Painting Update

Late Friday night, well technically early Saturday, I finished my first Blitz Bowl team.

This is "the human team". 

Painting was done by following this tutorial:  (10) How to paint Blood Bowl - Human player for the Reikland Reavers - YouTube

As paint jobs go, I'm pretty happy with it. Several new techniques involved for me - but I mostly paint toy soldier style, so that's not surprising.

I decided to dress up the basses a bit more than usual. too.

 When I did the first three human players, I used coffee grounds and flock for the bases. But, while decluttering the other day, I found a container of "steppe grass" which is longer/taller than flock. I decided I wanted uneven grass heights, like when you have crabgrass growing on a manicured lawn and applied some to all of the bases.

Heading to the paint table next: the skaven team.

I also did a little experiment last week.

Despite my resurfaced love for unpainted "army men" figures, and with an eye towards a future plan (far far future), I decided to paint two of my son's Timmee or similar brand figures but using the plastic color for the uniform. 

I've heard mention of this technique but never tried it myself.

Here are the finished products:

Easily some of the saddest bayonets I've ever seen.

To prime the figures, I used Mod Podge. 

Then, I painted the flesh, webbing, guns, and boots. Once the paint was dry, I followed with some Army Painter Strong Tone to cover the entire figure. 

This darkens the painted bits considerably. Using a technique garnered from the Blitz Bowl figures, I repainted the flesh and webbing again, while leaving the recesses the darkened color. 

I sealed it all again with Mod Podge. 

That looked OK enough, but I felt there wasn't enough contrast between the shadows and the lighter bits, so I dry-brushed the figures with Nubbly Linen (as close to a "buff" shade that I have).

I think that is a better effect on the tan soldier. The green soldier looks like his uniform has been beaten  on rocks - I probably should have used even less Nubbly Linen than I did. 

Nevertheless, for minimal effort (maybe 5-10 minutes total prime/paint/seal/dry brush time for both figures, not including the drying) they look more than passable for some Little Cold Wars, Sout American or African Imagi-nations, or similar.