Sorry for the Delay/Painted(ish) Survivors

Unfortunately the last week has been a bit hectic, with operations, eye appointments and attic clearing, at the moment I do not have access to a good camera, but should have later today, i'll post some pictures of a couple of survivors and a new vehicle

My Zombies have still not Arrived!, hopefully they'll arrive this week (I have been saying that for every post for the last month haven't I?, I must be going insane!)

:EDIT:
Ok, these need a bit of touching up but I'll post them anyway.

On the Left we've got C.J, before Z Day he was a bouncer at a club, his skillset has come I n handy against both Human and Zombie foes alike.

On the right is Detective Cole
Phelps, Arson Division,
Marshall City PD (MCPD).
He's been punched, shot at,
and verbally abused, he
also served in the Marines,
so he knows his way around
an Assault Rifle.

In the last picture is a Humvee type Vehicle that I found while clearing out the attic its a "bit" big, shown here next to a TAG SAS.

Painted Survivor 01

Painted this yesterday, nothing like a bank holiday to get some painting done!

Beverly:

Before Z Day Beverly was an average soccer mum, taking her son to football and baseball matches. After watching her Husband and Son provide a nice snack for their coach, she hefted her son's metal bat and husband's gun and set about wreaking revenge on the Walking Undead.

 She is a Wargames Factory Female Survivor, the bat is from the male set and she is painted up using citadel paints. I was thinking of adding a little bit of blood to the bat, what are your thoughts?

On a related note of Painting, does anyone know a paint I can use to paint jeans on a couple of male survivors?

Update

Sorry for the small delay, just thought I'd put out a small update.

Studio Miniatures Zombies: Should arrive before the end of the month
Survivors: How do you think I should post my Survivors 5 at a time?, or in related groups?

Films: In the middle of watching I Am Legend, however my dog rolled in the nicest substance on earth earlier..... Fox Poo!, so she's got to be washed.
TV: A Couple of days ago I watched an interesting mockumentary called Blackout, I'd say it was 4/10 but worth watching if its on BBC or something.

Games: Recently re-discovered a game called How to Survive in my steam library, not really getting into it but the game and all DLC's for £0.99 it was hard to pass up.

Anyway, Just thought I'd give you small Update.

Day 1 Survivors & Find from the Lonely Terrain Box

Ok, I was working on a couple of small buildings, and was about to re-arrange my terrain box to fit them in, when I found these lovely fellows, I think that they are TAG SAS, I think I bought them at my local tip shop a couple of years ago for some reason. Any way I am thinking that I will buy This miniature and these will make a good squad. From Right: Wargames Factory Woman Survivor 3x SAS on no base, SAS on Wargames factory base, 2x WF male survivors (to use as Day 1 survivors)



These are a bunch of survivors that I will use for any initial outbreak survivors in my games, all are Wargames factory plastics, the two golfers golf clubs broke off, so I'm not sure what too use the handles as, any suggestions?


Update on Studio Miniatures: Bad News!
Unfortunatly the Suppliers of the miniatures are currently re-inventorising their products so they said it should arrive by the end of the month, no batrep this weekend D:


     

My Wants From a Ruleset, and 2 Book Reviews

On my Earlier post, Shelldrake mentioned that I should write a "wish list" for my wants from a ruleset.

Wants:
Survivor vs Survivor Combat ( or Survivor vs Bandit/Military)
Random Encounters
Campaign Ability
Example Scenarios (For example a Day 1 Scenario and a Day 9 Scenario, although Kisshead on the Juniorgeneral forums posted a link to the Zombicide Scenario Page)

If anyone has any ideas they would be happily welcomed


Update on the Studio Plastics: On Friday I got an Email from the company supplying them that they haven't been sent the Miniatures from their supplier (very confusing ;P) and that they'll email me when its dispatched.


Book Review: Ashes (1st Book) and Shadows (2nd Book) by Ilsa J Bick

Just a heads up on a good series of books that have not got your "traditional" dawn of the dead style zombies but have got cannibals that "evolve" to have basic functions (Know how to track, shoot and handle weapons towards the end of the first book). It follows a Young Girl that is struggling in the late stages of a brain tumour, and decides to go out hiking alone, while she does this a cataclysmic event happens that causes an Emp type effect but also flicks a switch in some teenagers/young adults heads that turns them into flesh eating cannibals. The "event" kills off most 20-60 year olds. It also features some classic post-apocalyptic themes (I won't spoil some of the plot twists)

Links

Ashes (1st Book)

Shadows (2nd Book)

Monsters (3rd Book) Haven't read this one yet so if you have no spoilers!

Marshall County Sheriff Department

Sorry for the Blurry Pic

As my Studio Miniatures Zombies have not yet arrived (sigh) i have got these as a replacement for now, they will be used in random encounters, as a mission objective or just as as friendly (or unfriendly) survivors. I think i'll paint them u in a similar fashion to the Walking Dead TV Show Uniform or maybe something like this. Anyway, here they are (one of them fell off his base)

On a Related note does anyone know where i can pick up some police dogs with vests on like this one.

Rulesets

I am Currently at a bit of a Dilemma, i own quite a few rulesets however i am having trouble on which one to use i own (Including Games Not Featuring Zombies but are still Post-Apocalyptic):

Across the Dead Earth (AtDE)
Zombies and Survivors (Grekwood Miniatures)
Skirmish Scavenge Survive (MiniatureMojo)
Even Death May Die (Can't Remember who this is By)
BioSyndrome (BioSyndrome)
Chain Reaction (Two Hour Wargames)
Total AR:SE (Akula)

I Am Also Thinking of Buying (When i Gather Together the Money)

All Things Zombie (Two Hour Wargames)
ATZ Haven
ATZ I,Zombie
OR
No More Room in Hell (Iron Ivan Games)

If you guys have any prefrence/idea on which would be better any advice would be apreciated.

Welcome!

Let me Introduce Myself, I am Redcoat893,

I am a Fan of the Walking Dead Comics, the TV Show and am Currently Re-Playing the Video Game (The Telltale one not Survival Instinct). Also in my collection is State of Decay and Left 4 Dead

This Blog will be the Place Where you can view my Zombie Project (Cue Aplause)

I Currently have about 50 Survivors, and 60 Studio Miniatures Zombies are in the Post, i will also be converting the rest of my spare survivors into Zombies, giving me an estimate of 100 Zombies

Most Posts will contain Mostly Unpainted Miniatures, But i have set myself the goal of getting 2 Survivors Painted a Month, including Backstories.

Until my Zeds Arrive Farewell!