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Dreadball – More Silver Centurions!

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Continued work on the Silver Centurions this morning, and with some helpful suggestions on another colour decided to do a few bits and pieces in gold. I also took the chance to add a couple of extra glowy bits :D. Just on the left hand of the strikers, and on the several studs on the Guards armour. Anyway, here they are:

Jacks Front

Jacks Front

Jacks Back

Jacks Back

Strikers Front

Strikers Front

Strikers Back

Strikers Back

Guards Front

Guards Front

Guards Back

Guards Back

For now its off to get in a few more league games at the Sunday meet up, and I’ll let you know how the Slammers get on 🙂

 

 

Dreadball – Silver Centurions Progress

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The weekend has arrived so its onto painting some of my own stuff, and today I’ve made a wee bit of progress on the Centurions:

Silver Centurions WIP

Silver Centurions WIP

Silver Centurions WIP

Silver Centurions WIP

I’ve worked up the armour with some highlights to the desired colour as well as adding the glowy blue bits I want on them. The only other part I know what I’m doing with is the number panel. This will be a blue version of the digital display seen on the Gamma Slammers. I still think I need something else on these guys to really make ’em pop, and other than doing more glowy blue bits, I’m at a loss as to what. Any ideas from you readers out there would be greatly appreciated 😀

Silver Centurions Logo

Silver Centurions Logo

I also did a wee bit more to the logo and am happy to say this should be the final design. Let me know what you think?

Warhammer 40k – White Scars Jetbike

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I’m now onto my next commission which will be the Sameal on jetbike model converted up to be a counts as White Scars Captain.

White Scars Jetbike WIP

White Scars Jetbike WIP

White Scars Jetbike WIP

White Scars Jetbike WIP

White Scars Jetbike WIP

White Scars Jetbike WIP

I began work today on taking away any Dark Angels symbols and replacing them with White Scars lighting bolts. I decide the book across the front wouldn’t fit in, and after rummaging through the old bits box found the Space Marine combat shield to be a great fit, so one green stuff lightning bolt later, I had the perfect replacement. I also knew the torso would need to completely replaced, as there where too many DA symbols in hard to get to places, and wanted to make sure he looked a wee bit more unique.

Next up is the head, I’m thinking one of the marine heads with a top knot added and some good old mongolian-esque facial hair should make it look the part 😀

Warhammer 40K – Basilisk Progress

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Added a few more touches to the Basilisk today:

Armageddon pattern Basilisk WIP

Armageddon pattern Basilisk WIP

Armageddon pattern Basilisk WIP

Armageddon pattern Basilisk WIP

Still think the armour needs a little bit more work, and would like to add a decal to either side of the gun as with the previous one, but am unsure as to what to do. I don’t want this to be a straight imitation of the last one, so I’m definitely not repeating the pattern. Have to have a good Thought Orgy and see what I can come up with 😀

Dreadball – DBR7 Commission

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Got blasted into an addition to the robot team today in the form of DBR7 “Firewall”. I decided I was gonna do him in the opposite colours to the team (white with red stripes), in order for him to both stand out and fit in :). This is what I’ve come up with so far…

DBR7 "Firewall" WIP

DBR7 “Firewall” WIP

DBR7 "Firewall" WIP

DBR7 “Firewall” WIP

 

DBR7 "Firewall" WIP

DBR7 “Firewall” WIP

It kinda worked out as being very similar for what I’m doing for the human team :), and made me all the more assured that it is a good direction.

As always let me know what you think 😀

Dreadball – New Team!

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Finally felt the lure of the Trontek team always rattling about inside the game box and got crackin’ into painting them. They where originally the team I was gonna go, and the Marauders where supposed to go up on Ebay, but alas I enjoyed the bashing even after only one go. But that niggle wouldn’t let go, and so I present the Silver Centurions (in a very early form :D):

Silver Centurions WIP

Silver Centurions WIP

Early logo draft

Early logo draft

Would love to hear what you think of them.

Dreadball – Pitch Designs

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Decided as I’ve been using Photoshop a fair bit recently I would have a go at designing a pitch for the Gamma Slammers and so I introduce you to Gamma Park (v.1):

Dreadball Pitch

Dreadball Pitch

These are still a bit rough, with a few bits here and there to clean up and to add some consistency, but very pleased with the results after the hours it took (took a lot longer than I thought it would :().

I also did another one with a wee bit more Gamma Slammer (and the blood that comes with that :P) to it:

Dreadball Pitch Alternative

Dreadball Pitch Alternative

Would love to hear what you think of them both 😀

Robots Finished!

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The robot team is now complete, other than the clear hexes, and here they are:

Robot Jacks

Robot Jacks

Robot Jacks Back

Robot Jacks Back

 

Robot Guards

Robot Guards

Robot Strikers

Robot Strikers

Only have numbers on the Jacks, as with swapping in and out there’s not much point to having them on the Guards and Strikers, unless you have the same amount of each of these as you have jacks.

Next up for Dreadball I’m going to be painting numbers on the bases for the Gamma Slammers, as it’s fairly difficult to make out the digital displays whilst playing. Especially if your in the usual dark gamer dungeon we seem to play most of our games :D. I’ve also started on what will be my next team, the Z’zor:

Z'zor Team

Z’zor Team

I’m wanting to go for a praying mantis vibe with these guys, as I not only think this will look awesome, it also gives me the opportunity to paint a fairly vibrant team.

Dreadball Update!

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Work has been progressing on the robots and here they are;

Jacks WIP

Jacks WIP

Guards & Strikers WIP

Guards & Strikers WIP

The idea at present is to have the eye and glowy bits of each variety a different colour, which should make it a bit more obvious as to which is which. So Blue for the Jacks, Green for the Strikers and Red for the Guards. I’ve started this off on them but obviously it still needs a bit more work, as does the red team stripes. I’m hoping that I should be able to make some good progress on this tomorrow, so keep your eyes peeled for the next update.

In other news the Gamma Slammers have had their 10 game winning streak broken by the Playa H8ters :(, who have also now stolen the top spot in the league. It was a damn good game but I was completely outmaneuvered the whole way through. I went for a very bashy game as this is what has worked for me before, but the Veer-myn’s prominence of strikers, which the coach utilised to their full potential, ran circles around me. I did however manage to retain my kill streak, with another 2 deaths caused by my Guards :D. The league organiser gave a very apt write up which you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/edinburghdreadball

Although I lost I still managed to get another of the guards up to level 3 and spent a coaching dice to roll on the Extra Coaching table. Rolling a 6 meant that I got to choose anything I wanted so opted for Grizzled. This is a fantastic ability, meaning the opponant loses an extra dice when performing a slam or slamback against this player. After analysing this match I think I’m going to have to give my jacks a bit of a push next time, not only to level them up, but to get a bit of a different game.

You can check out the league table here: http://dreadballedinburgh.leaguerepublic.com/l/standingsForDate/51755152/2/-1/-1.html