Winter is...Fast Approaching (Guild Ball)

It's fair to say that there are a lot of interesting and innovative models out and about across all ranges of miniatures and there are some amazing designs. Today, I am focusing on the Hunters Guild - the newest team to take to the pitch. They took my eye straight away but at the time of release, I wasn't particularly interested in Guild Ball and just had my Kickstater teams in a dusty case! Now, is a different story!
Now... oh, now - I've got them (most of them... anyway). I haven't got 'The Bear' yet due to the fact - I couldn't afford it at the time I got everything else and he seems fairly straightforward to play, so I wanted to get to grips with the faction first before I get/use him. I don't like leaving factions unfinished in any system, so he is on the radar!

So the team got built and I went for a bit of creative basing - simply because I hadn't seen anyone do it before! If it doesn't matter that a model protrudes the base, then let's get some trees on it!
I loved the idea of the Hunter's coming from the tree tops, almost Robin Hood Esque. I've seen a lot of excellent basing ideas from others who have painted the Hunters with snow or grass tufts. I really liked the idea of snow, particularly settling in trees/on branches.
Those who read this blog regularly or know me, know I that I can't really paint - I can if I sit down and try hard - like 'Disney make a wish on a shooting star' hard but that doesn't happen very often and it's easier to outsource painting to someone else who does it as part of his job. So, Steve (@furryjamhats) is my commission painter who does all of my Malifaux and 40k bits and bobs. I've shown you some of his work before and he does a very good job at getting my models painted! I have to feel sorry for him slightly as he currently has my Age of Sigmar army to paint - 100 Spider Riders, 3 Araknaroks, 3 Rock Lobbas, 1 Warboss of Spider, 1 Warboss on Giant Squig! Sorry... not sorry!

Anyway,

The finished result - very autumnal! The next step - SNOW! After all, Winter is Fast Approaching!

These are some good shots of highlighting the snow but it was about 12am when I finished the snow on the bases, so I look some lighter ones!

You may be sitting there thinking: 'Oh, they're cool but... why the orange ball?' If you like/play football (soccer to our beloved bretheren) then in the 'Ye Olde Olden Days of Ye' when REAL MEN PLAYED IN THE SNOW (not angry just upset) the ball was a bright orange so it could be seen! I thought that this would be better for the Hunters' Guild in my world because the North is grim and full of snowbears!

Anyway, that's all I've got for you in this post. I managed to play a warm up tournament game again Si (@irons1de) on Thursday which I'll put up in another post soon. I will say that I used something slightly different to what I've used before!

Thanks for reading,
I'll see you soon!

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