ZOMBIE THEME GENERAL DISCUSSION AREA

[MaxHeadroom]

Narses2 had sent an PM and asked me to confirm my message to you, Go4fun.
I did.
Now, we only have to wait for the moves.

Thanks for your welcome to me.
A zombie-build is really freestyle building with all possibilities, fantasy and cross-thinking.

Max

[NARSES2]

Moved as requested

[Go4fun]

Okay people, I've been posting pictures of my build in build groups I belong to where it seems to fit, asking people who build things that fit to come on over and generally promoting the Zombie Build as best I can.
I'm curious as to if any of you have done the same?
I'm hoping to see progress on some of the builds soon (Mine included!) and new people enter the group.
Or do we need to start a "Vampire Apocalypse Theme Build" too?  

PS: I am collecting enough parts to start my next Z.A.T.B. and will start on it as soon as the Zombie Bird hits the streets.

[kerick]

 I have another project going right now but maybe another zombie job soon.

[Go4fun]

Let me put the new project in a different light:
Why drive among the walkers and crawlers when you can float over head? I never saw the Zs looking up unless they heard something that caught their attention or saw a shadow on the ground.
And no, it's not a hot air balloon.

[Father Ennis]

You are right. I need to get back to my own build,too. I got everything together for it but got off into other tracks and  now it's a candidate for the clear your worckbench GB.  I think that wasn't your only good idea either. I like the concept of a hovercraft,too.  Mmmmmmmmmm ......

[kerick]

Let me put the new project in a different light:
Why drive among the walkers and crawlers when you can float over head? I never saw the Zs looking up unless they heard something that caught their attention or saw a shadow on the ground.
And no, it's not a hot air balloon.

Anti gravity Falke zombie destroyer??

[Old Wombat]

I have no idea when I'll be able to commence my first build for this, at the rate I'm going it could be years away!

However, as this is a theme build, it will happen... eventually... one day!



Guy

[Go4fun]

The way I build in fits and starts you might get done with your second before I get this Z-Bird done Guy!

[Go4fun]

If your building with junk, what is a good source of long fairly thin pieces of iron?
Fence posts! You might know them. Those green angle or channels with wide lips that are driven into the ground
for hanging wire or 'plastic snow' fence on used at temporary venues.
v Like this. v

Yeah, I made those holes with photo art. So?
#1 Well the whole driver's side window protector (In this case) isn't made of the same thing so we need to add some other colors. Flat Black...

#2 ...then a pipe in red, (We are using found junk right?)...

#3&3b ... Then we'll mix up a little Dandelion Yellow and White to make an 'Aged' white.


Next we'll attack some rust. (Yeah I got ahead of myself.Sue me).  

[kerick]

You are right about the fence posts. In rural areas every farm house has some lying around.

[kerick]

Considering the weather in the American Midwest this year, how do zombies handle below freezing cold? They are to stupid to put a coat on, do they just freeze in place? It would make scooping them up a lot easier. Survivors would have to travel north (or south, as the case may be) to find zombie free areas. Zombie survival Snow Cat?

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[Old Wombat]

kerick, if you haven't already, read Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide &, more so, World War Z for an exceptionally logical answer to that question.

Basically, yes, they do freeze in place - until the Spring thaw, when they re-animate.

Exceptionally cold places, like northern Canada & Siberia, are pretty much zombie-free zones.

Hot arid areas (Sahara, Central Australia, etc.) are similarly hostile to zombies (they become desiccated to the point where they can no longer function).

However, as Brooks points out, these places are similarly extremely hostile to living humans, too, & survival, even for a well prepared group, is as much a matter of luck as anything else, & without modern support structures it is extremely likely that eventually your ice & fire landers are going to have to come back into the temperate zones looking for food.



Guy

[Go4fun]

NOW FOR SOME RUST AND AGING.
#4. This is the way it is recommended to apply them, in order from right to left. Why reversed? Because I'm left handed and strange that way.

#7. Big jump, huh? But this is the order I start with to get the crusty look of the deep rust. I use the #3 Flat Clear then sprinkle it with the dust while it's still wet. Then I might rough it up up a wet brush just to make it rougher.

#5. How I get the dust. The bigger the hairy stick (brush) the better to a point. No need for a 5 inch house brush boys & girls! I tap straight down to load.

#6. Now i just tap the brush lightly over the places I want the crusty rust. Don't worry if it gets all over the part. After it all dries you can wipe it off for the most part.

After all this I go back to the the normal order and finish the part.

"What a bunch of junk!" says some. "Perfect!" says I. And if you do the painting over one paper and the dust over another slicker paper you can gather it and pour the left over dust back in the jar.

[Go4fun]

So now we saw how Zombies play (American) football. Not very well at all.