Guild Ball Brewers
This is the Brewer's Guild from the game "Guild Ball". The models have been painted over a span of two years. Thus, indirectly, they document my progress.
They have been painted using the traditional style of basecoating, washing and highlighting. The yellow is an exception to that, it has been done this way:
1) Basecoat white, then apply Vallejo Gold Yellow diluted 1:1 with water. Usually one coat is enough to cover.
2) Highlight with Vallejo Pale Yellow. Highlight with white if you want a second highlight layer.
3) Wash with Secret Weapon Yellow Snow, re-highlight if you want to.
The yellow has been painted last, i.e. only once the other colours had already been applied and washed. This is because a clear white undercoat is required for the yellow to appear sufficiently opaque. If you hit the yellow with an accidental brushstroke of a different colour, the correction requires white undercoat again.
I stuck to a limited colour palette, which has a more important effect on the overall look than one would assume. For example, at first, some of the bottles were painted in a dark green. I decided to repaint them in brown tones and the overall effect of removing that single dark green was fantastic. The two remaining "distracting" elements that I could and should have fixed as well are the cat and the breath of fire.
The bright yellow immediately catches one's attention. The other colours are pretty bright as well, thanks to the white undercoating. If one compares this style to sketch stlye, sketch stlyle looks much, much darker. Some consider that a drawback (I do). On the on the other hand, sketch style is roughly three to four times faster. Can't have it all :).
Here are some shots of single models. Some of them are painted decently well, some are so-so. I've included them because I like the sculpts a lot.
This is my goal post, Esters's nicer sister, who is keeping the defenders' morale high by serving beers. This model is only interesting because of the conversion.
One of my favourite models from the entire range. In the fluff, Spigot is a former super star player who partied and drank a bit too much and lost his skills over it, becoming mediocre in the process. He swore off drinking and returned to his old form, which is why he's standing on a knocked over beer crate.
The recipe for the red hair is Vallejo Pale Yellow, shaded with Games Workshop Fuegan Orange and rehighlighted with thinned Pale Yellow.
A lot of Guild Ball models have too many belts. This one is no exception. I've gotten used to it and I love this sculpt.
Being one of the first PVC models, I always wondered whether the model was really designed as having no right arm or if this was simply the byproduct of learning what was possible with the new material and what wasn't.
One of the most iconic sculpts of the Brewer's Guild. Catch! ;)
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