Blood Bowl

I have also mostly completed a giant.  He is fully printed but did not have an appropriate base.

Once received, he will be based up accordingly.

Next completed was The Animal. Not really an undead player but later on he year I may crack out a team he can be used in for Halloween……or maybe not.

Another star player completed.

Grashnak has been completed.

Paint wise I managed to only use 2 Citadel paints (3 technically) and those were washes, so they don’t really count.

I did use Warplock bronze on the digit on the base but hated it so repainted over with the Two Thin Coats plate armour.

It does look better in real life as opposed to the photos

I believe the model is better in real life than the pictures show.  I am pleased with the results.

Also it was interesting to try and use the different paints.  I have so many but habit always makes me grab the citadel ones as I dirt of know the better combinations.  Going old school and picking a colour and mixing black and white to create shadows and highlights was interesting.

Next up is Skitter StabStab.  I may just paint him normally.

This model is really nice to paint.  It has plenty of detail which the dry brush helped accentuate with my painting.

The model is about half finished but I am liking the progress so far.

with my paints use, I have limited the GW paints with one exception.  I am mostly choosing a colour then using black or white to darken or lighten respectively.

The next model up for painting is Grashnak Blackhoof.   TBH I do like a Minotaur even the GW ones who are on steroids.

To mix it up a bit, I decided to try and paint this one with using minimal Citadel paints.  I have multiple paints that don’t get a look in as I am so used to grabbing a GW paint without thinking.  I will use the GW option if I need to but only as a last option.

So far I primed the model back (AK), then heavily dry brushed it white (Vallejo).

I then painted the armour Periscopes (Vallejo) and mixed a little of the white into the paint to do the edge highlight.

The metal trim was painted with Plate Armour (Two thin coats) and washed with Agra’s Earthshade (Citadel – the no GW lasted a long time).  I then edge highlighted with Mithril Silver (TTC).

I don’t really have a defined plan for a colour scheme beyond what has been done and that I will go for a darker tone for the flesh.  So will see what happens

So the next star player off of the pile of potential is Rashnak Backstabber.

I wanted to keep it similar to my chaos dwarf team but the way things are going with my team value I am unlikely going to need any stars for the team.

However, it is one more miniature competed.

Continuing on with my Blood Bowl models, the next one up is Anqi Panqi.

The Lizardman team is my favourite team so getting a new Star Player should be a good thing.  I won’t ever be able to afford him in a league but at the option will be there.

I decided to go with a scheme similar to my actual team but didn’t worry too much as this was just supposed to be a fun diversion.

The miniature is about 98% finished as I just need to paint the inside of the mouth and maybe do something more interesting with the feathers.

I have four more star players primed to paint and then I might head back to Moonstone painting – maybe even for the spring clean challenge.  But I also have the gnome team to paint which with the size of the gnomes, I have not been looking forward to.

To get over the batch painting of two teams in quick time, I decided to paint a single model.

I have a some GW star players still needing painting (surprisingly they are all built) but only a few have been primed so to keep it easy I picked one of those

The player I went for was the Guffle Pusmaw.  To keep it easy I went for the roughly the GW paint scheme and it turned out as follows.

it also turns out I can occasionally take a not completely awful picture.

The gift has been given and received – I think it was appreciated.

The good news is that he did actually come and a play a game.  So hopefully this will be one a regular thing again for him and in which case I can ignore the dodgy paint jobs and the amount of time I spent doing it, as the models will have served their purpose

Whilst waiting for my brothers team to arrive for painting, which took forever, I decided to paint up a spare team I bought a few years ago on a whim and never got round to painting.

So to go with the chaos dwarfs that my brother chose I had a Chaos Renegades team I bought.  I technically bought it for the big guys to use on other teams but never did use them for anything.

Again I went with the Blackburn Rovers theme but this time the away strip.  When I checked they play in black with a red pinstripe – there is no way in hell I was doing a pinstripe of 14 models.  I then remembered a tip he had years ago where they had black and red halves and thought that would do.

See below for some pictures with my consistently bad photography.

I did prefer these to the chaos dwarfs team but I think you can tell that it was a quick ( for me) paint job.

What I found out whilst doing these teams as a gift, I don’t like painting for other people.  I also found out I don’t like painting miniatures I don’t particularly like.

Both things arent exactly startling revelations but at least I know not to offer again so good times

As it was younger brothers birthday, I decided to paint him a blood bowl team as a gift.   In recent years with life taking over he has fell out of the habit of playing.

so at a recent family event I asked if he wanted a team for his birthday, which he could chose and I would paint.

He duly choose a team – one I wasn’t impressed with – but it was his choice so I ordered it anyway.

The team then arrived and off I wet to finish in time for his birthday.  Tbf when the team arrived, I was even less impressed with the sculpts and the quality of the print, but nevermind.

for the paint scheme I decided to keep it relatively simple so I could complete it in time but as he is a Blackburn rovers fan, I went for blue and white halves.

As you can see my photography skills are as bad as the models but they will do.  Below is a team photo, I am happy with the results?  Not really but they will do and I can always do a replacement for Christmas……… or not.

Had a friendly game with the Gilded Bulls – and although it was fun it was a loss against gnomes.

In fairness, it was a learning game and the dice rolls mostly went against me.  When I offered my opponent a few helpful hints, my helpfulness definitely backfire and the agate ‘no good deed goes unpunished’, but it was a fun game either way.

First half

I won the roll off and decided to revive the ball.

I promptly failed my first roll to activate my Minotaur and lost my blitz.  This was a theme for the rest of the game.  I then bashed his team, knocking out a couple of gnomes and knocking down a few more players.  I then went to pick up the ball with an hobgoblin and rolled a one (sigh).  A re-roll used already but picked up the on the second attempt.

The next three turns involved me breaking down the left hand side and ending a couple of squares from the end zone.  With my penchant for rolling ones, decided to not risk it and wait for my next turn.  However a 2 die uphill die roll allowed me to chose either a pow or a pow, I lose the ball and my player is stunned.  Over the next four turns my opponents fox player, managed to dodge through my turn and score on the last turn of the half. One nil down after the first half.   My only positive is that I injured one player and knocked out 8 others.

My opponent then rolls for his knocked out players and all but one return to the pitch.  FFS.

Second half

I kick to my opponent, he gets the ball and cages up.  I go on the offence with a Minotaur blitz and actually pass the roll, and then roll 3 both down results.  Try a refill but failed the loner roll, so wasted a turn and a reroll.  Good times.

In the next couple of turns, my opponent Stuntys his way through my defence by not failing a dodge, survived my attempts to hit his ball carrier and scored again.

I then receive the ball and smash a hole through his team.  With most of his team stunned or at least knocked over, I again make a run for it and get stopped a couple squares from the end.   He gets a couple players around I knocked over again.  I then on my next turn run a player to the ball and fail to pick it up, and obviously fail the re-roll as well.  He then scoops up the ball and runs down the field, I get the ball back and head back to the end zone.  He again knocks me over with a 2 die uphill roll.  He is about to take a wrestle until I ‘helpfully’ explain that he may break my hobgoblins armour which means I would be able score with that player.  Obviously he breaks my romper and knocks out the player.  That is how the end of his half.

I check out the situation and there is a chance I score but putting a player in the end zone and then throwing it to them.  The only issue is that I am out of re-rolls.  Oh well nothing to lose.  I run my bull centaur into the end zone with a rush.   I roll a six.  He is now in place.

I run a hobgoblin to the ball but need to go for it – another 6 – the roll to pickup the ball and roll a 3, which is all that is needed.  I check my passing skill and I need a 4+, which I roll, I then need to roll for the pass but need 4+.  So 50/50.  I obviously roll what seems like my 1 millionth 1 of the game.

so I have a 2 nil loss for the first one season game.

Summary

With a few better injury rolls, the game would have different but it was still enjoyable.

The foxes on the gnome team need to die.   With a 2+ AG and Stunty and Dodge, essentially they are a 2+ roll to dodge anywhere.

Anyway onwards and upwards – and will see how it goes next week

Had a friendly game with the Gilded Bulls – and although it was fun it was a loss against gnomes.

In fairness, it was a learning game and the dice rolls mostly went against me.  When I offered my opponent a few helpful hints, my helpfulness definitely backfire and the agate ‘no good deed goes unpunished’, but it was a fun game either way.

Had a friendly game with the Gilded Bulls – and although it was fun it was a loss against gnomes.

In fairness, it was a learning game and the dice rolls mostly went against me.  When I offered my opponent a few helpful hints, my helpfulness definitely backfire and the agate ‘no good deed goes unpunished’, but it was a fun game either way.

Neither came out brilliantly but they are to a good enough standard for me bearing in mind I will unlikely use them any time in the near future.

As a positive, at least I have now completed another 2 blood miniatures, I may have ordered 4 more from GW but as they haven’t been received yet, I think that means I am making progress.  So good times.

Going to have a break from blood bowl painting for a while, until I have at least built and primed my new stuff and then will see.

So, with the following model I have now got all the positional for a chow dwarf team – which when my next Blood Bowl league starts, is going to be my team of choice.

I simply followed the recipe for the rest of the Chaos Dwarf team, the exception was the skin and bone.

Skin colour was simply the GW dark skin trio – catachan, knight questor, and blood reaver skin paints.

Bone colour was starting from Kharak stipend and then ubshanti bone and screaming skull.

When I do start playing with the Chorfs, I may even submit a few game reports – don’t expect too many wins

Continuing with some star players – Puggy Baconbreath & Rumblelow Sheeskin.

Over the next couple of weeks, I am planning to complete a few more but will see.

So the Chaos Dwarf team are finished including star players.   I may come back and revisit it after I have found and acquired a suitable Minotaur mini but for now, I can move onto over things.

However, as I may need to remember the paint job, I will list the paints used.

Yellow armour:  Averland Sunset, Agrax Earthshade, Averland, Flayed One Flesh

Black: Curvus Black, Skavenblight Dinge, Stormvermin fur

Bone:  Zandri dust, Agrax, Zandri, ushanti bone, Screaming Skull

Brown:  XV88, Argrax, Tau Light Ochre, Ungor Flesh

Green Flesh:  Straken Green, Ogryn Camo,

Metal: TTC Plate Armour, Agrax, TTC Mithril Blade

I have taken some photos near completion which are below.

I did add a few white pitch lines on some of the bases but unless I do get the Minotaur, I am counting this team as finished.

I am now moving onto my outstanding star players.  These have been built and I want to get these completed before the end of the year so I have a clean palette for at least one game going into 2025 – I won’t succeed but I do want to clear out these projects.

I am also going to ignore the existence of my unpainted gnome team and that way it doesn’t count in the outstanding to do list.

GW Star players to do:

Puffy Baconbreath

Rumbellow

Bryce Cambuel

Grashnak

Jordell Freshbreeze

Skitter Stab-Stab

Karina von Reisz

Ivan Deathshroud

Count Luthor

Third party miniatures:

Count Luthor

Giant

Rowana

I need to finish the team but there are other things in my blood bowl collection needing to be sorted.  This includes a gnome team, various star players – both GW and third party, and a giant.

With the exception of the gnomes, I have included images of what needs sorting.  Some stuff does need building as you can see from the forgeworld models.