Mantic Zombies - Part 6 - All Finished

I've finally finished all the Mantic Zombies I've got! Yey! they came from a mixture of the zombie boxed set, dwarf kings hold and the crazy bag.  No matter their origin they all got based on 20mm bases so they can join my warhammer vampire counts army.  I have 41 zombies in all, the new 12 are shown below and then finally a picture of the completed horde.

Mantic Zombies - Part 5 - More Zombies & A Standard Bearer

The next batch of 12 of Mantic Games Zombies has rolled off the production line.  This lot includes a standard bearer as well, the standard actually came from the orc command sprue I got in my mantic crazy christmas bag, which fitted easily to a zombie.

Mantic Zombies - Part 4 - The Second Batch

The next lot of the excellent Mantic Zombies have been painted and based ready to join my warhammer Vampire Counts army.

The Horde Grows

Mantic Zombies - Part 3 - The First Batch

The first batch of 8 (including the test zombie) of my new shinny Mantic Zombies are finished and ready for peoples perusal.

Mantic Zombies - Part 2 - The Test Zombie

Just a quicky today, a few pics of the first 'test zombie', I don't usualy do test models, but was unsure on how to do zombie flesh.  In the end I used a basecoat of Denheb stone, washed with thraka geen and then rehighlighted with denheb stone, it seems to work well and I'm pretty pleased with the results, its a bit basic, but is also quick and easy.  More zombies soon, hopefully.

This final picture is a random mode I've just discovered on my new camera, I think it looks kind of cool.

Mantic Zombies - Part 1

I took advantage of wayland games recent halloween offer to finally pick up a box of 30 mantic zombies, which came in at the great price of £14 for 30 zombies. I've had my eye on these ever since they first came out and they will fullfill several gaming uses, a regiment for warhammer and dungeon densins for both warhammer quest and dwarf kings hold.  The set comes with 10 sprues each containing 3 multipart zombies, 30 bases and 2 mantic points.

The Sprue, I got 10 of these.

4 of the 'pretty' Zombies assembled.

The models themselves are fantastic and are fully compatible with the ghoul models.   I much prefer them to the regiment of GW zombies that I also have. The only complaint I have is that with only three models per sprue variability is limited, I'd have liked to have seen a bigger more varied sprue, but I'm sure that wasn't done for cost reasons, and I'm still chuffed with these.  I've only assembled half of them so far, but have streched that out to 17 models, I gained one more by using a spare ghoul torso (left over from the ghast) and using the crawling zombie, and gained the second one by having a crawling zombie and a pair of legs with the spinal cord exposed.  The spinal cord model is ok as a one off, but I think I'll only include one in my regiment, I think too many would look silly.  I'm much keener on the torso on the floor half of it.

The Spinal cord legs and crawling torso

A zombie using a spare ghoul torso

This is also the first time I've used the new liquid green stuff from Games Workshop.  I used it to fill the gaps between the legs and the bodies.  It worked really rather well, filling the gaps easily and hardening quickly.  This was only a little job, but its done it well.

The first 17 Zombies assembled

Right off they go to the undercoaters (the box in the garage) and then into the queue.