After a few weeks gap I’ve managed to get a couple more of the Gnomes finished towards my Blood Bowl Gnome team.
I’m still a bit undecided about my theme/concept for these. I think it’s the contrast paints I used to base them.
Ork Flesh and Snakebite Leather have proved to be a bit darker than I intended the end result to be.
I’m hoping my basing will brighten the overall look of the full team when it’s finished.
These take my completions to 16 this year.
I considered using a traditional gnome colour scheme (garden variety) or even a Smurf colour scheme but in the end I rejected both of those in favour of an experiment.
I’ve leaned into the woodland spirit aspect of the Gnomes with my paint scheme, going for a Green Man vibe. In the Blood Bowl setting the Gnomes are tricksters often playing practical jokes on those that travel through their realms. So I adopted a gnome-in-the-woodland-camouflage colourway.
It’s totally darker than I intended but I’m committed now. I’ve applied the same brown and green contrast paints on all the minis at the same time, before going in to start to finish each one.
I still like him. Plus… he’s completion number 14!
It’s been the best part of 7 months since my last entry here! My word that’s a long time without completions. Thinking about it I have finished another lizardman warrior over the course of the year but forgot to take a photo. Anyway…
Here is the completed (for now) Bright Crusaders human Blood Bowl team. I’ll add another Thrower at some point but these are the main bunch of players.
I’ve used the team uniform colours from (I think) the second edition of the game rather than the current blue and white the GW in-house team is painted in.
Overall I’m happy with these. The freehand is a bit wobbly but then I’m painting in fits and starts so not really getting sustained practice in.
Total completions for the year so far… 13!
I’ve got some work to do if I want to hit 52+ by year end.
The oversized ball always makes me smile when I look at Blood Bowl models but I can understand why the design choice was made. Similar to all things in fantasy and sci fi miniatures, exaggeration is needed to create a strong silhouette from two foot away on the tabletop.
So two completions so far this year.
My first completion of the year!! It’s in January too!! Woohoo!
I mentioned in my previous post that I started a human Blood Bowl team in December. This was a completely unintended distraction as I rediscovered them primed and ready to paint in a box.
I’ve decided to paint them in the original Bright Crusaders uniform. I’m quite pleased with how he’s turned out, even though my freehand numbers and shoulder symbol are very ropey.
It’s an old single piece plastic model from the third edition of the game in the mid 90s. Single piece models really are lovely to work with.
