Finished Zombie Vixens

Just finished some Wargames Factory Zombie Vixens. Not the best zombies ever, but not the worst either.

The pictures below will attest to the fact that I didn't put a great deal of effort into painting these figures :-)

Building the figures

The figures come as a single body piece, with separate arms and heads. There are also a few accessories such as handbags.

There are three identical sprues with 12 figures on each sprue. This gives a total of 36 figures, so I was slightly miffed to discover there were only 30 bases. I'm no mathematician, but something isn't right there. Just to be controversial(*), I used some bases from a box of Defiance Games' UAMC Infantry to make up the extras.

The bodies didn't need much in the way of cleaning - really just a mold line or two - so a quick bit of work with the knife/file and they were ready. They take glue really well, which is fortunate, given that quite a lot of the figures don't have much surface area at their feet - a mixture of high heels and stumps for legs. The heads and arms are sufficiently fiddly that I couldn't do much cleaning on them before they were attached to the figures.

There are a few problems with the heads and arms:

• the neck and head joint is flat, which means that the only options are whether the zombie is looking forwards, left or right. A rounded neck with a corresponding hole at the base of the head would have opened up so many more possibilities for posing
• the faces are very flat and soft. There is some detail there, but not much, and in the end I decided it wasn't worth painting the eyes
• The arms are a strange mixture of skinny and not so skinny. Unfortunately, this means that the arms and torsos and not fully compatible, so you either have to match arms to shoulders or be prepared to file and cut so it doesn't look too silly

Poses

There is an interesting selection of poses, which is good. However, each pose is present three times, so some of them get a bit tiresome - how many lifeguard zombies in extreme swimming poses does one apocalypse need?

Painting

I decided to undercoat them in grey primer, rather than my usual black. My reasoning was that it would make the flesh easier to apply, and I would use Army Painter Dip to provide shading.

For the most part this worked. However, the dip didn't really take to the Foundry flesh I used, sliding off it for some reason - except for cleavage, where it pooled so badly I had to remove most of it with a brush. Some other colours did seem to get more than their fair share of dip as well, so there was quite a bit of post-dip removal required.

Some quick highlights and a coat of matt varnish and they were done.

Overall, I'm happyish with the results. As ever with zombies, they're part of a horde, so will be usable

Final Notes

They are quite a bit taller than the Wargames Factory male zombie figures, and slightly taller than the Mantic zombies.

* only really controversial if you followed the saga of Wargames Factory and Defiance Games, but it amused me (yup, doesn't take much, I admit)