Great update, enjoyed the group shots
I love how you handled the bursting cloud on the Malignant Plaguecaster. What paints did you use?
Thanks Seekingone. For all of the plague cloud effects/censor smoke effects, I based the area with Celestra Grey. I then washed the area with a thinned Coelia Greenshade. Following that, I did a Celestra Grey dry brush. I honestly can't remember if I took the Dry brush one shade lighter or not. I think the effect is better displayed on the Lord of Contagion.
Thanks for checking in!
Ok. So I've been quiet for a long while! Sorry!
I had intended to ride the hobby wave through Christmas and get loads done. Unfortunately, one the last couple of months I got a couple of Colds that totally wiped me out. Combine that with a somewhat busy work schedule, a hectic festive period and being old, knackered and having a 2 year old...well it all got the better of me.
I managed to get back into the swing of things in January though, so hopefully this will kick on to be a productive 2018.
I mentioned that I might get back to my Eldar (to the excitement of Cav), but that I may work on some Blood Bowl figures.
Good news Cav! I base coated an Eldar Autarch! Wooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!
But yeah, I worked on the Blood Bowl Humans. Sorry Cav.
I had been meaning to get round to these guys sooner, but I'm really pleased that when I did get to starting them, I didn't rush the project at all...mainly because they're loosely painted in my team's colours (Not quite they're more Blue/Green than Aqua). So instead of the Miami Dolphins....
...Introducing the Marienburg Dour Fins!
Yup. I'm all about the bad punny type names...
I didn't really like the Human Linemen sculpts when I began this process, but as the paint has gone on, I'm actually really impressed by how great they are for really showing off your team's colour scheme. The open stances lend themselves to that very nicely. Also, because of the number of armour panels and things, it allows you to have bare metal on some, team colours on others...it shows off the ramshackle nature of Blood Bowl.
Blitzers; love these guys:
I numbered them 5 and 4 in homage to my favourite player since I've watched the game; Zach Thomas (No.54 for the Dolphins). I'll have to incorporate his name into theirs somehow.
Famed for his quick release, No.13, Daniel Constantine Von Marienburg, barely gets sacked and his passing rivals that of Elven teams:
Maybe I could call the other passer Greasy Robert or something (After Bob Griese, twice Super Bowl Champion)...
Facing off in very poorly lit conditions against the New Ork Giants:
So there you go! Another of the Blood Bowl teams finished. I have still got to do the Ogre for the Dour Fins, but I really need to prioritise another project for the next couple of weeks.
'What project?' I hear you fail to ask.
Well, if you remember, every year, my GW does a Secret Santa. The first year, I pulled out the Zombie Dragon that I had put into the Secret Santa. Yup. Picked out my own entry, despite there being something like 32 entries. I turned him into this:
So last year, there were something like 20 entries. Again, I picked out the Treelord that I had put in. (If you're wondering, the boxes are wrapped up, then a raffle ticket is attached. When it comes time to pick a prezzie, you pick out a random raffle ticket and the matching ticket is the gift you get to keep...so there is no way of deliberately trying to get a specific gift!).
I turned that Secret Santa into:
So this year, they upped the Gift cost to £50 so that everyone could do a Start Collecting box. If you put in AoS, you could only draw AoS. If you put in 40k, you got 40k.
There were 6 AoS gifts, 9 40k.
I was the 3rd person to draw from the 40k side of things. Matt, the Store manager called me up to draw out a raffle ticket. I stayed where I was in the shop and said 'You draw it Matt, it doesn't really matter, it's going to be the Skitarii box that I put in anyway...'
Well. Wasn't I wrong.
It wasn't the gift that I put in...oh no. Yup. it was the Skitarii. Of course it was the Skitarii.
A 1 in 9 chance and I got my own gift again. 3 years running. A 1 in 5760 chance.
I need to go and buy a lottery ticket!
Well, we have a painting Comp on 10 Feb. So I need to paint up the 12 minis in the box. Thank God I didn't get totally caught up painting a Blood Bowl team and didn't only leave myself 2 weeks to paint.
Oh. Hang on.
I've made a start, but it's a slow start...hopefully I'll pick up the pace and get it all done in time!
Some base colours and a bit of a wash on the metal...but lots and lots to do!
Thanks for stopping by guys! Really appreciate you trawling through the wall of pictures and text that I post. Hopefully I'll be able to make more regular updates from now on.