I MADE 200 Zombies for Warhammer Halloween

[@CreamAle]

for folks wanting to paint their own zombies, adding clumps of dirt on their body and clipping off limbs adds a nice touch.

[@AcornPlays]

"Now I know exactly how Tyranid players feel" really hit home for me

[@r1ptidee]

I think all of us Tyranid players have felt this one time or another. Also Tyranids were my first army and war gaming models I ever did and it was a nightmare but I look back on it now and I won’t trade it for anything.

[@rickycatta5152]

Not a Tyranid player but a skaven one... I feel ya

[@faulerkaffee]

@@r1ptidee I understand this compleatly Tyranieds are were also my first army and I thought the best start would be to build and paint like 90 modlles and it was awesome (not only small units also some monsters)

[@UnicornT1D]

I'm thinking of collecting a Tyranid army as my first wargaming army but holy cow the price and amount of modals is a deterrent. (Plus they don't look easy to paint.)

[@AcornPlays]

@@UnicornT1D Tyranids are some of the best value for money if you want models in a box. Use speed painting strategies on the cheap troops and then spend hours and hours on the giant monsters

[@Web-man_]

As someone who owns more than 200 boys I approve of this orktober challenge

[@Maverickx99]

*orktober

[@RiffSilverthe1andonly]

Haha 300+ lasguns go brt

[@doejon9424]

The 'ol.. "Wiener in the Jelly jar" trickery. Classic

[@piercethroughheart5700]

Say Orktober😡

[@Web-man_]

@@piercethroughheart5700 fine it’s ork now is everyone happy

[@ejrees186]

"This project took me eons... of battle" made me chuckle harder than it should of .

[@Doodlebob563]

EoB is consistently the hardest working miniature hobbyist out there and should be the biggest wargaming channel imo.

[@jordanz.908]

I REALLY respect this, I've struggled with building and painting a batch of 20 models before (Necron warriors) so doing 10 times as much at once is really impressive. And they turned out great!

[@Aviewrite]

This is so cool

[@Maverickx99]

2:50 I can’t help but think those zombies are wearing those Hawaiian tutu thingies

[@ShallowVA]

Aw man, I’ve always wanted to do this exact project. Good to see that it can indeed be done. Two HUNDRED zombies!

[@chestersleezer8821]

Yup, 200 is a large number of Zombie but if you are running an Undead Army you need Skeletons as well along with those Zombies. So I would think 150 - 200 of each would make for the proper Undead Army along with a few other things.

[@Writh811]

A horde like that would make a for a fun game setup. Have a group of friends and each one gets to have one Guardsmen and arm them with anything from their data sheet (maybe make rules for Ammo and scatter melee options for players to find). Have them move through map with GSC style tokens that spawn hordes (game master sets them up and can hide them under scatter terrain to set traps). The objective, to prep and escape on an evac ship. Maybe throw in some side objectives like going to different parts of the board to "Open the hanger doors" "obtain fuel" etc..... Yeah I'm doing this, thanks for the Halloween idea!

[@1BigSpec]

So much work but oh so satisfying in the end. 🎃

[@hughwoodford]

small tip when sanding that many minis - keep your airbrush nearby and give each model a good blast of high pressure air after sanding. Also giving up on the miliputting less than halfway through was hilariously predictable, you are a madman Jay!

[@oscarl.7856]

I really want to do this project but with skaven. You definitely inspired me to look into it again as I couldn’t fathom painting hundreds of rats before

[@zombiedad]

Whoo! Zombies!

[@MartinODonnel]

I really appreciated the theme kicking in around 8:30. Honestly seems like you gave the vid an extra love, and this project was cool af to watch

[@bldos5362]

the dioramas at the end of the video were great. the new elements y'all are adding are great 👍 ie the aforementioned dioramas, the sofa etc

[@nathanielsmith6262]

I think this number of zombies will sell the hoard idea perfectly on any board you play on. I can't imagine taking on a project this large without getting burnout but the final outcome is a hoard of models you can use in just about any setting.

[@joshsteffens2115]

As a tyranid player - yessss, join us in the suffering! However - I love that you kind of hit a 'critical mass' of models where half-assed painting ends up looking good in a sort of 'quantity is its own quality' way

[@NafePaints]

Seeing the horde at the end on those boards really gave a sense of the size!

[@scottatkinson666]

When the Catachan plastic kit was first released I purchased them and painted them up and converted them (as best I could for a 12/13yr old on a budget) to look like the S.T.A.R.S Alpha and Bravo teams from the Resident Evil PS1 game. The plan was to purchase loads of the Fantasy zombies regiment and models to represent the other more exotic enemies from the franchise and create a survival scenario. Unfortunately never made it to the second phase. This video has rekindled that idea though with a slightly modified Kill Team rules set perhaps.

[@odharrison23]

That’s awesome 200 zombies! That’s a marathon! They look great! Fantastic work as always gents! Thank you!

[@kittytheoogle8662]

As a dm who is running a home brew zombie apocalypse+ campaign I know this exact song and dance lol. I have collected zombies from many different war games, board games, model kits, etc but my favorite are definitely the ones I had the ability to kit bash

[@chestersleezer8821]

Jay I can feel for you since over the last two months I finally decided to get my many miniatures that were in boxes onto bases and now have around 800 Empire/Human, 320+ Dwarves & nearly 300 Elves put together and mounted on bases and movement trays and that is just Infantry and Support weapons still have the cavalry to do. I still have my Orks & Goblins about the same size army as my Empire/Humans and Undead (will have around 400 or so miniatures when done) armies to do. Lots of glue, bases and movement trays. So an update to this post, as of today the Dwarves and Humans Infantry are done and only have 75 Elves to go to finish off the 1,205 Infantry. Then it on to the Undead which will require getting their movement trays and getting them sorted into units. Lots of units and thinking that I probably will need to get some Zombies & Ghouls to go with the Cultists & Skeletons that I have.

[@nepetalejion5751]

This months white dwarf has a great set of rules for a left 4 dead style survival game for AoS! Its heroes under 7 wounds trying to find relics and escape before being taken by the horde

[@LiliaArmoury]

ah ideas many years in the making = the best kind of idea

[@kikolokopo_toys]

I like the wood middle finger in the background

[@ratz9387]

New couch looking beautiful

[@jherazob]

OK, this was a great job! Not for this year of course, but if you wanna add some sci-fi flair to the horde, you can add a box of the Mantic Plague Zombies to the lot, and instantly make the horde feel more sci-fi, most are feral monsters but some are still wearing pieces of armor

[@JakeDogg-RIP]

Zoombies is fun! 🥰🐶👌

[@doomas7897]

I’ve actually had a similar idea to this to bring the Scourge from Warcraft into 40K. Now imagine those 200 zombies, they can only move 3 inches per turn, and they are pretty weak and have poor stats but there’s 200 of them and they all have wrist mounted stormbolters. And in the back of the pack sits Arthas waiting to slay anyone who survives the relentless onslaught.

[@baladar8436]

I made zombies from this box before. One thing I figured out is that you can increase number by box if go in for walking legs (sans a torso) and emerging from the ground torsos.

[@ngoot9082]

I’m sure this will get lost in the comments but I have a trick for speed painting the rims black. I use a Sharpie or a permanent marker. It dries super fast and only takes 1 or 2 passes over the rim.

[@griffglowen5555]

Great vid. I’ve never seen oil washes removed with a paper towel immediately after application. Most people seem to wait 20 mins or so then use a cue tip dipped in mineral spirits

[@nicholasbreecher9315]

That is STUNNING efficiency, impressive dedication.

[@ragingmeatball9214]

I have 150 Poxwalkers and its good to know I'm not the only one crazy enough to willingly paint that many zombies

[@donc.7465]

Last week I finished building, basing, and priming 50 Necron models to try and get them primed before the cold weather. I never want to do that again. From now on I think I'll take it one unit at a time like a sane person.

[@gearman237]

geez and I thought I was burnt out after finishing 40 necron warriors. amazing job, this makes me want to start on the 40 poxwalkers that I haven't even started building yet.

[@makeshiftminis9090]

That is a lot of plastic. Your zombie horde looks fantastic and it really sells why necromancers and outbreaks can be terrifying.

[@PocketUnv]

This immediately made me think of the immaculate video game "I Maed A Gam3 W1th Z0mb1es 1n It!!!1". An impressive horde to be sure!

[@Fofiddly]

Wow that brings me back. Been a long time hahaha

[@chestersleezer8821]

Yes go with Mantic if you want to build a horde army. 200 Zombies/Ghouls would be about right since that would be 8 units of 25 Zombies/Ghouls.

[@felipeopazo2662]

These bases are mostly for lamps, post and trolley wire which easily falls apart. I'll be honest ive got no idea i've collected trains for 13 years and didn't thought i'd be surprised today...

[@shaneharper9975]

Loving the new set Jay, zombies looking great too solid effort!! EOB has hit a new height in quality of KZbin videos, I watch every single video you post and I just can’t get enough! Nick you are the editing king! Get back behind the camera tho I love the videos with you in it!

[@servantcross]

Poxwalkers: Unliving corruptions of Nurgle, in a state of neither life nor death. Dunno man, sounds like they should count to me.

[@Paintedfigs]

Super impressed you managed to do 200 minis without going crazy. if you can do that, there's nothing you can't do. Respect!

[@edwardclay7551]

I have 400 zombies and over 100 Skeletons. But I have wanted to get several hundred of the mantic Skeletons. This is good inspiration.

[@thetabletopsupershow3670]

I have the same box of KOW Zombies. I have put a bunch together ( for AD&D) and I think I still have ten or so left to build! Lol. I assembled some of them as just the upper halves on the base making it appear that they are clawing their way up out of the loamy earth! That is a lot of models my dude, kudos!

[@stevie-c1471]

"I turned them into 5 zombies on a stick" had me in stitches

[@rowanoneil5266]

You honestly never disappoint mate, the attention to detail no matter the size of the project is next to none

[@TerryDenham]

I love seeing the double-sided tape. I use the same technique when priming my models.

[@DavePottsAmI]

Zombie hordes hitting tables for Halloween-themed tabletop games are just my favorite. :D

[@weekendminis]

I will (re) die on the hill of saying that Zombies Run is the best zombie story out there!

[@SunburntHands]

Mantic make round bases with a circular depression that's designed to accommodate that circular platform the minis stand on. Perhaps they've discontinued the round ones.

[@CassyCat4]

66 units of 3 Zombies in Onepagerules Age of Fantasy skirmish is a 1320 point army, Would need some tiger balm for your biceps after pushing them around the table for a million hours though.

[@Shudokansam]

Firefight 2e is a blast! Great stepping stone off Deadzone

[@Lord_Brownie]

I can only imagine the disappointment the zombies will feel when they finally kill the stormcast and get a face full of lightning

[@kosachilles2504]

This was great!!

[@florian79fg]

You,sir,are quite simply mad...on the other hand this gives me the strenght to finish my 15 model malifaux crew...thank you

[@MarcinEstkowski]

Epic project. That's a horde!

[@eltigre09]

Speaking of Imperial Knights, it'd be cool to see an Armiger or two being painted

[@longhairedmoron]

5:46 “time for painting”

[@fredrik241]

Wow impressive feat! And they even look good after that miniscule time per model time schedule! Nice shots with them charging the marines I could have watched much more of that! Cudos!

[@grimmriffer]

Dude, you are a monster. I think a zombie kill team should have 5 zombies in it, but their special ability "oh sh1! there's more!" means that every time a number comes up on any dice roll, another zombie enters the board.

[@euansmith3699]

Some movement trays might be needed for actual play 😄 That is a great looking horde.

[@AcrylicJumbo]

LOVE the way the video turned out, I really like the more dynamic style of those videos for theses types of projects. Music, variety of locations and very story driver, makes for entertaining content !

[@Brisarious]

really puts into perspective the 200ish guardsmen I've been chipping away at for the past year and a half

[@barrycopithorne]

I love your channel! This project is crazy! You did an amazing job on all of them! Makes me learn how to speed paint. I really got to get those air brushes. They alone made your zombies stand out all individually with all the different colors in different angles. After you were done doing washes and dry brushing they all looked super cool! Happy Halloween and thank you for another great video!

[@john-paulfuller-jackson1606]

Hahaha nice reference to the yawn from Shaun of the Dead

[@Gumlass1]

They look so good.

[@Fofiddly]

Jay please! I need to see a battle report with these guys in it! Please!! This is too awesome to keep to yourselves! Great job!

[@ericsmith9212]

The Mantic Zombies are great. I use them for my Soul Blight army.

[@jamesshearer3936]

Great video! You are a monster! And as quickly as you went over everything, I still feel that I learned something about batch painting.

[@TimboMacDW]

Love this idea. The way they can play in any game makes it so tempting. 🤔

[@proicec7718]

This gives me the motivation to do my unfinished models!

[@TheLordofMetroids]

I had this crazy idea for a list, would never build it, but the list was "how many poxwalkers can I run?" So I got to thinking, the issue with Poxwalkers is you can't run them unless you have an equal amount of "Core," units. But Possessed count as Core. So I had this crazy Idea, get some possessed and replace their heads with regular space marine heads, get them battle damaged, and paint their daemon augments as Nurgle gifts instead of daemon, than paint the armor on them in various chapter colors. You now have, Zombie Space Marines. So a list with this idea would be: 43 possessed. 140 Poxwalkers. Warlord Typhus (he buffs Poxwalkers) It is literally the dumbest list you could EVER run, but it actually works, and might be insanely fun. Sorry my turns take 2 hours to move all the walkers though.

[@RobSchweitzer]

I mentally struggled just to finish 36 Termagants from the Tyranid Combat Patrol box. This looks like a nightmare! Came out wonderful though!

[@zackcook5123]

honestly I'd play this in a game of 40k meat grinder game, mass poxwalkers. As a heavy bolter reliant guard player I feel uniquely suited to the challenge

[@thomaswilliams5005]

Looks good. I was going to print and paint a whole undead army this month. Got 30 skellies printed. The end of that project.

[@alexandercrumulent271]

Remember 8th edition Horde units? 50 man blocks looked great but took forever to finish painting.

[@yesmilord2350]

This was really fun to watch. I do my armies in batches and the only part of it that ever feels grindy to me is mold line removal and sanding. I actually quite enjoy doing all other aspects in batches. So it was really fun to see you tackle a huge one like this.

[@ArcaneForge]

You should be so proud of yourself! This was so much work and they look amazing!!!

[@yoyoyo9669]

this is amazing! i am just finishing up on my cadian infantry 100 guys building the last 10 then i have 20 to paint then spray varnish and base all of them and im done! has taken me a long time but i am pleased to say im almost there i think your zombies look amazing youre a trooper and thanks for the motivation keep it spooky! -Jacob

[@petermartin9224]

Oh, Jay, you are a mad lad.

[@davinci3259]

The hand in the background says it all.

[@ZarMationStudios18]

New subscriber, loving each video I find! I'm learning a lot of new hobby tricks I never would've ever thought of on my own just by tuning in for a little bit.

[@sellis5716]

They looks sooo good, think it was all down to your planning on how to achieve results with minimal effort per model. I hate painting the base rim on a single model so can’t imagine painting 200 in one sitting! Looks like a great kit too from mantic

[@wazzdakka6495]

Cool

[@FunkinWaggle]

That is funkin awesome my dude! I wish I had the drive you do to get such a project done! Hell, I'd settle for being able to knock out 10-20 models in a week or so! Haha

[@elzordack4589]

Congratulations, that's awesome!

[@Trencher1375]

Hope you get to play with them and would like to hear how it went

[@JUST_GAUNT_GET_ENOUGH]

That was a great video man. The batch painting is rough. I recently built primed and painted 120 gaunts it was a slog. Took me a lot longer then it took you to do 200.

[@Karmeeni]

They look amazing! I love the diorama's at the end as well!

[@fragfmgill]

ive always loved the mantic zombies, should of put them on the squares though

[@bretts2356]

My inner 12 year old is very pleased by the hand model in the background flipping the bird.

[@KillerOrca]

Better hope those are Nurgle enhanced Plauge Zombies, cause if they're the normal Dawn of the Dead/World War Z ones that are just literally reanimated corpses, those three Space Marines at the end there are going to cut through them like a hot knife through butter. Or, well, an Ogryn in any mission on Darktide with their special up.

[@yellowsign]

This looked daunting (or insane) but I hope you post a batrep with a struggle against the undead horde! I am sure the games will be amazing!

[@brokenheroics8223]

That was an awesome spoopy related vid. The bases and that jade green color looked amazing.

[@BillySidness]

You mad lad, great job Jay!!

[@MrSmashySmash]

Good lord that must have taken some dedication

[@Cziro_]

Those train bases are for trees. You put a tree on a base and set it where you want :P

[@PikaChu-vv9hj]

What a crazy and cool project, and you can be super proud of the result, would definitely play some of these games haha