Blood Bowl

After a brief diversion painting some naked kingdom death models, I am returning to Blood Bowl to finally complete a project.

First up is Jordell Freshbreeze the wardancer star player.  The model had some fiddly bits and I am not happy with the build but the model itself is alright.

After priming wraithbone, I then put a sepia wash to help highlight some of the features.

Starting with the skin I used Cadian Fleshtone as the base colour.  I then added some Bugmans to that colour to paint in the recesses for some depth.

Next I added a few layers mixing cadian fleshtone and Kislev flesh, then Kislev flesh and flayed one flesh.

I still need to add a highlight of pure Flayed One flesh and a little more detail to be added to the face.

In person it does show more of a highlight than my photos.

For the rest of the colour scheme, I may follow the GW scheme or match him to my Wood Elf team which is Red & White.  I will obviously make a choice in due course.

I had thought that I had essentially completed by blood bowl collection, so decided to sort everything in to an order so it was all findable.

What I found is that I had too much stuff, but still didn’t actually have everything and not everything as completed.  Sigh

The outstanding things to buy are:

an ogre

2 trolls

a rat ogre

3 star players that are out of stock at GW

I also have 3 miniatures unpainted:

A Skaven gutter runner for my underworld team.

A troll for my chaos team

Jordell Freshbreeze star player

Guess I had better crack on with it then

Definitely preferred this model to the last one, even though they got painted at the same time.

I don’t like this model, something seems off about it and I couldn’t wait to get it finished.

i looked at the official colour scheme and kept it close but I think I may have to revisit this model later down the line.

I found my 2 referees that came with the boxed games half painted.  Not sure why I didn’t finish them but after a quick touch up and basing, they are complete.

I had been putting off this team for so long I could probably have put it as a spring clean challenge.  I haven’t been looking forward to how small the mini’s are.

The painting went ok with a few setbacks.

The first setback is that I went for yellow, again.  But with my chaos dwarf team turning out alright, I thought why not.  I decided to try the Army painter range and although I struggled with the coverage, after enough layers it looked ok.

My next setback was when I decided to cover the miniatures in Agrax earthshade which I forgot to thin down.   Sigh.  It didn’t go well, blotchy uneven coverage and so many pools of brown.  I eventually had to repaint the yellow using Averland sunset and highlight up from there.  All of which would have been fine if I just did a practice miniature rather than 14 figures.  Let’s see if I learn from this.

The next setback is more of a disappointment rather than it going wrong.  On a morning run I ran past a tree full of blossoms, which inspired me to easily differentiate my treemen with one having pink blossom and the other green leaves.

The leaves are alright but the blossom didn’t end up white enough and I can’t now be bothered to redo.

i still need to do the tokens but they can be done as I am doing other stuff.

i also found the 2 referees that came with the last box set that I only half completed and then left.  So next up I will get those completed

I have 6 star players from the GW range to do.  I only have 4 of them as the other 2 are out of stock.  I will look to compete what I have and then I will have finished GW blood bowl. Sort of.

lets not mention 3rd party figures or dungeon bowl and we can ignore them

So finally got my base for the giant, and based it accordingly.

My photography does seem to have regressed again.

I have also mostly completed a giant.  He is fully printed but did not have an appropriate base.

Once received, he will be based up accordingly.