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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Fantasy Sports => Topic started by: Mason on October 11, 2011, 01:41:22 PM
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Blood Bowl seems to be the order of the day today, so I thought I would share some pictures of the Skaven Blood Bowl team that I sold on ebay earlier in the year.
I had a bit of an obsession with Blood Bowl a few years ago, but decided that I did not play often enough, so decided to trim down the collection and sold most of my teams off, keeping just a couple that have some real meaning to me.
I sold these, a Goblin team and my Dark Elves. I only kept my Humans, as they are the best painted, my Lizardmen, which I had kit bashed and converted and were then painted by a good friend as a birthday present, and my Halflings, as I had sculpted them myself and they are the most fun to play!
I still had the pictures of the Skaven, so I thought I would post them here.
They have been kit bashed and converted from various GW plastic sets.
They are supposed to represent a cunning Skaven plan to infiltrate the Human Empire, disguising themselves as man-things to enable them to pass unnoticed in the society of the Empire!
Firstly, the Line-Rats
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/bloodbowl005.jpg)
A mix of skaven and Empire parts.
The Throwers
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/bloodbowl010.jpg)
Again Empire and Skaven parts with large Ogre hands and scratchbuilt top hats.
The Storm-Vermin blitzers
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/bloodbowl009.jpg)
The usual parts, but this time with Orc bodies to make them broader and Brettonian helmets.
The Gutter Runners
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/bloodbowl008.jpg)
This time with human legs to make them taller
The Rat Ogre
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/bloodbowl011.jpg)
Converted from a Marauder Ogre with Rat Ogre parts.
Finally- The Team photo
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/bloodbowl004.jpg)
I realise that the painting is not great. This is due to a friend asking if he could paint them. He did a great job until the moment he decided to experiment with Army Painter Quick shade, which did not work with the blue and white scheme. They then had to be overpainted and the quick shade had filled in a lot of the detail, making them very difficult to paint up to a better standard.
I was a little disappointed, but they still looked ok and you can see the idea that I had in mind when first making them.
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Aaah, look at the ugly hairy kids playing a big boys' game :)
Nice work and cool conversions. I think the paint job looks pretty good 8)
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Haha! They look awesome! :-*
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Rodents of Unusual size!
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They are great :-* :D
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I like them 8)
cheers
James
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Great work but a terrible pun. :D
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Great work but a terrible pun. :D
Pun?
What pun?
;)
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Hey Mason, did you post these on TBB way back when? I seem to recognize them, but can't be certain. Funny looking guys, I like them!
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Hey Mason, did you post these on TBB way back when? I seem to recognize them, but can't be certain. Funny looking guys, I like them!
Phreedh; I have no idea what TBB is.
As I said, I sold these on ebay a while ago.
Maybe the buyer posted them.
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Phreedh; I have no idea what TBB is.
As I said, I sold these on ebay a while ago.
Maybe the buyer posted them.
Ah, maybe... or I'm just a confused old man. o_o
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VERY IMAGINATIVE STUFF! I like doing my Goblins up in Renaissance garb also. The top hats are outstanding...they remind me of the style of hat worn by the Stradioti.
While the painting is not up to your Oh-So-High standard, they are still attractive minis...a WELL DONE to your friend is in order.
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I admire people who can do this, I have too little skill and not enough patience to embark down this route. :'(
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Phreedh; I have no idea what TBB is.
As I said, I sold these on ebay a while ago.
Maybe the buyer posted them.
TBB = Talk Bloodbowl, now renamed Talk Fantasy Football after a C&D (cease and desist) letter from GW (Games Workshop) ;)
http://www.talkfantasyfootball.org/
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Great collage there, they look really armonious, the various parts fit perfectly!
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Ah, maybe... or I'm just a confused old man. o_o
OLD?
I think not!
VERY IMAGINATIVE STUFF! I like doing my Goblins up in Renaissance garb also. The top hats are outstanding...they remind me of the style of hat worn by the Stradioti.
While the painting is not up to your Oh-So-High standard, they are still attractive minis...a WELL DONE to your friend is in order.
Thanks, DeafNala.
I agree, and have thanked him profusely!
He did a great job, until the 'dip', and the rescue was damn good too, consider all the detail had been filled in!
I admire people who can do this, I have too little skill and not enough patience to embark down this route. :'(
It wasn't too difficult, joroas. All the parts are plastic, except the Rat Ogre, so cutting and filing to fit was easy. The big guy took a bit longer, but only because of cutting matal. The whole project was fairly straightforward and easy. This is the best thing about plastics.
TBB = Talk Bloodbowl, now renamed Talk Fantasy Football after a C&D (cease and desist) letter from GW (Games Workshop) ;)
http://www.talkfantasyfootball.org/
Thanks, Pil. Will have to check that out.
Great collage there, they look really armonious, the various parts fit perfectly!
Thanks! Like I said, not too difficult as they are plastic.
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Just thought that I would add two more teams here, just for a pictoral record before I sell them.
First up: Lizardmen.
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/sales1022-1-1.jpg)
The Skinks
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/sales1031-1.jpg)
The Saurus
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/sales1027-1.jpg)
The Kroxigor
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/sales1025-1-1.jpg)
The Turn and Re-roll Counters
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/sales1035-1.jpg)
The Halflings
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/sales1003-1-1.jpg)
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/sales1009-1.jpg)
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/sales1012-1.jpg)
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/sales1016-1-1.jpg)
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/sales1020-1-1.jpg)
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/sales1018-1.jpg)
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Both the Lizard Lads & the Short Gluttonous Ones look TERRIFIC. The markers are especially imaginative. GOOD LUCK with the sales.
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I have to admit these are pretty sweet.
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Bloodty lovely mate 8)
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Looks like you have had some fun.
Used to love Blood Bowl.
Worked up close to 40 different teams including the 11 official box sets that were released in the '90s.
Thanks to Jeremy V getting them for me from Gary M in the UK, I had one of the first non-converted Norse BB teams in the US; that was back before Gary's personally sculpted Norse BB team was officially released by GW.
Ordered lots of old Warhammer figures to convert for Bretonnian, Kislevian, Estalian and Tilean Human BB teams, support staff for the Norse team, an Amazon team long before it hit Citadel Journal, other Chaos Dwarf teams, and so forth.
In the '90s, I was known as the "Mad Footballer" or the "Blood Bowl Loon" at GW-US, back when it was based outside Baltimore.
Worked with Jervis J on development of the Minotaur team back then.
My dear fellows (The Sons of Dūglōs) even had bounties placed on them by some of the other coaches in the '97 Company league in the US because the "Wild Animal" skill led to the outright destruction of one Chaos team and the severe mauling of orc, dwarf and any other teams that liked to get in close.
It was impressive when six rookie Minotaurs ganged up on Morg'n'Thorg and killed him; three rookie Minotaurs shoved Lord Borak into the crowd which proceeded to severly injure him; yes, that chaos team match was one to remember and I was only able to field 9 Minotaurs at the time - started the standard 1,000 gold piece league with only me(the coach), 8 "boys" and an apothecary.
I did not make it into the finals of that league, but I did have an impressive casualty count.
Three bounties even got paid out, but those fellows of mine had kinsmen ready to avenge them in the next matches!
Elves were a bother though because they would just dance around my boys; it was impressive though when one of my boys could clothes-line or collar one of them - the elves "broke" rather easily.
I will have to think about getting my fellows out of storage and taking & posting pics of them here.
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Thanks, chaps!
User7866: Sounds like you had/have quite the collection and some fond memories of them.
I no longer play Blood Bowl and no longer much chance of playing it, so these fellas are now on the Bazar and will go to Ebay soon if they do not sell here.
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My dear fellows (The Sons of Dūglōs) even had bounties placed on them by some of the other coaches in the '97 Company league in the US because the "Wild Animal" skill led to the outright destruction of one Chaos team and the severe mauling of orc, dwarf and any other teams that liked to get in close.
It was impressive when six rookie Minotaurs ganged up on Morg'n'Thorg and killed him; three rookie Minotaurs shoved Lord Borak into the crowd which proceeded to severly injure him; yes, that chaos team match was one to remember and I was only able to field 9 Minotaurs at the time
YOU RAT BASTARD! Borak was never the same after that game. He no longer wanted to pop the heads of of the elves and humans that got in his way. He only wanted to pick posies and plant trees. He just never was the same after that. He never picked up the spiked ball again. :-(
Grimm
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I am sorry, but I have gotten old.
I remember the face of that Chaos coach, but I cannot remember the name.
I really did not know it was his first game ever.
Are you he?
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I am sorry, but I have gotten old.
I remember the face of that Chaos coach, but I cannot remember the name.
I really did not know it was his first game ever.
Are you he?
Aye Doug, it r me.
Never said it was my first game as it wasn't. I was just saying that after that game we started calling Borak by a different name. He was, from then on, referred to as Lady Borak the Gentle.
I remember the league well. Was the only one as i was gone from the company the following April.
I do love BloodBowl a lot. One of my fav GW games. But then again i am a fan of most of the non-WHFB/WH40K GW games. :-)
Grimm
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The others said it was your first game.
That was their excuse to start putting bounties on my boys, since I had allegedly shown you no mercy despite being a first time player.
Quite frankly, I was just amazed at the havoc I was spreading.
Oh well, such was life, oh, so long ago.
I do wonder why everyone then and you evidently still do, called me "Doug".
I always introduced myself as "Douglas".
Now, showing how decrepit I have become, I cannot remember your name.
I remember what you look like, but not the name.
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The others said it was your first game.
That was their excuse to start putting bounties on my boys, since I had allegedly shown you no mercy despite being a first time player.
Quite frankly, I was just amazed at the havoc I was spreading.
Oh well, such was life, oh, so long ago.
I do wonder why everyone then and you evidently still do, called me "Doug".
I always introduced myself as "Douglas".
Now, showing how decrepit I have become, I cannot remember your name.
I remember what you look like, but not the name.
Don't know how it could have been my first game. It was the second to the last week of the league as i recall. I remember smacking Dave's puny wood elves. And Joe S's rat bastard Skaven. His little runty skaven he did in one night. Getting smacked around by John Mathew's team one late night. Don't know who made the claim it was my first. There was no one else playing Chaos from what i recall, or at least no other Borak.
Long time ago indeed.
You kill my Borak i kill your name. :-) And no, i was just saying the name because i knew where the team name came from. No disrespect meant. I make it a point to call peeps by the name they wish. Do it at work all the time. I still work with peeps that dont know the names of the people they have worked with in the same department for weeks. They just dont understand the reasoning behind it.
The name is Jeff, though in life i mostly go by JD nowadays. But here online Grimm it is. Though on this forum i wasn't the first Grimm. :-)
Grimm
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Uh Grimm, it was the first part of the second week of the tournament.
It was my second game of the Naggaroth Cup, as the tournament was named.
Wait a minute!
I did not kill Borak and neither did the fans - he was only seriously injured!
I can see though how it might have been a disturbing event for most players.
A follower of Slaanesh though would have enjoyed it.
Never played Sloboda's Skaven (I think he was avoiding my boys), but I took Dirty Steve's Rats to task!
Hated Dee Taylor's Grateful Undead undead team.
He killed my boys and won bounties!
I took on the Dwarf team of Allan B from Hobby Support and even destroyed his Death Roller.
Immediately after the game, he asked why the negatives for Minotaurs were really negatives.
By this time I had a whole 12 Minotaur team.
I told him the secret.
Always play in-the-face teams with them.
He played his Dwarves in-the-face of his opponents so I played him.
We talked about it and he actually shook my hand at the end.
It was not just the me and my Minotaurs though.
In Mail Order, when Blood Bowl was re-released in '98, we had a Mail Order only tournament.
I took apart Bob Bassin's, the MO Manager, dark elf team using a human one; he got so mad, I thought I was going to lose my job; I did - a month later on a trumped up charge.
Anyway, I took everyone in Mail Order apart with the humans other than Hal in the final.
We had a disagreement about a rule, we diced it off and he ended up winning that role, that final match and the tourney by one point.
More latter, wife is calling me to dinner.
Later.
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Uh Grimm, it was the first part of the second week of the tournament.
It was my second game of the Naggaroth Cup, as the tournament was named.
Wait a minute!
I did not kill Borak and neither did the fans - he was only seriously injured!
I can see though how it might have been a disturbing event for most players.
A follower of Slaanesh though would have enjoyed it.
Never played Sloboda's Skaven (I think he was avoiding my boys), but I took Dirty Steve's Rats to task!
Hated Dee Taylor's Grateful Undead undead team.
He killed my boys and won bounties!
I took on the Dwarf team of Allan B from Hobby Support and even destroyed his Death Roller.
Immediately after the game, he asked why the negatives for Minotaurs were really negatives.
By this time I had a whole 12 Minotaur team.
I told him the secret.
Always play in-the-face teams with them.
He played his Dwarves in-the-face of his opponents so I played him.
We talked about it and he actually shook my hand at the end.
It was not just the me and my Minotaurs though.
In Mail Order, when Blood Bowl was re-released in '98, we had a Mail Order only tournament.
I took apart Bob Bassin's, the MO Manager, dark elf team using a human one; he got so mad, I thought I was going to lose my job; I did - a month later on a trumped up charge.
Anyway, I took everyone in Mail Order apart with the humans other than Hal in the final.
We had a disagreement about a rule, we diced it off and he ended up winning that role, that final match and the tourney by one point.
More latter, wife is calling me to dinner.
Later.
Second week or second to the last week i recall "second" was in there somewhere. Been many years though and dont recall how many games.
I know Borak didn't die, by horns or the fans. He and Morg and one other were all that was left. I threw in the towel. I also recall Jeremy saying i wouldn't get any gold for the week because of that. And though it didn't matter much since the league was almost over. Which is why i think it to be later in the season. You sure it was so soon in the season?
I dont recall the MO league at all. I know i didn't play in it. And i think Bob was mad daily that he had to breathe.
And i know of the event a month later and the "issue" in question.
Grimm