Walking dead

Finally got around to painting the extras from the Walking Dead miniatures game I got from the kick starter Mantic did a while back. 

This is about 1/3 of the minis from 3 expansions that they had with the kickstarter.

 Only know I think one character out of all these that I painted. Haven't kept up with the show and never did read the comics. I assume the comics are way better just haven't gotten around to reading them.

 I jumped on this kick starter when they launched it due to my love of walking dead at the time and well of course Zombie things. Have still yet to even try the game out. From what I hear its a good skirmish game. I think if I were to get into it more though I would like to have more of a campaign system. I do wonder if the rules have anything for that. 

The guy in the middle is Glen from the show and comics. One of my favorite characters and even though *spoilers* he dies in the show. I actually have yet to see it as I stopped watching it the season prior. Sometime I will catch up on the show.

The guy in the middle on this pic is Tyrese? I think?? Had to get something out to boost him up for the camera. Good looking mini when seen in person. 

I would have to say going over these sculpts while they are just the normal board game type material. The sculpts are ok, with only a few that had issues on them. The main issue I saw with all of them was the back of the heads. They seemed to just not have any sculpt to them even when they should. Hair for example doesn't just stop halfway back. Nor does a bandanna wrapped around your head.

FOW Russians

All of the box set for Stalins Bears painted up

For the 3rd post for this years challenge I was able to paint up some Soviet tanks from the box set Stalins Bears. 

4xT-34/85 Tanks

Was going to just put red star decals on most the tanks but read that wasn't how all the tanks were. Not exactly trying to be historically accurate here so whether what I read was right or not the decals are on now. Would have been easy to just go with Red Stars and I'm sure everyone would have known exactly what they were. 

3x ISU-122 Assault guns

I'm polish so on the side of these tanks I put the polish decals. Again from what I read polish volunteers would do this if they were together in a tank. Historically accurate? I did a quick 5 min search so who knows

6xIS-2 heavy tanks

Final picture. You can't really see the treads well. I did something different with these than the normal way I have done treads on FOW tanks. Ended up painting them a brown and washing them twice with Nulin Oil to bring them down to almost a black. I like the effect on this rather than the straight black with some metal drybrush. A little metal on the treads probably wouldn't have hurt though 

Blood Bowl Elves

Got second team for Blood Bowl finally painted up. Still working on the Orks that come in the box set Finally got these guys done. I hate painting yellow as it usually turns out like crap for me. However since I didn't do to many highlights on the yellow seems to not be to bad. 

Ended up just painting them the way games workshop went with.

Didn't do much detail on the faces. Haven't quite mastered the painting of the eyes yet. Without making them look freaky/terrible. I somewhat prefer the faces to just have a deep wash and no colored eye though.

Finally the counters that come with them. Not to hard to paint up and think they came out nicely. Only issue is trying to hold those damn footballs while you paint them. 

First entry for this the Analogue Painting challenge VIII

Have had this walking dead diorama type thing to paint up for a while now. Finally got around to painting it once the challenge started. 

I have yet to catch up on the walking dead. However been told this was a pretty crazy scene in the show. However the walking dead game by Mantic is based on the comics

Reason Rick is missing a hand as that happens in the comics and as far as I know does not happen in the TV show. At least as far as I have watched that is. 

Close up of Neegan himself. Only character that can actually be used in the game from this diorama. All in all was nice and easy to paint up and got me back into wanting to paint again.