Experimenting with Washes to paint different skin colours

Hello all,
So I realized there was something wrong with the assortment of Zombies I've painted so far for Zombicide. They were all of a Caucasian 'white' skin colour. Hence in order to satisfy the demography of the states, I really need to have some variance in skin colour.
I've never tried painting anything but pale skin (due to my historic armies based in the 10-15th centuries, and the general tendency of Skavens to have fur all over) so I've thought long and hard on how to go about this. And trust me, there are not many tutorials on this subject on the net.
So, to begin with I've tried with the different Washes I had available, most of which are from Lavado.

The best results came from the Sepia, the Umber and the black washes. The Sepia is not that useful, but I think the umber might be representative of some ethnic groups, if used on a darker base coat. The dark wash on the other hand seems be a quick solution to the darkest 'African' skin tones.

This is the result with two applications of the wash - although this might be too dark a tone to represent most modern 'african-americans'. I do think this works better than simply painting the skin black but I would appreciate comments and suggestions.
I will try a thinned down black wash with a thin layer of umber on top to get a better 'mixed' skin colour result.

All the best,
Kasper

80.000 hits! Fapoleon Salutes You!

Hello all,

Amazingly, the blog hit counter passed 80.000 visitors yesterday. 

I would like to thank all the visitors and followers who contributed to this stunning number. I know the blog is silent at the moment, but everything will be better in a few months, so please keep checking for updates! In the meantime, Fapoleon salutes all the brave visitors to this blog:

Heh, couldn't resist not using that brilliant picture for something :-).

Again, thansk for sticking with the blog while I keep working towards submitting my Ph.d., it is taking forever but the deadline is rapidly approaching....

All the best,
Kasper

Using Games Workshop Liquid Green Stuff

Hello all,
Although the Zombicide miniatures are brilliant sculpts they, like all other plastics, suffer from the occasional hole or damaged area. I bought some of Games Workshops Liquid Green Stuff and gave it a go to see if it could fix the problem. The stuff is really thick gooey solution of Green Stuff (watered down) and seems to work excellent.
The test candidate was Nick the Cop - who seems to have suffered a bullet wound to the leg.

A dab of the thick geen stuff (using an old and soon to die brush) just before applying it.

And viola! The damaged part is no more. The Green Stuff dries quickly and leaves no marks, in fact it turns out completely smooth.

Now this is the same as I used to do many moons ago with watered down green stuff, so I was not surprised it would work, but this is so much easier. Instead of having to get out a blob of green stuff and getting it to the right substance, here you just pop open the lid and a few seconds later the job is finished.

Not bad, Games Workshop.


All the best,
Kasper

Busty Barbarian Bimbos!

Hello all,

While I've been busy F5-ing the Zombicide Kickstarter 2.0 page, 
I noticed another project that is in the process of getting funded. 
The title is brilliant: Busty Barbarian Bimbos!

 They describe it as: A lighthearted fantasy roleplaying game 
wherein the players take on the role of the pin-up girls from fantasy artwork. 

Busty Barbarian Bimbos!

 While I'm not going to support it myself, I think you should check it out, 
if for no other reason than the brilliant name :-).

You can find the project here:

Great fun,

Kasper