Zomtober 2025 week 4: back on theme

 For the final week of this year’s Zomtober, we’re back on theme with some Napoleonic zombies:

Perry bodies with Wargames Atlantic bits, I made a drummer mostly because the idea of a zombie with a massive drum strapped to it struck me as funny. I used a piece from the Elite Companies box to make the zombie lurching forward, arms outstretched, and was pleasantly surprised at how good it ended up looking. 

Although these conversions are basically compulsory for anyone playing Silver Bayonet, when I initially started my project I wasn’t going to make any, as I figured I already had plenty of generic zombies painted that I could use, but once again I was tempted by the number of different hats on the Wargames Atlantic zombies sprue!

Here’s the back too, as ever. The main benefit about painting zombies is that you can get pretty scrappy and messy and they still look good, I’m going to have to really focus up when I get back to painting things that aren’t the walking dead!

Finishing these brings the Tally to:

30 vs 247 = -217

Excitingly, Zomtober has actually doubled my painting output year to date! My miniature storage boxes are somewhat difficult to access at the moment though, so everything I’ve painted since we moved in are currently stood on the board game shelves:

What’s next? Warriors of Athena (now officially announced) has been my focus since the summer (although that has mainly shown itself via the medium of ordering miniatures rather than finishing painting anything), so that’s what’s next up on my painting tile. On the other hand, as is often the way, I’m fighting the urge to start a new project - a chain of events and ideas have left me fighting the urge to start a project set during the Third Crusade, so watch this space…