Intense action at the Royale...

Here are some fun pics that I took using my Mimes of Moria and a Chaos Dwarf team in the Royale Casino, a Blood Bowl stadium I have under construction.

I built grandstands on either side of the field, complete with locker rooms, places for gambling tables, fans, and more!

There were areas for rolling dice, and even a turn track using cards.  The house rule was that whoever had the better "hand" would get an extra re-roll.

I also had a large scoreboard, and even an announcer's booth!  The scoreboard was on the side of the field where the camera is...

Now for some on the field shots!

Pierre gets ready to square off against something that should be braised in a buttery sauce...

The lovely parasol insures a soft landing anywhere on the field!

Beware Le Fanatique!!

Francois stands by to toast with some Chablis...

Look out for the Star Bombardier!

A duel of wizards just before halftime.

Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my...

Here are some more of those "Mystery Miniatures" that were used for a set of RPG figures.  I have posted some of the other figures from this set before.  Lots of critters in snow!

These bears were particularly unusual, as you just don't see many bear miniatures.

When Cathy and I were working on that miniatures game of ours, one of the races we had thought about was an Ursae race.  Who knows, perhaps someday...

The bears were pretty decent to paint.  Not sure who made, them, though...

This one was particularly unusual, and huge!  I am pretty sure that was a 50mm base.

And then Sabre tooth guy.  We had a faction of female sabre tooths like this one planned.

A view from within: An Imperial Fists land raider

Here are some views from inside a land raider conversion.  While I didn't do all the conversion stuff, it did fall to me to get it all put together and paint it. :-)

Painting the insides of land raiders starts out painful, and gets tougher from there.  It's just the nature of the beast.  The front door section is the worst, since it has to be loose as you work on it.  That means that it's flopping around, and you run the risk of messing up the alignment, so that it won't open when it's all put together in final assembly.

Getting at all the rear engine parts was not easy, either, but at least the other side was not so bad!

Here is the raider after the initial assembly, before final weathering and freehand.

There's a bit of the glow of the lascannons as well.  I was trying to make these different from my usual post Heresy variety, thus the glow...

And now for the final result!

A Dragonforge Design flying base

This base is made by Dragonforge Designs.  Like everything they make, it is a very high quality!  It was.  There is a special joint that you attach to your flying vehicle to make the transparent rod work.  And there are no air bubbles in any of them :-)

It also has a decent amount of weight, which can help with the top heavy flying stuff!

Here's their site... go check it out!

http://www.dragonforge.com/

A solid foundation for your flying stuff

I was working on some bases that were supposed to be filmed as little snippets for the Kickstarter, but once I was taken down by that bug, it became a bit of a moot point.

So, here's a little step by step.

This began, as they usually do, with the combination of baked sculpey, cork, oxide paste rock and bits.

I took some greens and reds, mixed them together and smushed that brownish mix all over the base.

I mixed in a little greenish grey to begin lightening it...

As I put more light colors on the rocks, I put some dark grey on the marble surface.  

I roughed in the design (Iron Warriors) with some lighter grey.

Some warmer grey was used to lighten some parts of the marble and the design...

I kept adding more light to the veins, and tried to create a little more shape to the design.  I also started putting some color on the bits.

More development of the veins.  I also added some cracks through the marble design, which is always a fun touch!

Some rust is added to the bits, and I also put some warmer light colors around the rocks.  This would make the grey marble stand out a bit more...

I did some dark glazing and shading, while also adding some stains to the marble, mostly along the edges.  Back in the day, I used to forget to 'age' the marble and tile, adding those stains and such.  Even if it's darker marble, the stains are still important.

These flatter style bases work well for the flyers in 40k, as it gives a nice solid surface to attach your flying stand.  All the heavy cork and sculpey is also a nice counterweight to the top heavy mini.

I have another one from Dragonforge that I will post tomorrow...

Some old time Wood Elf Blood Bowl minis

Here's some 'classic' old Blood Bowl minis.  The good old pajama- clad Woodies!

The fall color scheme was fun to paint, though!

I liked doing a bit of tattoos with the red colors.  Wood elves in particular really need those :-)

A few shots of the team...

The rest of the Alabaster ruins...

Here's a few more images of the Alabaster ruins diorama.

These have a few closer images of the mini... but there are also a few glimpses close up of the exposed brick.

It would be fun to try something like this again armed with all the knowledge and techniques which I have learned since!