The First Day of Citadel: Bloodbowl Halflings

Happy Christmas to you all dear readers...

I'm back again with the first of what I hope will be a long series of posts about what I manage to paint over the next couple of weeks. And as you may be able to see, serendipity has struck and I have somehow managed to snap a decent shot in my workshop. It seems that using a grey background makes all the difference to capturing the colour and paintwork of my models. 

I hope you feel that I have improved over the last year. 

The figure in the middle was painted during the summer when I was struggling with my dental woes. I painted up the two additional figures today as companions to him. All were started long ago and are sadly all what remain of my Bloodbowl figures. I am fairly sure I had a few more goblins and halflings in the junk box in the loft but I have been unable to find them...

Christmas Day isn't the day to go adventuring up there. Not with MFM and I alone in our half-finished home with no kids running about for a change. 

These models are inspired by the famous models published in White Dwarf and admired by me for many years in the Ansell family collection. Look, here's a snap I took last August of them.

It is now Boxing Day, as I was typing this post we were hit by a power cut of all things. MFM and I had to sit by the light of the fire for much of the evening (not that we complained) while we waited for the electricity to return. We are used to outages here, as we are very rural and at the end of the grid. Completing this post has had to wait until now.

I am sure you can spot slight differences between the three figures. I couldn't quite remember how I achieved the green back in August. I thought it was Woodland Green but while painting I could see that wasn't the case. Initially, I was a bit worried that they wouldn't match but a quick glance at the original figures reminded me that this seldom matters when models are complete. 

I've owned multiple boxes of the 2nd edition of Bloodbowl over the years and its something I do miss having around the house, largely due to my youthful memories of playing the game in the late '80s and '90s. One day, if I am able, and this house is no longer a money pit, I may attempt to get hold of another box and perhaps field a whole team of these characterful halflings. 

Anyway, the workshop beckons and I have plenty of other projects on the boil. I quite like working in this way. Twenty or thirty figures in various states of completion with only my whim directing what gets painted next. Every painting session is a surprise in this way.

That or I'm just showing my age.

Orlygg