Mantic’s The Walking Dead: All Out War: Barricades and Objectives

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Mantic's The Walking Dead: All Out War: Barricades and Objectives

Anuvver fing wot I picked up some time ago is Mantic’s The Walking Dead: All Out War Skirmish game. Towards the end of 2025 I decided to start painting it. While I haven’t yet started on the Zombies or the Survivors, I did manage to paint almost* all of the terrain pieces included in the set. And you know what? They’re actually quite solid little bits of scatter.

*I haven’t started on the cars yet

Mantic's The Walking Dead: All Out War: Barricades

There’s 2 each of three sculpts of the barricades. In having just a few of them, they actually turn out to not get all that repetitive and they paint up pretty quickly and nicely.

Mantic's The Walking Dead: All Out War: Barricades

I could see using these in pretty much any near modern/post apoc type of game and they would of course combine well with any other urban terrain bits and pieces from other Mantic kits or other companies. I think I’ll simply combine these in with my existing mix of urban terrain scattery bits and they’ll no doubt see some use in Zombicide once we get back to playing it.

Mantic's The Walking Dead: All Out War: Objectives

I wasn’t entirely sure if these slabs under the smaller “objective tokens” looking bits were suppsoed to be tiles or newspapers, but a few of them were kind of bent, so I added wiggly lines where they looked appropriate and just went with that. These painted up even faster than the barricades – no surprises there!

That’s it for this update – see you again soon with more Late-2025 models!

Legions Imperialis Solar Auxilia Shadowswords and Stormswords 3D Prints

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Legions Imperialis Solar Auxilia Shadowswords and Stormswords 3D Prints

A few more Legions Imperialis models from the period between October-December 2025, though they are also the last ones to show for awhile (until I finish another batch). This time we have some Solar Auxilia aka Imperial Guard aka Imperial Army, depending on your own GW vintage & experience. As with the last post, these are 3D prints from some STL files I’ve had for years, and so while they don’t precisely match the new, more “dripping in trim” look that GW has given their LI SA kits, they work well enough for me. These ones are just from a different Forgeworld.

Legions Imperialis Solar Auxilia Shadowswords 3D Prints

These photos turned out a fair bit more saturated than the models are in hand. I was using Marouda’s new phone camera to see how it goes. They are in fact painted in the same kind of Desert Yellow that my Afrika Korps forces are painted in.

Legions Imperialis Solar Auxilia Stormswords 3D Prints

The historically-minded amongst you may have noticed some of the markings look a little familiar. Indeed, the paint scheme of these tanks is a mixture of DAK, 8th Army and “40k/HH”. The desert yellow is, as noted ripped from my DAK scheme. The tank platoon numbers are also from German WWII decal sets.

Legions Imperialis Solar Auxilia Shadowswords and Stormswords 3D Prints

On the opposite hand, the Platoon markings (Squares, Circles, later on – Triangles and Diamonds) as well as the AOS markings (numbers in squares) and the “Desert Rats” Divisional Insignia. The hull stripes were a marking used by the British Tank Corps during WWI and part of WWII, notably in Operation Crusader in the desert war. It’s a distinguishing mark that GW used as inspiration for their own tank schemes from the early days of their plastic Imperial Guard kits, so it fits both “slots”.

I ummed and ahhhed about adding chipping weathering to these as I do with my WWII tanks. In the end I decided against it for the time being, as there’s going to be a lot of tanks that are a lot smaller then these in the future, and I can always go back and add it to these later on.