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Holy Hand Grenadiers squires numbered 8 and 11 in focus, olive tunics with red scarves and slate blue knee pads, on green bases with white number labels, more squires blurred behind
Overhead close-up of a brush laying red onto a squire held on a painting handle, with a wet palette and more squires in the background
Six work-in-progress Bretonnian squires, including numbers 8 to 11, lined up in the painting station tray, Krydrufi logo on the station behind them
Blood Bowl Oct 21, 2026

Squires keep dying, I keep painting

Every Bretonnian coach knows the squire life cycle. Take the field. Get flattened. Visit the dugout. Repeat. 🛡️

Mine have been dying at an alarming rate this season, and I keep painting them anyway. This session was another coat on the Holy Hand Grenadiers' squires, a lot of it building up the reds. There's still a long way to go: mid tones and highlights everywhere, base coats on some of the skin, and then the bases.

Is it smart to keep putting hours into linemen who don't survive the season? Probably not. But they look a lot better dying in team colors.

The painting station is from Krydrufi, 15% off with code lefthanded. Links in bio, and they're affiliate links, so using them supports me 🙌

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