The Immortals - Additional

Here's a quick snap of the two very basic conversions I've done to two of the Heresey figures in The Immortals team.

They were simple but I think, once painted, will be very effective.  The "Skaven" tail will be painted in bone colours to represent the Prehensile Tail that this gonk has earned.

The Immortals - Revisited

The local games club has a great following of Bloodbowl.  The league at the moment has four divisions of six teams each.
(Check it out HERE)
Next up, on the bench is The Immortals.  This team has been playing for some time and has managed to stay in Division One by the skin of its teeth.  Each season is a rollercoaster of a journey for their coach GamesVaultSteve.
This incarnation of the undead team is mostly made up of Rolljordan gonks with a couple of pieces of Heresey gonks thrown in.
I'd just about stuck and pinned the team just in time for its debut match this season which was a big defeat.  (Curse of the unpainted team? - We'll see!)

Now they're on the bench.  I've added a tail on one of them to show it's "Prehensile Tail" skill and chopped off a human head and added a skeleton head.
At the moment they are all drying after I've added the sand on their bases.

Historical Gonks Are History

At last! Finished these fine figures for a fine person.  Hopefully they will look more historical than "fantasy" as that was the brief.
I really had to think about the colours for these and was very tempted to add a more adventurous colour scheme but went with a lot of natural browns and greens. The shading on the cloaks was done with a mix of the base tones that were blended whilst "wet" using my favorite: Vallejo "Glaze Medium".

No outlandish or unnatural colours here.  However, the next project is another Bloodbowl Team...

Historical Gonks

I'll be moving house soon so I've got some bits to finish including the historical figures; an Undead Bloodbowl team; three Warmachine characters, (one on a horse) and a vampire!  I think after this lot and moving I will have to concentrate on doing a few things for myself!
I've got my own Orc Bloodbowl team to paint; the remaining playing boards; a few hundred Romans as well as my Bloodbowl team, (TBA) for Rocket Bowl III in October.  After that there's about a zillion other bits that I would like to crack on with.
In the meantime, the Historicals are coming along nicely.

Pirate Bay VIII

The edges of this board will, (at some point), match up with three others to make a 4' x 4' area so I've used the two colours of "static grass" I'll be using later.
The grass shown in the pictures is real overkill as I want to leave it on overnight before shaking off the excess.  I've said it before: less is more, so there's going to be a load of the earth/sand showing through later.

I've also added "water" to the painted sea area.  I'm convince that this is just some kind of expensive PVA but it does work but takes an age to dry.  (There is probably 3-4mm of water effect there).

Once this lot finally dries and I've shaken off the surplus grass I'll add some finished pictures.

Pirate Bay VII

Water, IMO, (as the kids say), is really tricky to get right.  I resign myself to the fact that I will never get it right so do my best.  This is a fantasy gaming board not a study in real life.

For my representation of the sea I used about five or six greens and blues with a glaze and water to mix it all up. I have highlighted the wave, ("Oh, that's he's dropped a bit of plaster onto the board!"), with light grey and white.
I've added a touch of white onto the beach and around the base of the ladder in the sea for froth.

Pirate Bay VI

The dock's wooden decking were much too light and woody.  As I'll be playing "undead" pirates I wanted to make the wood darker. At the same time I've added some staining and "ageing" with the occasional wash and grey highlight.
I also didn't want a universal brown so I've painted some planks a different colour and used a variety of washes and highlights to individual planks.
The metal grilles/trapdoors were painted in chainmail given several different washes and then had some "weathering powder" added for a slightly rusty look.
On the land, I've painted the paving stones in black, grey and lighter grey.  I've also highlighted the earth with some Ochre, (cough), and the sandier areas have got Bleached Bone highlights.
Next up: The sea!