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Miniatures Adventure => Weird Wars => Topic started by: Pappa Midnight on 06 July 2007, 10:40:12 PM
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Just completed some Weird War Zombies ( From WestWind). I need to finish the bases but here's a few I've done.
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c334/pappa_midnight/WeirdZeds-1.jpg)
I've also got some very nice werewolves to do aswell.
Please note: No green skin in sight!!!! :lol:
Regards
PM
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Very nice PM! And I like the lack of green. They look like dead corpses. :)
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cool stuff I like the officer :mrgreen:
grimm
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It was midnight...an eerie calm settled over the ruins of what had been Stalingrad city. Private Ivan Ivanovitch took a last pull of his cigarette and lay down to sleep. He noticed a sudden movement out the corner of his eye..."Halt! Who goes there!"...his buddy cocked his rifle. Where once the street was littered with Nazi corpses, field grey forms now rose slowly through the mist ... The Nazis were back! Not alive, but in undead form seeking live flesh...
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I just love the whole WW2 Zombie idea. Wel :roll: l done!
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theres no stopping you!
Very nicely done 8)
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These look excellent! You are a bad influence on me :)
n.
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You are the king!
Looks fantastic! I love the officer.
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Thanks for the comments! :)
I'm actually finding it quite difficult to get the uniforms to look right. I'm not normally a WW2 gamer and had no idea of the vast number of variations of uniform. I've bought a few books and it seems that designs changed all the time!
I suppose as it's "pulp" it doesn't matter that much. Don't even get me started on vehicles! I've got a couple of books on armour and the designs change almost as much!
Regards
PM
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I'm actually finding it quite difficult to get the uniforms to look right. I'm not normally a WW2 gamer and had no idea of the vast number of variations of uniform. I've bought a few books and it seems that designs changed all the time!
Not to mention what the process of dying and being re-animated would do the the colour of the uniforms! I wouldn't sweat the accuracy man, these figs look fantastic! I find it a funny phenomenon with fatnasy/sci-fi types (including myself). I mean, we are fine with dead people coming back as zombies, but we can't deal with a German uniform that is two shades too light ;)
Great job! Looking forward to more pics of you stuff :)
n.
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Well, obviously the undead are allowed to wear a selection of old and outdated uniforms. We'd be concerned if they wore the new regulation kit!
No, part of the way that 'historical fantasy' works is that 90% of the setting has to be correct. The other 10% can be radically fictional. But the precise accuracy of the main part is crucial to establishing your credibility as creator.
I believe this is true for other eras as well. I recently spent some time researching Queen Victoria's Highland holidays for a book which features automatons, mad science inventions and monkeys with their own canoes. But I wanted to get a correct feel for the 'The Queen meets Angus the automaton' scene.
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No, part of the way that 'historical fantasy' works is that 90% of the setting has to be correct. The other 10% can be radically fictional. But the precise accuracy of the main part is crucial to establishing your credibility as creator.
Ah, I see what you are saying. I agree, there is definitely a difference between historical fantasy and pure fantasy... That being said, none of my figs are painted with all that much consideration for historical perfection, so I guess I should work on my historical historical stuff :)
In any case, I still think that the path from life, to death, to undeath would likely have a big impact on a zombie's uniform colour scheme :)
n.
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Of course, burial in a mass grave followed by some sort of unholy revival into undeath will mess up a man's uniform.
Everyone knows that. :lol:
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Of course, burial in a mass grave followed by some sort of unholy revival into undeath will mess up a man's uniform.
Who says it is unholy? Maybe they just have a different deity?
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Yes, that's quite possible.
For instance, I am a Presbyterian and I have seen very few zombies in the pews. Our dead stay dead.
Indeed, some of them appear dead during services.
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Just finished a few more WW2 zeds to add to my Weird War collection.
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c334/pappa_midnight/WeirdZeds2.jpg)
Only another 20 to go!
PM
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these is no stopping you! any thoughts on other WW2 minis? a crazy scientist is a must at some point....
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Sehr Gut!!!! :love:
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How many Zeds is that now? :lol: You must have the largest collection out there :?: Excellent stuff by the way!
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These 'Zeds' are looking really cool, but I'd like to see some close ups, PLEASE!!
Z.
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great zombies! the flesh color is great!
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Thanks for the comments guys! :)
Once i've got a few Zombies done and some Werewolves I'll probably do a Vampire or two. I like the mad scientist idea and I'll probably go for the Artizan one. In fact there's quite a few minis from Artizan I'll use!
Malamute; I don't count the WW2 stuff towards my Zombie count, but if I did I would be pushing 100 painted!!!
I'll try to find some close-ups. My camera is doing weird stuff with lighting at the moment. Either the pics are bleached out or they're so damn dark you can hardly see them. When the lighting is just right they come out blurred even with a macro zoom.......strange!
I've steered away from my normal "Green Flesh" as I do that with my modern Zombies as a reference to the original Dawn of the Dead movie. These guys are supposed to be freshly risen so I went for a more natural look.
Thanks again for the comments
PM
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Love the one with the big head !!