After some years of inactivity, I've been thinking about Blood Bowl a lot these last few months. As well as the gears turning in my tiny brain concerning rules for another dive into the E.R.L., I've also been tempted to get some painting done.

After painting those last two star players, I continued walking down this path by choosing three more.

These included Varag Ghoul-Chewer, who I was painting for the second time in my life. I stupidly killed my original model that I got back in the 90s by lopping off his hands and grafting them onto a Warhammer Fantasy Black Orc, in my attempt to make a more imposing model. This time around, other than the silly yellow face on his chest, I went with a colour scheme that felt very Snakebitey, in honour of my favourite clan.

Also included in this little batch was a Dark Elf from the 90s metal team, who in my collection is going to be used as Roxanna Darknail. I'd had a desire for a while to paint a model in quite a bright red and yellow scheme, and she was already undercoated in red. So picking this model made sense.

If you don't count my test Storm Vermin from a few years ago, the next model was my first Skaven player in Headsplitter. I highlighted his skin before washing, which I think was a mistake as he went quite dark afterwards. The highlights are still visible, and I didn't want to paint them all again, so sod it.

Part way through painting these, I got a delivery in the form of a few new paints from TTCombat, which I was trying for the first time. At this point, I've used them all except the green, and they seem pretty good so far.

After painting the star players, I sighed and accepted that it was about time I finished the full Skaven team, which I'd not touched since mid 2017. Poor rats had been abandoned all this time.

Against my better judgment, I continued the scheme I originally came up with. Though I am loathed to paint yellow over a dark undercoat, I really did need a team to have at least some of this colour on them. And they are the Undercity Cheese Thieves after all. It's likely that they would have that colour on the brain.

Part way through painting, I needed to touch up some of the skin I'd painted years ago. However, I simply couldn't find the pink paint I'd used as a base coat. I have absolutely no idea what happened to it. Maybe it dried up, but I don't remember ever throwing it away. Odd.

I had to mix a kind-of similar colour out of a different pink and a pale grey. Meh, it works. Ish.

I've not tried as hard with these models as I have on some other models recently, and got through them in a bit of a rush. But they are adequate for my own low standards.

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Here are the finished results of my recent Blood Bowl painting spree.

When I was a wee young lad, one of my friends had a board game called Escape From Atlantis, which I only got to play with him once. At weird, random times throughout my life, vague memories of this game have popped into my head just to say hello.

Last year, I saw that the game had been reprinted under the name Survive The Island, and I clearly must have mentioned this to some family members, as I ended up receiving it as a gift over the Christmas period.

Though eager to get stuck in, I first needed to give the game a little TLC to get it ready for the tabletop.

Firstly, like I've started to do with many of my other games, I painted some thinned PVA glue around the edges of the thick card pieces, to seal them and hopefully prevent potential minor damage in the future.

Secondly, though the wooden meeples all had their points values engraved on their undersides, I thought these numbers were a little hard to see. So to remedy this a little, I dribbled in some thinned down black and white paint to make the numbers pop a little more.

Lastly, one of the meeples had a small section that was spearing off, so I glued it and held it in place with a clothes peg until it was fully set.

We had a full five players for the game's maiden outing.

I had an absolute stinker of an early game, with my little dudes getting dunked into the water straight away. One of my five point guys swam all the way to one of the islands only to get chomped right before he made landfall.
I wasn't even able to save anyone until my penultimate turn, when I got 3 of my little orange meeples back to land to somehow grab second place with 10 points.

But there was no stopping the yellows, who were clear in the lead with 15. I can't remember who got what, but the other 3 players all had either 6 or 7 points, so were very close.

It's a fun little game and easy to learn, but because of its simplicity and how competitive it is, I'm not sure how much play it will get in our little group, as we tend to lean towards more co-operative experiences.

I really needed a darker silver, so I wasn't quite ready to give up on that Humbrol paint just yet. I pulled the top off with some pliers, and dispensed it into an empty pot.

Not a great deal came out of it, but after giving it a damn good mix and shake, it turned out to be quite a good paint, probably the best of the four Humbrol paints I bought, at least.
It does however seem to be quite a "weak" paint, in that if I picked up the model by any parts that had that paint on it, the paint would rub off quite easily.

I ended up using it quite a lot on Ramtut, and on some bits of the Evil Sunz. It's not as dark as I'd like, but it's better than the other bright silvers at my disposal.

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Epic Orks aren't the only things I've been painting recently. For some weird reason, even though the game isn't on our radar at all, I decided to paint a couple of random Blood Bowl star players.