One thing that I have to say about Mantic zombies - they paint very fast. More than a hundred of the three thirty three are Mantic, painted, but not yet flocked.
The figures are mostly semidraped, so a colored primer took care of a good deal of the painting. I have started using Army Painter colored primers, which, aside from the Brown, work pretty well. The brown primer... not so much.
I used it on some rusting steampunk terrain, and had to cover the whole thing with iron oxide brown, missing the point of the colored primer.
The flesh tone primer is a trifle pale for my tastes, but works fine for zombies. The necrotic flesh is kind of green grey, and works fine for zombies. The bone is, well, old bone colored - pale yellow brown, and works fine for skeletons and, umm, zombies.
Wash colors change the appearance dramatically, without adding a lot of painting time.
Units are tentatively called the Greens, the Blues, the Greys, and the Pallid.... You can probably guess why.
Sad thing is, with 120 Mantic zombies painted up, but not yet flocked, I have a like number to go. I really hope that the new version of Warhammer's Vampire Counts does not suck, I will be royally peeved if they do. Likewise on the dwarfs. (I really did not much like the previous Dwarfs book and army for Warhammer - the war machines were pretty much unusable in design. You could not aim them if they were designed the way they are modeled in the game. For the sake of stinky cheese GW look at the way siege engines are built, will you?! And a ribald was not a 'rare' weapon, it was less expensive than a full or even demi cannon! Sheesh!)
The Auld Grump, looking at the older Dwarfs army book made Kings of War look good....
Not a person that I had ever wanted to see nude. I wouldn't have minded seeing Molly D., but her friend, not so much.)