Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Chaos Team: Chaos Warriors

These are the chaos warriors that I've finished painting for a Chaos Blood Bowl team. The color scheme that I decided on for this team was black and red. Obvious for a chaos team, I know. I couldn't help it. My general blueprint was to use black for their armor, crimson red for their gloves and boots, and gold for armor accents.










Chaos Team: Beastmen #1

Here's the first beastman that I've finished painting for my upcoming, and still unnamed, Chaos Team. I thought that I'd paint a single beastman first to figure out a paint scheme for the beastmen. I plan on having different skin tones and fur colors for various beastmen, but I figured painting one guy first would let me figure out a general paint recipe that I can try to follow for the rest of them.





Setekh Conversion: Part 2

I finished painting the Setekh (also known as Nekbrekerekh) conversion that I've had in the works.



Friday, February 15, 2013

Hack Enslash Conversion: Part 2

I finished painting up my Hack Enslash conversion. If I play my inducements right, I might even get him on the pitch this week.





Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Resin Lizards from Impact! Miniatures

I got a package of Blood Bowl goodies in the mail today from Impact! Miniatures. When I was putting my order in, I couldn't resist taking a chance on the new plastic resin team sets that they've recently made available. You can now get complete team sets suitable for Blood Bowl and Elfball from them for only $35. Right now, they only have the Scotlings and the Sarcos teams available in resin, but they have plans to make more of their offerings available in this material down the line. The set I have is the Sarcos Team #2 which includes 17 figures: 1 Leviathan, 8 Crocs (2 x 4 poses) and 8 Baby Cros (2 x 4 poses). I just wanted to post a few quick snaps of the figures straight from the box here at my desk. You can see that there is quite a bit of flash hanging on to some of the extremities. But, the detail looks sharp and the flash should clean up easily. The quality of the resin seems very good and I believe the casting is being done by Troll Forged from what I've gathered from following Impact! on Twitter.

Crocs (Saurus)
Baby Crocs (Skinks)
Levithan (Kroxigor)

Monday, February 4, 2013

Chaos Team Based

I finished basing my next Blood Bowl team project, an as yet unnamed Chaos team. While I have no immediate plans to play them in my local league since we just began a new season, I have been wanting to get them painted up for a while. They are the standard Chaos All Stars team from Games Workshop. For the bases, I used a common practice of making rocklike formations from cork board tile. Since figures in blood bowl get handled a fair amount, I was worried about how they would hold up if I just pinned them them onto or through the cork. Rather than pinning, I decided to mount the miniature on top of the base, instead of slotting it through the base, and to build a support for the miniature's tab with green stuff. The green stuff was pressed into the base's slot and then wrapped up around the mini's tab. Once that set up for a few hours, I then built the cork around the tab and green stuff support and underneath the figure's feet. Finally, since cork can be a bit crumbly, I tried to seal it by brushing the cork with PVA glue. The final result seems very secure.

Since the set only comes with 3 chaos warriors and the CRP allows a maximum of 4 on a team, I created the fourth warrior from a 1980's era Warhammer chaos warrior that I've had since my high school days. An overnight bath in Simple Green, a hearty scrub and clipping the mace from his hand has him ready to be included on the roster.


The four Chaos Warriors.


4 of the 8 Beastmen to show the 4 distinct poses.


Now I just need to clean up some of the mold lines, prime and paint.