Zona Alfa Zombies

 One of the Zone Hostiles encountered are "Zombies", it is not clear if they are flesh (or brain) eating corpses or deranged survivors transformed by The Event.

Vladimir chooses the wrong moment to change magazines while investigating a dacha.

Not sure what happened to Vladimir, but they are coming this way!

Studio Miniatures released a box set of plastic multi-part, multi-pose zombies  a number of years ago. There are sprue shots and a review here. 

I found one of the sprues (I had used one of the figures) so built three of them for Zona Alfa. Unlike previous builds, I left them on their integral bases and blended it onto a Renedra 25mm diameter base with Milliput.

Here are the three of them.

Now to build a lot more (though this Corporation Exploration Team will not be happy).

Desirable Property - Medium Dacha

At SELWG 2019 I ordered a couple of the Sarissa Precision Russian village houses.

The Russian Village House #1 is slightly larger than the Russian Village House #2 in the previous post.

The kit comes as two sheets of laser cut MDF and one sheet of laser cut greybeard, plus instructions.

Once again, as this was going to be a "modern" dacha, I plated over the roof with plain plastic card, and then added ribs from plastic strip. This roofing style is similar to the dacha in the photograph here. It also covered up the gap where the chimney should have gone.

I probably should have increased the overhang a bit to hide the double thickness roof.

The walls are painted Citadel Zandri Dust (spray can). The roof is Army Painter Chaotic Red (spray can again). The window frames and door frames are Army painter Skeleton Bone. The door is Army Painter Oak.

It needs weathering.

 Sarissa Precision Picket Fence (27mm tall) provides some cover.

Desirable Property - Small Dacha

As discussed earlier, I was looking for some suitable buildings for Zona Alfa and noticed some photographs of dacha I took a number of years ago.

Sarissa Precision do a range of 28mm scale Russian buildings, one of which is a Russian Village House #2.

The kit comes as two sheets of MDF and a small sheet of laser cut greyboard.

For the modern look I was after, and because one of the occasional rules on Dacha is the absence of permanent permanent heating, I used Slater's Corrugated Iron embossed plastic sheet over the supplied MDF roof (skipping the chimney components).

The dacha I saw tended to be pastel coloured, unfortunately the Vallejo grey blue has turned out a bit bright

There are some areas that need retouching, and the whole thing needs to be weathered.

Dacha

A Dacha is a rural second home common in Russian or Soviet sphere countries.

Originally a plot of land given by the Tzar to nobles, later by the government to citizens. It has a similarity to the allotment, originally being an area where the citizen could grow their own food.

The building regulations varied over time, but often limited the time of occupation, availability of heating, size etc.

 This one has no chimney and the land is rather overgrown.