The Seaburgh Gulls
Inspiration can come from many different places. When I was thinking about which team I should paint next and what colour scheme to use, I found myself in a bit of limbo. I was waiting for some figures to arrive so I would have enough models for an Undead team and a Chaos team, so I decided to look in my cupboard. There, I came across a box of modern Blood Bowl figures: Imperial Nobility. I realised that if I added a few models from my lead pile, I could make another full team.
That sorted out what I should paint, but I wasn’t going to paint them as the Bogenhafen Barons. I struggled for a while, flicking through my old issues of White Dwarf looking for inspiration, but it wasn’t until I was walking towards the Peace Park that I found my muse.
I have always had a soft spot for gulls, so when I saw this solitary gull perched on a lamppost, I thought I would try to work out a colour scheme based on a gull’s plumage. A seagull gave me three colours to work with: yellow, white, and grey. White would be the primary colour for the uniform, with grey as the secondary colour, and yellow as the tertiary colour. One change I made to my initial idea was to add metallic silver to the chest armour, to make the uniform a little—well—less uniform. The solitary seagull also gave me the name for the team: the Gulls. Overall, I am pretty happy with the way the figures turned out, even though they took quite a long time; I started them in November. That is my own fault for choosing colours that take a lot of work to achieve a decent finish.
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