Yes, that's exactly what makes me paint zombicide.
You don't need to paint regiments of the same model over and over with the same color, well, maybe except for the Deadeye Walkers.
You can paint each model as individual, and make experiments.
From left to right, i was trying:
* On the first model, i tried a very dark new red that i never tried before, and highlighted it with two glazes of a very bright red. The only reason it is not screaming red is because of the dark red base. I was liking the result so much that i applied it to the Necromancer. I had to try new reds because my old red from the 90's will be empty soon and it's like loosing a good friend.
* On the second model, i tried what happens if i darken a very light yellow base color with a thin layer of blue from the airbrush. This frosty appearance is just great, in the highlights it shimmers yellow, somewhere else it is a lot of blue. I will reuse it somewhere, just don't know yet where.
* On the third model i tried a relatively fat layer of yellow on a dark black-blue spray foundation. Fat was necessary because it wouldn't cover the base color otherwise, but it worked well. Mainly it worked because the model was highlighted already with the base colors. So in the dark areas the yellow is grimey, in the light areas it is quite yellow.
* On the model to the right, i made a sandy layer from the airbrush over a black layer from the spraycan, and then i tried if i am able to apply bone colored highlights with the Airbrush. That was a mishap, apparently i am not yet able to do that.
And the best is, instead of being angry with myself and looking eternally at each failure during the games, these are just zombies. I didn't even remove the mold lines. I just go on to the next. So there is a great success and a mishap next to each other? That's okay! They're zombies! I still have a dozen or so zombies to do before i have them really really finished.
I once painted an orc unit of 30 orcs. It was also the only time that i really made a unit of new Orcs from GW. Normally i had a good mix of 1 new orc on 10 ebay orcs just for the bits.
30 times these crazily overdetailed models that GW does. Afterwards i said i never want to do 30 times the same again.
Afterwards i turned to make other models, like for example this one.
That was more fun.
Even if it was not very helpful in terms of play value.
He may play now with the big guys.
The main reason i did orcs was that i could do more or less what i want in terms of modelling.
The main reason i like painting zombicide is that i can do more or less what i want in terms of painting.
That's cool.
well, my wife says no but i think it's cool.
The Eye was copied from Sjeng's photo today.
