With the changes to the Blood Bowl Orc team roster in the 2025 rules, I needed to paint up a fourth line orc for when my team expands to 12 players, so here he is!

It's been 6.5 years since I finished the rest of the team 😬 

With the addition of this Human Blitzer, I've now completed the Human part of my OWA team.

Here is everything I've completed so far:

In terms of the number of players, I'm now exactly halfway through the full team.

Here's a quick update as I've added another Halfling, another Lineman, a Thrower, and a Catcher to my OWA roster.

 

Blood Bowl OWA: Test models

This is just a quick update to log my progress, as I've painted my first two models for my Old World Alliance team for Blood Bowl.

They don't yet have their numbers and they haven't been based, as I plan to do that en masse once the team is finished. 

Human Lineman

Halfling

Next up should be a batch of three more humans and a second halfling.

Blood Bowl painting: Akhorne

The Warhammer World is not a nice place. It's full of terrifying creatures like greenskins, beastmen, the undead, daemons, and elves. But even in such a horrific setting, there is one being whose reputation puts it on a level above all others. A creature from before the age of men, dwarfs, and elves, when the world was young and untamed.

To paint such a being required an awful lot of paint:

There were four more used on top of this, including the blood...

But even with all of those colours, it came together rather quickly for me, and a primordial terror was ready for the gridiron.

P.S. This is the first Blood Bowl model I've painted since October 2019 :¬o

Painting: Salamander Intercessor

I've moved house in the last year and been plagued with other distractions, so didn't paint for most of that time. But I've managed to paint up one model to test a Salamander scheme.

This is also the first of the Primaris-scale Marines I've painted. I previously enjoyed painting some Stormcast Eternals models, and these also benefit from that larger scale.

Painting: Space Marine pierniczki

A little something I made for fun in preparation for Xmas!

In case it's not obvious, the one on the left is a green normal Space Marine, and the one on the right is a member of the Death Company.

Painting: Ylthari's Guardians

I started these four just before Xmas and, after not touching them for three months, I finished them just before Easter.

They're lovely models, although they're so detailed that it can be a pain to get paint into some of their nooks and crannies.

Contrast paint worked well on them: it formed the base for the wood of their bodies, and it's all I used for the loincloths and cherry blossoms. I also used it to (kinda-sorta) blend between the wood and tendrils on the body of Ylthari, the spellcaster.

Painting: Master of Ordnance

This is another model that I started years ago, but I only got as far as priming him black and doing the first basecoat layers of the fatigues and the armour, so this is effectively starting from scratch.

He's part of the Regimental Advisors set, the other two of which I painted back in... Jesus, early 2018! So this guy must have been sitting patiently awaiting his turn for five years.

Sorry.

Astropath

The back of the Astropath (probably the better view!)

The Officer of the Fleet

There's something very pleasing about painting these old, hand-sculpted metal miniatures. They're detailed enough without having so much going on that they're a chore to paint. They also have very open poses - being only one or two pieces - and so they're easy to paint without fighting to get the right angle.

Master of Ordnance, with a little bit of colour correction

It's also funny to look at scale creep when compared to the last model I painted. Or maybe Khorne just makes people taller as well as swoler.

Strangely, he looks better in this photo than the others

Painting: Slaughterpriest of Khorne

Pre baby I started work on this guy, but he ended up packed away while I learned how to care for another human bean. A human bean who has no emotional control and leaves a trail of destruction wherever he goes.

So when I decided I wanted to paint again it felt like this model's time had come.

I think I could have done the skin a lot better, as I had a lot of back-and-forth getting it right with contrast paints, layering, washing, and back again, and it still ended up a little chalky. But the reddening where the straps are attached to his skin and the corruption on his left arm worked really well.

This was also my first time using Blood for the Blood God, and it is easy to use!

I'm generally out of practice and so my hands felt more stupid than usual, but it was still fun to paint him up.