Hi guys,
I will skip the apologetic introduction and I will dive right in - Few weeks back I received a nice parcel from the good man Clint of Anything but a one! fame. (Thanks again!)
Among other things he sent me were these two miniatures of a female survivor in a living and zombified form. They are from a newish company called East Street Games for their Zombie Apocalypse game called Bullets and Brains.
Unfortunately the page offers very little information at this point and I would wish to at least see the sculpts, but Clint has posted a lengthy AAR in his April posts...actually, just click Here and then check the newer posts for parts 2 and 3.
As far as the miniature goes, the sculpt is fantastic. I have an abundance of survivors with firearms, so seeing one with a melee weapon was a welcoming change. The survivor is not cluttered with the detail, but the jacket, for example, was nicely detailed, so it pains up nice and fast. This is just a personal preference, but I like it as it feels a lot like a gaming piece and doesn't give me nightmares when I am painting it.
I more or less copied the paints from the web page, but I went with Khaki shorts as and a hat as I felt the jacket was blue enough. I kept the same paints for both of them and the zombie was given the pale and purple treatment that I found I like the most for the zombies and undead in general.
For zombie, things are more or less the same. It doesn't have the
typical shambling stance I like, but it looks like it barely stands
upright, so this is "zombie enough" for me. It is full of little
details, little cuts, little gun shot wounds, I could swear I saw one
eyeball dangling out and there are even some blisters. One of the legs shows some bone, so there was a lot of diversity on it. The only thing that struck me was the gun shot wound on the hat. Not that I mind it, as it looks good, but as we like to associate dead zombies with blown up heads, this makes it a Living Living Dead.
I apologise for bad photos, I blame it on the weather!
This is it for today, and I'll post again next week, if all goes as planned!
Mathyoo