"Guild Ball" - WIP - Part Two

Avarisse & Greede WIPs - The magnets have now all been super-glued in place

Over the past few days I have been persevering with my Guild Ball miniatures by “Steamforged Games Ltd”. My main problem has been gluing together the unbelievably delicate (second) miniature of Greede, which now finished can be physically carried by his team-mate Avarisse using a couple of magnets. I actually thought the 'stand-a-lone' striker which comes with the Union Starter Set was difficult enough to put together. But this 'hooked' version comes in a staggering four pieces despite its diminutive size, and as a result his protruding legs have been well and truly grey-stuffed and super-glued in place.

Having attached a micro magnet to the back of Avarisse's chest loop, I have also started to finally place some paint on this overly large private Entrepreneur for Hire. For now I've simply finished with his black boots, and even picked out his footwear's studs with some metal. I was originally going to paint this area brown but seeing as I plan to use that colour for the burly bruiser's large coat I thought I'd go for the far simply paint scheme. At some point though I will give the battered and broken shoes a quick dry-brush of "Vallejo" Heavy Charcoal in order to try and bring out some of the sculpt's detail.  

Fangtooth & Rage WIPs - Both models are still in their early stages of painting

I have also managed to get some of the groundwork done on my Fangtooth miniature, and undercoated his waist chains and blades in preparation for painting them with "Vallejo" Gunmetal Grey. In addition I have applied some Heavy Skintone to the centre back's feet and now simply need to tidy up his basing colours before I can wash both his flesh and his stand's muddy earth.

Now the super-glue to both of Rage's arms has dried, I have not only given the attacking midfielder an undercoat of red. But have applied a second layer of Heavy Red to his trousers. This should allow me to quite simply paint his boots black and start picking out the dead rabbits and meat cleavers which are tied to his waist.   

Blackheart & Greede WIPs - An initial layer of metal has helped highlight the captain's armoured areas

The Blackheart miniature strikes me as being possibly the hardest of my Guild Ball models to paint, as the captain's pose is so very dynamic. As a result I don't plan to employ my usual technique of painting a figure 'feet-first' with him, and instead plan to paint his deeper harder to reach areas, such as some of his stomach bracing and cloak's embellishments, first. Having said that I wanted to get his armoured areas out of the way, so have initially undercoated them with "Citadel" Abaddon Black before applying a rough layer of "Vallejo" Gunmetal Grey.