Finally! We've seen the goodies, the baddies, and the uglies, but now it's time for the pièce de résistance - the King (of the uglies).
This guy was a blast to paint, if not to put together. He's a resin model so he needed a fair amount of green stuff to plug gaps. I took advantage of the fact that he was a zombie to not worry about whether or not the gaps were filled completely smoothly - decaying flesh isn't expected to be ready for a Dove ad, after all. A couple of claws and teeth had to be sculpted, too - less room for error there, though.
For painting I had originally intended to make him more brown, a kind of brown with hints of olive. I got a bit carried away airbrushing greens, however, and he wound up being more of a fantasy creature with less of the natural browns I had wanted. Using washes I tried to put some brown into the model, but it just made him look dirty (which is fine for a zombie) rather than making him look brown. Lesson learnt: make sure you start with the colour you want, and don't get carried away working through your collection of greens. Still, he looks really nice and he was well recived, and presents a fearsome, boss-level opponent for the characters in the DnD campaign of which he will be part. I hope he eats someone!
Until next time, happy painting!
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