Chaos Cup Legacy Team Entry 2015 - Part 3

Chaos Cup 2015 is almost here and this years theme is Chaos Dwarves.  A friend of mine took up the challenge of organizing a Legacy Team for this year.  Well, I did this sometime ago and I thought I'd do it again.  Last time I made a piece for a legacy team it was a dark elf lineman, this time I'm painting up a hobgoblin.   Time is a bit short for me at the moment so I'm not trying any conversions or building, I'm just going with straight hobgoblin from GW Blood Bowl.

We took a family vacation and I decided to take some stuff along and paint at night.  I did most of the highlighting and some more of the base colors while there.  When I got home I finished up the skull thingy and his head cloth.  I noticed some poor coloring in areas, so I'll fix that up with some glazes.  This weekend I'll finish that up and finish the base.  I'll post the finished product then.  For now here's where it stands.

Almost done

Chaos Cup Legacy Team Entry 2015 - Part 2

Chaos Cup 2015 is almost here and this years theme is Chaos Dwarves.  A friend of mine took up the challenge of organizing a Legacy Team for this year.  Well, I did this sometime ago and I thought I'd do it again.  Last time I made a piece for a legacy team it was a dark elf lineman, this time I'm painting up a hobgoblin.   Time is a bit short for me at the moment so I'm not trying any conversions or building, I'm just going with straight hobgoblin from GW Blood Bowl.

This round of "burst" painting (that's what I'm going to call small amounts of paint time) saw me start on the clothes. I put down 3+ layers of base coat on the orange area and 2 layers on the grey.  I decided to try layering highlights and rough some of it in.  I was just going to do the basecoats but I had extra paint on the pallet.  Here are some pics of the progress.

Orange base is a mix of Mechrite Red, Red Hightlight (P3), and Scorched Brown

Trying to give a line down his back 

Roughed in Highlights

Grey Base is Black, Off-white, and German Uniform Khaki

Rough Highlights

I plan on using some glazing stuff I'm learning to help with the highlights and shading.  The next "burst" will probably be finish the cloth areas and the wraps.  After that I'll do the armor and the accessories.  Then base and finishing touches.  Looks like I should finish this on time.

Chaos Cup Legacy Team Entry 2015

Chaos Cup 2015 is almost here and this years theme is Chaos Dwarves.  A friend of mine took up the challenge of organizing a Legacy Team for this year.  Well, I did this sometime ago and I thought I'd do it again.  Last time I made a piece for a legacy team it was a dark elf lineman, this time I'm painting up a hobgoblin.   Time is a bit short for me at the moment so I'm not trying any conversions or building, I'm just going with straight hobgoblin from GW Blood Bowl.

I've been getting more excited about painting right now and have been watching a few more videos. Because of what I've been seeing I'm giving some new-to-me techniques a try.  I'm using small bursts of time on it whenever I can.  I put down 3+ layers of base coat on the skin and that's where I'm starting.  I tried a couple different methods of shadowing on the hands to decide what's best for me.  I tried an all-over wash on his left hand and a more accurately placed wash on his right.

I used a 1:1 mix of Citadel Gnar. Green (foundaion paint) and Citadel Bleached Bone (old stuff). For the wash I used Citadel Ath. Camoshade.

I sprayed a dark brown over some white primer 'cause I didn't want to build up from white

I would like the flesh to be a bit more yellow

More to come.

I Have a Plan... Sort Of 8/10/15

Ok, ok, it has been forever since I've done any hobby stuff.  My ideas and motivation for terrain and Mordheim stuff have ground to a halt and with them went hobby stuff entirely.  I haven't played a game of anything in almost two months.

I have Chaos Cup coming up in early September and had a small burst of motivation stem from that. An idea I really like has popped into my head for a new BB team.  The chance of me getting it done in time for CC15 is very slim.  I've signed up for Chaos Cup with an existing team of mine and a generic roster just to get myself registered. At the very least I'll play them.

I decided to do a test model for the team.  (This is the easiest thing to do since I don't have models for any other player.)  Once again, as is my custom, I'm going over my ability level, trying to put what is in my head down to the model.  My experience level with what I want to do is very low.  Here are some stages of my test model.  It all looks quite sloppy but I'm learning as I go.

I started with a miniature from Impact! from the Pharaohs of Something-or-other.  Obviously, he was painted previously so I sort-of cleaned him up.  I used a file to remove or lessen some of the original sculpt's features.  I got bored of this step so I moved on without completing it.  That's a theme so far with this mini.

I moved on to making him a green stuff tie and collar.  I tried making them off of the model and transferring the on.  That didn't work for me at all.  Finally I used small balls of green stuff and built up some basic shapes right on him.  Before this step looked good I got bored and moved on to the next step.

Then I made the small balls of GS into strips and made him some suspenders.  Staying true to my previous work on the model I stopped before this step was done.

There is still a lot of clean-up work to do one him; more filing, cleaning up the GS, and giving him a coffee mug to hold in his hand.  Before I did any of this I made a very rudimentary bitmap drawing of him.  I think when I finish the model I'll post a picture of that to see how the actual model works against what's in my head.