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"That's a Yellow Card and No Elevenses for You!" - Blood Bowl Halfling Ref

Referees are the law.
They have a whistle.
They blow it. And that 
whistle is the articulation of 
God's justice.

- Harold Pinter 
Hello sports fans and welcome to another Friday on The Art of Caesura!

 I hope your thirst is well and truly quenched after the past month or so of dabbling in beer myths, beer and food pairings and craft breweries that are local to my hometown on the West Coast of Canada. 

 So lets stop for a second (breakfast), and shift our focus to Blood Bowl!
Blood Bowl

 I really love Blood Bowl. I don't get to play the tabletop version too often, but I regularly game the 2016 PC version. It's delightfully chaotic and oozing with character. So when I saw the Forge World refs, I knew they were for me!

 Today we'll look at one half(ling) of the refs included: the Halfling Ref!
Blood Bowl

What a great model! They've managed to squeeze so much character into one little guy; he is simultaneously losing the fillings of his pepperoni sandwich while menacingly shouting down someone much bigger than himself! 

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Blood Bowl

Blood Bowl

Blood Bowl

Blood Bowl

I think it's amazing what they can do with the new CAD sculpts (said the old fogey), but this model seems quite clearly hand-sculpted (I could probably replicate his furry feet and arms with my limited Green Stuff skills) which is refreshing! I remember feeling the same way when I was working on Gimli.

Blood Bowl

Painting this model was very straight forward. Even the stripes weren't too tough - the trick to them was using a couple of thin coats of Abbadon Black mixed with a bit of Scar White and building it up that way. For his skin, I used my "ruddy skin" recipe. 

Blood Bowl

Blood Bowl

Influenced by the Forge World paint job, I did his black trousers and hat a little cartoony (or cell-shadedy) by sketching in loose swathes of the grey mix above.

Blood Bowl

 All told, he came together quite quickly over a couple of painting sessions, and the bonus was that I painted his sneaky buddy at the same time because there is a lot of duplication of colours...but we'll find out more about that next week!

 See you then on The Art of Caesura!
Watching: Eyewitness
Reading: Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
Listening: If you Want Me - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
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