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Saturday, 12 October 2013

Zomtober 2013 (Week 2)

Another week, another deadline met, another walker added to the cause!

I will never be as prolific as so many of the guys taking part in Zomtober, but I hope for all of us it is about getting something done we may have been struggling to do otherwise. For me that is certainly true - this mini was started many, many months ago and is only now at last complete. He is the second of a planned trio (since I paint my Zombies to match up in groups of 3), and although not brilliant, he will do. The orange was a bugger to do though!

Engaging in Zomtober has actually helped me get paint on to non-Zombie minis, so that is positive too. For example I finished Cenette here on my Anima Tactician blog simply because of renewed motivation, which was a nice bonus.

Back to Zomtober, I was thinking I should create a central post listing everyone who took part and how much they achieved (whether 1 mini or 100 hundred, it doesn't matter, just taking part and getting stuff finished is the key).

Coming up I don't yet know if it will be more Zombie Clowns or the last of this 'orange trio' next. Stay tuned. And finally, good luck to everyone with each week of Zomtober.
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18 comments:

  1. Fred12 October 2013 at 11:33

    Nice work so far. Not looking forward to clowns. I was frightened by Charlie Carolie when I was little.

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    1. pulpcitizen12 October 2013 at 11:40

      Thanks Fred; I hope I can make them suitably icky and nasty!

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  2. Simon Quinton 12 October 2013 at 11:46

    Nice job I like the fact his eyeball is hanging out lol. Boy does that sound wrong.

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    1. pulpcitizen12 October 2013 at 11:49

      Nothing wrong in the 'wrongness' of talking zombies mate!

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  3. Jon Shields12 October 2013 at 13:43

    Nice work again. Can you remember the recipe you used on the orange? It looks really nice - I always struggle to prevent my painted orange looking a bit chalky.

    It's also nice to see that Zomtober is getting the old creative juices flowing on other projects too. Trying to think what the opposite of 'collateral damage' is to describe the effect...

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    1. pulpcitizen13 October 2013 at 01:39

      Thanks Jon. The orange is Lava Orange from Army Painter; to shade it i mixed a dab of Vallejo Deep Sea Blue in, and to highlight a bit of the bright AP yellow (Daemonic Yellow?) and a dab of Stone Grey (Vallejo).

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    2. Jon Shields14 October 2013 at 04:35

      Thanks PC. Great tip for the shading and highlighting - I never think about mixing blue in to orange for shading, but now you've mentioned it, it seems so obvious! And I guess the yellow will counter the chalkiness when highlighting. I'm getting a lot out of Zomtober!

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    3. pulpcitizen14 October 2013 at 09:12

      Glad to help! :)

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  4. Kieron12 October 2013 at 14:09

    I'm also getting other stuff done because of Zomtober. As you'll see when my blog post goes up for this week, I've got my Batman project moving again, so thanks for the motivation.

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    1. pulpcitizen13 October 2013 at 01:48

      Thanks Keiron; I look forwards to seeing how the Batman stuff progresses. :)

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  5. PanzerKaput12 October 2013 at 15:30

    Great paintjob there and I share your hate of trying to paint orange

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  6. BROODE12 October 2013 at 22:37

    Outstanding job on the mini! Great "eye-candy" ;-)

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  7. Zabadak13 October 2013 at 05:57

    Good addition - a zombie with gun, time to start be worried !

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    1. pulpcitizen13 October 2013 at 08:51

      Thanks. I reckon with his eyeball out like that, his depth perception should be off at best, so Survivors need not fear...too much...

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  8. Michael Awdry13 October 2013 at 10:09

    A lovely addition, great job.

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