Collins builds the world of The Walking Dead

So I’m probably going to have to bow out at this point, there is only a week left and I still have lots of DIY to complete before the deadline passes into summer.

As such lets see what I achieved!

So everything you see here was painted or created during the springclean challenge.

35 unique models (36 if you consider there are two on one base)

1 gaming board (as Gimli, son of Gloin says… ‘that still only counts as one!’)

36 unique models, no repeats, no squads for easy batch regular painting.

looks good, and made a real dent in the pile of shame this year. I’ll have to work out the % completed shortly!

so the paint dried and the differences in hues/tone completely disappeared. nevermind, it’s only going to be covered over with ground cover.

Now onto the forest. I’ve got to be careful here as i want to give the idea of a pretty dense forest but i need to keep it completely playable and tie in with the event cards. I did this quite well with the corn field from my farm board, the area is clearly a field and your mind sees it as such and knows it’s dense, but at the same time it is entirely flexible and models can move freely around it, only the fence really is a stopper for movement.

So, to give this idea of a thick dense forest but keep it playable i have clumped the trees together, a bit like the cardboard tiles, but i also have added a few singles just to make it feel like it extends beyond the board edges. Let me know if you think i’ve got it right here. The sizes of the trees might make model movement (aka getting your hands in there) a bit difficult, but the trees are quite bendy/flexible.

It’s suddenly turned hot as balls in the UK and so instead of having the paint dry on my brush I’ve turned back to using terrain.

Here i am starting to use the models i already have in the collection and add them to their own board, of which i made too many for terrainfest.

The third variant of Rick is the disfigured but determined one.

I still haven’t figured out a decent way of painting stone washed jeans, if anyone knows of a simple method then let me know! at this point I’m not interest in 300 steps, 3 or 4 at most. I expect starting for caledor blue base colour with drakenhoff wash is too dark/deep a starting point.

To help speed things along i decided to paint all the armoured models in one go, they are all in prison guard uniforms so it made sense.

I did consider painting some of them still wearing the prisoners jumpsuits but a quick flick through some images showed them basically always in darker colours.

I elected to give Michonne a red bandana this time as a bit of splash colour though rather than the more subdued tones she has in the comic.

the batch process obviously made it quicker to do these models but as you can see, they still need re-basing.