Dreadball 2 Springclean

To start ive had a bit of minor surgery which has meant i get a couple of rest days, which means i can get stuck i to some painting. Definitley my version of rest.

Elmer and dobbs. where I’d left them when they went into storage was the main booth was undercoated in steel. The skin had been painted on the 2 characters 2. That was it. I wanted them to draw the eye in the booth so I went for simple almost Industrial colour around them. Bright red and distinctive blue definitely draws the eyes.

I took some special care with the eyes on both, being an impressive miniature, as I had done with the eye in the sky ref years ago. I went over the basecoat of the booth with a speepaint coat of broadsword silver and then dry brushed with silver chain mail. The characters I painted in their clothes and details as best as I was able. Was pretty happy with how they came out and their chairs. The chairs were black with a dry brush of dark grey. Picking out details in bronze. Giving that old lazy boy look of black leather seats.

On the side I’d painted another shirren character from starfinder, the shirren operative. Using paints as they were in the pallet and dry brushing him when he was done. Was an easy model done with minimal detail just to get him done. May go back and give him more details later, paint his eyes a yellow I think. 

The end of last week and the weekend wasn’t as quite as i thought it would be. Not a bad thing, was pretty busy and doing events and meal, Babysitting kids aswell as my own kids lol. What it did mean was i was only able to pop out a few MVP’s over the weekend. That’s not to say i had a bit of a chance to get the first basecoat colours on the next team. 

I found the MVP for the Prisoners team quite easy to paint  and to gain inspiration for. The outfits of the teaam  id originally done was yellow, inspired by the yellow prisoner garb from Guardians of the Galaxy. But went with the traditional orange to make Brickbat stick out. Metal and boots were standard speed paint colours. With the skin, i ussed Garrosh from Warcraft for inspiration, so i used Aged hide for the skin and a simple wipe of black over the lower jaw. After a strong tone coat to unify it all he was a nice simple but effective looking character.

With Kailasa i had found an image of a space elf that i thought looked interesting and would be cool contrast to how id painted the team. With the team i had painted them years ago inspired by the space vampires from defiance the Series. Purple skin with touches of Orange, and white hair.

With the Kailasa herself i went with a crusader skin tone, with dark grey upper parts with silver chainmail, and ivory over the lower parts and heavy drybrush over the hair. Quite happy with how she looks.

The nemion oceonics were a pretty nice team to paint, I quite liked them. I had a couple of evenings this week to get on with the last team before the deadline.

The outfits were inspired by the outfits of Prince Lotor and his team in legend of Voltron. I remember when I first bought the sphyr team I wanted to paint them in that uniform. The characters that really sells the look of the outfit is Zethrid. She’s one of the alien lasses that could be part Shark lol.

The sphere i had in storage came in the old 1st ed containers, and the current captain was part of an MVP set. I had painted her a long time ago. So it was just the 10 players I painted up. Again I did enjoy painting them. I enjoyed layering up thr speedpaints.

Base coat – dsrk grey colourforge
Drybrush – basecoat white
Speed paint – ashen grey
Speed paint – dark grey
Vallejo colour – black
Wash – strongtone
Details – viking blue
Details – Red 

I have to start with i am happy with th amount of painting I have got done. It’s more than I thought i would be able to about 5 weeks ago. A team a week if I look at it like that. That’s great for me. I would have said id be lucky to have done a team a month at my usual rate of painting. I did get lucky with a few days off here or there knocking about the house by myself to get some teams to the painting table.

Shame I didn’t have 2 more weeks lol. Only had 2 teams left and the magnetar circuit characters left to do, and I’d have everything dreadball I own, painted. Yeh a team a week was not pheesable to me 5 Weeks. My goal was I’d be lucky if I’d finish the 4 second Ed teams. But I’m so glad they are done and look amazing(to me).

What’s nice is the mix of robots, cyborgs, aliens, aliens and aliens lol. Not a plain human insight.

But like I say I’ve hit my goal of doing the second Ed teams atleast by the deadline. I think because there is only 2 teams and 4 characters left I’ll carry on with them, plow on. Not leave them and do them sometime in the future. Make sure they are done next and I can say I have everything I own painted.
The nameless team I plan to paint using inspiration from one of the muscalloid races from Stellaris. The fleshy/tentacle parts being orange and the shells being dark grey/brown.
The Asterian team i want to paint up like Narns from B5. Leathery heads with red eyes and brown outfits. Have found an image of Gkar from the animated movie I may use for my inspiration as he has a like mint green colour that I fancy trying.
The magnetar and I can see painting very similar to their studio paint jobs.

But then and only then will I return to my regularly scheduled dead mans hand. A posse and a character a month I was doing I think. Or turn my hand to the new Chicago way Peaky Blinders starter box I bought. We’ll see. 

These Beyond Antares characters i picked up for cheap off ebay and I liked the idea of them for support staff, or even for the matriarch to be some sort of criminal sponsor like Jabba the Hutt. I have always liked the look of the Beyond Antares miniatures, the Algoryn and Boromites have always appealed the most.