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Blood Bowl – CHOP CHOP! Apothecary

Posted on January 21, 2016

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.

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

Posted on September 15, 2015

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. 🙂

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

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.

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!

Work-in-progress

Pahaux Flamewalkers – Priest Some More Paint

Posted on August 31, 2015

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…

Work-in-progress

Pahaux Flamewalkers hire a pitch-side priest

Posted on June 1, 2015

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!

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. 😛