Blood Bowl Dwarves - Finished

My dwarves are finished! After the Agrax Earthshade wash dried, it only took a few quick steps to get them to the end zone.

Drybrushing the Main Highlights

Each miniature has a dominant color, and that was drybrushed on after the wash was dried. The Slayers had orange drybrushed on them. The blonde beard had ivory applied. The regular dwarves had a bone color drybrushed on their armor. A few had a second color carefully drybrushed on with some intentionally applied flicks. 

Skin

The skin was finished off with the flesh color reapplied to the raised areas. Then a thinned lighter color was dabbed on for the highlights. This isn't very quick, but faces and hands are focal points on a miniature and deserve extra attention.

Gems

I tried a few options for the gems, and then found a quick solution:

1. Base with bright silver metallic paint
2. Wash 5x with Army Painter Blue Ink thinned 1:7 with water to make it a glaze.

The silver gives a little sparkle to the edges of the gems and the glaze pools in the different facets. It was easy and effective.

Basing, Transfers, and Varnish

The bases were finished off with the retro green sawdust flock and some brown grit. The minis had their decals applied and then were coated with two shiny coats of Humbrol gloss. They were finished off by brushing on one coat of Army Painter Matte Varnish. I avoided the gems with the matte varnish to retain their sparkle.

I'm very pleased with the way they turned out. Drybrushing an ivory/bone color over the entire miniature was a great way to save a ton of time instead of highlighting everything individually. Taking extra time on a few key areas makes it look like I took much longer on the figures than I actually did.