Dawn of the Lead

The web community Frothers Unite! UK (FU-UK for short) hosted a sculpting competition earlier this year, with the ever-so-lovely theme of  “Zombie Apocalypse”. The winning – as well as runner-up  – entries are now available for purchase at the FU-UK web shop. These are all great sculpts, with two of the three winners sculpted by Sylvain Quirion. The sets are dirt cheap as well, with the winners set costing £7 and the runners-up set costing £18. Both prices include international p&p. You also have the option to purchase both sets for £25 and receive a special zombiefied version of Col. Marbles, FU-UK’s…Colonel.

Seriously, you have no reason whatsoever not to buy these, so click on the images below for more information!

As I mentioned in my earlier post about my sculpts getting cast, I now have a second model out!

This obese jogger (they’ve named him Jerry the Jogging Zombie, I love it) apparently wasn’t fast enough. I wonder why, I really do. Pictures © Black Orc Games.

As you can see, Jerry isn’t a very complex sculpt or anything, but I ended up liking him a lot. I guess I have a soft spot for chubby people getting caught up in a zombie apocalypse. The slab base was eventually replaced with a tab, so Jerry is 100% slottabase compatible.

All the comments I made on the first one apply here as well. So thank you ever so much, Black Orc Games!

Pick up Jerry for $1.00 here. And while you’re at it, buy Zeek too. Jerry really needs a friend right now.

All you kind people who requested the Zeek freebie miniature earlier, I’ll chuck a Jerry in there as well. Two zombies is always better than one, when you’re looking to spread the infection love.

As funny as it sounds, I am now officially a part of the miniature wargaming business. Some of you might recall that back in May I posted about a few zombie models that I’d sculpted ages ago and managed to enter in Black Orc’s Mini-Sculpt program. I’m now happy to announce that the first one – an unlucky beach bum that has been dubbed Zeek the One Armed Zombie – is available from Black Orc for the low (and appropriate) price of $1.00.

So, from this:

The original green from 2005

Became this:

The cast mini for sale @ Black Orc

While it’s definitely not a perfect miniature, and not even a very good one, I’m as proud and happy about it as a dad  might be over his kid’s first tottering steps. Someone has actually cast a mini I sculpted, put it on sale and even had a professional painter paint it. Now how cool is that? Cooler than the other side of the pillow, I think.

Now here’s the fun part for you, loyal(I hope!) readers: I’m going to receive 20 copies of this miniature, which is a lot more than I need. Hence, I’ve decided to give out five copies, one copy each to whoever requests it in the blog’s comment section. Just drop me a line and we’ll sort out the details in private. Of course I will be devastated if five people don’t show up, but I trust in the nature of people to snatch up anything if it’s free!

As a final note in this post I have to stress how thankful I am to Black Orc for making this all possible. Visit their site, buy a few miniatures for $1.00 each and support a company doing valuable work for this hobby of ours. Even if you don’t care for my sculpt, there are some real gems in there. Check out this post from Rogzombie for examples.

Oh, that wasn’t quite all of it. I have another mini coming out in the future, with one or two more greens getting ready to be shipped to Black Orc. I’ll keep you posted.