The Bloodseekers ended up being one of the most time consuming bits of the team. I prefer a black undercoat, but with all that bone armour it ended up taking a long time to complete them. Aside from the team captain they didn’t have much different, it was just painting his face and the severed heads which was a little different.





Bloodspawn

Choosing a skin colour for him was difficult as red was the obvious choice. I ended up selecting a slightly more purpley red, with pink added for highlights as the armour trims were a more brown red with orange highlights. The veins on his arms were painted in a much more blue/purple colour to help them stand out. He didn’t have much armour and was relatively quick to paint.




With the main team done it was on to the stars.

Max was pretty straightforward as he didn’t differ that much from the marauders. I did make his chainsaw a bit rusty and gunked up with blood from all the opponents he’s taken it to. His tabard did turn out really well and I liked that it got the highlights just right.




Akhorne is very small and pretty simple to paint. I aimed for the natural look of a red squirrel with brown added for shading and orange for highlighting, with a pale underbelly. Normally I try to paint highlights as smooth as possible, but for him (and to a lesser extent the khorngors) I left small lines to better represent fur. I did look up acorns and painted that green rather than the brown I normally associated with them. The dead dwarf ended up taking longer, he followed the colour scheme of the grudgebringers and had some gore added round his wounds.





Granshnak proved quite tricky as the art normally depicts him with black fur, but I wanted him to have black shorts. I settled for black hair and shorts with minimal highlights and dark grey skin which had flesh tones added for his face and chest. As his t-shirt was pretty ripped I painted the highlights a little messier on that to indicate both damage and greying from it being an old material. The flesh hound head was also painted a more maroon red, to avoid clashing with the armour trim. For his horns, claws and hooves I went with grey shading over brown.




Team has since been numbered and varnished and handed over, ready for the GT this weekend.



I have also been experimenting with the camera on my new phone and a grey background. It’s always weird how different a model can look depending on the lighting and background. Am often disappointed at how some pics turn out. Oddly the back views always seem to end up the best.







With them done I now need to look for a new project. Still have 4 teams to go and gnomes just got added.