Chaos Cup Legacy 2017

I painted up a troll for the team.  Blues and Purples for the skin; green and orange for the "uniform."

Done in two hours including drying time.  Not terrible.  Getting quicker.

Chaos Cup Legacy Vampire

This year's Chaos Cup Legacy team is Vampires and here is my player donation to this year's team.

The figure I used is produced by Willy Miniatures.  He comes with a cape that can be attached or left off. The back is fully sculpted so I didn't need to do any extra work on him.

I didn't attach the cape and drew up an idea for how I wanted him to look.

Here's the final product.

Rounding Out the Team - Part 2

Final Chaos Dwarf - Chaos Cup Legacy team that was missing some positionals.

Colors Used:
Beard: VMC Black/Brown, VMC Flat Brown, Citadel Agrax Earth
Armor:  VMC Flat Brown,  P3 Khador Red Highlight, Citadel Dwarf Bronze, Citadel Runefang Steel, Citadel Carroburg Crimson
Non-Armor Metal: Citadel Chainmail, Citadel Runefang Steel, Citadel Agrax Earth
Cloth/Shirt: Citadel The Fang, VMC Off-White, VMC Black
Outlining/Shadows: VMC Black

Techniques Used:
Wet Blending, Layering, Glazing

Basing:  Black Rim, Flock

Here he is done:

I will be using this team at Chaos Cup 2016, here's a final team shot.

Terrible photography is kinda my thing.

Chaos Cup Legacy Display Base, part 2

I'm very excited.  For multiple reasons.  The display base has turned out pretty well.  I drew up some chicken scratch drawings of how I wanted the base to look.  All-in-all the main features worked out. There was only one feature I wanted to add but it didn't work out.  My goal, with the base, was to add a little atmosphere but not take away from the team.

I added a black and brown wash to the "seems" in the floor and a black rim around the base.

The outside of the block walls needed some weathering.  I've never done any weathering so this was a learning experience and it was fun to see how it came out.

I connected the wall to the base and matte varnished the whole thing.  Here it is with a random figure for size reference.

Okay, here it is.

Chaos Cup Legacy Display Base, part 1

As stated many times previous, I won the Chaos Cup 2015 Legacy Team which was Chaos Dwarfs. This year I volunteered to organize the team.  This year's team is Vampires.  I got slightly less involvement than I expected but there still time to prove that thought wrong. As of today 13 to 14 people have pledged  donations of some type.  The team will have all 6 vampires, 8 plus thralls, (hopefully) some stars or sideline figures, a pitch and a display base.

When I started this gig I stated I would show the display board by 8/22, today.  Now it's not finished but it is far enough along to include a photo just so you can see how it's coming along.

The bottom of the base is an 8" x 8" piece of craft wood.  I covered it with some epoxy putty and added texturing to it with a rock from outside my house.  I used a clay-shaper to mark in the outlines of the "flagstone" flooring.  I then primed the floor and gave it a black base-coat. I use black, grey, and white paints in many mixes to dry-brush the "flagstone".  I built a wall section into the corner to give the base some height. The walls are 8x2 prong building blocks that were covered in filler to take away some of their distinctive features.  The wall was primed and dry-brushed in the same way as the floor.  I made a wash out of some burnt umber acrylic paint ant water.  I slapped that on and then used a cloth to dab it off.

I plan to do more to it before it's done and I will post the final product here too.

Rounding Out the Team - Part 1

Bull Centaur - Chaos Cup Legacy team that was missing some positionals.  He needs the finishing touches and basing done.

Here is his need-to-finish stage:

Glue Fume Frostbite

Colors Used:
Hooves/Horns/Beard: VMC Black/Brown, VMC Flat Brown, Citadel Agrax Earth
Bull Body:  VMC Black/Brown, VMC Flat Brown, VMC Off-white, Citadel Agrax Earth
Armor:  VMC Flat Brown,  P3 Khador Red Highlight, Citadel Dwarf Bronze, Citadel Runefang Steel, Citadel Carroburg Crimson
Flesh:  Citadel Ratskin, Citadel Elf Flesh, Citadel Bleached Bone, Citadel Reikland Flesh
Eyes/Teeth:  VMC Off-white, Citadel Agrax Earth
Non-Armor Metal: Citadel Chainmail, Citadel Runefang Steel, Citadel Agrax Earth
Fur:  VMC Black-Grey, VMC Off-white, VMC Dark Blue, Citadel Badab Black
Bone: Citadel Bleached Bone, Citadel Agrax Earth
Outlining/Shadows: VMC Black

Techniques Used:
Wet Blending, Layering, Glazing

Basing:  Black Rim, Static Grass

Here he is done:

Ready to Play

Here is an MSPaint drawing of what I saw in my head:

Here is how he looks with his fellow Bull:

All-in-all he is comparable to what I envisioned.  I'm not too happy with his skin-tone.  I'm happy with the way the metallics turned out; could always be better but it's a start.  He should be a nice addition to the team.


Next project:

Finish building AoW Guerrillas

Just for fun and so others know it happens to everyone...

Vallejo Paint Clog Explosion!

 Rorschach test... begin...

I Have a Blog?

I've been gone so long.  I've been doing stuff but so randomly I didn't feel the need or the worth to post.

I started to block out some base colors on my Impact! human figures so I figure I should update this with the colors used.  I've also decided to combine some teams I have so they can be used as a multitude of teams.  Since I'm doing that I feel it necessary to log my colors and such.

The main colors are green and brass with red and black accents.  For the "human" members of the team this means green pants and gloves, dark grey/black shirts and shoes, black or red leather belts, and brassy armor.
Here are so starts:

Some Base Colors Blocked In

Trollcast Casualty on the Left 

Human Example

Green: VMC German Uniform Green
Dark Grey: VMC Black/Grey
Metal: VMC Brass
Red: Citadel Old Foundation Mechrite Red?
Black: VMC Black

I've been building my Necro/Unded Willy team also.  I intend to use the combination of models to make five teams,  Humans, Norse, Chaos Pact, Necro and Undead.

Some of the White Metal I'm Glueing

Mummies and Wights are built and primed.

I've been sporadically working on finishing up the Chaos Cup Legacy team from 2015.  It needs at least one more bull and one more chaos dwarf blocker.  I almost done with the bull and I'm bashing up a blocker from stuff I have lying around.

Chaos Dwarf 

This was my MSPaint Sample

Pretty close I think.

Chaos Dwarf is a blitzer body from 3rd ed I think, a head and spike from some plastic Chaos Warriors:

Jan 4, 2016 - Review

Plans and Projects from January 1

1.  Clean and organize my paint/hobby area.

2.  Clean and prepare my bull centaur to finish up that position on my 2015 Legacy Team from the Chaos Cup.

3.  Build him

I used a combination of epoxy putty and super glue.  I drilled a hole in his foot with the intention of mounting him on the dowel you see, but he may be too heavy.  We'll see.

He's heavy.

4.  Prime him

Too cold

5.  Rough out design for DB Dugouts

Forgot to write it in my notes but I have the dimensions.

Chaos Cup 2015 Legacy Team!

Chaos Cup 2015 was an absolute blast!  Not only did I have 6 awesome games of Blood Bowl, but I won the Legacy Team! Here they are:

Chaos Dwarfs

Mino & Bull

Randroid

Three of Swords

Chaos Dwarfs

Fatfinley

Kilowog

OTS

StoutYoungblood

WildManTX

Hobgoblins

BCH

Furry

JonnyP

Randroid

Xtreme

Thanks everyone!

Chaos Cup Legacy Team Entry 2015 - Part 4 Done!

Finally.  Finding time here and there seems to be my only chance to get stuff done.  Well this is finally done.  I flocked the base and put the Slater letters on it.  I used a gloss varnish and then used a matte varnish to seal it up.  I am kinda glad to not have to paint this guy anymore.  It just didn't have as much fun painting this guy.  Here he is:

I did a simple bitmap mock-up first to determine how I wanted to paint the mini, here's that:

I tried two "techniques" on this model that I've never used before.  I tried to do a non-metallic metal on the logo thingy on the shoulder pad.  I also tried the loaded brush technique for high-lighting.  I like doing both and think as I go along I'll get better at them.  The NMM is hard and I think if I tried it on some bigger areas I might learn more.

I'll try to get some shots of the completed team at CC15 this weekend.

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.