Zomtober 2025 week 2: roamin’ remains

 Roaming, like Roman, right?

Another themed offering for Zomtober, this time some zombified romans:

I know, technically they’re meant to be skeletal Romans, but this is what I’ve got.

Like last week’s Vikings, they’re a mashup between some Warlord veteran sprues (handily, they come with campaign worn and battered equipment) and a mix of bits from the Wargames Atlantic zombie sprue and the Frostgrave Cultists. Some parts are straight swaps, while others got spliced to attach zombie arms to Roman shoulder pads. Yes, I know, the Centurion’s sword isn’t historical, but I figured that it would help him stand out a bit more on the table. 

I’d planned to do a few more figures with shields, but didn’t get round to it, which is probably for the best as putting the aged transfer onto the one I had was a nightmare last night. I’m not sure if it was an old transfer, a bad transfer, or just the fact that I only know where my Micro Set is (the Sol is probably somewhere in a bad in the garage), but it wasn’t plain sailing. There were white edges, clear bits that weren’t looking very clear, and one side that kept lifting, but with some cunning repainting, judicious application of varnish to try and stick it together, and them some hefty (perhaps too hefty) weathering, it looks just about palatable, which is the low bar that I shoot for. Speaking of a low bar, don’t look too closely at their glowing eyes, they’re a lot better looking at arms length I promise.

Here’s the back too! Just about visible is the one Roman where I cut off a leg and twisted it to give that classic dragging leg zombie look (which I think was a tip in a Peachy Tips video), but for ease and speed I skipped it on the rest, and I think they look just fine.

Painting these brings the Tally to:

25 vs 247 = -222

Now, if I was a smart guy, I’d have rationed these out and posted one a week to hit the Zomtober target of weekly posts, but that’s not how I roll - and to be frank, I’m also quite enjoying that I’m well on the way to doubling my total painted for the year so far in just one month… Next: more zombies, I hope!

Zomtober 2025 week 1: historical edition

Well, to a certain degree of historical!

With the release of the latest Silver Bayonet expansion featuring the rise of undead from Britain’s history, I figured that was the perfect prompt for a themed Zomtober this year, so I present my first offering, some zombie vikings:

They’re made from a mashup of Gripping Beast vikings, Wargames Atlantic zombies and Frostgrave  cultist parts (an idea shamelessly stolen from someone else on a Facebook group, as I’d forgotten that they had some nice undead bits). Some feature straight part swaps, others have had parts spliced from two sprues to make it look like there’s a zombie arm wearing armour, for example. If I were to do it again, I’d probably splice all of the arms, as the ones without chainmail on one arm look a little uneven, but it’s not so jarring that I wouldn’t use them in a game. 

Looking at these pictures as I write this post, I realise you can’t really see the shield, which is probably for the best - I went a little overboard weathering it (and the sword, for that matter), and so had to go back and freshen them up a little first thing this morning before everyone else in the house got up. 

With regards to the Silver Bayonet, these guys are likely to stand in for quite a few enemy types in the new book (Danish, Norwegian, and even Scott potentially), as I received my book after I placed an order for some sprues, and if I’d had it before I would have probably ordered up some generic dark ages types to zombiefy! On the other hand, I already have those nice generic zombies that Gripping Beast sell painted up, so I can probably cover most bases between them all. I even used the same glowing eye colour on these ones too, so I could pretend that I’d planned that all along!

Painting these (as well as bringing an end to my months long painting drought) brings the Tally to:

19 vs 247 = -228

Next: more zombies, hopefully!