"90 H/O Scale dipped Zombies" Topic

A while ago I posted a pic of some H/O scale people I dipped with Minwax. I liked the way those came out so I bought 100 model railroad H/O scale people in an E-bay auction. Agent Brown from this forum mentioned in that thread that he had made some H/O scale people into Zombies so I decided to give that a try. I only ended up using 90 of the 100 because eight of them were in a sitting position. I did a little touch up paint on some of the minis prior to dipping, the rest I just dipped as is. Then glued them in groups of 10 to one inch bases and in groups of 5 to 1/2 inch bases. I like green zombies so after dipping I went back and touched up some flesh with green. Then a quick Dullcoat, and here they are.

The whole group
picture
A group of 5 against a fence
picture

This was a really quick, cheap (`$9) project that netted me almost a hundred zombies. I'm pleased with the results, especially given the cost and time involved.

Thanks for looking. There are a few other pics on my blog if you're interested.
ljshobbyspot.blogspot.com

Nice stuff.

I just bought the "Bag O' Zombies" from Twilight Games. I was actually thinking of just painting them in a pale grey-green, and then doing a similar sort of dip or wash.

Why not whack the lower torso off the sitting ones and make them into "half Zombies"?

very nice!

They are great.
I'm planning to do the same.
On or two boxes of Caesar 1:72, a lot of HO railroad buildings and my zed apocalypse is on the way.

Good way to go. They will be just fine on the tabletop.
The scale is perfect because of the mountain of affordable buildings and cars.

I just bought the "Bag O' Zombies" from Twilight Games. I was actually thinking of just painting them in a pale grey-green, and then doing a similar sort of dip or wash.

I got about 200 of these! I'm thinking about doing them with the dip method. The more I see of this method the more I like it. Here's a posting of a guy who also did this. 9th post down the forum…
link
They really make the character miniatures stand out.

Those are some kick @ss zombies, Luckyjoe!! How does the HO scale look besides some 28mm minis? Too small?

Luckyjoe, nicely done.

Do these fit in size with the Twilight ones? I worked on the Twilight figures too. I wanted more color. These are based for Hordes of the Thing but 25mm figs on 15mm bases.
picture

These figs are on the small side, I had to boost them on the bases. I am liking the mass effect that Luckyjoe and the ones Warrenss2 show. If I cut the Twilight bases I could fit 4 to an element.

I really like the way your zombies turned out could someone send me a link on the technique you describe as "Dipping" and do you think it would work in N scale ?….thanks Mikey

Hi, everyone. Thanks for the kind remarks. :)
@Nnascati: I just dipped 200 Bag O' Zombies this weekend. I didn't do any block painting first, I think they came out okay, but in retrospect, I wish I had painted at least the flesh green prior to dipping. I'd love to see your results. I'll try to post pics of my dipped Bag O'Zees this weekend.

@SkinkMaster: That's a good idea about turning those seated Zombies into "draggers".

@Warrenss2: Thanks. I had seen those Zombies on the LAF forum. I liked them and that is what made me decide to try just a straight dip without block painting. I do think now that I should have painted the skin and maybe splashed on some blood, though. As far as scaling with 28mm, the H/O stuff is too small for use with 28mm. They are pretty good for 15mm though.

@Bob and his dog: Thanks. I like the way you added more color to your zombies. That adds a lot of visual interest. The H/O figures I used are about 7-10mm shorter than the Bag O'Zombies guys (with the tallest being 19mm) but they are also a lot more slim, so they really don't scale in well at all with the Bag O Z guys. I think the Bag O'Zombie guys are true 25mm. These H/O guys scale best with 15mm minis.

@whoa Mohamed: Thanks, Curryman from the Screaming Alpha site has an excellent how-to video on dipping on his site. link
The only thing I would add is that for "N" scale you should probably use a lighter shade of dip, perhaps a "honey oak". Darker colored dips seem to overwhlem smaller scale minis.

Lucky, thanks for the data. I still like the technique for mass groups.

Thanks lucky joe i just bought 100 N scale folks to make zombies out of. and I still have about a 100 more N scale historifigs zombies to paint up for Ambush Z….mikey

Those look awesome!

What kind of HO figures are they?

@MrHarold: Thanks. They are these kind. A bunch of sellers have them on e-bay, now.
auction

As you can see they look pretty crappy as far as paint jobs, but dipping really improves them I think.