Blood Bowl Orcs painting: The first Black Orc Blockers

I mentioned in a previous post that I'm using the actual Black Orc Blocker models as Blitzers. The role of my BOBs has instead fallen to the rather sexy Orruk Brutes from Age of Sigmar, the first two of which are complete.

These photos really are awful!

These are lovely models to paint, with lots of nice detail to pick out.

The only issue is they're about the same size as the official BOB model - if anything they're smaller - which means that they may not be distinctive enough. I'll see how they look when all four of them are done, but if needs be what I can do is add the trophy pieces that come with the kit to their shoulders. I originally didn't want to do this as it's not very Blood Bowl, but it is the simplest way to mark them out as different, plus that little bit more brutal (pun intended).

Blood Bowl Underworld: Conversions!

Once my Orc team is finished I have a choice to make: Boring Humans or Underworld next.

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Of course I'm choosing Underworld!

So for the last week I've been building my players, and as mutations are a large part of the fun of the team I've decided to do some converting. And this is actual converting. I'm a pro at kitbashing, but for the first time in my life I've been using greenstuff of the non-liquid variety.

So what have I done?

A horned Linerat, with horns kindly donated by my previously-Necromantic, now Chaos-playing opponent

A Blitzer with a claw from the old Chaos mutations sprue

A Thrower with an extra arm. But where did that come from?

My conversion to represent Glart Smashrip (Jr.)!

Now that the disgusting Skaven are out of the way, it's on to the real stars of the team...

This one's not mutated, but I gave him the spare punch dagger from the Blitzer to differentiate him from the other player with the same body

This guy is growing some spikes / tentacles (TBD) from his neck

This is the mutation that they'll actually get on levelling up: Two Heads! Most people convert both of these looking forward, but that's too hard for my first go and this means he can see in all directions

And finally: Horns! My opponent doesn't know yet that he's donated another set of horns ;¬)

So that's what I've been up to, alongside painting my Black Orc Blockers (the first two of which I'll share when they're done). The non-BOB Orcs are all painted now, I just forgot to post them when I finished them.