Cathy's Butchers!! All photos of my finished Guild Ball team are here!!

This is the second Guild Ball Butchers team that I've painted. This is my personal team, so I can play too!
Photos of my other team are also on the blog.

The Butchers Guild

Wow! So it was after Adepticon that I was approached to paint an entire Guild Ball team.

I had the Starter Box for the Butchers Guild in my hands a month later.

You may have seen my post about finishing those four models.

After Gen Con I started in earnest on the remaining six figures.

To my surprise, another two were added;

the Kickstarter version of Ox, and the newly released mascot, Truffles.

Well, here they are, finally finished.

Boy, sometimes you wish you had the brainstorm to put your name on each

picture, after you've finished everything and already posted them on the blog. Sigh.
You all know I painted them, and Hank has the team in his hands now.

Good luck with them, Hank. May their reign be bloody!

Guild Ball -- Home Field Advantage

Sometimes the bases make the models...

Guild Ball:

Home turf for the Butcher's Guild.

In which I walk you through the four bases I've made

for the Butcher's Guild starter box.

Wooden planks were wanted as atmosphere.

Naturally I thought meat should be included.

Below: I used actual wood stirring sticks, scoring 

them with a wood carving tool to accentuate 

the grain, and make it look like flooring.

Below: I used Green Stuff, the two part epoxy putty to sculpt

steaks and sausages. I wanted the steaks to look like beef strip

steaks, so I first sculpted the strip loin, and cut steaks from it,

as you would do with a real strip loin.

Below: I had to figure out which models go on which bases, and

then figure out which one gets the steak and which gets the links.

Below: Primed using Badger Air Brush's Stynylrez Red Brown Primer.

Being used to either white, black, or grey primer, it was interesting to work around this color. 

I don't have an air brush, so as you can see, this works great with regular brushes too.

Below: The first thing I did was use Secret Weapon and

Citadel washes, applying them all over first, and then targeting

certain areas more to darken them.

Below: I forgot to take note of the colors I used for the actual wood, which were applied first, but these are the colors I used for the meats.

Below: Here's what my palette looked like. Among the reds, and whites, you can see a cool gray color as well, which is one of the colors I used on the wood planks for a temperature contrast.

And here's the finished product!

Makes you want to heat up the grill.