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Am I the only one hoping to see a blood bowl series? I've never played but for an audience grabber, literal fantasy football could be the real winner.
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
Am I the only one hoping to see a blood bowl series? I've never played but for an audience grabber, literal fantasy football could be the real winner.
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I dunno about live action amazon series. But there was a 90s cartoon Mutant League Football? That was basically a Bloodbowl cartoon, that I could see being entertaining so long as people would get it out of their heads that animation = kids show.
 
I Know 孤独のせい said:
Finally starting to get into the hobby proper. Wasn't necessarily my first choice, but I am going to start with Eldar. Themed Iyanden army with mostly Wraith units.
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You picked an easy army to paint with perhaps the hardest colour to paint.

Yellow is difficult so my advice is
- white primer
- yellow of choice (be patient layering)
- iyanden yellow contrast exists to make life easy but im unsure how it will work with wraiths open round surfaces. I've read airbrushing it is...interesting but havent tried myself yet.

Good luck mate, report back how you go
 
Mr Clark said:
You picked an easy army to paint with perhaps the hardest colour to paint.

Yellow is difficult so my advice is
- white primer
- yellow of choice (be patient layering)
- iyanden yellow contrast exists to make life easy but im unsure how it will work with wraiths open round surfaces. I've read airbrushing it is...interesting but havent tried myself yet.

Good luck mate, report back how you go
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Thanks for the advice. The ease of painting Elder was the deciding factor for me because the other armies I am interested in, Thousand Sons, Tau and Sisters of Battle, seemed too difficult for a beginner like myself. Yeah, I also have read and heard that yellow seems to be a problematic color. I have still some supplies to pick up, so I will start somewhere at the end of next week and report back, maybe even with pictures.

The first box of guardians and wraiths will probably look like shit when I am done so I can just use the opportunity to learn and try different things and colors to see how it all works.
 
I Know 孤独のせい said:
Yeah, I also have read and heard that yellow seems to be a problematic color.
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It's a bigger problem when people still prime black, if you prime white or another lighter color it's not too big a deal. I'd suggest looking up videos on youtube about painting yellow minis. You'll find some people will undercoat in brown first for shadows(like a zenithal you'd normally do from the top of the mini, but instead from the bottom), or even in pink(yellow generally being transparent results in a dark brownish shade).
 
p1138 said:
It's a bigger problem when people still prime black, if you prime white or another lighter color it's not too big a deal. I'd suggest looking up videos on youtube about painting yellow minis. You'll find some people will undercoat in brown first for shadows(like a zenithal you'd normally do from the top of the mini, but instead from the bottom), or even in pink(yellow generally being transparent results in a dark brownish shade).
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My plan is to prime with white, wraithbone and yellow for the bodies and blue for heads and see which looks the best in the end. Want the colors to look bright and vibrant, don't want my Eldar to be grimdark.
 
I Know 孤独のせい said:
My plan is to prime with white, wraithbone and yellow for the bodies and blue for heads and see which looks the best in the end. Want the colors to look bright and vibrant, don't want my Eldar to be grimdark.
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I sayanything about being grimdark. I'm talking about undershading, as in literally underneath. Crotches, armpits, etc.
It provides the orange and brown shadows where they should be while keeping a bright yellow. Can also just prime them pink, then white from the top down.
 
My friend who’s a Salamander bro, really embodied his legion today during a meetup, while I gave him some flamers and assorted bits, he gives me a little polybag with a single bit in it.

A kitbashed, upscaled, plastic and very corrupted version of Glory Aeterna, Eidolon’s hammer.
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Then he told me, “You gotta make a model worthy of this.” Actual Vulkan hours, Jesus Christ.

So it looks like I’m doing an “Ascended” Eidolon model, anyone got recommendations for bits and shit? Other than Haarken’s upper torso being essential.
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
Am I the only one hoping to see a blood bowl series? I've never played but for an audience grabber, literal fantasy football could be the real winner.
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Well first you need to get GW care enough about that particular spinoff. They're taking their sweet time porting the last few legacy teams.
 
p1138 said:
I sayanything about being grimdark. I'm talking about undershading, as in literally underneath. Crotches, armpits, etc.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NW0wPXVf6WYIt provides the orange and brown shadows where they should be while keeping a bright yellow. Can also just prime them pink, then white from the top down.
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Was just a little joke, all good. Will take a look at the video, thx for the advice.
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
Am I the only one hoping to see a blood bowl series? I've never played but for an audience grabber, literal fantasy football could be the real winner.
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Blood Bowl is kind of hard to do because it's already a spin off and doesn't really have any story telling. Yeah each team references their fantasy faction and tries to mirror it in their playstyle, but how long would people want to watch fantasy football? It'd do fine as a one off animation I think, but what would a whole series even be about?

Blood Bowl as a game also has many problems that just aren't fun. I like the concept but it's honestly a poorly designed game. It's painfully slow since every single action you do has a chance of catastrophic failure which makes getting anything done impossible. There's too much counting and math involved, checking positions of every piece per action for bonuses and debuffs. And at the end of the day your opponent is just going to stall. They'll sit at the end zone until the half is over because there is literally nothing any team can do to break a cage once its formed. Your best hope is to wall them off as well until the end of the half so that nobody scores and you all just wasted your time.
 
Spilled Spaghett said:
Blood Bowl is kind of hard to do because it's already a spin off and doesn't really have any story telling. Yeah each team references their fantasy faction and tries to mirror it in their playstyle, but how long would people want to watch fantasy football? It'd do fine as a one off animation I think, but what would a whole series even be about?
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Come up with a story for why the game even exists and follow a team through a season. Stakes the game is being played for, characters getting injured/killed and being replaced, etc. The trouble is that you'd only be able to give one faction/team any real depth and the other teams will just end up being monster of the week fodder so if they decide to follow a human team with a story and you're a fan of elves or orks, tough shit your guys only appear in basically one episode.
 
p1138 said:
Come up with a story for why the game even exists and follow a team through a season. Stakes the game is being played for, characters getting injured/killed and being replaced, etc. The trouble is that you'd only be able to give one faction/team any real depth and the other teams will just end up being monster of the week fodder so if they decide to follow a human team with a story and you're a fan of elves or orks, tough shit your guys only appear in basically one episode.
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To go off of this, make the seasons focus on different teams. Can do 2-4 teams a season and give them at most 5 episodes per team. Can focus on different games so that way it may have a monster of the week formula, but you won't have the same games from different POVs.
 
StevieLasVegas said:
To go off of this, make the seasons focus on different teams. Can do 2-4 teams a season and give them at most 5 episodes per team. Can focus on different games so that way it may have a monster of the week formula, but you won't have the same games from different POVs.
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I don't think Bloodbowl generates enough interest to do more than a few episodes though. And it'll still have the issue of fans of team X watch the parts where their team is the focus, but then don't bother with the rest. And if you're bouncing between teams regularly, it could leave a very disjointed viewing experience.
 
Just adapt my 2000s comedies into Warhammer.

Istvaan III gang but they’re starring in the Hangover, they got a revolution to launch but Morty, Fulgrim and Angron lost Horus.

Wedding Crashers but it’s Kharn and Argel Tal crashing Armatura

Old School but instead of a fraternity it’s three Terran marines starting a warrior lodge in a stuffy loyalist legion.
 
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