Last player! Team is done now, and the last player is of course the ogre.
The ogre, like all the others, is of course not your average ogre. He is heavily converted and part rat-ogre, green stuff and does in fact not contain any conventional blood bowl or ogre bits.
Perhaps my only regret is that the ogre does not quite match the slightly more tribal and savage look that the marauders and other two biggies have. On the other hand, the goblin, skaven and dark elf are not savage, so...
Countdown continues... Here is the bull.
Quite a bull, I think. He (it?) is of course a conversion as well, featuring the rather hideous muscle-mino plastic head which I actually thought worked quite well on this.
He is somewhat dominated by the warpstone that's coming out of his body, and the chunk of it that he is holding, but I think it turned out alright, even with a super simple paintjob. The furry bits got to match the uniform that the other guys wear, and he really only wears team colour on his shoulder pad.
Finished. Two players awat from being all done...
I heart dark elves, but I have not painted many of them in my time. This mostly because I was not a fan of the 2nd ed dark elves with their short legs. They looked cool by themselves, kinda, but stupid next to other elves.
Most modern dark elves have become too streamlined, bondage-y or silly for my taste.
However, dark elves are essentially still elves, and it is really just a religious schism, so I used another elf. I did choose to do dark elf skin, just to hammer the point home, even if warhammer dark elves are not subterraneans or nocturnal, and really just should have regular skin. Wrestled with the issue.
So here he is. Aloof, cruel, slimmer and taller than his marauder team mates.
This is the finished version of the troll I have teased with before. Blitzing, and quite optimistically dynamic. In league play he will no doubt prove dumb as a post and inept at basic tasks, but hey...
Quite heavily converted, the quiz-minded are always welcome to try and identify his parts.
I went with green, linking him up with the team gobbo who is painted exactly the same.
All of these are done!
Needless to say, these are not your usual BB-players or even one of the easy and fairly common solutions. They are converted so that they do in fact contain GW-parts, and props to those who can identify the rest of them.
I liked the idea of tribes in the chaos wastes playing BB and wanted to do something different. Too different, perhaps?
Alright, so I did make this troll a while back and merely fixed him up some for action this time around. He is... made up of parts from a host of companies and is both metal and plastic, but obviously quite a runner.
I am not actually sure that I will be using him, as I have another idea that I may pursue instead, but here he is...
...with his 'friend' the dark elf who is in an awkward stage of painting. This one is barely converted, I mainly just hacked off some details that did not work for me. You can see hints of the colour scheme to be here already.
Toothy, clawy, lean and mean. Well, leaner than later ogres in the GW-world, but with a beer belly.
Heavily converted, he is part rat ogre, part ogryn, a Meiko-pad, green stuff belly and strap, head swapped...
Comments welcome for all of these.
The next season in the league offers me the chance to play around with my assortment of bits and random ideas as I am set to field a chaos pact. Needless to say, it will be creatively put together and quite different.
We start in the milder end of the spectrum with a somewhat leggy and large converted skaven (pad, strap, weapon removed and repositioning) as well as the team goblin. I believe he was born a gretchin, and he too has been disarmed and wrangled a bit and gotten a shoulder pad and strap.
All players are assembled and in a stage of painting at this point, so stay tuned.
The long-legged androgynous minotaur got a little of the time I had to spare over the holidays. Jonathan provided the feedback, and a strap for the shoulder pad now helps the bullman man it up a little.
Not seen in this particular picture is the green stuffed improvement to his too neat hair style which has now got a bit wilder down the back.
I am still not sure if I should fur up his thighs. That would mean his furry panties would no longer work though...
A long-legged minotaur with furry panties like MOTU-dolls, almost!
As you can tell, he is a random conversion that just happened as I tried to work off some of the stress from the office and the subsequent xmas shopping. Sawing and cutting followed by green stuffing does the mind good.
He is no masterpiece. Some may hate him for his soft and girly legs, hairless and long. Others may not like the very upright pose, or you may not like my removal of his weapon and sculpting of muscle where there used to be chain. It will all cover up nicely with primer, and I am debating giving him more fur as well.
As a favour to my league opponent and generous host of our boardgame antics, I took on the project of supplementing his team of converted humans with a dark elf, a goblin, a skaven, a troll and a minotaur. In return for some free deep pan pizza.
There were two challenges.
1. Keeping cost down. This was a "just whatever you can find"-job, but with a clear focus on getting in some cheap players. That meant conversion, as I obviously have loads of time for that...
2. Matching the paint job. I had one of the other players to work from as a dummy, and I had to try and match his base as well, obviously. This meant that the paint job is not representative of my current level of skill as such, as it involved some cheap and easy techniques that I would otherwise not be using.
That said, these minis should match up nicely with the ones he has, providing him with another team to play, and a unique one at that.
With several other teams to work on, I randomly put together a chaos troll for no good reason. I huess that is why this is a hobby, and not a job. Well, this and the whole paying for stuff to work on and lack of profit made.
So. Trollish fun.
Not the most chaotic creature to lumber out of the Northern wastes, but a nasty and highly mobile troll.
I am pleased with him, or I will be, when I finish his legs, and quite happy to get that head of his onto a good body and the pitch.
He has no real, visible mutation, so perhaps Disturbing Presence?
Yes, I know, he'll be a pain to place prone...
Continuing the flippant cutting and gluing with more or less random bits, I am still trying to push boundaries so that all big guys do not seem so dreadfully similar...
1. Ogre. Bald Vinny Jones-type, bodybuilder.
2. Troll. Gangly fellow, orangutang arms and Muppet-face. Often looks sad for some reason. Are trolls depressed by nature?
3. Minotaur. Massive torso/shoulder. Face can be like basically any animal, but it must have horns. Tends to have hooves, not feet these days.
Well, so I am deconstructing these slightly and incorporating random mutations (that no sensible coach might pick), as I figure the gods are fickle and have a weird idea of the word 'gift'...
Without further ado, a bearded ogre with very long legs. WIP.
I do like cobbling together big guys from bits, sculpting the odd detail to cover up problem areas where things did not quite meet up as neatly as intended, creating unique focal points for a team...
Problem is that new teams often start off this way, sucking the creative energies out og current projects. This, however, is a guy I am working on when I need a break from painting, and I am enjoying both, so all is well.
He should fit in well on a Pact I am putting together.
