Raggy's Gaming Adventures

Well it took long enough... After several months, I have finally finished the Miragliano Union. They made their debut on the field of battle last night, stalling an Orc team to a 1-1 draw and training my Thrower to Hail Mary Pass early in the season. Not the most tactically sound skill but I love the idea of being able to get the ball a long way, fast. Not just to get it to a catcher down field but also to get the ball out to prevent teams bearing down on me from scoring. We will see how it plays out. The second half opened to this: That's right... it was a pitch invasion that saw the fans apparently a lot less happy with the Elves than the Orcs. I blame the unexpectedly large fan turn out for WAAAGH-Tang Clan. The second half of the game saw a traditional Orc cage slowly grind down the stadium: - Raggy, signing out

Well that pesky thing 'real life' has been seriously interfering with my painting recently. In combination with my A.D.D. with these guys, there's been slow progress. Fortunately last week, I got the base colors on so they can be fielded, the rest of it is grinding through a ton of Non-Metallic Metal... I'm still not super happy with my NMM skills at the moment, silver is going ok but gold is a real struggle. I think the tough part is getting the color transition in wide spectrum in a small space. Luckily I won an hour painting tutorial with Aaron Lovejoy! I am going to ask him for some more advice on getting those transitions smoother. If you want a chance to win an hour session with Aaron (or Liz Beckley) then you should sign up for Miniature Monthly ... actually you should sign up anyway. The videos are excellent and there are some great prizes to be had. $10/month is well worth it for the content they have. - Raggy, signing out

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

There's not been a lot of headway in terms of painting lately however I have made some solid progress with my three newest Blood Bowl teams. I have fully assembled my new big guys, and the Chaos team. The Pro Elves (Black Scorpion Humans) that I have are prepped and assembled. I still need a few catchers and line elves but it's coming along nicely. I have also managed to finish the first stage of sculpting of my Ogres, a fix on the broken Amazon and a repair on a malformed hand for one of my Beastmen: They are still in need of some polish (filing in particular) before they are done but I am pretty pleased with the progress so far. On a related note. I am doing an audit of all my photos at the moment to try and consolidate and pair back the masses of pictures that I have. In doing this, I may get a little over zealous and delete ones that are actually posted here. If that happens, please flag it to me so I can recover them before it's too late! My boardgaming ...