Bit more Blood Bowl

I've got 2 Blood Bowl teams to get painted up at the moment. One is for a friend, and the other is for my son, which I'm going to help him paint. But with this mass of cleaning models and washing resin (bloody pain that is) I'd slightly lost my painting mojo. That was until this little 'ooligan chap was added to my own Goblin Blood Bowl team:

I've decided to call him 'Shiv Shady', as he seemed to remind me of him a bit. This might well be in my head, but now that I've varnished him, I'm really thinking he needs some tattoos. So there might be some futher doodling on the cards for him. While I was painting him, I also decided to expand my cheer-leading squad. Just the one Goblin Cheerleader in the squad is just not enough, so here are the girls...

The 3 on the right are what I painted only yesterday, the red/pinkish cheerleader on the left I did last year. So you can see significant improvement in my methods and look. Yes that is a 2 pence in the photos.

This is the base design that I started with, as here you can see the miliput on the bases, as they are old slotta tab models. Along with the colour choices and Shiv's starting stripey trousers.

Primaris Space Marines

I've moved a little away from the painting of my Imperial Guard now that the tanks and riders are complete. I do have plenty more to do, but I wanted to try and get another Marine squad finished for a tournament I had coming up with Salisbury Legion Wargames. I was running 2 battalions for the day, one Guard and one Marines Errant, this meant a minimum of 3 squads. So a good reason to add some more Primaris Marines to the lonely one I had already painted. As I had got these second hand, some of the finish wasn't 100%, but that in turn meant I wasn't under pressure to get them all to the same quality. With a week left till I was joining the chaps in Salisbury, bam! I knocked this little lot out. The one on the far right was missing a finger, so I made that out of Milliput, a fiddly job. Then the others a light undercoat, with a Coat D'arms white and an original blue from the old Citadel Colour range. I might be the first Ultramarine blue they did, as I have the original Space Marine set still, but I never labelled them. This is shaded with a more recent Asurman Blue on the white and then a very dark blue from the original 'Citadel Expert Inks' range. Highlighting is just on the blue, which I suspect is known as Lightning Bolt Blue, but I'm not sure. All the marking and shoulder insignia is hand painted, no stencils here.

 One squad of Primaris Marines complete, with the original guy in the back on the right. 

 You can see that I've painted up the Primaris Lieutenant with a old Rogue Trader Sergeant Marking on his head. This is just for this weekend's play, as I wanted a dramatic looking chap leading the group. I'm going to add the correct Sergeant at some point and update his marking so that he's a Lieutenant as expected.

 This is them with their base colours and shading, the highlights and detail comes a bit later.