Show us your Tar pits(Zombies) and Corpse Carts

[johntoraman]

Hi!
It's a half swamped graveyard filled with 10 shambling zombies and 3 just rising, along with 6 tombstones and a memorial statue. Just like a diaroma, but a playable one!

My expat days (sojourn, as some may say) here in Edinburgh - Scotland inspired me to make such a model. To a Mediterranean like me, seeing everything covered with moss is amazing. Especially graveyards are just like this. Black soil, greenish gravestones, statues; and many of the monuments are cracked or broken!
Though the swamped part is not from Edinburgh, it's still related to the UK. There was a well preserved 2000 year old body in British Museum which made me think about swamps.
With some luck I caught a great terrain bundle deal on ebay which included more than I need. (Basics: gravel, water effect, several different colors of flock and the statue model) Oh, I also bought an old zombie box for the half price which included the same sprues as the new box but also that old green tray. (I don't know if the new zombie boxes include old green trays, if so, pardon me)

Related article and more pictures of this unit can be found at:
http://warhammerpaintingtips.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/swamped-graveyard-zombie-unit-filler.html


Thanks!

 

[Johnny-Crass]

That looks sick but it begs the question.... How do you remove casualties?

 

[johntoraman]

That looks sick but it begs the question.... How do you remove casualties?

Hi, I'd like to answer this by posting an excerpt from related blog:

In a Vampire Counts army Zombies get wiped off in bulks so that making a 5 wide 4 deep Zombie unit filler would not hinder the game play.
And the great thing is you only use 10 zombie models to make this. You still hold onto that other 10 zombies.

(Let's confess: this idea was also related to prudence. I'm not talking about the space covering swamp or tombstones. I'm talking about using 10 models instead of the whole 20. Of course, if I had a lot of money, I'd build the same tray with a true horde of 30 zombies in the space of 20, but I have not. =) )

But does the game play claim sound wrong?
Let's think about it for a minute.
Say that, you have a 30 zombies to block someone's way. You put in this 20 filler tray and add the remaining 10 to the end. Took a few wounds? just remove from the end.
If you take wounds more than 10, things will get a little complicated, but not much.
Say that, you took 13 wounds including the combat resolution. Just remove the last bunch of 10 and put 3 wound tokens on the back of the tray. Took 15 wounds? Put 5 tokens? Took 20 wounds? Remove the tray, put back your 10 guys back in!

That's it!

Of course, I don't know if anyone would let you play with this in a tournament, but I am sure that in a friendly game, this, as a model, would be a desired thing to be seen on the other side of the table.

 

[johntoraman]

Here's the additions to my Swamped Graveyard Zombie Unit Filler.
I experimented a bit (Thanks to Bigcannon)

For further information,
Related Article:
http://warhammerpaintingtips.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/zombies-with-sticky-fluid-effect.html

Thanks.

 

[Skarsnik the Lord]

@ johntoraman: The water effect on those Zombies' base looks ace! Blood stains look good, but personally I prefer darker red.

Here's some pics of my Zombies. More pics can be found from my army blog (the link be found from my signature!), but I just thought I'd share some pics here too.

- Cheers, Skarsnik.

 

[redox1118]

Here is my zombie block. Enjoy

 

[akiro27]

Finished up ~90 zombies to go along side my 50 skeletons. Mostly Mantic models, but mixed & matched with the existing GW zombies & bits I had.

Thank you Mantic for making this somewhat affordable and far better looking than GW's crappy zombies.

-aki

 

[Hansol]

If you wondering how i did the blood effect , get the following paint : tamiya color , clear red ( X-27 ) mainly used for painting up car models of trains, expensive ones.

But stuff works nice as blood effect , mix with choasblack or something you can get nice dark tone with it also ,

 

[Milos]

Finally, I have finished corpse cart.
I planned to use it just to convert my stank into BC, but with lot of spare parts from cart, i decided to make one anyway

Hope you like it

 

[InkubPendragon]

My zombies:

 

[Raizi]

Frozen zombies along with the Necromancer:

 

[Santawraith]

Zombie unit filler

 

[Forlorn]

Mantic Zombies

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[Elbisrever]

Yeah these mantic Zombies really look more like a tidal wave of grasping arms. I got 80 GW Zombies myself, but hey, I guess I could always use more! ^^ Awesome painting here, Forlorn!

 

[Santawraith]

My zombie unit filler

Titled the great pumpkin never came.

 

[Kassill]

My zombie unit filler

Titled the great pumpkin never came.

Creeeeeeepppppyyyyyy






which means it's awesome!

 

[Santawraith]

Bows was my answer to the Halloween challenge

 

[Adam_Barrow]

My zombie unit filler

Titled the great pumpkin never came.

I love it, man. I wish I had one for my own Zombies. Damn, that's just got so much character.

 

[Santawraith]

Bows thanks freinds wait till my Christmas ones.

 

[Elbisrever]

These are my coffinwalkers. 80 of them. ( I find I'm having a bit of difficulty with getting them all in to focus at one time, seems like my cam has the habit of 'hyperfocussing'. But you get the idea )

 

[robtion]

@Elbisrever: That horde of zombies looks suitably rotten and shabby, good work :zombie: I really like the banner, it looks great and it's funny

 

[Elbisrever]

Thanks mate!

 

[Adam_Barrow]

@Elbisrever Those are killer, man. I get a real '60s horror movie vibe off them. Love it.

 

[Elbisrever]

Thank you so much! My aim was indeed to make them a big horde-like wave of limbs etc. I repainted them about 3 times before I was kinda satisfied, these buggers have been around my collection since 4th edition. Still, In real life they make more of an impression then they do on forum-picture here ... :|

 

[Andy2D6]