"Best 28mm Zombies?" Topic

I need some modern/near future Zombies for a US horror project.

Who does the most "realistic" minis.

I don't want cartoonish figures rather something that looks as if it stepped from Resident Evil etc

We do 'Dead Will Walk' Zombies but they err on the side of cartoonish rather than realistic.

(Cold War link in left frame)

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Artemis – The COLD WAR "link" is not a link, might want to check it out.

Croc games has a very nice pack of zombies.

They are a little medieval looking but GW's plastic zombie box takes a lot of beating as well. It is a fantastic little pack and can be used to make a number of more modern looking zombies that have been dead a little longer than others.

Also it contains a huge number of extra pieces to make markers for zombies coming out of the ground or what have you.

And make sure you check out the Copplestone plague zombies and zombie troopers if you haven't already.

I am not sure that these fit the criteria, but Rackam makes some very nice looking zombies for confrontation. They even have a nice box set of them for Ragnarok. Maybe a little too fantasy and not enough resident evil, but very dead looking zombies.

HLBS and RAFM do some nice ones – but they're 1/48 scale.

Apologies for blowing our own horn, but I believe that Kosta Heristanidis' work for Eureka Miniatures may fit the bill perfectly.

Nic EUREKA MINIATURES

Realistic zombies? Is that possible? :) Copplestone has some nice one's.

"Artemis – The COLD WAR "link" is not a link, might want to check it out."

Thanks :) Fixed now.

Eureka are very good. Here's a link to my zombie gallery where you may view many assorted types.
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Heresy do some excellent ghouls that you might like too.

Now now. You can't have zombies and ghouls on the same side. Ghouls are living creatures that eat the flesh of the dead. They are a natural predator of the zombie.

This is why I haven't played WFB anymore since 4ed. If that part of their universe is wrong- who knows what else might be inaccurate.

Good point!
However these 'ghouls' look like very nice modern zombies.
Especially the woman and child *shudder*
You have to look on the Forum of Doom to see them :)

I'll assume you want 28mm.

I don't have the Eureka zombies, so can't comment on them. Some other modern zombies I haven't seen but which you might want to find pictures of are the ones from West Wind's Road Kill game (from Old Glory in the US).

The Cold War ones are excellent, modestly-proportioned, and cover lots of modern types.

The Copplestone Future Wars ones should fit a modern US game well too.

Some of the Zombiesmith zombies will do the trick (the ones sculpted by Drew Williams, including a "Thriller" style Michael Jackson).

Hasslefree has some Zombie Hunters (including a "not-Shaun") and zombie versions of the same characters. I have some of the former, and they are well up to Kev White's usual standards.

Fortress Figures does a range of modern zombies, but they are big (35mm), rough and cartoony.

It's worth getting some of the GW plastic zombies. They are intended for Warhammer, but are easily converted and will provide you with lots of bits for converting other figures.

If you haven't decided on a scale yet, take a look at the new Honourable Lead Boiler Suit 1/48 modern zoms.

I think 2Hour was going going to make some 15mm zombies to support the All Things Zombie game.

Oh, and if you are doing Resident Evil, you'll want Twilight Creations' Bag o' Zombie Dogs, even if it is the same dog 100 times over!

@NBFGH88 – I thought that the zombies in RAFM's modern Cthulhu range were 28mm rather than 1/48? I have only seen photos, however, so I could be wrong.

I'd forget my head if it was loose (which, if I was a zombie, it might be).

Check out GW's Necromunda plague zombies. They are SF, but some would pass for modern.

Avoid Kenzer & Co's Final Days zombies, from their modern apocalypse game. Very poor sculpts – the arms aren't even the same length.

OTOH, Olley's Armies has some nicely sculpted zombies – including one walking his zombie dog – but they are bit on the large side, IIRC.

We also do Cold War at £6.00 GBP a pack.

Thanks,
Iain.
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Got a friend who has painted up 50 or so modern zombies from various ranges.

Includes Eureka, Zombiesmith, Coldwar, SpyGlass, Hasslefree, Kenzer and Co, Reaper, Copplestone and GW.

Extremely well painted.

Take a look and decide which you like.

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This was posted before but in case you missed it, here they are in action

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RAFM zombies are pretty cool but they are giants, about a half to one head taller than hasslefree. Doesn't bother me though.

To me, Zombiesmith, Copplestone, spyglass and GW all fall into the 'cartoony' group

Whereas Eureka, Cold war and HF are in the 'realistic' group. There is not really a 'best' one here as they all have their strengths.

HF are the best sculpted ones but also the most expensive and has the least variants (only two so far).

Eureka is very nicely and intricately sculpted as well but being totally naked (and rotted), whilst useful for multiple project sometimes loses its genre feel if you are going for modern.

Cold Wars has super genre feel, but are not as well sculpted. Still the paint up very well and a huge bonus, have stacks and stacks of variants. The theme packs (hospital, colledge, holy men…) are particularly excellent.

So my suggestion would be to get figures from multiple manufacturers and mix them. (and chuck in some cartoony one why not?)

Other manufacturers I have not seen up close are Brigade game's carribean ones (realistic-ish pack of 5 – which look awesome), west wind's road kill (realistic-ish pack of 8) and gothic horror (realistic-ish pack of 10 I think, supposedly period but still looks modernish) zombies, mega-minis (pack of 20), fortress figures (cartoon-ish, a whole bunch, metal and resin), some small manufacturer's whose name I can recall at the moment (2 variants), Graven Images (tons but 1/48 scale)

Wizkids is going to make that horror clix pre-painted collectable game too which will at least have a zombie cop.

FG, fancy meeting you here again.

If you don't mind casting them yourself my zombie molds are a 'cheap' way to get a truly large horde- though they vary in size as I sculpted them in 1:48 'true scale' rather than everyone on the planet being the same height lol:

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I like the looks of those Graven Images figures!!!

warzone had some really nice ones you can probably get cheap (if you can find them)

West Wind's Rage Zombies I am sure were mentioned.

Steve – yes, they're 1/48 scale.
So they should fit in well with the Graven Image/Monolith ones too (some interesting packs there: 2 packs of zombies and several hunter types).

I believe the 2-pack Kai referred to was from Warg Miniatures. Rattlehead and Fozzbozz (both recommended vendors in my book) both carry then.

Does anyone know if Zombiesmith is still in business? Their website still has the 'site down' message from December…

Also, has anyone gotten their multi-part zombies? I would love to see better pics of those.

Eric

I have the multipart Zombiesmith zombies; they require a lot of work – too much for me. They are mostly shirtless and arms and heads join extremely awkwardly and delicately leaving gaps all over. I put together 4 and they all required greenstuff and prolly could use some pinning but are too delicate to do so .. I just hope I dont drop'em. They look fine once assembled and there are bits to make ones crawling with maggots in palms, guts and mouth ..nasty. But I never want to make one again. Ever.

Yeah -someone mentioned Mega Minis -cant wait for those. In and of themselves they are not the best but mixed in with Copplestone, West Wind, Eureka, Cold Wars and all the others they are perfect and have a lot of modern touches which I like.

I just ordered a HF Zombie Ashley fig to convert into a Blood Bowl player. I'd like to use this as the start of an Female Undead Team. Who else makes female zombies that are available separately from packs of mixed zombies?

I don't much care for the Eureka zombies. They are far to skeletal for my tastes. In fact, if I had to describe them, I'd say they were flayed humans with nearly all of their muscles removed. You can see the innards through the bones, but nearly no flesh.

Guess I've seen far too many zombie moviews where, at some critical moment, the main character gets to say something like "Margaret? Is that you?" There's just no way anyone looking at a Eureka zombie is going to think that. Full rib cages exposed, the entire spine, all the bones int he legs and arms, mostly a skull left with little flesh or hair.

Sorry, they just look wrong. YMMV of course.

Yeah, we don't sell the multi-parts anymore. That was back when we were learning to sculpt and to cast. (All of our casting equipment is home built.)
The multi-part molds no longer work and we don't have decent masters to remake them.
We still have the single piece zombies though, and lots of them.

Please feel free to check out our Zombie Horde at Victory Force.
You can find them in the Creature Section of the Store.

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Thank you

The best way to have miniature zombies in period costume -spectally "not cartoonesque" ones- is to *make your own*. Movies zombies are humans with a few prosthetics and a lot of make-up: just do the same.

'Prosthetics': a matter of carving tears in the clothes, wounds, pustules, scars in the skin, mutilations of the lips, grooves around the eyeballs… with wire cutter, nail pincer, pin point (the kind of mistreatment the Hinterland sculptor used to 'zombify' his female hussars link ).

'Make-up': then it's a question of appropriate(ly disgusting) painting;
and 'weathering'. I got an interesting 'freshly unearthed' look by 'inking' with (or dripping in) the syrup so obtained: dried prunes are 'reinflated' in boiling tea, mashed, filtered, thickened with honey / egg white. When dried, the plant miniparticles, while almost imperceptible with the naked eye, gave (even under a protective varnish) a 'texture' that no ink / paint could have provided.

A zombie thread resurrected after five years. There's a joke here somewhere…

Laaaaammmmmmmmeeeeee, laaaaammmmmeeeeeee….

Do zombies hibernate?
We know vampires don't: link but zombies?
An intriguing (and seemingly controversial) topic: TMP link

Arguably the 'best' (most 'authentic') zombies are Haitian, such as the FF ones link
Gary Hunt has some nice ones link
and Obelisk very original 'African' ones link
Re the original post, I suppose the Warzone 'undead legionaries' are too 'futuristic' for the purpose

"A zombie thread resurrected after five years. There's a joke here somewhere"

Indeed! But it is interesting to consider what has changed, become unavailable, been introduced, or otherwise.

The zombie thread…uuuuuhhhhhhhh uhhh bbbrrraaaaaaaiiiiinnnnss :)

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There are so many options, and if zombies are your thing that has to mean a wunderland of choices.

Several plastic kits for the bulking out of the large mob.

Bags of zombie dogs.

And then the far end of unique and character types from various companies as noted above.

There are many fun individual zombie miniatures, some with a sense of humor which go a long way to brighten up a mob.

Studio Miniatures has quite the range from "yikes that is gross" to "lol what the firetruck?!"
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Santa Claws

Chickenman

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Victory Force has some nice selections also for that special niche!
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Dino and Chicken mascots

And no weirdo zombie collection could be complete without the most amusing conjoined twins Bill and Ted…only one has been zombified…but the other is terrified!
(I failed to find a good pic of a painted version, sorry)

Excellent examples of 'home made' zombification by 'pimp my minis' conversions: link

Victory Force zombies are great!
I got the random 10 pack and was quite happy.
They paint up nice and easily, too!
Good sculpts for the modern , and great quick service!
(even delivered to my office so the wife didn't see 'em!)

Chris