Coming back to fig painting after pretty much a decade away because of Zombicide - gotta get those zombies looking dead! Had more non-resurrectable paints than I'd hoped, but sorting that out with fresh supplies from Foundry, after seeing citadel have changed the mixes yet again.
Got my first dozen tabletop-standard walking dead finishing up now, but just realized I have no idea what to do with the bases.
I still have some gravel, sand and rubble; I used to do a fairly standard brown or grey painted sand/slate gravel mix with static grass (material glued on base prior to primer on standard figs, base and fig painted separately and pinned together for larger or better figs), and worked for fantasy and 40k.
But I've tried looking at one of my old figs on the zombicide 'modern' urban grey solid tarmac surface board, and it really doesn't match in style at all. I could do a light partial sand cover, but I dunno.
Floor tile sheets cut and fit to bases or shaped ' modern urban' kerb resin bases would probably work quite nicely, but that's a hell of a lot of work for 100 odd zombies (and want to play with painted minis asap) especially as I'll have to separate feet and base to boot (and either sand down or find new bases); but I don't want to just leave them as plain flat grey or black either (tried both, make me cringe a bit).
I'll be putting some proper effort into survivor bases though, probably will cheat a bit and base on urban resin.
Maybe colour match and paint street markings?
Any suggestions for this old warhorse trying to remember which way round to hold the brush gratefully received!
Got my first dozen tabletop-standard walking dead finishing up now, but just realized I have no idea what to do with the bases.
I still have some gravel, sand and rubble; I used to do a fairly standard brown or grey painted sand/slate gravel mix with static grass (material glued on base prior to primer on standard figs, base and fig painted separately and pinned together for larger or better figs), and worked for fantasy and 40k.
But I've tried looking at one of my old figs on the zombicide 'modern' urban grey solid tarmac surface board, and it really doesn't match in style at all. I could do a light partial sand cover, but I dunno.
Floor tile sheets cut and fit to bases or shaped ' modern urban' kerb resin bases would probably work quite nicely, but that's a hell of a lot of work for 100 odd zombies (and want to play with painted minis asap) especially as I'll have to separate feet and base to boot (and either sand down or find new bases); but I don't want to just leave them as plain flat grey or black either (tried both, make me cringe a bit).
I'll be putting some proper effort into survivor bases though, probably will cheat a bit and base on urban resin.
Maybe colour match and paint street markings?
Any suggestions for this old warhorse trying to remember which way round to hold the brush gratefully received!
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