So hey! I finally found that missing Minotaur that fit the old-school ethos of my Chaos Dwarfs, allowing me to finally complete the team! Like, properly and fully.
This Minotaur is actually from a generation of models preceding this 3rd Edition Chaos Dwarf team, and so he’d work well with the Original Chaos Dwarf players. As it happened, I really did not like the 3rd Edition Blood Bowl Minotaur player model at all, so I went looking for an alternative option. That option turning out to be one of the really old-school C34 Minotaur Lords range, named “Ox Roar, Chaos Champion of Ultimate Slaughter”. I originally painted Ox-Roar here a number of years back, though his shoulder pauldron was a different colour, not one that fits the current Chaos Dwarf colour scheme. I got him a long, long time ago, and set about removing his axe so he could be a Blood Bowl player – he looked perfect for the role – I mean, just look at him and his gladiatorial-themed gear!
That meant that once I found the large, hirsuite fellow, all I’d need to do would be to repaint the pauldron, touch up any chipped/scuffed or damaged paint, add the appropriate player number, and he’d be read to smash heads on the Blood Bowl pitch once again- or butt heads, painful given that third hornm he has in the middle of his forehead!
And that’s that! Now that this team is completely, err, completed, I’ve finally removed the last mental block stopping me from going back and completing one of the two other somewhat-painted teams I need to update for the modern day. There’s my oldhammer++ Orcs and also my “middlehammer” Khemri team. Which to work on… which to work on…
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
The team look great all together, and I think the timing is god too. The preview looks like being a new Amazon team, so we will be waiting longer for updated chaos dwarfs. In truth any updated team would have to look great to get me to abandon my own 3rd ed models!
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Thanks Dave! You know, that’ll actually work for me since I don’t have an Amzon team – they’re one of those teams that got added on during a period when I was still buiying WD and painting my own models but not really involved in anything else like buying or playing.
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It will be Sod’s law they release the CD team just after I picked up the Punga one 😂
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Haha! To be fair, a lot of the 3rd party Blood Bowl teams are just as nice as the official ones these days – and occasionally nicer!
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Though it seems we’re getting Amazons next, anyway! 🙂
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Great team. Love the Chaos Dwarfs. I have some on my to do list. Which probably means sometime next millennia!
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Thank you! Sadly(!?) I actually have another Chaos Dwarf team (entirely different sculpts) to paint at some stage, but I gues they’ll have to wait a (fair) bit longer…
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Is that the team from the Gaspez-Arts Kickstarter? Those ones look pretty amazing.
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Turns out they are. Boy, fulfilment on that one was a real nightmare…
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Quite an imposing mini! 🙂 Well done on getting the team completed!
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Thanks John! Took me long enough, but done is done, I guess!
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Awesome work.
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Cheers!
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Brilliant model mate, nicely done! Always good to see a team completed 😊👍
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Thanks Alex. Completed gaming projects are rare enough in general, but seemingly oh so much rarer in this house!
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Awesome work on the Minotaur mate, was always one of my favourite models, and funnily enough I painted mine in a similar colour scheme back in the day ! LOL
I vote Khemri as that could look great after your brushwork.
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Thanks Dave! You shoudl psot him up at some stage if you still have him around. The only problem with the Khemri team would be the Zombies, as I was doing those in the strips of the players around me at the time, though I guess I should check what sort of players the modern version of the Khemri team is made up of…
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Unfortunately I sold him a long time ago, as with most of my early models.
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A shame, but I do get it.
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Damn, just lost my post (my fault). The mini looks great. I actually thought he was an older BB model and didn’t realize he was a conversion! There are a few of those old models that are scarce, so I’m not surprised when I see one I hadn’t seen before. Personally,
I’d go with the Orcs. The roster is already out there and didn’t change too much over the years. I have a feeling Khemri will get a big change. Chaos Dwarves might too, but I think people will really bitch if they change too much as they have been a very popular team for some.
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Thank you! Yeah, from memory the official Minotaur from this era was a weird 2-part model with the cut at the waist. I didn’t like it at the time, so I got this guy and chopped hm up.
My Khemri team (I found them) was based on the generic Undead of the day (my conversions predated the later official Khemri rules), so it’s going to be playable using the generic Necromantic Undead rules.
My orcs are going to present a bit of a problem, in that I’ve got WAY too many players across several iterations of the models from 2nd, 3rd and converted WHFB players – all doing the scale creep across time. Figuring out what to do with which of them, what to repaint and what to leave as old-school paint.
That’s all without taking into account the 2 full modern Orc teams. And the Black Orc team. So it looks like I’ll have 2-3 Orc teams that can compete with one another. Maybe I can drop a couple into a Chaos Renegade team or something….
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Unless something has changed recently, Chaos (Pact) Renegades only have 1 Orc. Though whose to say you couldn’t have the linemen be Orcs and throw 1 human in there instead!
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These look awesome, mate! I really like the Minotaur and it certainly adds some height to the team to go along with the centaurs 🙂 I think you should paint Khemri because I like Tomb Kings a lot and miss them in Warhammer. I’m sure that alone will give you plenty of motivation to work on them 😉
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As luck would have it, I’ve been working on these guys a bit in the last couple of days. Turns out that this team dates from before Khemri teams were a proper thing, and (by the rules at least) it’s actually a Necromantic (or Standard, at the time, generic) Undead team that I gave a Tomb Kings/Khemri flavour with my model choices (WHFB models/simple conversions) for many of the players (and the scheme).
Anyway, I should have the ghouls completed by tomorrow (a lot was already done) and then it’s onto some of the Zombies, then the Wights before the rest of the Zombies, the Mummies and the Star Players…
And I’ll see if I can find the basic Skellingtons, since they’re not in the same case…
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That still sounds pretty cool to me. I really enjoy the Vampire Counts and Tomb Kings both so you can’t go wrong with either in my eyes anyway!
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Yeah, it’ll be good regardless to have another team that can hit the pitch!
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Nice they look fantastic together.
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Thanks mate! It’s very nice to have an actually-completed project for a change! 🙂
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Congrats on the find and great painting as usual!
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Thanks Mark – glad I could finally complete the team properly (though I do still need a bazooka model!)
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Love the Minotaur mate and those Dwarfs are bit different!
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Cheers Pat! They’re certainly of their time!
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Hello,
While searching for Chaos Dwarfs team images for Blood Bowl, I found your photos. The team is sublime especially since I love the style of the old range. I wanted to know if you sell them. congratulations again. Have a good day
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Thanks mate. I don’t generally sell my models, especially the painte dones – but thank you for the interest. Glad you enjoyed the photos! 🙂
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