Now I am not normally a zombie movie buff, with the closest I come to being the Woody Harrelson’s “Zombieland”, but I found a couple of spoofs on Stan that kept me in stitches of laughter. Hopefully I was just humoured because of the Covid-19 lock down but “the leader of the opposition” thinks senility has come early!!
Cockneys versus Zombies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3slZTm3Uf3k
Whodah thought zombies in the East end?
A tautology?
Anyway the Bow Bells Care Home is under threat from developers and the Mcguires, Andy, Terry and Katy, need to find someway to keep their grandfather and his friends in their East End nursing home. But when you are robbing a bank, a zombie invasion from a crypt dating back to King Charles the Second, makes things a lot harder. Needless to say the zombies are no match for the gun toting geriatrics with their walking frame mounted oozies (I kid you not). Hardly Oscar material, but it had me in stitches of laughter especially when a zombie tries to bite off a prosthetic leg and is promptly beaten to death with it. Another hilarious moment involves two groups of West Ham United and Millwall hooligan soccer fans, who still continue their rivalry even in their undead state.
Zomboat
Stan also have another genre spoof “Zomboat”, which sounds a bit like a WW2 German U-Boat crewed by the undead, but nuh.
A group of survivors led by two sisters are trying to escape the zombie hoard in a British canal boat that is barely able to outrun the shuffling undead. And all is not as it seems when they finally reach safety.
Both make excellent “primary source” material for new scenarios to use these additions in:
These are eighteen standard “walker zombies” from the Zombicide box sets.
30 more “runner zombies” from the Zombicide box sets. Runners have 2 actions per turn instead of only the one for walkers.
These 12 Berserker Runner Zombies are immune to non “area” ranged weapons and have two actions like normal runner zombies. Again from Zombicide.
Zombicide Walker berserker zombies (22) which like their runner counterparts are immune to ranged attacks. Note the “musical” school bus with flashing lights in the background.
Just to show that I am not stuck in a zombie rut:
This is a Nighthaunt Chainrasp from the Mortal Realms magazine for sale in newsagents. I wanted some ghosts for my Ancient Egyptian fantasy skirmish game and at $5.95 for the first magazine are a steal. I will buy the second magazine for the Barrow Wights and then give it a miss. This one is painted in dirty ancient linen rags rather the blues of the Mortal Realms version.
Again just for variety these Ral Partha Egyptian archers and spearmen have arrived from our good mate Brian Hall http://www.hallofancientwarriors.com/
well undead ones anyway!!!!!
On a far more serious note (yeah right!!) I should have heaps finished by the end of the month. These include the Batman Arkham Knight models of Batman and Robin, and also from Knight models Two face and his Gang, the Falcone Crime Family, and Arkham Asylum models. From Eureka miniatures the Pygmies are almost finished, as are the Ninjas for Test of Honour. I am just waiting on some round bases to also finish my Napoleonic 28mm Spanish Guerilla contingent for the Too fat Lardies game “Sharpes Practice”.
I know a number of you may think the choices a bit crazy but Covid has allowed me to get a lot of these easy to paint projects that would never have been started actually finished. A large number will probably end being for sale.
Happy mask wearing – it give me the “ships” to see people down the street in non surgical masks wearing them with their nose exposed so:
