Right you horrible lot! Did you over-indulge at Christmas? Good!
As it happens I’ve been a busy boy. With the end of the year looming I decided to finish off my Black Orc Blood Bowl team (minus the troll – for crying out loud will you stop going on and on about that bloody troll!). The team had reached the stage where although there were still several models to paint they were all fairy small, nothing I couldn’t handle before we reach 2022 right?
First things first we have the three remaining goblins that complete the squad of players able to take to the pitch. Let’s take a look at them.
This one seems to think he’s a bit tough. Let’s see how well that holds up when a chaos warrior is thundering down towards him…
I do like this lad’s headgear, very stylish indeed sir!
Gathered together with their mates from a couple of weeks ago, we have the goblin half of the team (joining the Orc half which I painted – appropriately – back in Orctober).
Of course we need a full-team group shot but that will have to wait because we have a few other things to look at first. Each team comes with a couple of coin-shaped counters with the team logo stamped on them.
And then we have a couple of balls. Again each team comes with balls in the style of the team. Do you want to see a goblin playing with his balls? You do? Well ok then…
A clever thing about a lot of the recent Blood Bowl teams is the way that each miniature can be built in one of two very distinct ways. Two sprues of models therefore give you two sets of pairs of models. In the first Orc team I painted you ended up with two sets of “clones”, each Orc was the same as their partner, until I set about converting with gusto of course! With this team there was no need to do that, and in my book that’s a very good thing. Much as I enjoy converting models it should be something that you do because you want to do it, not because you feel you have to just to end up with an aesthetically pleasing collection. Anyway, just for interest here’s all the pairs of models from the Black Orc team. Despite the name of this blog I can’t recall doing anything in the way of converting with these.
And there we have it, the Black Orc team is ready to roll. Want to see a group shot? Of course you do!
I’ve still got plenty more Blood Bowl to tackle in 2022 of course. There’s that half-painted elf team, my long-neglected humans and various undead monsters all clamouring for attention. And that troll of course but the less said about him the better!
December 28th, 2021 at 8:49 am
Nicely done sir… now, about that troll… 😁
December 28th, 2021 at 9:18 am
Thanks muchly mate! Couldn’t read the second half of your comment though, think there must be something wrong with my screen, I can’t make out the final word at all… 😇
December 28th, 2021 at 12:24 pm
😂
December 28th, 2021 at 10:08 am
Excellent mate. Conversions or no conversions you’ve done a fine job. The goblins are so characterful
December 29th, 2021 at 12:19 pm
Cheers man! Yeah, these goblins have so much character I didn’t want to convert them, they’re great as they are. On the other hand I’ve got the other set of goblins they released for Blood Bowl and those do need a bit of sprucing up to make them a bit more interesting, I’ve already started converting those so expect to see them here sooner or later. 🙂
December 29th, 2021 at 12:30 pm
Looking forward to it
December 28th, 2021 at 8:12 pm
Great looking team Wudu old chap, not sure I would want to be in the opposition taking these guys on. 🙂
December 29th, 2021 at 12:26 pm
Cheers! Aye, imagine seeing those guys charging across the pitch towards you – I’d be out of there like a shot!
December 28th, 2021 at 11:33 pm
These look great, mate but what about the troll? 😉 In all seriousness, these gits are a great addition to the team and they look nice all together as well. That was cool that GW made it easy to keep variety up while working on the team. There is nothing more demotivating than having to paint the same exact sculpt over and over!
December 30th, 2021 at 2:09 pm
Cheers mate! Yeah, the older Blood Bowl teams really suffer from duplicate poses, something the new ones have – I’m very pleased to see – moved away from. I’ve always had a dislike of multiple duplicates in the same collection, painting the same model over and over again never seemed like fun to me. This was actually what started me down the road of converting my miniatures. Because I enjoy converting models I don’t mind having to do it with the earlier teams like the Orcs and Humans but it’s really nice that with the later teams it’s a choice rather than something I feel forced to do.
December 29th, 2021 at 4:41 am
Now dat’s a ded sexy bunch ov ladz. I bet day krump well ‘ard wen dey meet da gurly pointee eearz! Job’z a good goodun mate!
December 29th, 2021 at 4:42 am
Funny how hard I had to fight the autocorrect to get that comment! One of its “corrections” still got past me!
December 31st, 2021 at 2:16 pm
Yoo wot?! Oto-korrekt?! Wotz dat den?! Maybee we need Orko-korrekt, sumfing dat makez yer phone spell ‘fings propah?
January 5th, 2022 at 10:48 pm
Orko-korrekt! HA! 😀
December 31st, 2021 at 2:13 pm
Dem pointy eared gits won’t know what hit ‘em! Hur-hur-hur!
December 29th, 2021 at 4:30 pm
Very nicely done! 🙂 I can’t believe that 2021 marks the first time ever that I’ve seen a goblin playing with his balls (I had thought about trying to type this comment at around 8:21pm just to really confuse the issue)!
December 30th, 2021 at 11:32 am
Now you’re just reminding me of the story of the old general who goes for a check-up with his doctor. Whilst the doctor is conducting his examination he asks if his patient is sexually active, to which the old man promptly replies “Let me think, last time I had sex was 1945!”. “Good grief”, says the doctor, “Are you really telling me you’ve not been with a woman since the end of the second world war?”. “Nonsense man!”, the general cries, “It’s only 2100 hours now!”
December 30th, 2021 at 12:58 pm
🙂
January 1st, 2022 at 4:27 pm
Awesome work. And I do love to see a wee team photo at the end.
January 3rd, 2022 at 2:22 pm
Cheers! Aye, it wouldn’t be right not to include a cheeky group shot at the end. 🙂
January 5th, 2022 at 9:17 am
Great work on these little fellows matey!!got to love the yellow headgear!
January 5th, 2022 at 10:57 pm
Cheers – he looks pretty natty doesn’t he!