This was my first hoard of minis which I sprayed with the airbrush and is really where using the airbrush gets its time in the spotlight. I had 23 of these minis which, if you think about doing that by hand, it would be so laborious. Instead, I shot these first from all angles with Plague Brown and then only from the top with Dead Flesh. I followed that up with painting the outside edge of the base with Black.
I love these minis - the idea of these ash zombies popping up and forming from the volcanic ash of Mount Hotenow is awesome. What's makes it great is multiple figures on a base and all the little detail like one zombie's hand on the head of another to lift himself up, lol - that awesome!
This is part of the 3D Dungeon Labs Etsy shop purchase. So let's give it some ratings...
Sculpt: Excellent - this is an awesome sculpt and really brings the idea forward of a hoard of zombies popping up out of the ash
3D Print: Excellent - well done - clean
Fitness: Excellent - has the proper base and scale, model goes beyond my expectation with the multitude of figures - normally you just get a single zombie - my players did ask if each figure on the base had its own stats - lol - no, I just used one stat block per figure
I did get away from my art "design/language" on this one with the base. What I've been going for with these models is to be similar to the Wizkids pre-painted models which is a primary model color, a couple of splashes of additional color to highlight model features, and then a black base. Trying to paint the base black here would lose the efficiencies gained by using the airbrush and I feel that the base ash is actually part of the model design where these zombies form from the ash itself - therefore I simply painted the edge of the base black.
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