Question about painting the models - optimal mix?

[Jarrett]

Hey everyone,

I'm taking the first steps towards painting up my Zombicide set. Now, I have the abomination kickstarter so I have what feels like a mountain of zombies. I was surprised how many of those fatties (is that what they are called) I have!

So as I was cleaning the fatties it occurred to me to ask you guys who have played a lot of games of Zombicide (I have not played yet) - is there an optimal amount of fatties I could paint beyond which I would likely start to have too many and therefore be wasting my time anyway?

For example, it seems like a waste to paint 10 fatties if it's super rare to ever see more than 5-6 on the board at once. (I have limited time to paint)

Any thoughts?

 

[Pieceorutt]

I've played multiple games where I have run out of zombies so that's all 8 fatties in use.
So to sum up more the merrier I'd rather put another zombie on the board than have all of that type have another action
good luck with the painting look forward to seeing some pics.

 

[TrystanGST]

I've played multiple games where I have run out of zombies so that's all 8 fatties in use.
So to sum up more the merrier I'd rather put another zombie on the board than have all of that type have another action
good luck with the painting look forward to seeing some pics.

I'm going to have to second this - I didn't get in on the KS, but running out of zombies is a common issue. So paint them all (you'll probably still run out).

 

[Jarrett]

Thanks! Great advice. Here's my first batch

 

[Wyrmypops]

I worked on mine in a different order. For varieties sake.

As they come in a plastic tray, I'd apply a skin tone#1 to the 7 in the top row. Skin tone#2 to the second row, #3 to the third etc.
For different racial types and states of decomposition, and simply the fun of painting different skin tones. One scheme with a bit of purple, one with blue, another with green added.

With a tray of 4 rows done with 4 different skin jobs, then I could dip in applying a variety of paints to the clothes. One fatty with an orange boiler suit, that orange also given to the dress of one lady, and the tracksuit of a runner. One chaps suit being rendered in black, that black applied elsewhere amongst the 28 zombies before picking up another of the suit wearing chaps to give him a brown suit.

 

[Pieceorutt]

They look awesome!! im not willing to start painting mine untill I know I have some clear evenings in my calender lol

 

[Lance King]

I have been looking at a lot of pics of painted figures. There seems to be a real trend to paint the Zombies goblin green. A newly created Zombie would still be relatively the persons normal color. I would think that white people would tend to get grayer and more skeletal as time went by. I wonder - now this is not racist - how would black, brown and yellow skin change? I would like a mix in my figures as any city should have.

 

[theaY]

I suggest painting them with 'normal' skin tones, and then just use a brown or black wash to give them that dirty/decaying look.

Overall, I am doing a mix for mine. Majority of them are in the 'mid decay' phase with a bleached bone style coloured skin. Some are more white-folk skin tones, and others are actually very pale.

I will make some greenish ones too, but I'm only done painting 16 zombies or so, so there's some time to go. I am also taking each group of 8 identical zombie sculpts and making sure each of those look different.