Raggy's Gaming Adventures

I'm sure it's happened to others of you reading this blog... that moment when Frosty comes and sh*ts all over your painstakingly painted model. In this blog I am looking into how to try and undo the damage without completely stripping and repainting the model. This whole endeavor came about because I was rushing too much. I had backed a fantasy football team to use for Blood Bowl and the football that came as a stretch goal I offered to a friend. I needed a break from my Pro Elf Spartans so decided to knock the mini out in an evening. It was all going swimmingly until I stepped out onto the porch to varnish the figure... of course it's tipping it down and the result was a ruined paint job: Sooo what can I do to fix this? The first resource I found seemed to promote the use of a hairdryer... I tried this but was scared of damaging the paint with an overly high temperature and was unable to see any noticeable improvement. Well this article seemed to suggest that...

Well I have finally finished my test model for the color scheme. The more I paint them... the less 'elfy' they are looking to me which kind of sucks. I lightened up the skin some to try and bring that back a bit. Here are the last few stages in getting him finished off. First the NMM armor getting finished: What do you think? After that I washed the Red, the helmet bristles and the flesh. Next the NMM silver, paling down the flesh, dirtying the trousers and the armor: - Raggy, signing out

I have made allusions to this before but I have launched a new YouTube channel called Raggy Plays . The show will run in seasons of 12 episodes, teaching people how to play board games. Please check them out and share them with everyone you know! - Raggy, signing out

So it's been a whole week since I finished off The Carnal Cavaliers so clearly it's time for the next Blood Bowl team. I am doing something slightly different with this team compared to the last few teams - I have decided to go back to the old 'paint a test piece first' method. I'd gotten lazy about doing this because what invariably happens is I paint it up the way I initially planned... so what's the point? Welll yeah but I think what I fail to remember are all the little changes that are made along the way. In the case of the pro elves I had an initial plan of painting them up like the Michigan State mascot: But I soon realized that I wanted to really paint bronze armor. Non Metallic Metal is one of the techniques I really want to work on improving and this is a great opportunity, lots of metal on show to really work with. It's going to take a lot longer to paint this up because NMM really requires a lot of layering with fine gradient shifts to loo...

So I've just finished my current Blood Bowl team, the league is two weeks in and I should definitely be focused on painting up my next team... and well I have to admit that I am struggling a little to get excited by them. I am sure they will get done, but the scheme I want calls for a LOT of NonMetallicMetal bronze (see my next post for more details). Sooo instead of actually making headway with them, I have taken to a couple of diversions. You already saw the two skeletons I painted in a few minutes, I also have a unit of Mantic Skeleton Troops that have been started. These all got dug out as I was looking for volunteers for Zenithal Priming treatment for my homework for Miniature Monthly . In addition to those, some ooolld figures of mine also got unearthed. 25mm Bubblegum Crisis models from Ground Zero Games. I took the larger ones for my Zenithal Priming and Finished up the Boomers the other night: What amazed me was taking these down my FLGS, how many people remember Bu...

STOP THE PRESS!!! Before I get into this blog post; I would like to promote my latest project: Please check it out, share it with friends and subscribe ! Follow us on Facebook These guys got a little held up as I rushed to get the goblins ready for the West Coast Quake but after that these, guys got knocked out in record time. My NMM has gotten a little smoother but there is still a lot of work to do on my technique. I still struggle with the red and pink shading and highlighting but overall I am very happy with the way these guys came out. - Raggy, signing out