The Chaos All Stars 2018

So, my Chaos Star Players from Willy Miniatures arrived, and the current “situation” means I have a bit more time to get to work on them (in between The Horus Hersey stuff I am painting).

First up and a current WIP Grashnak Blackhoof.

I like the way the Chaos symbol has come out, but am regretting going flat black on the skin, deciding whether to highlight up using blues or greys.

Going to try and get him finished this week.

UPDATE

Now he is starting to come together.

Opted to dry brush the skin with Dark Reaper then Thunderhawk Blue.

Still need to get a better picture in some natural light!

Well, after nearly 2 years in the making, The All Stars finally played a match!

Line Up:

• Rex Farsight
• Lewdgrip Whiparm
• Morg’N’Thorg
• “Constrictor” Atlanson
• Jurgen Demonfeeder
• V’Hnn Qllss Zzchhtrr
• Dirty Dan
• Bork Bulge-Belly
• Sark Four-Eyes
• Zy-Nox
• Spider Smith
• Luxon Hrull
• Engel Von Evilstein

In their debut match, they defeated The Gouged Eye 2:0.

Highlights included V’hnn making a blitz against the orc thrower scattering the ball loose for Sark Four-Eyes to pick it up and run into the endzone.

Rex Farsight also scoring a running touchdown, after having failed a pass to Luxon Hrull, and Morg’N’Thorg running rampant.

Morg managed to K’O 3 Orc lineman, and killed an Orc Blitzer.

Lowlights of the match Bork Bulge-Belly constantly failing his Really Stupid test, and Zy-Nox being unable to do more than push back an Orc Lineman for half the game.

What this proved to me is that my brother’s friend (From the original blog post) who “owned” the All-Stars was not only unable to paint them properly, but also didn’t know how to coach them!

Next up, The Chaos All-Stars take to the field against some High Elves.

Morg for the win!!!

So, a couple of things, first off I started this in 2018 and here we are in 2020 and I still am not satisfied with the squad!

Secondly word has come through that Willy Miniatures are shipping my Chaos Star Players I bought in their Chaos Team Kickstarter. So we should see a few more players turn up over the next few weeks.

However, when researching the fluff of the All Stars, there are a quite a few other names that I cannot get players for:

• Acid Scarred Max
• Snake Sanders
• Pabst “the Box” Brook
• Garak Grigolson

Are a few All Star Players that exist as both pics or figures that GW produced, or were part of the Phil Lewis team.

So what I have been playing about with time I wait, is the HeroForge site. This has enabled me to at least get an idea of how possible it might be to customize some minis to represent these characters.

My issue however (as ever) is getting them the right size to blend in with the rest of the team.

So, I am going to spend a little bit of time asking some questions, doing some research to see what sort of height I need to set these guys at so they don’t look too silly!

**UPDATE**

I forgot to respond to this at the time, but @drisco13 mentioned in a comment that he thought Pabst “The Box” Brook was actually Galem Goreblade.

Pabst first got a mention in second edition 1988

From left to right

Snake Sanders

Rex Farsight

Morg’N’Thorg

Pabst “The Box” Brook

“Constrictor” Atlanson

I can see the confusion however as Galem Goreblade looks like this:

But he didn’t debut until 1989.

and If I was going to custom make him, he would look a bit like this ha ha.

Thanks for the feedback! and I hope your CAS team is going great!

As promised / threatened (delete as appropriate) more Chaos All Star players have arrived.

V’hnn “Snakey” Qllss Zzchhtrr

Rex Farsight

Way back when in Step 14, I mentioned how I had backed Willy Miniatures kickstarter for their resin Chaos team, only to obtain some more Chaos Star Player miniatures.

Well needless to say those still haven’t arrived (which is odd because the Vampire Resin Team I bought from them turned up ages ago – but that is another story)…..So time I have been awaiting my Chaos players, I started having a nose around the internet on various Blood Bowl sites and found names of other All Star players.

Acid Scarred Max

Ruddog Ironhead

Rex Farsight

Spider Smith

to name but a few. Well after searching for awhile, I found a forum that mentioned that for some Unofficial Blood Bowl tournament a number of custom miniatures had been created and given away. This of course lead me down a rabbit hole, where I found a whole Chaos All Star team for sale on Ebay, using a combination of casts from Phil Lewis’ original All Star Players, and some others who have been created more recently (I think the last one I found was from 2015 – 2016).

From there I found a company called Impact Miniatures who sell at rather generous prices casts of some of these figures.

The only issue being size – Phil’s team were 28mm and the current Blood Bowl minis are closer to 32mm.

Any who, long story – somewhat shorter, I have bought some!

I currently have a Rex Farsight, V’hnn “Snakey” Qllss Zzchhtrr, Ruddog Ironhead, and Spider Smith.

However Spider Smith is quite small (I think that one we can get away with) but Ruddog Ironhead looks tiny in comparison to everyone else – although he was meant to be larger. There is another one of him kicking about on Ebay at the moment so if i can get definite news of him being 32mm i may buy him again.

I have attached some pics of what the minis look like, these aren’t my versions however, so far all I have done is glue them together and base coat them.

More to follow when the true work begins!

*UPDATE * The very nice people at Impact Miniatures have actually sent me a replacement Ruddog Ironhead at 32 mm scale – at no extra cost! Which is jolyl decent of them.

One of our earliest miniatures for this project, was a proxy Lord Borak figure.

However last month at UK BoardGames Expo, I was able to pick up the ForgeWorld miniature.

Big debate around this, do you paint your star players in their individual colours? Or opt for your team colours?

I decided to go team on this one.

Well, time I am awaiting the Willy Minatures Chaos 2.0 PM to open so I can snag a few extra Chaos star players, I have been contemplating adding a Nurgle Bloater to the team just for fun.

Then today I sat down to watch The Weekender and my eye was caught by the Rampart Kickstarter – Rampart: Magnetized Modular Terrain for Tabletop, via @Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1915792245/rampart-magnetized-modular-terrain-for-tabletop

I am so tempted to get in on this to use the Gothic scenery as the walls of a Blood Bowl stadium!

I only this week picked up the Chaos Themed pitch, so my mind is a wash with how that could all go together!

I have 3 days to talk myself our of this!

Thoughts!?!