So it\’s been a whole week since I finished off The Carnal Cavaliers so clearly it\’s time for the next Blood Bowl team. I am doing something slightly different with this team compared to the last few teams – I have decided to go back to the old \’paint a test piece first\’ method. I\’d gotten lazy about doing this because what invariably happens is I paint it up the way I initially planned… so what\’s the point? Welll yeah but I think what I fail to remember are all the little changes that are made along the way.
In the case of the pro elves I had an initial plan of painting them up like the Michigan State mascot:

But I soon realized that I wanted to really paint bronze armor. Non Metallic Metal is one of the techniques I really want to work on improving and this is a great opportunity, lots of metal on show to really work with. It\’s going to take a lot longer to paint this up because NMM really requires a lot of layering with fine gradient shifts to look right. I got the first layer down. Normally I would work from black but my brown paints don\’t have great coverage and I am worried about getting the coverage to work so starting with Oak Brown:

 I could continue to use the greens on the under layers, but thinking about it, I figured, I should go with the \’classic\’ Spartan aesthetic:

So already the test model is paying off. However Spartans have bare legs… the models have trousers… soooo what do I do for them? I am thinking white as a pretty traditional football uniform leggings. So here\’s where I am at so far: