The Walking Dead - Lilly Booster: Lilly

 In the comic and the novels, Lilly Caul starts out as a member of the Woodbury faction.

During the attack on the prison she does a Heel-Face turn and ends up as the leader of the Woodbury survivors.

The Walking Dead: Abernathy - Woodbury Gladiator

Abernathy is one of the the Governor's Gladiators who engage in combat in the arena in Woodbury to entertain the people of the town.

He fights with a crowbar, and has improvised body armour.

Police Office - Alternative use for Woodbury House D

When the new Out of Town shopping development was in the planning stage, one of the regularly asked questions was "where is the police station?".

There was a perfectly good police station in the centre of the town, but the Marketing Department's questionnaires and polls kept highlighting that the absence of a police presence in the development was putting people off.

So, to deal with this concern, a Police Office was included in the plans.

The Police Office would have a (civilian) receptionist during the day, and would provide facilities for the patrol officers so they would take their breaks there (rather than the doughnut shop or diner) to be a visible police presence.

The receptionist could deal with all the inquiries and local calls, contacting the patrols if required.

After a few years, there was a requirement for a communications room, so one of the locker rooms was converted.

All was fine until Joan, the receptionist received a call about a disturbance at the mini market...

Having painted four Crooked Dice Lawmen with Shotguns for The Walking Dead: All Out War, they needed a ride and a police station to defend.

As Sarissa Precision provide all the buildings for Mantic, I wanted something compatible.

With the TWD:AOW expansion Made To Suffer, there was the Woodbury Housing Estate comprising a pack of four different MDF houses.

One of them was more like an office, but unfortunately not quite right for a Police Station.

 You may note the missing cross piece in the from window in later photographs, I broke it by accident.

The small rooms at the back look almost like cells, but the location directly off the lobby would not make them very secure. The lobby is too small to fit a desk and chair so you cannot use it as a reception.

You may also spot I managed to put the partition between the two larger rooms in the wrong way round. This means that the internal door would not fit.

I had a look at other options (I even asked for suggestions on Lead Adventure Forum), but there was nothing that met my requirements.

I then remembered the concept of the Police Office (a bit like a grown up version of a Police Box) - hence the story above.

So the part completed Woodbury House D was dug out of storage and completed.

The structure as shown above had the windows and doors masked up and PlastiKote Rust Effect spray was applied to the walls and roof.

The roof was then sprayed with Halfords Grey Primer, and the outer surface with a subsequent coat of Halfords Black Primer

The roof ventilators are from Debris of War and were spray painted with Army Painter Standard Uniform Grey.

The window surrounds were sprayed with Halfords White Primer and glued to the windows. The door lintels and doors were also sprayed at the same time (masking the sockets in the lintels).

Once dry, the doors were assembled and checked that they opened correctly.

The walls and interior were then sprayed with Halfords White(ensuring the doors did not stick and did not leave shadows).

Interior walls were then painted with Humbrol 90 Beige Green.

Front view.

Three quarters view showing the air conditioning units and junction box installed when one of the locker rooms was converted. They also provide a route to the roof.

Aircon and junction box in detail.

Another air-conditioning unit to cool the two offices.

View from above. Note the  FigureBitz/Crooked Dice Computer Console fits neatly on the end wall.

 I think I might paint the floors as well.

View of the roof. I do need to add a communications rig to the roof and possibly add a roof hatch

The Lawme face up to The Herd.

Retreating inside.

They really wish that the contractors had fitted the roller shutters.

Walking Dead: Prelude to Woodbury

The Walkers from the Prelude to Woodbury set.

The Walking Dead: Made To Suffer Casting

As readers of The Walking Dead comic, and players/owners of The Walking Dead: All Out War expansion Made To Suffer know, there is an episode involving the use of a US Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle.

The expansion has a two dimensional card representation that you can use, but as most people are using 3D terrain, what is available?

Empress Miniatures do a range of 1/50 scale armoured vehicles, which includes the M2/M3 Bradley.

I do not own one, but I do own one of their similarly sized British Warrior Mechanised Combat Vehicles (aka MCV-80 or FV-510).

It is an imposing sight on the table, but is a lot smaller than the cardboard one.

I did measure the card one and it is close to 1/35 scale.

The Walking Dead: All Out War Solo game.

The Prelude to Woodbury box set allows the solo player to take on the Walking Dead.

So I pulled my trusty DBA board (24" x 24") out of retirement and placed some scenary.

Brian is scavenging for supplies when he finds a camp, whose former occupants now wander aimlessly. There are three supply counters, two on the vehicles and one by the tent.

 First round, Brian makes a dash for the barricade. As this is a noisy action, he attracts the attention of the nearest walker. The barricade prevents it making contact with him.

A lucky events card means no walkers move at this threat level.
Brian once again runs, this time using the car as a barrier. His second action is to shoot the nearest zombie (note a replacement die was used for the zombie die roll). Head shot Boom!

Brian has top check that he has not run out of ammo, lucky him passing the roll.

However this causes mayhem, attracting the attention of all zombies in range. Two are stopped by the car, but one moves into contact with Brian.

Bad dice rolling leaves him taking a hit with a bite! Luckily his jacket, though torn to shreds cancels the damage, so Brian lives to fight another day. No other zombies move into contact, so another round goes by.

All fired up, Brian has another go at a walker with his pistol. He downs the horror but not taking it out of the fight.

The noise attracts the walkers again but only one reaches Brian and he successfully defends himself, pushing back the blood stained creature. At the end of the round, the knocked down walker stands up again.

Brian makes a strategic withdrawal past one of the walkers then turns and shoots again. This time success, double head shot. He also makes the ammo roll.

Drawn by the noise the three remaining walkers close in on him. Only one makes it into combat and Brian manages a draw by defending.

The event card drawn gives lots of new walkers, but as there are only two off the board at the time, they are the only ones  to return.

Scampering towards the tent Brian again turns and fires, knocking down a walker, but attracting a lot of attention. The walkers stumble into the tent.

Brian reaches the pickup truck. Because the threat level is above his nerve he has to roll the panic die. He rolls "Quiet" and chooses to search the supply counter. He finds a crowbar. A walker also finds him. He barely manages a draw and pushes the thing away.

The threat level escalates, so before he can activate again the panic die is rolled.

Brian, stressed beyond his limit screams. This pushes the threat level to the end point and the game ends.

So, Brian survives but the scavenging is less than successful.

I am not sure if the shoot and scoot tactics worked, i will have to try it again and see if I can do better.

Prelude To Woodbury

So Work In Progress photographs of the contents of the Prelude To Woodbury Solo Starter Set.

Brian

Zombie 1

Zombie 2

Zombie 3

 Zombie 4

Zombie 5 (needs a bit of work on the face)

 Zombie group photograph

Prelude to Woodbury group photograph