A week in Bucks - my holiday painting project

I decided to take some paints and a couple of Blood Bowl teams on our holiday to Buckinghamshire. 

I used the game box to pack everything I thought I might need.

I've wanted to paint the Black Orc team for a while now. The team will be called The Big Pink Nightmares and I want their uniforms to be bright pink.

I started off with some basing:

I base-coated Varag, my black orc star player, and my two skaven star players on the first night. Unfortunately this was an old pot of paint and had gone goopy. 

I bought some new white paint in High Wycombe, just some Humbrol acrylic. But it worked nicely as a base coat. I also bought bright, light pink paint made by Vallejo. Games Workshop don't seem to do a pink in the shade I was looking for.

I then discovered the "goblin green" I had brought with me was a bit bright. Fortunately I had a more orcish tone with me so I used that on the orcs. The goblins stayed in the brighter shade though.

Eventually I got most of the team mostly painted. I'm not a great painter but badly painted is better than not painted at all...

I also took my wood elf team with me. They weren't attached to bases yet, so that was the first job. Games Workshop don't make it easy with some figures - they have minimal contact with the base!

Speaking of bases, I only managed to get a base coat of paint on them on them so they might have to play as ghost elves for a while!

But still, it felt like a decent amount of progress over the course of the week.

If you were observant, you might have seen I took the Norse team with me as well. They are still boxed and on their sprues, as I didn't have time to build them. Maybe next holiday...