Zombicide Invader - Mercedes

Mercedes was a fun character to paint.  I think the game could have benefited from something other than another female mechanic (Rea), but their skills are different enough to give them different gameplay.  Mercedes has some nice flexibility as far as focusing on ranged or melee.  The Remote Control Bot as a blue skill is particularly nice in some scenarios where it is not easy to acquire the remote.

Pre-glaze Terra Rosa & Panye's Gray

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Zombicide Invader - Eightball

Finally an 'easy' homage!  Eightball was designed after the CMON employee Thiago Aranha.  He is famous for shaking his 'magic 8-ball' to give hints on what may be coming during various Kickstarter campaigns.  

Given the white armor similar to previous models with white armor, I went back to acrylics for this one.  Things went pretty smoothly on him and I was fairly motivated to get this one so I could get back to using more oils. ;) 

I'm not knocking acrylics as there are people who can make them look way better than some of the softer results that can be common with oils.  The oils just happen to be a lot easier for me to use that result in what I believe to me are equal or better than what I can do with acrylics.

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Zombicide Invader - Norton

Oddly, the Kickstarter character card pictured here has "Norton" listed as "Morton".  Not sure if it got misspelled somewhere along the line or if it was an intentional change.  

Norton's painting went very smoothly - except for the darn eyes.  I ended up just waiting for the oils to cure and just painted them with acrylics...  Feels like a small defeat, but probably not so terrible.  

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