ZTV News Team
These two figures come from the limited edition Frothers sculpting competition winners from last year. As far as I know they havent been made available anywhere else since, but I could be wrong. Its a pity if they havent as they are really very nice sculpts.
I have seen pairs of reporters in 28mm a couple of times before, once from EM4 and once from Copplestone Castings. While those figures are also great its the body armour on this pair that makes them stand out a little. Despite the inherent daftness of body armour that fashionably exposes the wearers midriff, the body armour and reporting-from-a-warzone look is very appropriate for a zompocalypse game.
Some real life press in body armour have “PRESS” written across their gear. I didnt have the patience to paint that on to the figures so I settled for five white lines on each of their backs. From the distance that the figures are viewed from on the table it really is much of a muchness anyway.
Reporting live from the hot zone.
The paint job on these turned out ok (apart from the fact that I forgot to finish the face of the female figures watch before I took the photos).
To be honest painting the pair was a chore for a few reasons unconnected to the figures themselves. Between daylight bulbs on my painting lamp blowing at inconvenient times, spilling the entire pot of one of the paints that I was using all over my painting area and finally dropping and breaking the cameraman on the floor when the painting was nearly finished, for a few weeks it looked like these figures were destined to remain unfinished forever. As such I am happy that they got to this stage at all really.
I plan to use the News Team as special objective pieces in games of (Sho.R.T.) AR:SE. They could also feature in other games in a variety of usually scenario specific roles.
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