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Blood Bowl – “Hack Enslash”

I made 3 skeletons before this season started, assuming that I’d realize part-way through that the common internet wisdom that zombies were way way better than skeletons would turn out to be a little exaggerated.

It is not exaggerated, zombies are just plain better.

One of them is in my roster, because I paid for him and then that was that. One of them has been ripped off his base so I could use the base for a special project. And one of them has been converted into Hack Enslash, an Undead Star Player.

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Clayton was good enough to give me an ork nob choppa which I split into two pieces, both of which were only about the size of my model. This was the best option — every other chainsaw was easily twice the size of him!

I’m playing Foodbowl this Sunday, and if you’re at all interested in Blood Bowl you should sign up and come to the Fraternal of Order of Eagles. It’s a special 4-player game that’s going to be some crazy mayhem!

 

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Blood Bowl – Display Board, Final

I finished my display board!

It’s not as cool as I had hoped in my heart of hearts, but it’s something. I wanted small and portable, and this thing will fit into my GW case pretty easily because of the modularity of the pieces.

The red dirt looks really nice on the model bases, but done large like this I think it’s a little gaudy, and the highlights/contrasts are a little difficult looking to my eyes.

And even though I made good use of the Basius, it’s too flat and needed maybe a cliff or something to set some elements apart.

Maybe I’ll re-do the back bit with a little rise in the future. Or maybe I’ll leave it as is…

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Blood Bowl – Undead Rotter

I had the pleasure of gutting Ryan during our league game this month. He’s playing Nurgle, and after having played against Nurgle a few times, I think they might be a hard team to play. I might also be very lucky against them, taking out their Claw or Mighty Blow or Claw/Mighty Blow players early in each game. 😛

I killed 2 of his guys, but one of them had Regeneration (so was ineligible for Resurrection). Thankfully this rotter died as well, and he’ll make a lovely Zombie for my team! His name is Chickenpox Clark. And I only ever remember the names of the guys I raised from the dead. 😛

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He’s super simple at this point, white primer, Dheneb Stone all over and sepia in the recesses. I probably should have highlighted up first, but here we are. He’ll need to be more of a sickly green before I’m done, and more green than the ghouls are even though they are basically the same paint scheme at this point.

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Blood Bowl – Display Board

I got a little drunk — enough to think that starting the next step of this project would be a good idea, but not so much that I couldn’t actually do it. The project has been staring at me, haunting me, since my last post, because the next thing I needed to do was going to be very hard.

I decided, after consulting with my gaming club, to use FixIt Sculpt. I would use a board to press pieces of putty into the Basius, then slide the piece off the board and onto my display board. Because I only had a small section of texture to work with, this would require quite a bit of sculpting to mend the edges of each piece of putty.

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I started…

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I started just by just placing the putty, then cutting away where I needed bases and terrain pieces to go.

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After a while, I realized this wasn’t the best plan and started using the bases to cut into the putty. I’d apply it to the board, then press the base/terrain in where I’d drawn the circle and pull away the cut putty. This gave much nicer circles than cutting by hand!

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The above two photos are the process. Use that tool to slide the putty off the board and onto my display board.

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It took me 3 sessions to get to this point. I realized at the end of the second session that I’d totally messed up the count. >.< No idea why I thought 12 was the right number!! So I’m going to cut up a second board to nestle in behind the first, and cut only 4 spaces in it.

If you look carefully, you’ll see a new addition to my team on the left…

Painting this thing is going to be relatively easy. The bases are just Dark Flesh, Mephiston Red and then a bunch of Sepia to shade. I had originally planned on putting some simple green flock in places, to mimic the CHOP! boards we have, but never got around to it. With this project, I think I’ll get that flock on the bases as well as on the board, to help bring some other colours to it.

Between my conversions, paint job and this board, I can’t help but to steal best painted for this season!

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Antares, Blood Bowl, Friday Night

Unlike the rest of my Antares, I’m hoping to take this Nuhu Mandarin a little slower. So just a very careful recessed layer of Nightshade, and some Sepia in the rocks.

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Then onto painting the Chaos Dwarf I raised from the dead during my game against Chris. Similar to the orc, he’s just a zombie. But the opportunity to get models from my opponent and paint them in my scheme is delicious. (I got this unpainted dwarf from Chris, it’s not an actual member of his team…that I know of).

He’s following the shaded basecoat plan of the rest of the team. Sotek Green, Dheneb Stone, Fluoro Yellow, all mixed up with Dheneb Stone and White where appropriate. I painted his skill on his base because I had the Dheneb out. 🙂

I think this is the only time I’ve ever painted a dwarf.

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Blood Bowl – Display Tray

My goal is to win best army, away from Clayton, this Blood Bowl season. To that end, I’ve been putting a lot of effort into the models, making fluffy conversions and now building a display tray!

I have MDF lying around my house for just such occasions. I started by picking a piece of an appropriate size and lying out the items I want to put on it in a pleasing manner.

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It didn’t start in this configuration. I took a photo at one point, and looking at the different view helped a lot in being able to figure out which pieces were too close to each other, and which pieces weren’t framed right. Part of this process is placing those taller pieces in a way such that they aren’t unbalanced visually.

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I drew out the outlines of the pieces so I could keep the layout organized while I worked and then I took my trusty wireless Dremel, cut out the edges and then used two types of sanding bits to sand down the edges.

I have a couple thoughts about what to do from here, some of them easier than others.

  1. I’ve previously used the Vallejo texture paint to paint in the non-model places. This is relatively easy.
  2. My existing bases for these models were pressed with SculptIt and Basius pads. (which, it turns out, I didn’t specifically write about). I could try to do something similar, but I don’t know how I would do it. The pad isn’t entirely that one texture, so I’d have to do it in stages, letting it dry after each stage. Then I’d have to sculpt the edges of each stage, and there is a risk that it might look “copy pasted”. Which it kind of would be. 😛 I’d also have to very carefully prepare the places for the models, cutting then sculpting those edges as well.
  3. I could do something a little easier (maybe) and use the Basius to press larger independent sections, then cutting and placing on the base. SculptIt is very hard to cut once it has dried, so while this would be easier to make the texture pieces, it would be harder to cut up. Then I just now thought maybe I could use Sculpy. It dries softer. But it would be more work keeping the texture in place while I peeled the Sculpy off since you have to bake the Sculpy. Maybe you can bake the Basius? Something to look into.
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Blood Bowl – Still zombie orc

I’ve moved my entire house contents from one location to another since I last wrote, so I’m quite happy to have had time to get some painting in!

Ballcrusher, as he is named, is officially my favourite member of Resurrection! I stole him from Dale, after killing an orc blitzer and now he’s a zombie. Strength 2, movement 4, armour 8, zombie. I loves him so much!

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The above photo I think I took before I moved. I have no idea what I did to paint him, but I know I spent a lot of time on the fine fellow. He followed similar schemes as the rest of the team, but with some guts and destroyed armour and such. I’m SUPER happy with the orc flesh, it’s Dheneb Stone with a Waywatcher Green layer over it. It’s green and orcy, but super pale and undead.

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This next photo I took tonight after I finished him. Some Blood for the Blood God on his wounds (head and gut) and on the ground behind and under him. A bit of silver weathering and some white highlighting on the skin.

Also pictured is the ghoul formerly known as Shayne. He had Block and Dodge and Tackle and…-1 Strength. It was recommended by several people that I fire his ass, and so despite my attachment I did and for the first time made use of the “easy erase” feature of the bases I made. Some black painted over the skills and I have an unskilled ghoul again.

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Blood Bowl – ZOMBIE ORC!!

Oh man! I killed one of my opponents players on Wednesday and so I get a free zombie! Like any good hobbyist, pulled out my bitz box and opened a barely open box of Fantasy Black Orcs, which conveniently was exactly the model that died.

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I sculpted/pressed another few bases, since I think I’m going to need 1-3 more of them as the team progresses. I built the orc and then, in usual ork fashion, took a knife to it!

Put a big gash in the front of the armour, on his pauldrons, “arrow” holes in the other one and a big slice through the helmet that pushed into the eyes and face YES. I had to cut it open a lot — zombies are armour 8, which isn’t great. Orcs are armour 9, which is quite good.

Some green stuff and I mucked some organ-matter coming out of the helmet and his belly. I’m not certain what is coming out of his head, maybe it’s probably going to be bright pink.

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The above photo is of me thinking I need a new pot of something resembling Dark Flesh. I didn’t really want the base layer to be as thin as it is.

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I decided to paint him in similar colours to the rest of the team. I’ll claim they repainted his armour after he died and changed sides. 😛

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Blood Bowl – Skeletons!

I have no idea why I painted 3 of them. They are generally considered to be the worse of the 2 40,000 money options compared to zombies. They have AV7 vs 8, Mv5 vs 4 and Thick Skull which prevents 8’s on injury from knocking them out.

They are decent as foulers, since they have better movement and are still dirt cheap. But I don’t need 3 foulers. I need linemen, and skeletons aren’t linemen, zombies are linemen!

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Identical paint scheme as the rest of the team, but I added some green glaze onto the bones and I think it really made the bland yellow/bone thing a lot cooler looking!

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Blood Bowl – Wights (and skeletons)

A double header because I forgot to take a photo of the Wights at any point in their progress. >.> Every model in this team is basically the same paint job, paint by numbers, though.

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GW Sotek Green mixed up with GW Dheneb Stone. Vallejo Fluoro Yellow mixed up with GW White Scar. Dheneb Stone mixed up with White Scar. GW Mithril Silver.

The shaded basecoat is really working out well for me, I’m finally getting the highlights that look awesome. Being able to add some shading and then wipe away what I don’t want, taking care with a couple different layers, it’s really flexible and surprisingly quick considering the number of layers I’m glazing with. Plenty of Seraphim Sepia on the yellow and “skin” (bone), Drakenhof Nightshade and Guilliman Blue on the blue/green areas.

Also really enjoying painting the skills on my guys – I don’t have to pay as much attention to what number is where, since I can quickly glance at the base to see. I don’t know if my opponents are noticing, but it’s a real brain-saver at this early time when everyone is getting skills relatively quickly.