Blood Bowl = an over dose of Teams

WIP Progress this one as these are the only 3 players I have managed to paint so far.

Of course there are a lot more of these lads on their own Project Blog!

One of the big two Orc teams back in the day, if one person had the Gouged Eye, the other had to field the Raiders.

And their big name player (and he really does have a big name) was Grishnak Goblin-Throttler.

In the new BB it seems the Orcland Raiders are now being categorised as Black Orcs, now sure how I feel about that.

Although looking at the size of the fellow I picked up to be Grishnak he could probably pass as a Troll let alone a Black Orc!

This fella is by Meiko Miniatures, and he is huge and weighs a fair bit as well!

In the coming weeks / months, I will be throwing up my pics of the teams I have, with their additional players, will probably even get a few shots of them on all the pitches I have bought as well ha ha.

Now, back in the day my Brother painted up the Bright Crusaders to match their elaborate colour scheme. This consisted of half yellow, with the other half being diagonal white and blue stripes.

He used the plastic figures from the 2nd edition box set, and enamel paints, and a sharpened match stick for a brush (we were poor!). Needless to say this didn’t work out great.

Fast forward to now, and you can pick up a Bright Crusader team from Forgeworld, This uses the core human components from the last edition, and some resign bits to make them look different.

Colour scheme has been toned down as well, to a crème with blue socks and nice shiny armour.

I have gone with the Forgeworld scheme in the main. However rather than wash the Rakarth Flesh with Agrax Earthshade as suggested, I went with Seraphim Sepia to make it a bit more yellow. (this will come back to haunt me).

Also, on this thrower, I did his towel blue and white as a throw back to the old uniform.

I am also adding a star player to most of the teams just to make them look fancy. So for the Bright Crusaders I went with Karla Von Kill.

Forgeworld has a figure for her, but I don’t like the Wonder Woman vibes its giving me. The few pieces of art work for Karla depict her with a pony tail, and I wanted that to be the stand out feature on whatever miniature I went with.

In this case SP Minaturas’ Karla Star Player

Remember when I said that Seraphim Sepia choice would come back to haunt me? Yeah you guessed it, I wash Karla with Agrax Earthshade by mistake and her uniform is somewhat darker than the rest of the team.

Not sure what to do about that, I should really look back at my painting notes when there has been such a big gap in-between painting the main team and any additional players!

We are kind of working our way back from last team to first with this one, although even that isn’t true as I have an unboxed Nurgle’s Rotters team, anyway… one of the last team’s I bought were the Wood Elves.

Never actually had any Elf team when I used to play this, but I mainly picked these up as I liked some of the random star players that are out there.

So without further ado, here is an almost complete Jodrell “The Cyclone” Freshbreeze!

Still available as a star player in the last edition of BB, Jodrell started life as a classic Elven blitzer – Hockey mask and all – he also sported wonderful French Flag inspired hair. Later versions of him scaled this back to blonde with a blue streak. I however have gone old school and the tricolour is back in action.

Picked this figure up from Cominxninos who do lots of Blood Bowl minis. This one I think is named “Jordell Greenleaf” and is actually from Willy Miniatures.

Great hair, and its a resin mini, so it really holds the detail well. Bit of flashing which tends to be common with a lot of Willy Minis, but I like him.

I believe Freshbreeze doesn’t currently feature in the new Blood Bowl, but if he does make an appearance I cannot see a better mini than this one being thrown out.