Dreadball - Marauder - Goblins redux WIP - Part 1

Now onto my second batch of Goblins.  Been making steady progress on these as you can see from the pictures.  Hopefully, will be able to finish these within 2 more weeks.

Dreadball - Marauder - Goblins - Complete

Finished up my first batch of Goblins.  Unfortunately, the photo didn't come out too well as I forgot to switch to manual mode on my camera.  Ah well...

Dreadball - Marauder - Goblins WIP - Part 2

Progress!

With a couple of weeks additional work, my goblin team is almost finished.  I should be able to complete these by next week which means that I can move on to ... my other squad of goblins.  Hmmm.

Ah well, good thing I'm only painting to a "good enough" quality!

So close and yet so far

Dreadball - Marauder - Goblins WIP - Part 1

After doing the Marauder Orx, I'm now onto the Goblins.  To be honest though, I'm getting a little sick of this paint scheme - particularly as I'm going to have to repeat for another set of 8-9 Goblins after this set.

What this ultimately means is that instead of painting to a tabletop level, I'm not painting to a "good enough" level.
:D

My first set of Goblins - another set of 8-9 to go!!!!

Dreadball - Marauder - Orx - Complete

Managed to finish off the Orx.  Primarily, this was adding the colour gradient to the disc and numbering each of the Orx.  Then I based them and added a bit of colour to the base.

I also managed to get my hands on a lightbox so the quality of the photo should be better.
:)

Roar!

Dreadball - Marauder - Orx WIP - Part 5

Spent a lot of the last week doing detail work.  Unfortunately, as detail work is finicky, it always takes a ridiculously long amount of time.  Especially when compared to the earlier efforts, it always seems like I make a lot of progress quickly and then get bogged down in detail work.

Still, it tends to be the detail work which makes the mini stand out so ultimately, I guess it's worth it.  Right?

Completed the metal, straps and highlights on the black armour

Dreadball - Marauder - Orx WIP - Part 4

Some more progress on my Marauder Orx.  It feels like I'm really close to finishing these now and hopefully, I will be able to finish them off in another week or two.

Anyway, I added in some details on nails and teeth and have started in on the metal boots.  Once I've finished off the boots, I intend to start doing some lining on the black parts of the armour and finish up some of the detail work.

Boots!

Dreadball - Marauder - Orx WIP - Part 3

I'm back!

After a long holiday (which I'll talk more about on my main blog), I'm now back in Hong Kong and will hopefully get back to a normal publishing schedule.

More importantly, I made some more progress on my Dreadball Orx.

I've finished up painting the red on the armor.  If I were painting these as individual pieces, I would probably try to go up another shade or two in colour for the highlights.  However, there are mass pieces and I've already spent more than enough time on the armor so the current state will have to do.

Progress!

Dreadball - Marauder - Orx WIP - Part 2

Another week with minimal painting.  Primarily for 2 reasons.

1. It's starting to get really hot in Hong Kong so I'm feeling lethargic.  At the moment, all I really want to do is sit around and let the sweat roll off...
2. The second reason is that I've been a little bit addicted to Lord of the Rings LCG lately.  I've been posting about it on my gaming blog and it really is a fantastic game!

Anyway, over the last week, I've started to basecoat the armour with white.  I'm planning to have their armour a relatively bright red so wanted the layer of white in there before I got started with the red.

Kinda wished I had primed them white instead of black now.

Sloooow progress

Dreadball - Marauder - Orx WIP - Part 1

I'm back to painting dreadball minis.  Hopefully, once I complete the Marauder team, that will give me 2 complete teams to that I can start playing around with Dreadball.  :D

Haven't done a huge amount yet.  Almost finished with the skin tone (almost).  The model is a bit dark as I primed black so I will likely paint the armour white as I want a slightly brighter shade of red for the armour.

I haven't completed the skin tone for the ones on the left 

Dreadball - Refbot and balls - Complete

Thanks to the public holiday we had on Monday, I had a good paint week and managed to finish up the refbot and balls from Dreadball.  To be fair, the fact that its a simple paint scheme also helped.
:)

And yes, the refbot literally has eyes in the back of her head.

Pointing at the ball!

Pointing at the other ball!

Dreadball - Corporation - Complete

Managed to finally finish off my Corporation team.

Now all I need is an opponent.
:)

Close-up of the finished strikers

A slice of the full team

Dreadball - Corporation - Stikers WIP - Part 5

Almost finished with the strikers.

Managed to hit the blue parts of the armour with Sky Blue paint, followed by Drakenhof Nightshade wash and dry brush back up with Sky Blue.  Then I hit some highlights with LED Blue.

Also hit the under-armour and base with Pure Black and the position marker (ie center disc) with Fire Red.

Next is to hit the position marker with some highlights.

Almost finished my Dreadball Corporation team!

Dreadball - Corporation - Jacks and Strikers WIP - Part 4

Almost finished up with the Corporation Jacks.

In terms of paint, I have done all I intend to for the Jacks.  The only thing left to do is seal them and then put them on their base.

The gradient yellow comes out better in this photo

However, I decided to start painting my Corporation Strikers instead.  Primarily, I wanted to finish up some more models before hitting them all with a spray sealant.

Progress so far - base painted the silver armor, washed it with black wash and dry brushed.  I also managed to hit the light areas of armor with white paint in preparation for the upcoming light paint.

Strikers!

Dreadball - Corporation - Jacks WIP - Part 3

You guessed it!  Another week of slow progress!

Briefly, I hit the Corporation Jacks with a black wash and then drybrushed with Polished Silver.  Then I hit the head, hands and various "light" points with white paint in preparation for Sky Blue paint.  The head and hands got a wash of Drakenhof Nightshade before a drybrush of Sky Blue to bring the colour back up.

I then hit some highlights with LED Blue as well as painting in some of the detail on the facemask - Fire Red for eyes, Pure black for the neck and Pure White for the mask trim.

Next steps are:

• Yellow center disc
• White highlights on black body armor

Almost there!

Dreadball - Corporation - Jacks WIP - Part 2

This week is a perfect example of what I talked about in my introductory post.

Due to a bit too much time spent playing around with my new camera and a bit too much time spent playing Hearthstone meant that I really didn't get much painting done this week.  With that said, it wasn't all bad as I did, at least, manage to finish up painting the Dreadball Corporation Jacks.

I managed to paint in the centre circle.  Its painted with a darker yellow then highlighted up to a brighter yellow at the bottom of the centre circle.  Unfortunately, the detail of the circle doesn't really come through in the picture and it looks fairly monotone in colour.

Protecting the ball carrier :)

Having finished up the Corporation Jacks, I then realised that I actually managed to forget to include some of my models.  Facepalm!

Anyway, I managed to get my remaining Jacks primed and then managed to paint the armor with a basecoat of silver paint.  Next step, as you know from my previous post, is to hit them with a black wash to bring out some of the detail.

Alternate Jack sculpt as well as some wounded Jacks

Dreadball - Corporation - Jacks WIP

So the pictures this week are a perfect illustration of what I meant in my introductory post.

Over the last week, I have been working on my Dreadball Corporation team.  I've been broadly following the "official" paint scheme of the Trontek 29ers but with a couple of twists.

1. Mine are a bit more beat up
2. My center plates (not yet done) will have different colours to make it easier to differentiate between strikers, jacks and guards.

In terms of how I did these, I first painted them with a metallic silver paint (1:1 mix of Reapers Honed Steel and Polished Silver).  Then I hit them with a black wash to get the cracks dark and bring the details out.  Then I dry brushed them with Polished Silver.  The dry brush gets the armour looking scratched and beat up.

Primarily, I wanted a beat up look to match the "story" in my mind.  I intend to use these in a league where Dreadball has been off the air for several years due to an unnamed event several years ago.  As a result, the once proud Trontek 29ers are now looking a bit more beat up than in the past due to several years under-funding.

After drybrushing, I then hit the main armour plates with thinned Polished Silver as I didn't want the armour to look too scratched.

My Trontek 29er Jacks

As mentioned above, these models have been in this close-to-finished state all week as I haven't done much painting.  With that said, the only outstanding I want to do is paint in the center disc (currently white in the below close-up).

Hopefully, next week, I will be able to show the finished Jacks.

Close to completion