Kickstarter Here.

It's just hit $4 million. Madness.



Lots of pin-up titty miniatures, but when they ignore that and go for the dark fantasy stuff they nail it:

Doh. I was just about to pull the trigger on the $200 pledge for the base game but i couldn't find the shipping costs so i hesitated. 
The last $200 pledge went as i was trying to find them. 
Now it's a min of $250+40 shipping, so the best part of £300. Still too rich for my blood ($200+40 was as well to be honest but i could have always cancelled the pledge when reason kicked in).

Pity really as the pricing is limiting access to what looks to be a fascinating and unique game.

I would buy it but have nobody yo play with. Looks great.

I had a Chaos Dwarf team. Captained by Durgin Ripperfist. What a player he was. Seriously injured or killed 3 halflings in a game once.

FranticPea wrote:

So GW have done a PDF for legacy teams that might not appear for a while, if at all.

Nice one, GW. Very cool.

I spotted something interesting in the blurb for the My Dugout app for BB - as well as High, Wood, and Dark Elf teams, there's something called Elf Union. Colour me intrigued.

I started painting earlier.



Feeling a bit rusty, haven't done any in aaaages. Be reet though, will look great on the board. I'm not entering Golden frigging Demon.

Just to seal the transfers. Could just use my other big pot of matt varnish but I bought that ages ago and never used it so thought I would.

So I think I've got this coming for Xmas, having in the dim and distant past owned the very first Blood Bowl and the polystyrene pitch version from a few years after that (which was rather distressingly in the boot of my car when stolen and never recovered but that's another story).

I've never been into painting but really fancy getting into it for at least this. I have:

No paints
No brushes
No clue

Any pointers? Any good websites for tips? Which paints should I get from GW to start with, with a view to completing the miniatures out of the base box. Appreciate this is a big ask and apologies if any tips have been posted before. I don't recall.

I'm still bumbling through myself, watching tutorials and such. I'm really heavy handed and constantly have to touch up before thinking "ah fuck it, they'll look fine on the table." And that's all I care about tbh.

I've just built up a collection of paint over the last few years, and bought GW mainly because there's a Toymaster right near me that does 5 for a tenner. Experienced painters might warn you away but it was just convenient for me.

I'm following the Orc painting tutorial for my....Orcs from the Warhammer TV YouTube channel. Boring predictable red Orc team but whatever. I learned alot and I had most of the colours that they said to use. Helped quite a bit having colours that were produced to go together.

I'll be more adventurous with the Humans and Skaven, promise.

It's always worth paying for a good paintbrush.

Played a lot of karuba over the weekend. Was very good.

As they up there say. Good brushes and good paint gets you better results.
Your painting ability will get you good results no matter you use what but good equipment will make it better still.

Basics:
All figures need to be prepared, washed and primed.
Use a nail file or something to sand down the flashing from the moulding process, it will stick out like a sore thumb when you start painting.
Next, wash the figures in soapy water.
Then prime them - spray primer is the quickest way of doing this. It gives a slight textured surface for the paint to grip onto, this allows the paint to cover without streaking and helps prevent it from chipping of later.
I use either the Citadel primer or the Tamiya primer, with Tamiya being a bit more expensive i think. The citadel stuff is the giant cans you get in Games Workshop.
The primer colour to use is kind of important. You are meant to use a colour relevant to how you want the finished thing to look.
So a dark colour primer (black) for a dark figure and a white primer for a light/bright coloured figure.
I tend to use the mid grey primer as it kind of does both.
To prime multiple figures quickly get a flat bit of cardboard and bluetack the under side of the figures to it so you can easily get the spray on every facet of the figures.

Once prepped, you can paint.
Now this is a whole different league!

If you are just starting out it might be easier to do a flat colour for each detail of the figure, so take Frantics figure above - flat red for the armour of a mid tone that you desire, then a flat colour (brown) for the pants etc... Etc...
Then apply a wash to it. A wash is a high pigment but extremely thin version of paint. It will flow into the recesses and cling around the details and add tone to the flat colour, it will always make the figure dark though so bear this in mind when picking your original armour base colour.
This will be the quickest and easiest way of painting a figure for the amature painter.

Painting advanced.
Similar to the above i.e. Pick a mid tone red for the armour BUT this time you will be manually mixing darker and lighter shades of that red and painting them onto the areas you want to accent.
Pick a light direction, basically imagine the light is coming from a certain angle and then paint your figure, adding shade and highlights according to your imaginary light source.
You always paint anything (canvas etc...: Starting at a mid tone of the colour you want then add depth with darker colours and pick out highlights with lighter. Be sparing with very light highlights as you can overdo it more than dark shadows.  
It's tedious mixing the colour, painting a teensy bit then mixing a darker shade and repeating, but it does give the best results.

And you probably won't get the colour coverage you want without multiple thin layers of that colour beginning applied. If you can concert the figure in red paint in one layer, then it's probably quite thick paint and it will look blobby. We are all guilty of doing this at some point, because it's a long winded process!

Zenith painting - this is something i haven't tried before but  I'm am going to soon.
Using primer you pick your imaginary light source and spray two different types, one light and one dark.
So use white primer for where the light will be hitting your figure - say top left
Then use black primer and spray onto the figure from the bottom right. You will get a very stark light and dark figure base.
Now paint in the colours you want for the details but don't stress too much about totally covering the primer you've just sprayed on. Let a lot of it show through.
It adds a bit of drama.

Edit
The one big tip i would also give is, the devil is in the detail.
Say you have a belt with loads of rings on it and shit hanging off it, you will be very tempted to just paint it brown and be done with it. BUT if you pick out the buckle in gold and the rings in silver or Gray then all of a sudden your eye has lots to look at and out seems busier and more professional, a quick blob of gold will do the trick. Details like this are best left until last, just before applying a wash to the really dark areas if you want.

Edit edit
Doh i can't believe i forgot this.
You have to varnish the figures when you have finished.
It stops the paint chipping and its essential.
You can use a paint on or spray varnish, either gloss or matt, your choice.

Clapham ifs instead of its etc... = dodgy swipe keyboard.

My bank account is howling guys

Bloody hell

All depends how long you want to spend on them. I just want to do a decent job that looks good on the table. I want to be playing Blood Bowl ASAP, but not with blue and green figures.

Think I've found the answer.

FranticPea wrote:

Gremill wrote:

Cheers. It's a bit odd in here, this is the first and last time you'll see me. Cya nerds.

I bought forbidden island. Second and last time.