Blood Bowl Gnome Team Paint Recipes and Alternative Colour Schemes

Now, coming out onto the gridiron in the game of Blood Bowl is… well they’re small, they’re wearing stitched hats, and for some reason they’ve brought a goose onto the field. The team, The Glimdwarrow Groundhogs, are up on pre-order as of time of writing, and I got the opportunity to paint them thanks to a preview copy sent my way by Games Workshop. And, since it’s Blood Bowl, it’s a primary opportunity to put your own stamp on a particular team. Hell you’re going to painting one maybe two boxes of them and a couple of star players at most. Why not do something outside of your norm? So here’s seven outside of the norm ways to paint Gnomes which I hope prove helpful!

Well, six ways and a fox, but who’s counting.

Brethren of the Bolt Alternative Paint Scheme Guide

Warhammer Underworlds has long been a source of unique Age of Sigmar miniatures based around one particular faction, or a specific subfaction of a faction, or something so off the wall and downright — and there’s no other way to put this — Warhammer that it could only exist in the minds of Games Workshop’s miniature designers. The Brethren of the Bolt, one of the two Underworlds Warbands included in the Wintermaw box (available for pre-order as of publication of this post) are one of them. They’re basically a gaggle of Sigmar-loving fanatics who worship his aspect as a god of lightning by strapping lightning rods to their heads, tying chains to said rods, then attaching said chain to the end of long (or not very long) poking stick/hammer and jamming it into whatever they come across. Yep. Very Warhammer. And I very, very, VERY had to paint up a bunch of such lovelily weird folks. So here they are, in a slightly different colour scheme to normal. I’ll also attach how I painted their bases at the, erm, base of the post.

Ten Solar Auxilia Veletaris Storm Section Alternative Colour Schemes and Painting Recipes

During the Horus Heresy, there’s Space Marines. Everywhere. Half of them are really not happy and trying to kill the other half, who are equally unhappy and equally trying to kill the other half. In between, there’s the Mechanicum, the Mechanicus, the Adeptus Custodes, a heap of all manner of others, and the Solar Auxilia. Now, you’re a Solar Auxilia warrior in the 31st Millennium. You’re given heavier armour than your compatriots and an option between a gun which can effectively melt anything up to and including a Space Marine at a distance, or an axe. So what do you choose? Yep. Axe! So that’s how I built the ones Games Workshop sent my way. And painted them all sorts of different colours. So here you are! Ten Solar Auxilia Veletaris Storm Section soldiers, all in different colour schemes and all with Storm Axes because it’s Warhammer; if you can hit it in the face with a big thing, hit it in the face with a big thing.

Saviours of Cinderfall Alternative Painting Contrast Recipes

In the Age of Sigmar, there are monsters and gargants the size of… well… gargants and Orruks riding giant pigs and humongous rotflies and rats that walk like men and undead horrors the likes of which no mind can comprehend. Oh and there’s humans, too. Lots of them. And of amongst those humans, heroes. Just some of those heroes, along with a Gryph Hound and a Stormcast Eternal with a properly massive shield. And keys. Lots and lots of keys. The Saviours of Cinderfall are out on pre-order today from Games Workshop, who saw fit to send me a box. So, of course, I painted them, created recipe cards which are available right here for you!