Survivor Friday- Sheldon!

Back for Survivor Friday, and unlike this week's Wednesday post, this one is actually on Friday!

This week's survivor is another from the excellent Studio Miniatures range, but not from the Walking Dead, but it is rather this guy!

... Sheldon's Log, 72 days post rising.

It has been 46 days now since I departed the safety of our safe house to make the journey to the research facility which Amy is working at. She was handpicked by the CDC as one of the leading neuroscientists in the world, as they collected all of the best biologists in the world together to cure this apocalypse.

Naturally they need my help, based on the amount of zombies around, they aren't exactly making progress.

It has been 46 days since Leonard begged me not to go out. Since Penny forcibly blocked the door. I snuck out when they were asleep. Our building had been spared the worst of the apocalypse, we had blocked the stairwell so there was no way they could get up, it didn't help the people on the bottom floors.

I armed myself with Longclaw, it's Valyrian steel would work just as well against these zombies as against the white walkers, and wearing the uniform of the greatest explorer civilization has ever known, that of First Officer Spock. How could I fail? Such a thing is inconceivable, even to a man of my intelligence.

Story with so many apologies to the writers and producers of the Big Bang Theory :)

So, there you have it! Another cool miniature from Studio Miniatures. It is the little details on this one that I love- the sword is actually longclaw, which we know was on the apartment wall. In the illustration, he is meant to be wearing a green lantern shirt, but I thought, well if he is going on an expedition, it only makes sense that he would treat it as an away mission.

Plus he is wearing blue, none of the guys in blue uniforms get killed on away missions- right?

Hope you like him, I am cracking in to the next batch of painting, look out for Tyrese's sister Sasha on Wednesday, and then I think another from the kickstarter on Friday.

But that is not all, we have other cool things on the boil, which I hope to be able to update you on next week!

CP

GENCON T-shirts

Hi All,

Chris has been doing a sterling job with this blog but I have just realised reading his latest missive that I haven't told him the T-shirt design has changed. With me being stateside for Historicon and Chris keeping the NZ home fires burning, communication has not been our strong point :-) 

The T-shirts still have yellow in them but not quite so yellow as we envisaged. So I thought I would take the opportunity to share. We think they look pretty cool, but I am bound to say that as I designed them. What do you think?  We will have a few for sale at Gencon so make sure you are in quick. Don't forget we are at Booth 2934 on the Entrepreneurs' Avenue. I hope to meet as many of you there as I can.

cheers

Colin

OUTBREAK- Gaming the Zombie Apocalypse released at GENCON!

For far too long, I have been remiss in talking about the ruleset which my colleague Colin and I have been working on for our zombie games. I eluded to it once in an after action report I did, but nothing other than that.

It has been in the works for over a year or so, and now it is fast coming up on it's time of release, and so it is time for me to start talking about it with you guys!

It comes in a soft back version and as a PDF, both in Hazmat yellow for easy spotting! I will delve a bit more into the rules in a future post.

Colin and I have been writing rules together for a few years now, including the Skirmish Sangin ruleset (which has just had it's latest supplement released!), and given our love of the Zombie genre, it was only natural that we wrote ourselves a game to play it!

Alongside the rules, we will be releasing a few sets of figures. The first of which you can see in the render are here...

I will go through the rules in a bit of detail, and show examples of how the game works with some demo characters, and will walk through a combat turn or two. What would you like to see?

So all of that is going to be released at GENCON in two weeks time, Colin and I will be there in bright yellow t-shirts (we had to really, given the colour of the book), so if you are going along, come and find us and pick up your copy!

For those who can't make GENCON, or who can't manage to find us (which, given our yellow I think is unlikely), the OUTBREAK website will go live with the books and miniatuees up for sale on the website in early August, as close to the end of GENCON as we can manage.

Chris