nothing less will do.
I think 20mm is the ultimate scale in many respects. It small enough to include vehicles without it ending up looking like a 20 yard tank firefight (as a certain Sci-fi game I know has a tendency to).
And yet the minis are large enough to have at least some character and make skirmishing and unique characters an option too.
Last but not least it seems that you could pile H0, 20mm and 1:72 stuff together without anyone feeling offended. Now that is A LOT to choose from. And all the fiddly interior stuff is readily available from train model blabla stores.
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I think if I was going to choose a new scale it'd be 20mm, but being loaded with a ton of 28/32mm and 15mm, and just struggling with terrain enough for them it'd be too hard to get started (though if I sold my FoW....)
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I think if I was going to choose a new scale it'd be 20mm, but being loaded with a ton of 28/32mm and 15mm, and just struggling with terrain enough for them it'd be too hard to get started (though if I sold my FoW....)
It really is hard to justify doing 15, 20 and 28. There's a lot of grey zones in between.
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Looks like a good start must echo what everyone else has said about 20mm lovley stuuf but I have a fair bit 28mm alread javascript:void(0);
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I was going through my lead mountain last weekend and it finally dawned on me i have modern zombies in 15mm 20mm 25mm 28mm 32mm and 40mm. must control my zombie buying impulse. At least some of the 28/32mm are painted and they have a few almost completed buildings to go with them.
Would love to hear how the Ambush Zed goes ,i've bought irt but havent played it yet . I'm curious to find out if its possible for the humans to win the 1st scenario in the given number of turns
cheers
Dex
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Nice Idea. (obviously! ;)).
For the road layout's I'd use the printed roads and paths approach I used, (scale scenes downloads) plus the added bonus is no need for upscaling so you could print at home and reduce costs?
Downloadable pdf road and pavement sets from a railway scenics company called Scale scenes
http://www.scalescenes.com (http://www.scalescenes.com) and got the roads and pavements set (T034):
(http://www.scalescenes.com/images/T034/fullsize/1.jpg)
Concrete Ground (TX19)
(http://www.scalescenes.com/images/section_thumbs/TX19.jpg)
Concrete Paths (TX33)
(http://www.scalescenes.com/images/section_thumbs/TX33.jpg)
Tarmac (TX20)
(http://www.scalescenes.com/images/section_thumbs/TX20.jpg)
Pavement (TX21)
(http://www.scalescenes.com/images/section_thumbs/TX21.jpg)
Car park (TX22)
(http://www.scalescenes.com/images/section_thumbs/TX22.jpg)
Hope this helps.
The Commander
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This is the sort of thing that reminds why I really should get on track with my 1/72 Umbrella Corp & COBRA forces.
So much to do, so little time.
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Hmmm I don't really know about the paving and road.
My plan was to model them myself, and make the road cracked and earthquaked.
My plan is not to make a "real" city enviroment, but rather a post apocalyptic one in a Danish sense. lol
But it would be a nice short cut to it though.
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There's times driving around the west coast of Denmark that i get the 'post-apcoalytic Denmark' vibe already... (no need to what for some great disaster!) ;)
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There's times driving around the west coast of Denmark that i get the 'post-apcoalytic Denmark' vibe already... (no need to what for some great disaster!) ;)
LOL!!!!
So true!
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Hey! That's the prettiest part of Denmark!
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Hey! That's the prettiest part of Denmark!
Lol maybe after Nørrebro! ;)
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Yay I've actually started doing something on this project now lol
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/clovermilk/zombies/P1140147.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/clovermilk/zombies/P1140155.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/clovermilk/zombies/P1140156.jpg)
The minis are obviously of a larger scale than the housing. But it doesn't bother me. I think it gives a cartoonish feel to it all that I like. Some of the houses I have are WAY too small though (hobbit doors and so on).
I'm trying to decide whether I should undercoat the buildings and paint them from top to bottom.. or just toy around with some mat varnish and pigments on the plastic?
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I think you should go with the varnish and pigment approach. The zombies are looking good so far btw. I get quite a Slesvig-Holsten-feel about the buildings: The top pic looks like something from Lakolk on Rømø and the other one looks just like the trainstation at Niebøl... Almost feels like home :'( lol
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I think you should go with the varnish and pigment approach. The zombies are looking good so far btw. I get quite a Slesvig-Holsten-feel about the buildings: The top pic looks like something from Lakolk on Rømø and the other one looks just like the trainstation at Niebøl... Almost feels like home :'( lol
Indeed. Any old station village (stationsby/ladeplads) of Jutland will actually be quite well rendered by these buildings.
(here we are again.. two muddy Danes trying to communicate in English!)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/clovermilk/zombies/P1140176.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/clovermilk/zombies/P1140178.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/clovermilk/zombies/P1140180.jpg)
A little more experimenting today.
I dullcoted the house and then drybrushed it with a bone colour.
After that I sprayed it with white from directly above and then spray glue. After that I gave it a case of the cold with GW snowflock mixed with Noch snow.
I'm thinking that I'm going for a nuclear winter approach.
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Wow, THAT looks cold! :o
...and the zombies do, too! lol
Great job, I really like the idea of a local Zombie game, please let me see it for real on day!