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sundancer 1 year, 11 months ago.
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Blood Bowl Sevens/Blitz Bowl teams are coming along nicely. Not quite as quickly as I’d like, but my humans will be ready to go on their bases when the other five bases are fully dried. The half-painted elves should be done before the week is out
(no, they’re not drunk – they’ve been ceremoniously hacked off their (temporary) painting bases ready to be glued onto their final, flocked bases: the ones still on black round bases are still being painted!)
batch painting feels like the entire team is rubbish, rubbish, still rubbish, might look ok once the final touches are added… ah, ok, not terrible after all. I still prefer painting individuals, just to see the progress, but this little lot are coming along quite nicely now.
Ok, so I know I printed Blitz Bowl elf team and said I wouldn’t print anything else until I’d painted them up. And I know I only got two or three painted then along came UGNI miniatures and their Jim and Bob characters. And I know I’ve still got to finish the trousers on Jim. And I know I printed this month’s human team simply because it looked awesome and I still hadn’t finished my elf team. And I know I said I would only paint those guys, and always in batches of four (or six or preferably eight but absolutely never less than four at a time) but I’ve got a brand new 4K mono resin printer set up and and Torchlight just released an incredible looking Skaven team, so I just had to try them out – just to see how they printed of course.
And it turns out they print rather well. But now I’ve got three half-arsed, half-finished teams on the go….
These close-ups really don’t do the paint-job any favours. In real life, they don’t look too terrible! Looks like I’m going to miss my end-of-week pledge this week. But it’s not my fault, ok? 😉
Those skaven look fun. Get them on the game board!
They are pretty fun to paint too. I’ll probably end up with humans, elves and now skaven teams all finishing together – I need to get busy making lots of grass-flocked bases. Since deciding that Blood Bowl is too much work, and sticking to “sevens” and Blitz Bowl (I’m still looking for a copy of Ultimate Edition in the UK to replace my homebrew pirated-off-the-internet version) painting an entire team feels much less daunting (two batches of four feels manageable).
In painting these skaven I discovered a new trick:
To paint tiny, thin lines around the inner edge of the shoulder pads, I found thinning the paint and using the very tip of the brush worked ok. But it did mean that any slight tremor or wobble was exaggerated in the line.
Painting at about 45 degrees, with a nice, sweeping motion creates lovely straight lines. But sometimes they come out a bit too thick.
But now I just get on with it. And then use the original colour to “cut-in” and make the lines appear narrower (and, to my eyes at least, smoother and straighter than if I painted them with just the tip of the brush!)
I’m really enjoying painting these skaven. But give it another few sessions and I’m sure they’ll start to feel like a chore, just like the humans and elves 😉
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