What happened to Part 1‽ It’s here, the slapchop article is the unofficial first part of this series.
With the first batch of the Civilian Extras stretch goal done, I rummaged through the rest to see what I could get done next. Whilst rummaging it occurred to me that a lot of the models have a fair amount of white on them. And as I discussed in the above article, white would be very difficult to do with the slapchop method. I figured in that case I might as well get them over and done with, that I could slap and chop my way through the remainder.
As it happened there were nine models in the Civil Extras box that I would have to paint regular styles. Too many for a single batch I decided to split them into three groups: two lots of four and a single model by themselves. Why not three groups of three? You’ll see.
The four I chose for this batch are Lt. Jee-Hye, Insish Vak, Lt. Graham, and Eightball. In other words, four people in white armour. Should be easy enough to get done all at once.
To get things started I super glued a bunch of slate rocks to their bases and primed them grey. I left them overnight for the primer to fully cure then gave each of them a nice even coat of Archive-X Reefer White. I had tested this on the Soldiers in the base game and was impressed with how it turned out. With that done I could move onto picking out the individual details.
Lt. Jee-Hye Chey
Had their last name been Cho I would have absolutely said that Jee-Hye is a reference to GI Joe. But that might have been a little too on the nose. In any case, Lt. Jee-Hye turned out to be a relatively easy model to complete.
I started by picking out a couple of panels of the armour with Vallejo Russian Uniform. The rubber seals around the joints and the crotch panel I painted with Black Templar contrast paint. Any pouches I picked out with Gore-Grunta Fur contrast paint. Her hair I painted with Basilicanum Grey and her face with Ungor Flesh. Finally, I painted her weapons and pipes on her armour with Scale75 Thrash Metal, I then picked out some details with Scale75 Dwarven Gold.
As I had used a lot of contrast paints, the only washes I needed to do was Nuln Oil over the silver details and on her face. Finally, I used the Nuln Oil to paint in a line of wash between the panels and joints in the armour.
Insish Vak
I’m not sure who Insish Vak is a reference to but as an orange fish-alien from a water planet I suspect it might be Admiral Ackbar.
Painting was largely the same as for Lt. Jee-Hye: I picked out a couple of panels with Russian Uniform, the joints between the armour with Black Templar contrast paint, leather pouches with Gore-Grunta Fur, the weapons and pipes with Scale 75 Thrash Metal. In fact, the only difference really was that I painted his head and hands with Gryph-Hound Orange contrast paint.
As you might imagine, the process of washes was also the same for Insish Vak as it was for Lt. Jee-Hye.
Lt. Graham Hardbanks
Unsurprisingly, Lt. Graham turned out to be a very similar paint job to the first two. I did the same process of picking put panels with Russian Uniform, painting the seals with Black Templar, pouches with Gore-Grunta Fur, weapons and pipes with Scale Thrash Metal.
His face I painted with Guilliman Flesh contrast paint, beret and helmet with Blood Angels Read contrast paint. Lastly, I painted the visor of his helmet with Temple Guard Blue.
Just like the other two, I used Nuln Oil to wash the weapons and recess shade the armour.
Specialist Igor “Eightball” Souza
I thought that Eightball was a mashup of Iron Man and Deathstroke, but it turns out that he is a homage to CMON employee Thiago Aranha.
In anycase, he turned out to be the quickest paint job of the four. He doesn’t have any green panels in the artwork so I didn’t need to bother with that. All I needed to do really was to paint the armour seals with Black Templar contrast paint, his pouches with Gore-Grunta Fur contrast paint and his various weapons and ammo with Scale75 Thrash Metal. His face I painted with Guilliman Flesh and his hair with Basilicanum Grey contrast paints. Lastly, I used Nuln Oil to wash the weapons and ammo, and then to recess shade the armour.
Bases
I used the same process for the bases that I have for all the other Zombicide Invader miniatures. I started by painting the rocks with Vallejo Fire Red then covering the remainder of the base with Vallejo Red Oxide texture paste. Once that had fully dried, I washed it with Reikland Fleshshade. I then drybrushed the bases with Kindleflame Dry paint, making sure to get a bit on the boots of the models, so that it looked a bit like dust. Finally, I painted the rims of the base with a matt black.