More Butchering

Returning to the painting table again today I finished up with the final touches on Boar and painted up Ox and Princess. I'm really happy with how the High-Vis paint job is coming along and think the basing is also looking pretty good.

Taking some advice from the Steamforged Forums I decided not to apply any weathering effects to 'dirty up' the players a little as it would run the risk of dulling down the bright orange and silver that the entire team is based around.

Final touches on Boar to paint up his base and apply just a little dirt to his bare foot so it looked like he had been running through the mud.

Team Captain (or one of).

Team Mascot. I'm particularly happy with the black and tan colouration and how well it came out. She's looking like a properly savage little pooch.

Post Guildball League

Hey all, I know my last post was about my first tournament but this is about my first league. After the previous tournament, a bunch of us started talking about a league. I played a fishermen team called "Salts Farewell Tour" seeing as Tentacles was due to be released just after the tournament finished up. Did quite well overall managing to snag the Golden Boot award for most goals scored and finishing up with third overall.

I really wish I had taken some notes or something so I could give a run down on the various rounds and matches but alas, maybe next time. Safe to say if was a heap of fun and a great way for me to get a handle on Corsair and some Attrishamen style play. Forcing yourself to play a team you know very little about every few weeks over a couple of months really helps you to feel out a teams strengths and weaknesses.

Since then I have also picked up a second hand Butchers team and started painting them up today. First off the rank is Boar, mostly because he seems like an easy guy to trial a colour scheme on. I was thinking how to make my butchers stand out from all the others out there so decided to paint them all wearing high-vis.

After taking this shot I realised that I had really messed up the stubble look. If I was going to give him stubble on his head then he really needed it on the rest of his face. Hence the next few photos.

First time trying to paint stubble and I think it came off well, also first time really painting with orange and I'm very happy with how it came together. It took a couple of layers to really get the orange up to a shade I was happy with starting from a very deep red and slowly moving up to the very bright orange you see above. Hopefully there will be several more from the Butchers team to follow.