I didn’t want to buy the entire Vortice Undead team, but perhaps I should have. $130 more. When you write that number down, it seems silly.
But right now, this seems silly:
The Wights and Mummies are massive!
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I can’t believe I haven’t written about these guys since I primed them. >.< I don’t know if I have a really good idea of what the base layers were, but here’s a guess:
Sotek Green and Florou. Yellow uniforms, Dheneb Stone skin, Mithril Silver metals and I think Dark Flesh on the bases.
From there I put some Drakenhof over the Sotek to try to make the uniforms actually blue. I didn’t want green, but Sotek looked cool. I ended up using Enchanted Blue over the Drakenhof+Sotek as a mid-layer to bring the colour back to blue.
The yellows was that Vallejo yellow I’ve been playing with, with a lot of layers to make it actually yellow. I did Seraphim Sepia over it to give some depth, then back up with P3 Cygnus Yellow.
The skin I think I Sepia’d over the Dheneb, then did some Waywatcher Green in places to make the skin look deader.
The bases after the Dark Flesh were Sepia’d twice, I think, and then drybrushed up with Snakebite Leather and Zamesi Desert, similar to how I based my Antares Concord recently. 😛
The front of the bases is being left black, so I can paint skills onto the area so it’s super easy to tell what skill each model has.
After that, a bunch of little things. Like highlighting up the pants, then washing them down. Re-silvering the edges of the metal and the face guards. ‘ardcoat on the helmets. Some gloss in the guts.
I also black lined the yellow against the blue uniforms, which I think makes the yellow pop a hell of a lot more. That was the start of me actually liking these paint jobs. >.>
These guys are all done! Thankfully, as I have a lot more models to paint before July when the next season of CHOP begins.
I picked up the Vortice miniature mummies and wights, because they are awesome. So that’s 4 models. I also need to convert 4 ghouls and 1-2 skeletons to make a total of 15 models. Maybe do 3 skeletons to make it an even 16. I think skeletons have their use in an undead team, although the common wisdom is that their -1 AV isn’t worth their +1 MV as compared to the zombies.
Writing that down, I swear I had a better plan for the ghouls than the GW hunched guys. I think I was thinking of using Wyrd Punk Zombies for them. But…that’s not a great plan. I dunno, the GW hunchies aren’t terrible. Any thoughts?
While I wait for glue to dry on the ‘naut, I build and prime zombies. I green stuffed little hats on them, with face guards similar to my skink team. I still suck at sculpting. 🙁
Season 2 of CHOP! Blood Bowl is winding down, and my human team is doing quite miserably for me. I’m on a 8-game not-winning streak right now (2 losses, a draw, then 5 more losses), and I’m very unhappy with them. I feel like 2 months ago every team except mine jumped into overdrive!
And because I like new, shiny, I started thinking about a new team for Season 3. Undead were mentioned, model photos were displayed and I bought some Vortice Miniature Wights and Mummies. But I wanted to convert the rest, since I’m a little cheap and ~$180 for an entire new team was a little much.
This photo and post got lost in my backlog, (…) and then again in the middle of that sentence I left this post open. I think I need to publish it now. 🙂
I think he’s done. I’m too tired to pull out the camera and take real photos. Maybe when I have a bigger place…
Lots going on here. I’m pretty happy with it on one hand, but on the other hand I’m less happy about how dirty it all is. The contrast is really nice, and from 2 feet it looks great, but there’s no smoothness to it.
Here’s some colours:
SW Flesh Wash is SO YELLOW. Put that in the crevasses of the skin and went back with a damp brush to spread it out. Took the midtone colour and painted up the highlights again a bit. A bit of the Vallejo Flesh Wash, Seraphim Sepia and SW Amethyst.
Used Vallejo Fluorescent Yellow the broach, with some Sepia. Got to use the Vallejo Goblin Green for the little knoblar!
I think I’ve got some common colours at this point. SW Amethyst, Heavy Body Black, Flesh Wash. Vallejo Skin Wash, Bloodletter glaze, Seraphim, Nuln Oil, Reikland Fleshshade, Mithril Silver. I’m planning less and pulling paint out of the drawer more. Maybe that’s why it’s dirty? Or maybe I’m just impatient?
Since I got back onto this Ork wave, I really needed to finish off my outstanding Blood Bowl stuff first. Thankfully, I’m waiting on one more Supa Zzap Gun before I start painting them, so I’ve got time!
I picked the GW Ogre Paymaster as my Blood Bowl ogre, because it’s an amazing model and I’m stoked to be able to paint it!
His basecoat is super simple — Mephiston Red, Alaitoc Blue, Steel Legion Drab, Dheneb Stone skin and Mithril Silver.
After the last thing I really painted didn’t work out the way I wanted (and apparently I don’t have photos of the rest of the team I finished…) I wanted to go back to the Mr. Wappelly roots I was working on before I got lazy with the Skorne, which means highlighting my basecoat. So I took the Dheneb Stone and mixed it in a few different layers with the other bases to highlight it. The skin I mixed the Dheneb with just Skull White. You usually don’t mix with White since it tends to pastel, but in this case that pastelling is ok since I’ll be adding a bunch of glazes over it to bring the real colour back.
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. >.>
This team doesn’t have a name yet, nor a league to play in, but I assembled and primed a few more models.
The ogre is a GW Ogre Paymaster. The other 3 were ordered from Comixininos, from Willy Miniatures, who have some amazing models!
All of my human models, together in one photo. The guys with the green bases won’t be re-touched, although when you look closely at them they are definitely the victims of a pretty quick paint job. The guys with black bases are new, and I’m painting over another layer of paint (thankfully, just primer on half of them) so I don’t know if I’m going to get the same quality of paint job that I usually prefer.
It’s a pretty simple scheme of Mithril Silver, Mephiston Red and Alaitoc Blue.
I have a Comixininos order on it’s way with another Blitzer (because you need 4) and 2 Star Players — a Helmut Wolf and a Griff Oberwald — to round out the team. Also have an Ogre Paymaster waiting for me at Hammertime Hobbies to be painted up!
I’m looking forward to playing a team that has actual expendable linemen in it! 😀
After the success of the Pahaux Flamewalkers, I decided I wanted to change it up for the next season, starting in December or so. I have 2 Orc teams that I’ve played a bunch, a Vampire team that I absolutely despise and a human team that I usually give to my opponent when I’m teaching.
ie, I’ve never really played them.
The box is an ancient box that I bought from GW Park Royal during one of their yearly auctions, for a steal, and it came with the box teams painted by the staff.
In this photo, the staff painted model is the dude on the left. I only had 11 models in the team, so I went to eBay to buy some more and found all the models on the right. Them, plus an ogre and a couple models from Comixinos and I’ll have a pretty bad ass team!
(I don’t have a team name yet — if you can think of a good one, I’m looking!)