Small update

Just a quick update.
I finished the lone rat and I'd just like to share the result, which I'm very happy with.
For the underworld team, the goblins and troll will probably get the blue colour as their skin colour.

New shade of the pink armour

Added blue contrast colour

Finished version, except the base

Tried a new style of numbers

Next project

Since the Impact kickstarter has been delayed, I've started with something else and that something is my underworld/skaven team.

I gave underworld a go on Cyanide and really like the team. I guess I've got a soft spot for stunty players. I also got my hands on a 2nd ed shaven team and to that I added a 2nd ed troll and some goblins from Neomics.

One of the goblins

I was inspired by this team

Awesome team from G-Painting

but it didn't turn out as I wished. Here's some wip pictures

Whip of a linerat

Whip of the skaven players in the underworld team

I'm not happy with the pink/purple combination and I'm therefore going to skip it. Right now I'm thinking about keeping the pink armour (although changing it a bit) and going for a turquoise contrast colour as well as some white. I'm also thinking about painting the skin on the goblins and troll in turquoise (and their clothes white). (thanks for the input @howlinggriffon)

I also made a misstake in starting with all the shaven players at once. I should have done as with the 'flings. Starting with just the one player to get the colours right. I'm now going to go forward with just the one rat and find the right blends of colours, before painting the rest.

If I'm happy with the team, I might take them to some tournaments next year, but I'm not sure yet. If the Impact elves turn up soon, I might switch to that team, since I'd really like to play dark elves at a tournament sometime soon.

As it is now, I think this is my pipeline:

1. Underworld/Skaven

2. Orcs

3. Nurgle

4. Undead/Necro (repaint with 3ed miniatures)

5. Humans

6. Chaos Pact

where the elves might come in at place 1 or 2, depending on when they show up.

Who am I kidding? The list will change a couple of times during next year anyway :)

Generic reroll counters and turn marker

I'm lazy and I'd therefore create generic counters so I could use them with all my teams.
The problem was that I wasn't happy with them, so I set out to create new ones.

First, I had a look at the bloody sports bases from tabletop art onto which I'd just glue a die.

bloody sports bases from tabletop art

But they weren't in stock when I ordered from my gaming store and I got tired of waiting so instead I went with bloody sports ball set from tabletop art to which I added a die and a skull or two.

bloody sports ball set from tabletop art

This is what they looked like pre-painting.

And a painted set. A simple paint job, but it will do the job. I didn't want to spend to much time on the counters. I'd rather spend the time on the miniatures.

And the finished set of reroll counters.

For the turn marker, I went with two dice, a cat (a spot price from StockBowl Cup V) and a skull. The idea is to paint the dice as block dice. I'll update this blog with pictures once it's done.

Turn marker

I've now finished the turn marker. It's the one with the "block dice"

Generic markers

And this is how I transport my markers. Very practical (more skill rings to come).

Marker box