It’s been quite a few years since I’ve posted any Blood Bowl stuff here, not for lack of wanting to paint/finish anything, but BB has just been one of those things that have been easy – too easy – to overlook until “later”. I’ve finally forced the motivation to get to work completing my 3rd Edition Chaos Dwarves team – nominally the “Zharr-Naggrund Ziggurats”, though I honestly can’t recall what I named my own team here back in the day – though they did get used, providing a fun and effective team to play with.
These were a “split” completion – with the first five being completed at the end of January – hence also the final models for Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got challenge that concluded at the end of January – and then with the last four of these getting completed in the opening days of February – it obviously makes more sense to just post all nine of them up together in this case.
Eight of the models are the “official” BB models, and the extra is a WHFB Hobgoblin war machine crewman of some description. It might have been a bolt thrower – I honestly can’t recall!
These had all been basecoated since the 1990’s. I cleaned them up, de-Skittled them to make them look more like an actual sports team (blue and yellow sleeves, blue hats, blue undershirts – gone!) – and the bright orange skin tone (remember “Hobgoblin Orange” paint and the Blanche hobgob face icons?) was ochred-down a bit as well to make it look more “natural”. or natural-ish, anyway!
I still need to clean up and finish the Chaos Dwarves and the Bull Centaurs (hopefully this month!) I probably also need to find a Blunderbuss and an appropriate Minotaur model to slot in with them as well, though that may take a bit longer, as an original metal Blunderbuss would be the most ideal.
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Great work mate, and I like the colour scheme you’ve gone for, has a great sports feel to it, and the more natural skintone is awesome.
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Thanks Dave! I’m much happier with them with the colours “cleaned up” now.
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Nicely done! 🙂 I’m pretty sure Afrika Korps sand would have worked well on them if you’d been short of colour choices! 😉
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Cheers John! I’ve got a fair few teams to paint, so maybe I’ll do just that with one of them! 😀
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Didn’t know the Hobgoblins were on Team Stark, but I am sure he would appreciate the support. These look great, and I agree with above, the skin tone is perfect.
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Hahaha thanks Anthony! I’ve got a unit of old-school (WHFB 2nd.ed) Hobgobs that I need to paint sometime – I’ll probably continue with the orange/ochre skin tone when/if I get to them! 🙂
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Really nice tanks, mate! …Wait, these are a nice surprise! 😀 The sculpts are definitely classics and came out before my time in the hobby so they’re interesting to see. I love the bright color patterns and while I always think of the Goblin Green paint and goblins together, its nice to see hobgoblins, gobbos, and orks in slightly different colors as well.
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Thanks mate – and thanks for reminding me that I’ve really been neglecting the tanks. I’ve been working on finishing a few 28mm models, but I’ll need to pivot and see if I can get the trio of Shermans on the desk done this weekend as well! 🙂
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Haha, touche my friend! Next time I won’t mention it 😀
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Well, I *do* need to get to them. Haven’t gotten a ton of painting done this weekend, but I’ve got enough done to (probably) get me through the next week of posts…
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Brilliant! Looking forward to seeing the rest of the team too. Reminds me I need to finish my Blood Bowl Humans (and High Elves..!) and actually play a game at some stage!
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Thanks Warburton! I need to finish either my old-school Orcs or kitbashed Khemri team once I get these ones done – and yeah, I also need to get some games in again!
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Excellent work mate – and Hobgoblin Orange!! Now that’s a blast from the past… Needed about 10 coats to get an even colour iirc 😂
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Haha I must have gotten lucky with mine. Only took about three over white! 😉
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Top painting. They actually look quite threatening there, which is somewhat at odds with their usual performance in the game. I guess that the interesting part of the team is the Chaos Dwarfs themselves and especially the Bull Centaurs.
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Thanks AB! Yeah, the Dwarves are the real fun part of the team – and the Bull Centaurs were always the icing on top!
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Very nice mate.
Cheers Roger.
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Thanks Roger! 🙂
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I like the idea of bloodbowl, played the ios game on my phone for a while, but never understood the actual mechanics the way it should be played on table top. Great paints man
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I’ve been looking forward to seeing some Blood Bowl from you and as ever you didn’t disappoint! Lovely work on these, good choice of team colours and nice to be reminded of Hobgoblin Orange as well, there’s a colour I’ve not thought about in a long time!
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