Collins builds the world of The Walking Dead

two more to go! two more to complete the Atlanta camp then its GAME TIME!

During a UHH I did a quick paint job on Donna, again a mix of standard and contrast paints.

Im not certain I like the look of contrast on things like shirts, works well on hair and shoes though. just got to pick your target area well, for me I think I prefer the harder shadow areas you get for manually highlighting, the problem I have is not having the appropriate matches in standard paint vs contrast.

I am rapidly approaching the Atlanta camp followers being complete and we’ll soon be on for another run of battle reports! I can’t wait, I’m enjoying the games and excited for the story that will be created! (remember Rick is still in a pickle atm!)

If you’re a depressed mechanic who’s just lost his whole family I expect you’d wear a chequered shirt too! or maybe you’re the kind of person who wears them all the time (like me).
Either way they’re a pain to paint and make look good.
It requires a steady hand and well thinned paint (or paint pens if you are fancy)
all in all this took me in the region of 1 hour 38 mins to complete, the length of this weekends weekender show. contrasts were used on the hat, trousers and shoes to speed up the process and remove the need for highlighting too much.
The shirt was simply painted with the pattern and then VERY selective glazing into what I thought should be folds in the shirt or around the pocket details. nothing fancy really as the pattern is the highlights for this shirt.

Interestingly the contrast used on the trousers here worked out a lot better than on Dale’s jacket in my opinion, perhaps some colours simply are better suited to the contrast medium than others.

the rest of him is traditional painting although the dark jacket hasn’t been highlighted in any way.

The baseball cap has a mixture of base wash and highlight but also selective wash removal on the high areas then a very simple steady hand to write on ‘police’ in white paint.

Everyone in the apocalypse needs someone to act as overwatch and the Atlanta group have an old bloke called Dale.

he was done using just contrast on his jacket, im trying to find a nice quick way to get some areas done. its not as highlighted as id like but it was quick

Sorry for the lack of content over the last little while. I’ve been out of action with the dreaded nursery plague.

The next character for Rick to meet will likely be glenn so it was about time he got a lick of paint.

The interesting bit on him is his hat that took a little bit of free handing to get the pattern drawn out. other than that however, he is pretty basic with solid colours, base, wash and layer highlights.

Lori in the comic and show wears chequered shirts, primarily lilac or purple ones according to the internet.

I cheaped out on the walkers and didn’t do anything interesting for their shirts (just solid colours and strong tone dip) but you can’t do that for the living!

as such I tried my hand at adding a pattern to her shirt. to colours of purple and a fine tipped bush and we had a pattern. it loses all the folds in the shirt as its really hard to paint in a manner that keeps all the little folds present but I tried.

She came out alright in the end and is certainly done to a tabletop standard. even if she is suffering from the BIGGEST of eyebrows.

#done

To make up for having to paint two models in one (horses and riders count as separates!) I decided to start painting the Grimes family, starting with Carl, he is half sized after all!

Nice simple scheme of blue jeans, red soft-shell jacket and of course Rick’s police hat.

Nice simple, base, wash and layer highlight.

I think I’m getting the hang of when to use contrast and when to use paint, somethings just work better as contrast (hair) and others not so much.