Blood Bowl 3e: Khemri-Flavoured Undead Proxy Team – Resurrected Zombies!

Blood Bowl 3e: Undead Proxy Team - Resurrected Zombies!

Here’s the second batch of my Undead team, finally completed after something like close to two decades. Zombies! Now, it’ll be pretty obvious that these Zombies are all wearing different strips and are from different races. The reason for that is that when I was building and starting to play this team, I decided that it would be good to base some zombie models on the team members of my opposition teams – that way when I managed to kill off an opposing player on the pitch, I could then replace them with one of the zombie models I’d especially tailored for their team! These models use a combination of various WHFB plastic kits (and some Dark Eldar arms) as well as (obviously) the plastic Zombie kit of the time.

Blood Bowl 3e: Undead Proxy Team - Resurrected Zombies!

With the exception of the player whose strip was nominally based on the Philadephia Eagles, they have their “new” numbers scrawled onto their gear so as not to interfere with the player numbers of the actual Undead in this squad. While I never got as far as building any “proper” zombies for this team, that’s something I’ll look into once the rest of the players I’ve got on the go are all complete – along with any upgrades to choose a list to make them work with the new, current rules. Thenm again, I could always build more zombies to match the other teams in my own collection (when do-able – ain’t no plastic Big-Hat Chaos Dwarf kits to zombify!) And then, I’ll sort out my Orcs…

C23 Citadel Oldhammer Ogre Warrior Priest (Jes Goodwin, 1985)

C23 Citadel Ogre Warrior Priest (Jes Goodwin, 1985)

Yep, that’s right – 1985! I’ve had this model myself since either the end of the 80’s or start of the 90’s, and actually started working on it in the 90’s – and finally completed about 2 weeks ago. This model is a great sculpt, but one I had a great deal of difficulty in getting done. The problem for me was in the outfit and also finding appropriate colours to paint it in – a…kilt/skirt, and a fur-lined vest accented by wrappings with embedded spikes. The difficulty in that skirt being just how many folds and tears and patches that it has across the whole thing, making it a bit of a nightmare if one wanted to add some kind of patterning to it while keeping the patterns consistent, while also trying to keep the “caster” look to the model, since I’ll be using it as an Ogre Mage in my rather dormant Kings of War Ogre force.

C23 Citadel Ogre Warrior Priest (Jes Goodwin, 1985)

The Ogre Mage designation is also why I pinned him onto a small boulder makde from cork bark – as a model dating form the mid-1980’s, he’s quite small compared to any current Ogre models from almost any company – and especially so for a hero model. Looking at the model again while typing, I wonder if I should attempt go to back and add a very simple “Roddy Piper 1984” style “tartan”? Hm….

C23 Citadel Ogre Warrior Priest (Jes Goodwin, 1985)

I gave him the glowy eyes using Nihilakh Oxide over white. A shame there’s no Contrast paints that really work well in the same way. The reds are WAY too pigment-strong, even watered down… I’m not 100% sure, but I think this might be the last of my old C23 Ogres that I needed to paint, well, to complete. My next ogres will be more recent models. Not that it will be hard to have more recent Ogres than this guy….