Introduction
OK, it's Zomtober, it's another Sunday - I can do this. It's no big deal. Just put up pictures of another zombie vs survivor "duel", like I've done before. OK? Here we go, then...
Polly vs Prison Escape Zombie
This week's confrontation is between a young woman called "Polly" and a zombie who is possibly in prison uniform. Did he escape from a nearby incarceration facility? Perhaps; the broken sign over which he is stumbling would add weight to his idea. Let's call him "prison escape zombie" (PEZ).
Polly is a classic example of the concept that there is no dress code during the zombie apocalypse. All I'm doing to say about her costume is that it is (to my way of thinking) a very weird assortment of styles and colours.
So, are these her working clothes? Did she choose to dress this way when leaving home in the morning? Or were these the only items of apparel that she could find? All these theories seem somewhat implausible and I'm not entirely sure that I want to know the answer.
Polly comes from one of Wargames Foundry's weirder packets in the hit-and-miss Street Violence range. I'm happy enough to have one such model in my collection, but I don't think I want a whole load more "sluts with guns".
In contrast, PEZ is a fairly plain zombie, dressed in a ripped (more accurately, shredded) tee shirt with orange trousers and gym shoes. He's moderately damaged, both on the face and the belly - but is still lurching along. PEZ is a Studio Miniatures model.
So, who will win this duel? Polly seems totally relaxed and confident, she has a potent gun and seems healthy, aware and fit. Is this a slam dunk for her? Can anything go wrong? Does PEZ have a chance? You decide...
Bonus Article
Some weeks ago, when I was contemplating how to tackle the Zomtober challenge, I thought that it would be nice to include a scatter terrain or objective piece with each week's entry. Well, I failed completely to have anything ready for Week 1! However, I had one large (70mm?) urban base left from my long-serving, assorted packet of Escenorama resin pieces.
I also had a packet of "corpses" from TT Combat, plus quite a few bits from various Wargames Factory zombie & survivor kits. I decided that I could put these all together to build a pile-of-bodies model. Note that several of the contributor models have been converted, mostly to reposition limbs.
So, for bonus points, what happened here? It looks as if someone with a gun shot down several zombies, maybe because they were feasting on the fat man. But one of the models (centre) has no obvious injuries. Is he/she dead? Indeed, is he/she a zombie or a human?
Final thought: maybe Polly is feeling confident because she knows that she can kill any number of zombies; she may have been the cause of this massacre! Just like swatting flies...
Nice, I especially like the pile o’zombies!
ReplyDeleteThanks. Ideally I would have liked a taller, more dense pile - but the models I had available were just not designed for this; it was difficult enough to make any of them lie on each other at all.
DeleteYay, you're back! Love your Zomtober entries. I'll vote for Polly on this one, she looks very confident.
ReplyDeleteAgain, thanks! Yes, Polly does seem to have all the advantages here, doesn't she?
DeleteI think Polly looks great and I don't see a problem adding a few more heavily armed young ladies top your collection!
ReplyDeleteIt's not that I am against having models of young women in my collection - far from it! However, I don't want to encourage the inappropriate sexualisation of young women by buying and presenting too many models that are skimpily clothed and/or in fetish wear.
DeleteNice entries for this week Colgar. I think Polly took advantage of all those boutique shops she could never afford when the world went sideways & just grabbed that one 'must have' from each. She will likely win this round. Nice idea for an objective marker, though I agree that it would be challenging to find bodies to pile atop one another. Wonder if there are any 3d print files out there that someone has done.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Terry. So, you think that Polly is a fashion victim, do you? Well, I suppose it's as likely as anything else :-) .
DeleteHmm, 3D files aren't much use to me. I keep waiting for someone to open a store which builds these for you. Or maybe booths in supermarkets, post offices, train stations and other public places. Just put your money in the slot, present your STL file on a memory stick and press "PRINT"...
Terrific pair of minis and I LOVE the "dress code" comment!
ReplyDeleteThe pile of zombies is absolutely stunning - and an idea I shall be shamelessly stealing :-)
Well, the "no dress code" idea isn't originally mine; I've plagiarised it from a friend. Whilst patently true in the early days, I suspect that people who dress appropriately for a holocaust (whether that be global warming, nuclear winter, catastrophic pandemic or whatever) will have better chances of long term survival :-) .
DeleteI'm still wishing I could have figured out how to produce more of a *pile* of zombies, but all my early mock-ups looked contrived and unrealistic. Oh, well...
Polly's new-style apoc fashion is all well and good until she gets her heel stuck in the grating she's tanding on! By the time she's worked out how to clear her last jammed shot and found the safety release I reckon she'll be zombie bait. (holding a weapon that size in that pose is very tiring too!
ReplyDeleteThe pile-o-zombies should be titled "hiding in plain sight" - just the sort of thing survivours would do in any zombie B-movie.
Well, you are the first person to give the zombie a chance here! Mind you, your reasoning is convincing, so it could happen that way :-) .
DeleteIndeed, who knows what is lurking in the pile-o-corpses? Could be anything really - or nothing :-) ?