Dollar Tree Tractor-Trailer

While doing some stocking-stuffer shopping in the Dollar Tree store this week, I came across this great tractor-trailer rig.
It is cheaply designed, being molded in one piece, and having all the windows represented by stickers. But it could easily be fixed up with a good paint job. It has no designated scale, but measures approximately 9 inches long, and looks okay to me next to the Wargames Factory Zombies shown below.

Zombies Part II & Horrorclix Zombie Hunter Conversion

As I explained in my entry from three weeks ago, our club is embarking on a zombie project. Everyone is responsible for painting 20 zombies since non of us wanted to paint hundreds on our own. I showed the first ten zombie figures I had finished in the entry three weeks ago, and today I am showing the second ten. We are using the Wargames Factory plastic zombies and I really love their multi-pose options and conversion potential.
I also completed a female zombie hunter that I converted from a Horrorclix figure.

Here's a shot of all ten zombies in my second batch.

This is a closer look at half the group. I'm really pleased how these turned out.

These are two of my favorites; the Life Guard and one that's taken a close range shotgun blast to the chest.


Here's a view of their backs. I love the irony of a zombie being a "life guard", and James 'Tank' Nickle gave me the idea for the shotgun zombie with the big hole in front and all the smaller exit wounds on the back.




This is a closer look at the other half of the second batch.

This is two of my favorite conversions; the crawling zombie who's lost his lower legs, and the doctor zombie that has large shoulder damage from being a zombie's lunch.

Here's a view from the back of these two.

This is another favorite; the swimmer zombie. I'm really pleased with how the floral pattern on his swim trunks turned out.

Here's a back view of the swimmer zombie.

This is a zombie hunter converted from the Horrorclix "Runaway" figure

Here's a back view. I love the teddy bear on the back pack.

Here's a look at the original Horrorclix figure and the conversion side by side. The original figure is holding a hacksaw in her left hand which I cut down to to look like a pistol.

New Club Zombie Project

My friend Buck and I were talking over the Christmas holiday and, both being fans of the book World War Z, we were discussing how it would be cool to do a zombie project, but neither of us felt we wanted to dive into such a project if it meant painting a couple hundred zombies. So we struck upon the idea of making it a club project where each member only had to paint 20 zombies and a small group of survivors. When we brought the idea to the club members we were met with an enthusiastic response. It seems we weren't the only ones interested in doing a zombie project but not in painting hundreds of zombies. We agreed to use the 28mm Wargames Factory zombies since they were reasonable priced and offered a lot of flexibility for variety of poses. We will probably adapt our GASLIGHT rules for the games.
I purchased a pack at the local brick and mortar game store and have begun to put them together and paint them. I'm finding it to be a lot of fun to find creative poses and as I build more I'm getting inspired to do more involved conversions. I had a couple sprues of the freebie Wargames Factory ancients that had been given out at some of the HMGS cons, and I Incorporated some of the parts from these into some of the zombies I made. I also found the zombies to be a pleasure to paint.
Here are some photos of my first attempts. These are the first ten that I have assembled and painted. I will post the next ten when they are finished. I've been enjoying them so much I may do anther twenty. Who knew making and painting zombies could be so infectious. :-)