Showcase: Zombie Castle - Castle Zombie

 

Heyhey, hope everybody had a lovely time over Halloween weekend. Here's something big and scary and lumbering which is just a little late to the party...

....it's Zomb's Moving Castle!

Some say that he used to be a zombie, living in a castle and one night he misread the label on a bottle of drink and gobbled down a highly potent potion of Enlarge. 

Others say that he's always been a big boy and while he was sleeping, some evil wizard had a castle buiilt around him.

All we know - he's big!

In fact the biggest commission piece I had the honour to work on to date, this is an 80mm/31.5" (sole to top of the tower, 68cm/27" sole to eye, as you measure a figure correctly) FDM print, magnetized together at the hip. Sporting a big, ugly head and 14(!) cannons, he's surprsingly stable, and overall really well designed. 

Here's a WIP photo of him. He's been with me for several weeks. Tried to keep the niece from seeing him, it didn't quite work I have to admit. 

Some of the most time-consuming steps were sanding/filling FDM print marks on the whole creature, as well as adding textures to the stone blocks. Oh, and painting the skin. I experimented with painting veins shining through the skin, but in the end decided that they didn't add much to the overall look. 

Scaled for 28mm/32mm figures, kind of. Things like cannons, many of the boulder blocks (especially around the thighs) are pretty darned big for the size, but there's also plenty of space for 28mm figures to stand on, as depicted by these 28mm skeleton warriors.

The zombie himself is appropriately gruesome looking, and I did not refrain from having fun with those details.

Adding the ivy and the posters (customer's idea) was a genius idea for tieing the very large dude and 28mm size models together.

He saw action in the customer's D&D campaign, but will add a centrepiece to any gaming table or living room. :D It certainly was a stand-out project. Loads of work, because on a model that size, every single step takes ages (not to mention the pieces being pretty darned heavy. For the upper half, I made a special little stand, so I could put it on the desk and rotate it during the process), but once you see the finished piece in front of you, it's worth it. A cool model. Hope you like him!