BB Second Season Challenge (VIII)

Here is the first post of the Imperial Nobility!

For the first week we painted four linemen.

I have to say it is quite the challenge to paint four with this level. I know it is not too much, but for me it is a little bit over what I usually do. Not at the same level as my orcs, but still quite clean and nice, not too rushed.

I tried my best to do some wet blending and glazes on the red armour without going for NMM, I am not sure I managed, but still the end result is quite ok I think.

The colour scheme is much much brighter than the orcs and probably only because of that they look better, even though individually the orcs have better quality.

I hope you like them, I am tackling now the Bodyguards!

Here is the post from DarthBLU and here the post to vote for them (Spanish forum).

Painted during 2021

Blood Bowl: Black Orcs

Behold the Gloomfangz Rebelz!

The team is inspired by the Berlin Rebels from the GFL.

When I bought the Blood Bowl Second Season box, I had an idea to paint the teams matching some real-life teams as I usually do, but trying to find teams that are either in the same city or very close-by so that they can play against each other in a local derby.

In the end I chose the  Berlin Rebels and the Potsdam Royals. Both teams play the same league and they are conveniently located next to each other.

After having chosen the real teams, I then took a look at a map of the Old World to find them a suitable spot. I needed to find a relatively big Imperial city in the vicinity of some Orc tribe.

Take a closer look at Talabecland. It is a big city, big enough to host a few Blood Bowl teams, including Nobility, and to top it all the colours are yellow and red, like the Potsdam Royals! To the North of the city there is an Orc & Goblin Tribe, the Gloomfangs. That ended up being the natural choice for my Black Orc team.

The only downside for the Orcs is the poor selection of colours the Rebels have, they are white and grey so not too much to pick from when painting them! I think I paid the price of that choice as the team is not looking as good as it could. I could have chosen different colours of course and just use the logo, but I liked the idea of representing the real Berlin vs Potsdam. After all, Berlin is quite grey and black so that is at least accurate :)

More pictures can be seen in each of the individual posts:

• Orcs here, here
• Goblins
• Troll
• Varag

All painted in 2021

BB Second Season Challenge (VII)

And to round up the Black Orcs team, here is Varag Ghoul-Chewer

Here is the post from DarthBLU and here the post to vote for them (Spanish forum).

This time I tried to go on step further and attempted gold NMM. I am by far not there yet, but I think that every time I do it a little bit faster and easier, so hopefully at one point I will reach a level that I am satisfied with.

Once again, I spent way too much time on this one for the end result, but I guess it is part of the learning process. I am not satisfied with the face and the zombie, but I am not going back to fix it now.

Painted during 2021

And starting next week, a new team, the Imperial Nobility!