Tag: Marvel Zombies

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Marvel Zombies: She-Hulk

I have had a long history with She-Hulk. I really loved the Hulk when I was a kid, which is probably why I love orcs. Big, Green, and Dumb is a default source of joy for me!

I was about eight years old when the first She-Hulk comics came out, and I liked them, but I didn’t get the humor because I was freaking eight years old. As I got older, she became pretty entertaining to read, and as an adult, she became a bit of a favorite.

Turns out Big, Green, and Smart is pretty fun, too!

I even enjoyed the MCU She-Hulk series on Disney+, but that’s not surprising. As most people who grew up with The Trial of the Incredible Hulk as the closest thing to cool live action super heroes will tell you, we’re a bit spoiled right now, and there’s some pretty good stuff being sent our way. Also, I’m easily entertained!

The She-Hulk sculpt from CMON’s Marvel Zombies game is pretty dynamic, and easily captures her in a heroic pose, getting ready to punch some shambler into paste! I’m happy to add her to the ranks of finished models, and it’ll be cool seeing an A-Force team pop up as I get more Avengers models finished!

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Marvel Zombies: Groot! Groot! Groot!

I love Groot! His miniature from Marvel Crisis Protocol is pretty sweet, but alas, I don’t have a personal aircraft hangar to store MCP figs, so I’ll have to do with these Marvel Zombies figs from Zombicide.

It’s a pretty solid sculpt, with plenty of room to play with tints and really break away from the monotony of painting a guy made of wood.

Here he is with Drax, the galaxy’s greatest saxaphone player!

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Marvel Zombies: The Human Torch

Trying to catch up on my backlog, and I swear I would get through it if I would just stop buying more miniatures…

But we all know that isn’t happening, so I’m just going to put my nose to the grindstone and hope to at least make a dent!

I started the Fantastic Four figures from CMON’s Marvel Zombies version of Zombicide back in the spring of 2024, and it’s been slow progress, as shaky health and other, far more distracting miniatures jockey for favor with my attention span.

The Human Torch is next off the list, I’m not as happy with this outcome as I would like to be, fire is just tricky when it’s the whole damned figure. Still, it works, and I’m sure I’ll stop being as critical of it when I get more distance from the monotony of painting it.

He does look pretty sweet posed with the Thing, though! I’m not sure if it’s still canon with the Fantastic Four, but it was revealed in the early 2000’s that Ben’s nemesis, the Yancy Street Gang, was Johnny Storm just pulling pranks the whole time. I hope in my heart of hearts that is still the case!

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Marvel Zombies: Drax the Destroyer

Still playing catch-up on the never-ending mass of miniatures from the Marvel Zombies Zombicide game from CMON! Today it’s all about Drax. Or Mr. Destroyer, if you’re feeling fancy.

I’m pretty consistently surprised with the quality of these figures from CMON, considering the first Zombicide minis I painted were not the best of experiences!

Also, I LOVE that these miniatures have base details already. That’s a really great addition that goes a long way towards selling the mood of the game!

I still haven’t played a game of Zombicide, but it could happen. Regardless, I’m happy to have these around for any super-hero action that might come along!

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Marvel Zombies: The Sandman

I’m an absolute dork for the stupid-ass villains that plague Spider-Man’s life. The dumber, the better. It’s a real testament to the design genius of the old Marvel art stable that these guys still resonate with me half a century after I discovered them as a kid!

Sandman will be kicking off my collection of Spider foes from the Marvel Zombies Zombicide game from CMON. I’m really digging the added sand work on the base, he was a lot of fun to paint!

Next up on the Spider-foes docket is the Scorpion!

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Marvel Zombies: The Thing

When I was a kid, I thought Ben Grim was the coolest Marvel super hero in the world, and then I discovered the X-Men, and all that went out the window. Still, I devoured almost all of John Byrne’s run on Fantastic Four when I was a kid, so it was a lot of fun for me to get to work on this pretty spiffy miniature of the Thing from Zombicide: Marvel Zombies!

Right off the bat, the quality of these Zombicide sculpts is hands-down some of the best work CMON has done. The detail is pretty nice, and even the plastic quality appears to be a higher grade. That’s pretty good news for sure!

There’s quite a few Fantastic Four characters in this box to get to, so I had best get to work!

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Marvel Zombies: Black Widow

I picked up the Kickstarter All for the Marvel Zombies: Zombicide game from CMON during a moment of weakness. Okay, more like a month of weakness while watching the stretch goals slip by. Sure, there is already a perfectly good Marvel based miniatures game out there, but I really don’t like 40mm miniatures from a storage perspective, and if I’m going to paint up a mini range, I would rather it be from something more reasonably scaled.

Plus, the mins are actually pretty cool and have pre-textured bases. What would I have to lose, other than half a week’s pay?

The boxes arrived several thousand years later (and before it comes up, I don’t do Kickstarters anymore, they’re kinda terrible for independent game stores). There was, one fateful afternoon, a box on my porch the size of a small Yugo, or perhaps a very large mini-fridge. Inside were an assortment of even smaller boxes, crammed full of little plastic super-heroes.

I pulled out half a dozen, put the horde of zombies in the “who gives a damn” box, and set to base coating. Since I was going for quick over quality (I’ve since changed my logic on this) I sat down and put some paint on a test model. And, lo and behold, she didn’t turn out half bad!

I am having a hard time spotting the mold lines on these models, and the plastic CMON uses is a little on the soft side, so sometimes they can be a little tough to clean up. Still, not a bad first effort, and I’m excited to get more heroes painted up!