28mm Brigade Games Haitian Zombies l & II

Haitian Zombies I (5) - Front - This particular pack is un-pictured at Brigade for some reason. Most of them have large wounds sculpted on somewhere so I made these five risen dead, flesh eater types.

Haitian Zombies I - (5) - Rear

Haitian Zombies II (5) - Front - These, however, had basically intact garments and I made all but the splint leg guy, simply under the spell/command of Mama Magombi. No apparent wounds, no rent garments. I'd love to get scluptor's notes on these. Can't seem to find info on these capes hoods online anywhere? Total fabrication (pun intended)? Some old movie? [Edit 3/15/18 - I watched White Zombie and the servants seemed awful familiar - see below for more.]

Haitian Zombies II (5) - Rear - There is a story about a fractured leg in Haitian Voudoo lore but it belonged to a woman and it was also proof that the "zombie" under investigation, who did not have a game leg,  could not be the same woman.. Yet, second from left here, is a zombie with a bandaged and splint arrangement on the left leg. Where does this come from? Old movie again?
[Edit 3/15/18 From White Zombie - see below.]

Zombies!

Yes.

They are my servants.

Did you think we could do it alone?

In their lifetime they were my enemies.

Ledot, the witch doctor. Once my master. Secrets I tortured out of him.

Von Gelder, the swine. Swollen with riches. He fought against my spells until the last. 

In him I have a struggling type. His Excellence, Richard. Once minister of the interior.

Scarpia, Brigand Chief. 

Marcquis, Captain of Gendarmerie.

And this... this is Chauvin. The high executioner, who almost executed me!

I took them just as we will take this one. But what if they regain their souls?

They would tear me to pieces. But that, my friend, shall never be.

Chauvin seen wearing a hood in other parts of the movie. He also has the wooden splint on his leg.

Two of the ten had Caucasian features so I painted them accordingly.

All the risen dead zombies in one shot. The will join the European styled ones seen here.

For giggles here's the mind slave zombies with West Wind's Madam Magombi. The skin  on these was straight out of the bottle Foundry's "African Flesh" triad. No fourth highlight on those at all.

West Wind's Baron Savoodie and his minions.

Next up is some West Wind heroes to oppose all this then some quantities of Old Glory Voodoo Warriors from their Pirate range. Colonial Police in there somewhere too - all are in varying levels of completion on the painting table.

Thanks for looking - questions and comments are welcome and encouraged!

28mm Brigade Games Duellists

Excellent pair of figures from Paul Hicks. Like everyone else I did them as the Hussars (7th & 3rd Regiments) from the film of the same name though their faces aren't quite right.

Their faces are a bit dodgy as I tried out a new tri-color mix that I thought seemed promising: From Vallejo's Panzer Aces range: Shadows flesh, Base Flash, Highlights Flesh. Sounds good, yeah? Big mistake - they are way too far apart from each other to blend nicely. I had to flesh wash them a couple times and re-do bits to get it all to harmonize. I think I'll stick to my tried and true recipe instead.

My Chainmail silver may need replacing - sure seems grainy on that sword. My paints have been lying around a while. The other possibility is I've had some issues with fuzzy primers here and there so some surfaces are a bit more coarse than others.

Meadow Flowers from Battleground Miniatures adorn both bases  - along with GW's standard base "grass".

I've taken to dry brushing hair lately fin the interests of speed - the first thing I do as it's messy. Comments on that? 

They'll need a hit of Dullcote to bring it all together.

I thought about making them into a single piece vignette but I decided to do them separately so they can suspend their animus and turn on Napoleon's enemies instead. As you know, I only paint miniatures for gaming not display.

Those have been in progress for a couple years now so I'm glad to finally get them off the paint table.

Thanks for looking - questions, comments and followers are welcome and encouraged. I have a lot of variety in my upcoming projects so stay tuned!

25mm Brigade Games Victorian Characters Unified

These too, were posted all broken up so I thought I'd bring them together according to the pack contents.

I always get timid in highlighting but I hit the sweet spot on these - especially on the black areas.

Great figures and are the Not Gangs of New York. All of these will be re-purposed to a Victorian Horror game.

A clue that these were painted at roughly the same time: the paving stones are roughly the same size.

I really love Brigade Games figures - nice clean casts, great folds in the cloths - good solid details.

Thanks for looking - Comments and followers are welcome and encouraged!

25mm Brigade Games Gansters w/Pistols Unified

Most hav these are published already elsewhere but I thought I'd bring the pack together though they were finished over the space of 4-5 years.

The center figure may very well have been sculpted as a white but not to my eyes ...

Midway through this project, and after a trip to London, I noticed the paving stones are a lot bigger than those represented in my earlier efforts.

Thanks for looking!

25mm Brigade Games Gangsters with Pistols

 

These are the last two of this 5-figure pack ...

The sculpts scream to be in Old West settings but I chucked that for a London Victorian Horror game.

I probably won't use Dwarven Forge as backdrops on these in the future ... Not quite right.

The paving stones was a motif I started ages ago and now for consistency sake I continue the tradition. They are course, and they are cartoony but it's far too late now to start cutting off bases and all that ...

Thanks for looking! I'm not done by a long shot so Follow me to see more in the near future ...

25mm Brigade Games Victorian Gangster with Pistol

Another entry in a growing collection of Victorian civilians for a Gothic Horror project ..

I probably should have gone a bit lighter on the final highlight for the base. "Go bold, or go home," HAS to be my mantra as I apply those final layers ... I always chicken out and err on the side of subtlety.

Thanks for looking! Questions, comments are welcome ...

28mm Victorian London Characters

Blue Moon Manufacturing Victorian London Civilians

Blue Moon has been a great company .. lotta character on these.

I got ideas for fabric patterns and the ones below from HBO's Deadwood.

These two are from Brigade Games. Thanks Painter Bob!

I haven't counted these in a while but I'm approaching 100 figs painted for Victorian London, with similar basing as these - mostly Foundry and Eureka. More can be found at my Cool Mini or Not collection at:  http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/Flashman14. Questions, comments and followers are welcome and encouraged!