PSA: Zombies want plastic brains!
If you care about what plastic Zombicide miniatures are made of, please read this announcement. This question was raised in the comments and has been buried, so this is an important PSA!
The Zombicide miniatures are made of plastic of the same type as Warmachine / Dust Tactics figures, and are about as hard as Dust Tactics figs. They have some give so that arms and heads don't break off while playing or storing figures but still retain beautiful detail. There are many painting tutorials online for painting this type of figure.
They are not made of the same material as Games Workshop figures. All these different plastic materials can be painted up just fine and look great.
So, if you have a preference for only GW style hard styrene figures, please make sure you still want to continue with your pledge! The game is great and the miniatures beautiful but they are not styrene.
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Comments
Creator Jim Partin on May 5, 2012
Are the WarMachine/Dust Tactics/Zombiecide figures repaintable? How would I go about stripping? I'm used to metal minis.
Creator Jeffrey Ernst on May 3, 2012
Jup. This is very easy stuff. I still need to paint my PP models, but the assembly (and refitting) was super easy.
Creator C Stewart on May 3, 2012
As to painting models, made of this type of material, you will find little to no difference between the plastics, cleaning any flash off is just the same as styrene (a sharp hobby knife) and lastly one of the best things about this stuff is hot water or a hair drier will let the plastic soften enough for you to 'repose' figures or sort any bent bits.
Creator Chandler on May 3, 2012
i just bought dust tactics and the plastic is unusual for me, but i like it. feels different!
Creator KT on May 2, 2012
No matter what material, if it's a Zombie game, I'm all in!
Creator Doug Herring on May 2, 2012
Go with the softer plastic. I like it better than the GW ones.
Creator James Greene on May 2, 2012
GW makes fine figures but have just about priced themselves out of the grasp of casual gamers. A softer plastic usually takes finer details that much better and promotes a longer mold life with cleaner castings. I hate spending good money on plastic minis only to open them up and find out they are filthy with flash lines. I wasn't expecting hard styrene figures and finding out they are comparable with dust figs doesn't deter my pledge in the least.
Creator Shane Crawford on May 2, 2012
I'm not going into this with a Miniature collector frame of mind, I'm on the Zombie boardgame could be fun.... but bent swords loss of detail has no appeal to me. not going to paint e.m' anytime soon
Creator Anthony Wang on May 2, 2012
Yup I'd like to echo all the reassuring comments here. I actully prefer the plastic used here over GW plastic, finecast, or resin
Creator Shawn Beatty on May 2, 2012
I am also a fan of figures that give a little. It reminds me of being a kid playing with toy soldiers. Now I get zombies to play with!
Creator Michael Martin on May 2, 2012
Links to the tutorials on painting differences would be greatly appreciated! I have only painted harder plastic minis, like GW, but have recently gotten into Dust Warfare, and of course, am anxiously awaiting Zombicide! So how different is it?
Creator Jordan Peacock on May 2, 2012
Actually, I rather like the Dust Tactics figures, so this isn't bad news for me at all!
Creator Bryce Hansen on May 2, 2012
I loved the warmachine figs I have gotten so far in that plastic, holds amazing detail and has some give. Perfect choice for board game figures.
Creator nexus says on May 2, 2012
I personally don't have a preference for figure material, but I'm actually very curious what the different materials are like. I tried searching but couldn't find any information.
Can anyone provide links to (preferably pictures) of the different types of materials mentioned in this update?
Creator CoolMiniOrNot on May 2, 2012
Dust figs clean up just as simply as GW figs, so I think you're safe there.
Creator JohnCWare on May 2, 2012
Oops, software plastics was meant to be soft plastics. I'm officially blaming on auto-correct. ;)
Creator JohnCWare on May 2, 2012
Thanks for the clarification, and yes it does matter. I'm not familiar with Dust figs, but my main concern with software plastics is the difficulty in cleaning flash from the figs before painting. Hard-plastics cleanup quickly with a little X-Acto scrapping. Could anyone comment on that.
Creator jesse on May 2, 2012
I'm not a painter, I'm a gamer so it doesn't effect me at all, but I can appreciate it matters to some people. Thanks for the heads up
Creator Kenton Sheppard on May 2, 2012
The PP plastics paint just fine. This is not bad news.
Creator CoolMiniOrNot on May 2, 2012
We love them too! But some folks might not, we thought it was a super important clarification to make before the Kickstarter ends!
Creator Jason McFarland on May 2, 2012
The Dust figs hold a great mount of detail, some bendy weapons but easily fixable. I don't have experience with PP plastic, but do love Dust so ok with Zombicide being the same kind of quality