As mentioned in a few previous posts, part of what I want to
accomplish is finishing up past projects that have been sitting around
in various states of incompleteness. This post returns to my Bloodbowl
team that I started painting back in 2017, the Greenskin Packers! I
started them by posting a single test figure
and then a few more to go along with the QB, but then as is usual I got
sidetracked, but at least it was due to two very good reasons....
- No one was playing locally
- Yellow and White uniforms SUCK to paint
Anyway, the team is now complete!
While
I wanted to include a team shot of them all done, this submission is
only for 8 of them as shown below, the other 7 were already submitted 3
years ago in the challenge.
While
I am really happy with how they came out, and am glad to finally have a
complete Bloodbowl team, they were a pain in the ass! Painting white
to not look all white (armour and cloth is actually 2 separate shades of
white, each with several different whites and off-whites to make them
up) and then getting yellow to look nice against it, was a lot of
trouble!!! As I am sure anyone who has worked a lot with either colour
is well aware of. People like MikeF (who does amazing yellows) must be
masochists to actually want to paint full armies in yellows!
Here is a close up of one of the normal linebackers to show the details close up.
Once
the uniforms were painted, I then went around the model and added chips
and scratches to make them look used and abused (as any Ork belonging
would be). I keep thinking about maybe muddying them up as well, but
like the crisp colours and worry that it would darken then too much and I
would loose the overall bright cartoon look that I love about them.
These 8 new Orks should net me a very time consuming and frustration inducing 40 points!
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