The Imperial Nobility’s Bögenhafen Barons are one of two teams available with the new Blood Bowl core box, released last year. It has also been available as a single team for a few days and is the second human team to appear in this game. They stand out for the quality of their equipment: fantastic golden armor and large mustaches are the masters. I had a lot of fun painting this funny guy and I want to thank my friend Gigi from Ars Manufactorea who, as you will remember, gave us the opportunity to preview the new Blood Bowl box. Here at the top right you will find the link to unboxing. We had already painted one of the Black Orks from this box in a video from some time ago, using a somewhat alternative color scheme. Today, however, we see how to paint the Bögenhafen Barons while maintaining the color scheme proposed by Games Workshop itself.

How to paint the Bögenhafen Barons

After mounting and applying the classic black primer, I created a zenith highlight with white airbrushed from above. In this case, however, I accentuated some parts a lot, to take advantage of the white. I am referring to the feather on the head and the uniform of the Bögenhafen Barons, which is in fact white and purple. As you can see, I proceeded gradually, building the color slowly. Better not to get rushed into this hobby, otherwise the desired results are not achieved. Rather, enjoy the moment and the pleasure of making something uniquely done by you.

On this occasion I wanted to try some products that Redgrass Games sent me, namely the Studio XL wet palette which has a size of 30cm by 20cm. Definitely bigger than any other wet palette I’ve ever tried. This wet palette also features a 4-sided magnetized palette, useful for shaders for example.

Inside the box you have two sponges and a set of 50 sheets. As we have seen in the past, wet the sponge just spread one of the sheets and make sure to wet the edges slightly to prevent it from rolling up. Along with the wet palette, Redgrass Games kindly asked me to also try their famous handle which features a rotating and interchangeable head. Useful for those who paint several miniatures at the same time. Also available in the package is the paste that leaves no residue and perfectly fixes the miniature to your handle. It was enough to use a small part of it to fix our baron.

On the other hand, the handle is magnetized and with the disk that has a 3M adhesive, you can pause the work without the thumbnail falling. Really a great idea!

I then removed Baron from the classic cork and reduced the pins to be able to attach it to the paste of the Redgrass Games handle. This pasta is truly formidable, the miniature does not move a thousandth of a millimeter! This video will be quite experimental, in fact, in addition to the RedgrassGames products you have just seen, I wanted to experiment a bit with the Scale75, as the guys from the “Modeling and Wargames Laboratory” on Facebook like to call them. For these colors I have to thank again my friend Gigi from Ars Manufactorea.

I started by placing all the colors on the wet palette. Given the large amount of space that the Studio XL offers, why not take advantage of it? After the usual stir, I laid out some color of all the shades that I will need for the color scheme of Blood Bowl’s Bögenhafen Barons. The armor will be in gold, but as a base I decided to give a brown that helps a lot to spread this color, as our friend Chiara taught us in her video that you can find here at the top right.

For this stage, she uses a battle brush, with the sole purpose of mixing colors. That way you won’t have to worry too much if it loses its best shape. Having then prepared the right shade, I began to apply the resulting brown on the armor.

The rotating head of the Redgrass Games handle is really useful. With a little flick of the wrist, without moving your hand, you can turn the subject you are painting without difficulty. I found it a very convenient and immediate use solution. So I went on like this covering every part of the miniature which will then be made of gold.

I then prepared a darker brown to use as a beard base. The Scale75 purple that I have available is quite cool and distant in hue to that of the Games Workshop illustrations, so I added a hint of red to warm it.

With the color thus obtained, I painted all the purple parts of the uniform, taking care not to dirty the neighboring white parts. In fact, purple is particularly dark and covering any errors with white could be complicated.

For this, it is good to rotate the thumbnail and make the most of the brush tip in the creeks. The colors of Scale75 are really very opaque and as we saw some time ago, they have