My best figure of 2021

Continuing the tradition started last year, I am going to repost the miniature I like the most among the ones painted in 2021.

I did not paint too many miniatures this year, but some of the ones I painted are among the best I have done lately. I really spent quite some time on some of the Blood Bowl ones and tried plenty of new techniques, so it is only natural I pick one of them!

After careful consideration I have chosen...

Varag from the Black Orcs team.

Although the Troll and Ogre came on a very-close second place.

One thing I really need to get better at is taking photos :)

I hope you like it as much as I do!

Blood Bowl: Imperial Nobility

Here are the mighty Talabecland Royals!

I already explained in this post the source of the name and choice, in a nutshell, they are based on the real GFL Team of the Potsdam Royals and the Warhammer city I have chosen for them is Talabecland.

For this team I decided to pick quite a challenging colour scheme based on red and bright yellow. This is not common for me and to top it all I used white basecoat, which is also not common. All in all it was a headache to paint but at least I am happy with the end result.

Here are the colours used and the recipe.

For gold areas, use Bloodstone as base, then mix it slowly with higher percentage of Scrofulous Brown. Final highlights mixing in a little bit of Ice Yellow. Some dots of Arctic White for reflections.

Metal parts are done with Neutral Grey as base, then mixing in Wolf Grey for the highlights and German Grey for the shadows. Reflections and extreme lights are done with Arctic White and Ivory.

Ribbons are painted with Germany Grey, edge highlighted with Wolf Grey and final lights with Magic Blue.

For the skin, I use Beige red as base and mix more pale flesh to it for highlights.

Leather is done with Chocolate brown as base, then adding Beige red to the mix for highlights. Scratches and different shades of light are done with Beige and mixing in Bone white.

Yellow cloth is done painting Scrofulous Brown as base on top of white basecoat, and Ice Yellow lights on top of it.

Red armour is base coated with Burnt red, highlighted with burnt red mixed with flat red and final higlights mixing in Orange fire. Reflections are done with Ice Yellow and in some cases Arctic White.

More pictures can be seen in each of the individual posts:

• Linemen
• Bodyguards
• Throwers and Blitzers
• Ogre
• Griff

All painted in 2021

BB Second Season Challenge (XII)

And finally here is the great Griff Oberwald!

I am quite happy to share this one, as it is the last miniature for the Imperial Nobility.

I decided not to use the bird attached to the pointing finger, because I honestly think it does not look that good.

The paint scheme is similar to the rest of the team, but with a more shiny approach, I used more yellows and goldens to simulate that he is richer and a star, after all!

I hope you like him, next post will show the whole team.

Also, this marks a milestone for the year, I am roughly halfway through my painting goals.

Here is the post from DarthBLU and here the post to vote for them (Spanish forum).

Painted during 2021

BB Second Season Challenge (XI)

Finally, after quite a long -involuntary- break, here is the Ogre for the Imperial Nobility.

While I could have spent much more time doing proper blending on the metals, I was already quite tired and I wanted to get over it.

The overall look is quite nice, although the pictures ended up being quite saturated.

Here is the post from DarthBLU and here the post to vote for them (Spanish forum).

Painted during 2021

BB Second Season Challenge (X)

I am quite happy to share here the last post of the regular players of the Imperial Nobility.

I mentioned already last time that I was fed up with the scheme, well, I can confirm!

The Ogre is right now on the painting table and the challenge is almost done :)

I hope you like these guys. I did very minor conversions on the hair style of one Thrower as well as on the beard of one Blitzer.

Here is the post from DarthBLU and here the post to vote for them (Spanish forum).

Painted during 2021

BB Second Season Challenge (IX)

For this week I bring four Bodyguard.

I have to say, while the miniatures are brilliant, they were a bit of a pain to paint. I picked bright colours for a reason, to push myself. I think I managed, I am a bit tired of this colour scheme.

I have just another four to go and then the two characters.... slowly getting there!

Here is the post from DarthBLU and here the post to vote for them (Spanish forum).

Painted during 2021

BB Second Season Challenge (VIII)

Here is the first post of the Imperial Nobility!

For the first week we painted four linemen.

I have to say it is quite the challenge to paint four with this level. I know it is not too much, but for me it is a little bit over what I usually do. Not at the same level as my orcs, but still quite clean and nice, not too rushed.

I tried my best to do some wet blending and glazes on the red armour without going for NMM, I am not sure I managed, but still the end result is quite ok I think.

The colour scheme is much much brighter than the orcs and probably only because of that they look better, even though individually the orcs have better quality.

I hope you like them, I am tackling now the Bodyguards!

Here is the post from DarthBLU and here the post to vote for them (Spanish forum).

Painted during 2021