Old goats

These were originally done ultra quick, ie glued up and dipped, for a friend with a small budget and a big rush. At the time he made do without properly painted up warriors, and gors without any frills.

Dipping works, but results improve much if you actually brush it on. It works especially or perhaps specifically with earth-tones, and this burnt orange or terracotta is one. So are the skin and fur. That does mean that the minis lack some contrast, so-called 'pop!' perhaps, but it sped things up at the time. The somewhat hyper-green grass helps offset the orange and brown, though.

Warriors... plastics. One converted human thrower, one converted chaos warrior with a daemonic claw hand. All these warriors had very BB-friendly poses, so it was just weapon snipping that needed doing.

Dwarf team: group shot

Here they are all together in one picture, finished except for the varnish and numbers.

I am quite pleased. A reasonably priced football-looking team, 16 strong.

Dwarf team: The killdozer!

Finally we come to the end of the road with these dwarves, and I saved the best and wackiest for last... the killdozer. While it is of course technically 'just' a deathroller, I was not pleased with any available choices out there and made my own.

Keen-eyed readers may have spotted that the driver of this Mario Kart-esque monstrosity is in fact one of the already twice seen on this blog drunken dwarves, only with a new poorly sculpted helmet on, but still drunkenly toasting us in beer. How right you are. I cut him in half at the waist, and he replaced the cyborgy driver that the thing had, before I built a frame and added a dwarfish panel on front.

I am pleased with this silly thing. It is stable, not too big, fun and unusual. Perhaps I could have stuck to ideas of adding an antenna with a tail and/or fuzzy dice, but I think they would have seened weird. I could also put more work into getting the guy's helmet to look like his team mates', but...

Dwarf team: runners

The runners are the last of the conventional players, and the least converted. All I did was 'fix' their noses.

They have weird 'purity seal'-looking decorations on their shoulders that I did not quite know what to make of. Why? No clue. Sometimes you really would like that commentary track with your minis. An explanation. Why the runners and no one else? I left it on, though I could have knifed and filed without that much effort.

I liked the bandanas, at least until I thought of awful pirate dwarves.

Caped blitzers

Taken from behind.

Dwarf team: blitzers

These are perhaps my least favourite players on the team. While I like their facemasks, I cannot say that I have any love for their capes. While painting a cape can be good fun, I just can't see past the stupidity of wearing one in a game like Blood Bowl. That said, I opted to leave the capes as the conversion was basically impossible. Even with an almighty cut, there is nothing underneath the cape, and I would have had to sculpt an entire back of the mini...

Dwarf team wip: linemen

So far so good. This line will hold for sure with a sturdy and stubborn group of blockers.

Figured out where they are from? I will help by revealing that I cut the horns off their helmets, filled it out a bit as that left them with small heads, and gave them all nosejobs. This helped their look slide towards the more cartoonish old Citadel/Marauder look and it matched them better with the driver of the yet to be revealed kill-dozer. Sharp little noses on dwarves? Really?

People will recognise the Packers colours, but I still need a good name for these guys, a good coach (torn between two choices) and a stronger urge to bore myself playing dwarves.

More to come...

Dwarf team: slayers

First two players are basically done: the slayers. Obviously the bases still need work.

These are actually conversions, so points to whoever can name the manufacturer of the originals. I did violence to their fugly helmets, and the mohawks sticking out through the helmets are green stuffed on by yours truly.

They wear no clothes except those helmets, so I kept them in order to have somewhere to put the team colour. Or at least one of them.

Very pleased with the orange.