Skaven blood bowl team: Slaves to the Piper

Well so much for a weekly blog...2 weeks for the follow up and that was with material pre prepared!!

My 2^nd team for blood bowl was started in October 2016 with the intention of having ready to compete in the painting competition at the NAF championship 2017 8 months later. The bulk of he team was ready and based in time, but a few lineman and a blitzer weren't fully done so whilst I played (and even won 2 games) I didn't enter the painting comp.

Another 3 to 4 months later and not much progress has been made with 6 bases still needed and 3 linerats needing to be finished...I also have a coach model started (my first little diorama) but not very far progressed. Anyway that will probably be the subject of a later blog.

As I need to start on my NAF championship 2018 team I'm presenting this team as it stands.

Painting notes:

- 3 new weathering techniques tried:

        1 - stippling with foam pads to create rust spots on the armour;

        2 – painting armour scratches; and

        3 – weathering pigments

Steps 1 and 2 worked well, but can be made smoother with practice. Best example of number 2 is the green leather head armour of the big guy rat ogre.

Step 3 was tried on the bottom of gutter runners cloaks and is a nice touch, but I will need to vary the application more in future as it looks like a fairy straight line of dirt on each of these models.

- Use of GW yellow and green glazes helped to create brighter / bolder yellow armour and green leather and cloaks

- use of stones and 28mm bones on the bases, The stones were meant to glow purple, but time meant I dry brushed them lighter on the outside rather than a white/purple in the middle and getting darker on the outside to give the impression of light source. Must not forget this in future and will try it out on the coaches base.

Paints:

Yellow Armour: GW Averland sunset > GW Casandora yellow > GW Averland sunset > GW yriel yellow > GW Falsh Gitz yellow > GW Lamenters yellow

Green armour: GW Caliban green > GW Athonian Camoshade > GW Caliban green > GW Elysian green > GW Ogryn Camo > GW Waywatcher green

Next time is probably going to be a look at my home made lava bases.

The Ostland Piper