Contagion Cometh

Bloodbowl.  What a game.
I love to play but rarely win.  However, the gonks are fantastic!  (Let's hope the rumours are true for this year's "Mystery Box Game" from GW later on in the year).

Here's the start of a new team: Contagion

This is a new Chaos team that will start in the local Daventry TGV League in a couple of week's.

Just been playing with skin colours at the moment to get the colouring right. These are pretty "flat" at the moment to test.

The Beastmen have had the swords chopped off and I've carved out a thumb which looks better than the normal chopped off look. It doesn't take too long to do but is well worth the extra effort.

TGM Top Tip: Use a pin drill to start off the hole both in the top and bottom of the hand then use a scalpel to carve a thumb shape. (I use an old  fairly blunt scalpel blade for this - watch your fingers!!!)

It's been a long time.

Sorry. 

What can I say?

This last 6-8 months had me so distracted with lots of family and work stuff that I have really not felt like blogging or even painting!  (Hard to believe for those that know me).

Anyway.  I start a new job on 8th July which will leave me with less money but more weekends!  Hopefully a much better place/people to work with, (except the two people that've been great in old work - Thanks!)

Right then, I have a couple of projects to get on with.

Back to thegonkmachine!

A big thank you for your patience.

Whoops!

Ho hum.

That was the end of that little blogette.

I've only gone and lost/deleted a load of "in progress shots" of the trophies.
Nevermind, here's a picture swiped from the Daventry Vaulters forum. 

Now repeat to make a total of 16.

I'll be more carefull next time.

Secret Trophies

Undercoated - Black of course.

Metal colour - I prefer Brass to Gold

Well - The Secret's Out...

I've had to keep this under wraps for a little while now but can now reveal what all the hush hush was about.

Our Bloodbowl Commish asked me to slap some paint on some trophies that are being handed out at the end of this current season. 
After many a set back, including the first batch being lost in the Spanish post and a heatwave meaning that the resin would not work until after midnight, eventually I received a bunch of resin Daventry Vaulters' Trophies. (Ah - and a week to paint them!)

The first thing I had to do was wash them in warm soapy water to get rid of the release agent for the moulds then rinse and dry...

I shan't go into too much detail needless to say I had to pull my finger out:

All washed and ready to undercoat.

Something A Little Different...

I've been very proud to perform a painting job for someone.  It's a little different to normal but as there's a serious deadline involved - I'm up for it!

Now, I can't say too much at the moment - time will tell why - but I was asked to do this job ages ago.  Things took forever to produce then the first lot got lost in the post.  Now, having received these things I have a week to sort them out.

As I said, I cannot show anything at the moment but hope to bring you the stages at a later point.
(All very mysterious isn't it?)

However, I have washed the mould residue off and selected three colours to use:

TGM TIP: I use a lot of Vallejo paint. To save time finding the colour I need they're all stored in the same place in the box but I also dip the top of the lid into the bottle's contents to see the colour from a distance. You can see what I mean on the purple. (Easy really)

Dark Vengeance Chaplain and Librarian

After some intense painting and working recently I forgot to post pictures of the two Dark Vengeance characters that I've finished a couple of week's ago.

Hopefully you like: