Urban Zombie board Thread: resurrection 2023!

[zizi666]

Nice to see that you can't keep a dead thread down!

That is not dead which can eternal lie   

[Wirelizard]

Nice to see that you can't keep a dead thread down!

Headshot, man. Works every time.

Or you could take off and nuke the site from orbit. Some people claim that's the only way to be sure.

Actually, nice to see this thread shamble on, it's one of the great projects of LAF in my opinion!

[Commander Vyper]

Hello again.....

So here's a first, The Commander actually buying some wargames zombies!?!?!?!?  

I kid you not. Read on and all will be revealed....

Ok so my take.

Ordered Wed pm from on ebay for £16.99 for the box, postage (2nd class) free. (actually sent first class)

Arrived today, box art on the front cheap and nasty, silly renders, (there's a suprise).

Rear artwork is a photo of the studio pj's:



Better off putting the art from the rear on the front and some other stuff on the rear. But i digress...



On first impressions, plastic is like that used for the Em-4 plastic minis, (a little bit shiney grey) well cast, minimal mould lines and the detail, whilst still a little soft, is greatly improved on the original nasty zeds from a few years back.

Quite slight compared to other wargaming minis, (will sort comparisons out once I've built a few) arms and hands noticably so. Heads are nice sculpts, (in principle) but still too darn soft.

Remind me a lot of scaled railway minis, so again a little bit of wargaming 'weight' could be added to these ladies but in a cosmopolitan horde you'll hardly notice.

Two have the manga inspired 'I need a pee pee!!!' knocked knee pose but the rest ok. One crawler per sprue and a fair number of handbags, grab bags and other items of luggage every disernable zombie girl needs for a night on the town.

Baywatch swimming float is a nice touch, will pair her up with my Hasslefree zombie surfer dude!
All in alll a much better product, a good niche, not perfect and still suffering from some of the soft focus issues of before but again as I said, much better produce all round.

Oh and the little circle is a serving tray for the diner chick zed shown on the rear of the box.


You never know I might even paint something this week.

The Commander


p.s You also get 36 not 30 zeds, (2 crawlers/thighwalkers per sprue).

[Bubbles]

I bought a packet of the old Wargames factory zeds and didn't even finish putting them together. These look so much better. I might need to buy a few to even out the male to female ratio due to the new studio miniatures zeds.

[Commander Vyper]

Really disappointed with the studio zeds I have to say, not the sculpting but the lack of variety. Probably after half a box if anyone wants to go halves or someone is doing the indiegogo and has say ten spare?

The Commander

[apeekaboo]

Really disappointed with the studio zeds I have to say, not the sculpting but the lack of variety. Probably after half a box if anyone wants to go halves or someone is doing the indiegogo and has say ten spare?

The Commander

Trade you a sprue of the IGG zombies for a sprue of WGF Vixens?

[Silent Invader]

Interesting.

Who'd have thought it...... 28mm handbags!

[magokiron]

    

How can I have missed thisd thread for so long?

Lots of good ideas for gaming and modelling.

Thanks for sharing.

[Commander Vyper]

Just a tiny little update.

Ordered some of Tengu miniatures lovely new zombies. I have to say, never Iain never disappoints, lovely clean sculpts, zero flash and now with slots making pinning on resin or coins, (if you're that dull ) a doddle. Also far more available than Iain posted up this week. Also, some lovely new zed dogs, not overally done just perfect putrified pooches.

Also if these sell well, trying to persuade Iain to do some first responder zeds and survivors. If he does these will be great.   

With The walking Dead Season 3 on fx and cockneys vs zombies under the belt getting a little more focused on this project again. Hopefully will find some time before Christmas to make a little dent in my zed dead lead pile soon.

The Commander

[Darkoath]

What is cockneys vs. zombies?  A new british tv series?

[leonmallett]

What is cockneys vs. zombies?  A new british tv series?

Movie, I think.

[Bubbles]

Movie, I think.

You are correct

[Darkoath]

Is it any good?  How does it compare to Shaun of the Dead?

[Commander Vyper]

Is it any good?  How does it compare to Shaun of the Dead?

Not a patch. Funny in parts. At bit lock stock meets Shaun. Added bonus for me was that on the way back from salute 2010 on the docklands light railway, I looked down at one of the side streets saw a horde of fricking zombies walking down the road!!!!

It was the film set....

[snitcythedog]

Probably after half a box if anyone wants to go halves or someone is doing the indiegogo and has say ten spare?

If you are in the mood to wait, I will be moving over there by August next year and I can part with some.  I only have three boxes coming.  For me they will be horde fillers and easily converted corpse markers.  I am not a big plastics fan for individual zeds.  They need to be made of sterner stuff.  Your review of the vixens is intriguing and the photos are spot on so I might get a box to flesh out my new hordes.
Snitchy sends.