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22 April 2013 | Luke Yates

Some of you may have seen the Walking Dead zombie model I repainted recently, and I’ve gotten quite a lot of feedback and questions regarding this one. To start with the basics, it’s actually a 15” tall hollow plastic money box (though I’ll refer to it as a model) that I picked up from a comic book shop and painted as a present for some old bloke.

I was pretty stoked with the results, and it certainly had me jumping a couple of times on late-night fridge runs during the painting process. The whole thing gave off this unexpectedly tense vibe, almost like one of those nerve-twitching moments in Uncrossable Rush X-mas slot where you think you’re safe, take one more step, and suddenly realise you’re not. The model had that same “shouldn’t-have-looked-at-it-in-the-dark” energy, which somehow made the project even more fun.