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I coach and have played for both my home teams - Tigers and EK Pirates

More soon.

Cheers,

Dante

Brilliant start. Are you planning to use that white shining through on the clothes as your HL? I hope so, it really gives such a nice effect.

Niceee whats the support like and the pitches and set-up like etc for the UK league???
as i was thinking of playing for manchester im not sure its out of baseball and NFL
cant wait to see the models

ABH

Yay, Dakka always needs more Blood Bowl. Will be watching this one.

Cheers guys!

@ Migs - Thanks buddy. Yeah I plan to use the white to define the highlights, though the shirt will be a bit bluer by the end.

@ abhorsen950 - The set up isn't too bad. Games tend to be played on rugby pitches so usually about 10 yards shorter than normal and bumpy as hell...might explain the state my left ankle is in these days!

Kit shortages tend to be a major issue, most teams poorly manage their inventory so a lot of it tends to "wander off" and never return.

The leagues are pretty strong and well run though. Getting a fully committed team tends to be the biggest difficulty since almost inevitably half the team will not regularly make training...usually the linemen!

@ Ozymandias - Yeah, haven't seen a lot of it about here. I would like to see the game get more support from GW in terms of some new mini's. I would absolutely love if FW took the game on to make some teams etc.

Cheers,

Dante

kk i was just wondering because i think i would rather play for manchesters baseball team as it has quite a good set up well anyway great job
cant wait to see more models

ABH

Zug looks great can't wait to see the conversions. Are you planning to do backbench staff a couple of cheerleaders and an Apothecary. Somebody did that for a Lizardman team at a tournament I attended they were great! Never got on with Blood Bowl as I can never seem to manage the roll to pick up the ball!

Great stuff. I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Blood Bowl, it was the first Games Workshop game I played, well if you don't count HeroQuest of course. I was a big NFL fan too, I haven't kept up with it these past few years though.

Quick progress shot next to 40k AoBR ork for scale (since someone asked in another thread).

Still loads to do but I've been struggling with hobby motivation lately.

Cheers,

Dante

He looks very cool.

I have a painted human and undead team and have dwarf, orc, chaos and woodelf (plus some star players) sitting in my cupboard - I was in a league in Melbourne about 12 years ago and inheritted a couple of friend's teams.

Might have to get my son to have a game with me!

He is really starting to shape up.I can't wait for more.

Forgot to add this before but since I've done a bit more work on him here is a quick update pic:



Sorry for the bad lighting and somewhat grainy photo. My previous efforts with the lamps were turning out too bright and washing out the contrast in the blends on the face and skin so far.

This pic also shows the work on the chain a bit better. At the moment the face is about 70% there, still needs the brightest highlights added and some tidy on blends here and there.

More in the coming days.

Cheers,

Dante

You know what I think of your work, I've said it a hundred times. The Skin surpasses 99.9% of anything I've seen, bravo.

Stay safe.

sA

The face has a feel that is very... French ^_-.

And of course by that I mean very smooth and natural, akin to something we would see coming out of the French Golden Demon!

looks soooooo real!

wow, I'm well impressed. So much better than mine will look when I've got my hands on one. That skin is very very nice.

grey_death wrote:The face has a feel that is very... French ^_-.

And of course by that I mean very smooth and natural, akin to something we would see coming out of the French Golden Demon!

What can I say, I've been looking at the work of Jeremie Bonamont and Alan Carrasco a lot lately! I think the style I am using, plus the white undercoat are also heavily contributing to his "European" look. Not a bad thing though I hope as I'm a big fan of the French and Spanish styles.

I added some stubble to the head similar to the GW mini painted by Keith Robertson - a fellow Scotsman. My aim for the weekend is to finish the shirt and belts holding the shoulderpad on, along with the left arm skin. Anything else on top of this will be a bonus!

The armour plates have received a base mix of black and hawk turquiose - a new colour for me but one I am already growing fond of! My favourite colours at the moment are it and vallejo purpel (cant recall the exact name, I think its game colour warlock purple). Both are nice for adding interesting tones. Purple in particular is featuring heavily on the skin to add fleshy shade tones. It has also featured as part of the base mix for the browns too.

More soon and thanks for all the great comments guys, really helps with the motivation!

Cheers,

Dante

The skin tone is awesome - the shadows are extremely natural under the lip, nose etc.

Looks great on the closeup although when possible would love a less grainy shot to really appreciate what you've done!

CHABAL!



a.k.a. The father of all of France, and some of England's younger generation. They just don't know it.

sA

Nice stuff

cant wait to see him and the rest of the team finished

ABh

Nice little updates mate!

Lack of hobby motivation is seasonal and popular at the moment

Thanks also for the comparison picture! Really useful! It really is a gorgeous, well proportioned miniature.

A little progress update. With the nice weather lately I didn't get as much done as I'd have liked at the weekend but should get more done this week.

The shirt has been done to about 70%, just needs little tidying in the blends in areas and a couple more highlights. The face is also pretty much done now. I went back and added some white reflections on the pupils. The top of the left arm has had some work to blend the flesh tones and highlights too.

More soon.

Cheers,

Dante

The face is just superb! Keep up the good work.

Cheers mate, very pleased with it myself!

Cheers,

Dante

He is starting to look very nice,so what is the team going to consist of(player wise)?

Love the skinhead and the metal looks great!

Thanks guys.

@ Deff - Not 100% yet, probably a pretty standard 2 throwers, 4 blitzers, a few linemen and a couple of receivers. I plan on making a team sheet soon though so will keep you posted.

@ Lamahead - Thanks mate, the chain turned out better than expected (I hate painting chains) but looks kinda poor in the pics.

My order of vallejo grey pumice and latex mask arrived today so I'll be putting the pumice to use on the base and trying out the latex on the shoulderpad. I'll keep you all posted on how it goes!

Cheers,

Dante

Nice progress. I wonder if it would be possible to add a hint of skin tone to blue HLs, to create a sense of translucency to the shirt. And maybe also sweat stains with dark blue?

@Migs - I think the shirt will probably be too thick to see skin through but I had thought about sweat patches. Just not sure how they will look given that the shirt doesn't seem to really stick tight against the skin at any point. I'll maybe have a play about and see.

A little progress on the big guy this weekend. I know it doesn't look like much but I'm putting a lot of effort in to get him looking just how I picture in my head, which sadly means a lot of experimentation and "re-do's".





Some of the blends on the white of the shoulder pad are still a little messy but these will get tidied up next session. I had a go with the masking liquid on some of the bigger scratches etc and it is a great effect. Think I need more practice with it though.

Really pleased with how the belts turned out. I added some little nicks and scratches to them because they looked quite bland without a little detail. The belt around the waste is pretty much finished at the back but I haven't done the ends of it at the sides on the front (if that makes sense?!) since there are a few other areas close to them that need a lot of work and I don't want to have to go back and touch up the whole section.

In the back view you can see that the shirt isn't finished yet on the back, still needs some more highlighting near the top etc.

You can also see some more of the block shading I've done on the skin of the arms. Still very early days here but might give a bit more of a clue to the process I'm working in.

All in all, a good little stint of progress this weekend. I have 2 weeks off coming up soon so I hope to really blast through converting members of the team and finishing Zug off.

More soon.

Cheers,

Dante

Looking better and better every time I see it, my Zug should be turning up soon and I might pinch that stubble for the head. Was just going to do him full baldy but that stubble makes him look mean.