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Friday 24 February 2012

Populating Mayhem City 17 (Bobby Jackson Thugs Ladies)

A bit of good news for this update, I've done some rearranging of lights and produced (in my opinion) pictures that are far better than what I had been using lately.   Since that is the case, I will include a few extra pictures of previous updates at the end, just so there are better pictures of older figures.  Now onto this week.


Boomsheeka on the left is actually only about 95% finished, as I still need to add some sort of highlights to here hair, which is just a solid black at this point.  Booksheeka is a big girl, to say the least, but comes unarmed.  I considered adding a weapon slung over her shoulder, but realized that she wasn't likely to become a regular part of any zombie fighting force or ganger, and that I could always use more unarmed civilians, so I left her as such.   She looks tough enough to handle herself without weapons anyway.
Next to Boomsheeka is Blix Moonbeam, local hippy chick.  She may preach the ways of loving your fellow man, and just enjoying some good weed, but that didn't stop her from picking up a gun when the Zombie apocalypse hit.  Fortunately, her gun is so small and tucker behind her back that I could get away with using her as another unarmed civilian if needed.
I'm a pretty big fan of both these figures and how they came out, but I think Blix is just a little bit better.  I also put a little bit more effort into her paint job with the tie dye bandanna and peace logo on her shirt.  I wasn't too happy with how her lips came out (a bit clownish) so I may try to fix that at some point.






Here's another look at the last two week's worth of updates.   The Professional faces off with Aldo and Baldo.   Of course, my camera skills aren't great so I have a bit of the 'focused on one figure and blurring the others' effect going on.  I should have put them in a straight line.  Regardless, this shows them better than the pictures I used last week.


And finally, an updated picture of the zombie horde.  It is not overwhelmingly large yet, but it is getting to the point that would be too much for a small group to survive.  And perhaps, almost enough to game with.   A bit of the same focus issues here, but I think it looks okay for a horde shot.

All comments and criticisms are appreciated.




14 comments:

  1. The top THUGZ ladies are great, they turned out better than mine (which Ray did but he's a liability at times), good work my friend....

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    1. Great painting Adam, Fran your a git!!!!

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    2. Stop fighting you two!! If I have to pull this car over...

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  2. Wow, the chick are great, especially Blix Moonbeam!
    Like the confrontation of Professional, Aldo and Baldo, much like the Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

    That's a pretty good sized and well painted Zombie Horde!

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  3. I love the girls, too, especially the pants. And looks like a good use of a blood on the zombies, not too much, but enough to make sure survivors can recognise them from a safe distance!

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  4. Nice paint jobs on the Ladeez. Boomsheeka is my favourite. She just screams attitude. She doesn't need a weapon. Anyone who messes with her, human or zombie, will get snapped in two!

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  5. Great painjobs on both the ladies. The new light setup is great. Are you using Macro settings to take close ups? usually a little flower symbol its not always active I found I get better pics when thats actived.

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  6. Very nice. I love those two ladies. The tiedye bandana is excellent.

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  7. I like Boomsheeka. That girls got some junk in her trunk! Nice horde you have going as well.

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  8. Thanks for the comments, friends. The horde is growing nicely, but there are still too many unprinted zeds in my pile.

    Brummell, all my pictures have been using the flower mode, but my new set up really takes advantage of it. I think I read that taking off autofocus or face recognition might help with the blurry figures .

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  9. the horde is lookin good and the thugz are just the coolness, with the camera, have you tried just using a simple mode (auto) or even a landscape mode? that should cure the out of focus shots.

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  10. Coool, love Blix, very different figure, awesome!

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  11. @The Extraordinarii I will check for a landscape mode. I'm not sure if this will be available since I am already in macro mode.

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  12. these are great you've painted them perfectly

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