To start, I’ve painted up a big flower and a big ogre. Both from Reaper and both Black Bones. These will be used for Rangers of Shadowdeep initially and for other things afterwards.

When I was getting these pics ready with photoshop, I noticed I forgot to paint the edging of the base. I can’t believe it. How could I forget that?

I didn’t know what to do with his shield. It looked way too neat on the sculpted figure. I decided to give it a coat of dark bronze and then a coat of patina effect with a final dirty dark wash. It came out okay.

One thing I did was to buy Mantic’s The Walking Dead game. It looks like a great game but I haven’t looked at the rules. The box has a lot of little toys and other stuff that looks interesting, but the reason I bought it was because you get 6 survivor figures and about a dozen really nice zombies all for $50AUD. That’s about $2.70 per figure. That’s a great deal.

I should play the game some time – I have played in once in the past but I was more interested in getting my own thing happening at the time so I didn’t devote a lot of time towards it.

Anyway, the figures are pretty nice and very easy to paint. Here are the six survivors:

Rick and Carl Grimes – The stars of the story and my least favorite of these figures. They’re okay but not my favorites. I don’t like the way the flesh colour turned out. I’m not sure what I did wrong.

This guy had no weapons so I decided to give him one. I had a plastic sword hand sitting on the desk so I trimmed the sword into a knife, did a bit of filing. I then amputated his hand and now he has a knife. I like his face.

I like the axe man I tried to make him look like a tooled-up park attendant or something. But I’m not really keen on the last one. They came in a four figure set so that’s why I have him.