2025-07-25

Almost Brits and zombies

 Three Brits walk into a bar... and say "oh heck, there's undead here!"

Well, actually that's a lie. These are not Brits, they are just clever Austrians dressed in red. In other words, I didn't want to spend any money on three figures for a British patrol, so I just built three Austrians with shakos, and painted them appropriately. The pompoms and curly bits are not right, but they pass the ½-meter test just fine. And after all, a redcoat is a redcoat, right?


On the Silver Bayonet Facebook group I traded a sprue of Austrians for one of the new Wargames Atlantic zombie sprues with a fellow Swede, and now I've built some actual zombies. These are three British line infantry (using the Austrian body double trick again), one poor rifleman and two Ottomans/Balkans/Egyptians. The latter two use modern heads, which I think is supposed to look like knitted hats.



And lastly we have a monstrous guy who can fill the role of possessed, hobgoblin and/or changeling. He's using one of my old beastmen heads on a WW2 German body. There are also two coffins for one of the Italy scenarios. They are built from lollipop sticks (raspberry flavour, IIRC) over a foamcore core.



 

Almost Brits and zombies

 Three Brits walk into a bar... and say "oh heck, there's undead here!" Well, actually that's a lie. These are  not  Brits...