When Nightmares Come - Tortured Souls

 At Salute this year I bought a box of Wargames Atlantic  Zombies. As I said earlier, I was not impressed by them but thought about using them as some ghostly entities.

So here I present some Tortured Souls.

Simple paint job - undercoat of Citadel Corax White, base Vallejo Flat Earth. Body Citadel Aethermatic Blue Contrast paint.

Anvil Zone Mercenaries

 Anvil Industries have recently released a Print on Demand range called Zone Mercenaries. with male and female figures.

They are equipped with reinforced armour, helmets and gas masks and AKM assault rifles.

The problem is, the weapons are rather large, partly due to the limits on the materials used for their normal resin ranges, but I suspect mainly to be in scale with their normal market of gamers who want something similar to but more interesting than 40K.

This is a bit of  problem as they do not look okay with my modern image type standard Empress figures' weapons.

However a plan emerged to use them as alternative figures for The Walking Dead: All Out War.

Size comparison between a female (left) and male (right) Zone Mercenary and TWD:AOW zombies.

Their weapons and equipment are a drop in replacement for The Commonwealth Trooper (you can probably build them using various existing equipment from the original range)

They are slightly shorter than the Commonwealth Trooper but look okay with the walkers and survivors.

To hide the height difference, I used Crooked Dice supplied slotted round bases and put a thin plastic card panel over the slot. It raises the head height slightly.

Commonwealth Trooper - The Walking Dead: All Out War

 With Mantic Games renewing The  Walking Dead: All Out War, the first faction they released was The Commonwealth.

The figures are in multi-part resin.

This Commonwealth trooper comes in three parts: body, gun and supporting hand ahead of the magazine, and head.

There are two identical bodies in the set, but two different heads, one bare-headed, the other in a helmet.

There is another two troopers with a different body.

The figures are supplied with the new Mantic round base (with magnet insert space) but I have chosen a slotted base from Crooked Dice.

Wargames Atlantic Zombies

 Wargames Atlantic have recently released a 30 figure box set of Zombies. I bought a box on offer at Salute.

They come in a standard Wargames Atlantic box containing five sprues, each building six different zombies for a total of 30.

There are (according to the blurb) seventy five different heads per sprue: regular, Ancient Rome, Dark Ages, Viking, 18th Century, Pirates, Napoleonic, WW1, WW2 and Modern Police, Fire, Construction and Civilians. The idea is that you can use them in any period (and use spare heads and arms with the associated period normal figures).

The problem is they are just plain odd.

They appear to be wearing Carapace armour under their tee shirts

And they seem rather small (this one is leaning forward a bit but...). Comparison shot with a North Star/Oathmark Revenant and a WA Baron's War 2 Knight.

They are very cartoony, Mantic would look at them and go, NO! 

I do not mean the TWD:AOW figures, but the Warpath Plague Zombies.

See what I mean - Mantic Plague Zombies and a Stargrave metal zombie.

Like the Harvesters, this seems to be a lost opportunity by Wargames Atlantic.

At least one will end up painted as a zombie, I might try a few as ghostie things - they remind me of the ghosts in Hilda.

Prodigal Son - Walking Dead: All Out War

 Paul "Jesus" Monroe is an ambassador for the Hill Top faction and an accomplished martial artist.

The figure is made of resin (a photograph of the the unassembled parts were posted earlier).

The figure was undercoated with Citadel Chaos Black spray.

The coat and boots Citadel Dryad Bark.

The hat and rifle strap are Citadel Death World Forest.

The trousers are Citadel Death Korp Drab.

The hair is Citadel Catachan Flesh.

The shirt is Citadel Rakarth Flesh.

The belt, scabbards and straps are Citadel Steel Legion Drab.

The rucksack is Citadel Steel Legion Drab, with side pockets Citadel Snot Womble Green. the edges were highlighted with Citadel Morghast Bone.

The bedroll is Vallejo Blue Grey.

The rifle, belt buckle and scabbard reinforcement is Vallejo Black Grey.

The boots, especially the laces, were dry brushed with Citadel Golfag Brown.

Prodigal Son - The Walking Dead: All Out War returns

 With the announcement on the First of December 2023 that TWD:AOW would be returning to the fold, I thought it would be a good idea to have a look at the resin figures that made up the last sets produced by Mantic before they originally discontinued the game.

And what better figure to start with than the Prodigal Son himself Paul 'Jesus' Monroe.

The figure is in three parts with an additional moulded base.

The feeds are quite thick, but only the elbow and the rucksack require careful cleaning.

 A box game I bought way back when.

Fireforge Samurai and Ashigaru comparison

 Comparison between Fireforge Ashigaru and Samurai with Fireforge Almughavars, Living Dead Peasants, Byzantine Auxilia and North Star Stargrave Scavengers.

Fireforge Living Dead Peasants.

One of the Enemy tables in Five Leagues from the Borderlands is Whispers from Beyond, with a lot of Undead types. Though I have a large number of Oathmark Skeletons, I needed  some more Zombie types. Looking at the ranges available, I decided that the Living Dead Peasants looked like a good match.

FireForge's Living Dead Peasants is part of their Forgotten World range.

Supplied in a standard sized box it makes 18 unarmoured zombie/undead figures.

The box contains three identical sprues. Each sprue makes six figures, four male and two female (not quite the result of an equal opportunities necromancer).

Each sprue can build three unarmed zombies plus three armed with two handed (mainly improvised) weapons or six armed with a hand weapon. There is a bit of a shortage of empty hands for the the hand weapons (I managed to get two with hand weapons in addition to the three unarmed ones - there is one additional empty hand, and one of the ones with a hand weapon has a lantern).

There are nine heads, two of which are female. One head has a corvid having a snack.

Here are the six assembled from one sprue.

Side views of the six figures.

As is normal for the FireForge fantasy figures, they are notably taller and bulkier than the Oathmark figures. However, they do not have "puddle" bases, so their head height is not that bad compared to Oathmark.

Oathmark Skeleton, Fireforge Living Dead Peasant, Oathmark Human Infantry and Oathmark Revenant infantry.

In Five Leagues from the Borderlands, the maximum number of zombie types is eleven, so there will be some conversions required so I do not need to buy an extra box.

More Plague Zombies

 Another two plague zombies join the horde.

Anvil Zombies

 Anvil Industries do a range of multipart/multipose zombies in 28mm size. One of the body types is the Modern Military Zombie. You select your required body type, then add a set of suitable arms. In this case the Zombie Fatigues arms.

The pieces are cleanly cast in a white resin. Minor flash is easily removed and there is next to no moulding lines. I wish some plastic figures were so nicely moulded.

Each body is wearing modern military body armour, in various degrees of damage.

The supplied heads include four with helmets and one bare headed.

Here is the first one assembled. Though there are only five body poses, there are plenty of assembly options plus other heads and arms in the range.

This shot does show some minor mould lines which will need fixing.

Scale comparison with the late and lamented The Walking Dead: All Out War zombies.

This one is shorter than  these two figures, though part of it might be the pose.

The height difference is slightly more noticeable with these two TWD:AOW characters.

One solution will be to add a piece of plastic card over the slot in the base rather than just filling it.

The obligatory William Killian comparison shot.

Some of the TWD:AOW figures are bigger than others.