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"Brawn Over Brain" - Rolf

Orcs were my enemies, but honorable enemies. 
Necromancers deserve a shameful death.



Hi ho survivors, and welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura!

Last week we shifted gears from our Blood Bowl coverage to look at Zombicide: Green Horde. As I mentioned, my wife and I are really enjoying the tense strategy of this game. One of the survivors (heroes) that I started with was Rolf.

Zombicide: Green Horde

Of the survivors in the core box, Rolf fulfills the role of barbarian. Aesthetically, he is a scrawnier Conan - bangs, abs, loincloth and all!

Zombicide: Green Horde

In the game, Rolf starts with the "Bloodlust: Melee" skill, which lets him charge, screaming, into combat and attack the turn he does. Very Conan.

Zombicide: Green Horde

Hot on the heels of my human Blood Bowl team, I painted Rolf's skin in the same way; what I'm calling my "new Caucasian skin recipe". I start by painting the skin Cadian Fleshtone, then wash with 50:50 Contrast Guilliman Flesh : Contrast Medium. From here I simply highlight up with Scale 75's Basic Skin with more and more Pale Skin added. Simple and (I think) effective. 

Zombicide: Green Horde

With his skin complete (and thus 75% of the model) I painted his "skirt" (kilt?), boots and forearm bracers with Contrast Wyldwood; loincloth with Contrast Fleshtearer's Red; hair and belt Contrast Black Templars; scabbard Steel Legion Drab; and metal bits Leadbelcher.

Zombicide: Green Horde

I highlighted the Wyldwood bits with thinned Steel Legion Drab with a tiny bit of black mixed in. The Loincloth only received 2 highlights: thinned Mephiston Red then with a little Cadian Fleshtone added. I didn't bother highlighting the black bits, sometimes life is too short to highlight black, and the Contrast paint had already done a bit of that for me. The sword blade was shaded with Nuln Oil then highlighted with Runefang Steel, the crossbar was just Contrast Snakebite Leather over the Leadbelcher. 

As a final detail, I painted the pommel on the butt of his sword hilt as a shiny blue gem just to give a little "pop". For this, I went back to the gem paints and simply painted Soulstone Blue over Stormhost Silver. 

Zombicide: Green Horde

Unfortunately, in the campaign my wife and I are playing, Rolf is no longer with us. He has the unenviable title of our first 'survivor' to die. But he gave his life bravely, fighting off a truly massive horde of zombie orcs...until Berin dropped a trebuchet rock on him. Ouch.

Tune in next week for more Zombicide: Green Horde action on The Art of Caesura!


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Watching: The Last Kingdom


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