Zombicide: Dead Men Tales - Kraken (unused)

 I got asked to do the Kraken around summer of '23 and was given a vague direction to go with it. The version I made did not end up being used, here are some work pics followed by the finished, unused figure.

 

Reference

 

 

Progress pics.

 

After this I continued with the making the rest of the tentacles as well as the water effects at the base of the pieces. It was requested that I add a mouth to the front of it, something not in the art or requested at the start and ironically not on the final used figure. I decided to add a little sailor getting sucked into the mouth as a separate piece of detail they could add if they wanted to, but they outright did not like that.

 

Shots of the tentacles, I made three different sizes.

Large 

 

 

Medium

Small

 

Everything, all together.

 

 

Reference art by someone I don't know.

R.I.P. John Blanche

 John Blanche, one of the major influences in wargaming and the art community passed away today at age 77. His artwork was a huge influence to many and will continue to do so.

 

Art by John Blanche

 

Zombicide: Dead Men Tales - The White Death

 

 I have been wanting to sculpt a mutant sperm whale for years. Weird but it's true, I messed around with a couple of other sculpts for other projects but nothing ever got finalized so when I got to design some of the monsters for this project I saw my opportunity to finally make it.

If I could I would have done a whole whale and made an anthropomorphized monster but I held back and thought this was more fitting. I had planned to put harpoons sticking out of his hide and ropes lashed across it's sides complete with a Gregory peck looking zombie tangled in the mess but I figured they would become a casting problem so at the last minute I changed my mind. Anyway, here are some pics of the sculpt.