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Blood Bowl – CHOP CHOP! Apothecary

My team bought an apothecary last week and I impulse purchased this guy as my “war apothecary”. He’s an Avatars of War model. I’ve always wanted to buy one of their models, because they are great sculpts!

I basically painted this guy in a day, which I’m pretty happy about since I haven’t painted at all in a…a month. Probably a month. Before Christmas, for sure.

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The base, which are the same colours for the entire team, is Mephiston Red, Mithril Silver and Alaitoc Blue, with Dheneb Stone and Ushapti Bone.

I used the SW Dark Sepia instead of my usual Seraphim, and didn’t like it by itself – it shines a bit. So I did some of that sparingly, with the Seraphim in places where I wanted it lighter. The Drakenhof Nightshade from GW is a great dark blue wash.

The sign was Vallejo Fluo. Yellow, obviously with black and some SW Dark Sepia to brown it up just a little bit.

I should pull out the other 5 models that need finishing from this team. >.>

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Blood Bowl – Lizardman Priest

Really happy with how this guy turned out! It was a lot of little painting sessions that added up to a lot of good shading and highlighting. My Blood Bowl league is counting down to the Finals in October and the league commissioner has put a bonus out for “best painted” and man, do I intend to win that!

This model is the most recent model I finished, after having focused since I last wrote. There’s about 2 weeks of “final” posts upcoming that have actually been done for months, but haven’t been photographed until this evening. 🙂

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I took a lot of inspiration from my posts on previous skink paint jobs for my Warhammer army.

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The base was looking pretty terrible at one point. It was a layer of watered down Snakebite, I think, followed by drybrush of Codex Grey which looked just awful. I did a few spots of glazes to try to make it “interesting” instead of “terrible”, but in the end had to Seraphim Sepia the whole thing to get it to good. I think it really worked in the end, because of the variety of hues under the Sepia.

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The feathers are my first time using a Vallejo Game Color Fluorescent Yellow. I like it, but it’s a careful tool to wield. I had to use a lot of glazes to bring the colours back down to a more natural colour!

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Pahaux Flamewalkers – Priest Some More Paint

I’ve had some serious painting ADD recently, floating between projects as the winds blow (and if you were in Vancouver yesterday, that’s a lot of wind!). I almost suffered from it again, first thinking I could paint the murderspider before today and then thinking I could paint a Silent One before today, but still having the Union Miners and Skorne Cyclops Savages on my project list (not to mention the Guild Death Marshals I only basecoated…)

So I decided to focus more. I’ve had an apothecary for my Blood Bowl team assembled for 2 months, and every time I use him in a game I roll double 6s and one of my team members ends up dead. >.> I think he resents being used, but unpainted and ignored.

It’s a fairly simple scheme so far – Codex Grey on the skink, Shadow Grey on the stone, probably Snakebite Leather on the wood and on the ground. I drybrushed Codex Grey over the brown ground, and regret it now.

A month later I added more basecoat and Guilliman Blue in the recesses of the ground…that ground is going to be a problem…

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Pahaux Flamewalkers hire a pitch-side priest

A friend started a Blood Bowl league about 2 months ago and I joined up. I love playing this game, and the RPG-aspect at the end makes it even better!

2 games ago I saved up enough to finally buy my Kroxigor (the commissioner convinced me not to buy him initially), and the very next game I bought an apothecary so I could protect my guys better!

I came home from a night of training for our upcoming show (June 6th, Hats Off day in Burnaby, you should come if you live in Vancouver) and opened my bitz box and everything I pulled out of it gave me an idea for a project!

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After the first photo I sent it to my club and trolled that I was converting my army to round base for the rumoured 9th edition change. 😛