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This post is a bit out of sequence as I haven’t finished writing my review of Silver Bayonet. This was a fairly quick and basic kit bash but I am very pleased with the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Zombie Head<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First I took a head from the Victrix French Napoleonic Infantry 1807 – 1812 <\/a> box and cut away the majority of the face. Then I took a skull from the Citadel Skulls<\/a> box, a worthwhile purchase that is incredibly useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"miniature<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It took a couple of tries to get them to fit together well and it pays to be cautious with the removal of plastic, a little at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"French<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next I added the head to a body and gouged some rips in the trousers, first making a shallow cut and then using the tip of the scalpel blade to lever the plastic out a little, then cutting some nicks into the edge of the ‘rip’. I also added some more ‘rips’ to the waistcoat. I added a right arm that had an open hand and for the left arm cut away a rifle that was held in the hand. The bayonet from the rifle I cut off and stuck in the neck under the skull. The left arm was crooked so I cut in at the elbow joint and opened it up, using the rifle to partly fill in and support the gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I then trimmed off the excess bits of rifle and used some sprue goo to smooth out the join in the arm. I also used some Green Stuff World Green Putty – Acrylic Modelling Filler<\/a> to tidy up the join between the skull and infantry head. I prefer this putty for gap filling and small jobs. I’ve not had much luck with liquid green stuff from GW as the pots dry out really quickly and I end up throwing away about 90% of the pot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When the sprue goo had set I attached the arm and when the glue had set primed the mini and added a thinned down black wash. I then added a base and my go to basing mix of sand, all purpose filler (known as spackle in the US) and basing gravel. I also cut the right foot from the base and give it a twist to look like the classic zombie foot drag inspired by Peachy’s The Silver Bayonet review<\/a> which has an excellent kitbash idea for making some zombies similar to this (round about the 23:49 mark). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Finished<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With all that dried I gave the mini a final drybrush of grey all over then a zenithal white dry brush before painting with Army Painter Speed Paint 2.0<\/a>. Then an all over wash with a mixture of Two Thin Coats Necrosis Green<\/a> and black Vallejo Game Wash Dipping formula, which I think has been discontinued but you may be able to find it. I bought it as it was a big 200ml pot for a reasonable price. I go through so much black wash that buying in the small bottles is expensive. Then added my basing mix; Games workshop static grass, Geek Gaming Scenics Foam scatter<\/a> – Mid green I think, Some old GW gravel, sand (I bought a bag of ‘play pit’ sand years ago for topping off cactus pots – more sand than I will ever possible use) and some tarragon, it was Greig Johnson<\/a> in one of his marvellous make videos who mentioned using dried herbs and I have had a jar of tarragon for possibly over 25 years and I don’t like tarragon for some reason. It won’t win a Golden Demon but I hope that if there was a ‘Manky Demon Award’ that I’d at least get into the second round. Looking at it now I might add a bit of gloss varnish in places on the muddy bits of the base to make it look sticky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Napoleonic<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is a bit out of sequence as I haven’t finished writing my review of Silver Bayonet. This was a fairly quick and basic kit bash but I am very pleased with the result. The Zombie Head First I took a head from the Victrix French Napoleonic Infantry 1807 – 1812 box and cut […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[17,14,18],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miniature-painting","category-silverbayonet","tag-kit-bash-miniature","tag-miniature-painting","tag-silver-bayonet","post-preview"],"yoast_head":"\nZombie Kit Bash For Silver Bayonet | Miniature Battles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How I kit bashed some zombies for the skirmish wargame 'The Silver Bayonet' by Joseph A. 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