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

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.

Blood Bowl Goblin positionals conversions

A pretty self-explanatory title, but I'll explain why I needed to convert them in the first place...

I got into Blood Bowl through the Blood Bowl 2 PC game. Prior to that I'd heard that it was meant to be the best game Games Workshop had ever produced, but as someone with little interest in fantasy (I'm more of a sci-fi person) and absolutely zero interest in American football (it's rugby with body armour, long breaks whilst the entire team changes, and no real flow) I didn't care.

But then it came up in one of the Steam sales and that, as they say, was that.

Who could not get excited by this!?

Fast forward a few months and some of my friend's kindly bought me the boxed game for my birthday, and since then I've played a few games with my fiancée to help her learn. But therein lies a problem: I've played the PC game a lot, so if I play with friends I stand a decent chance of pwnz0rizing them, or whatever the kids say these days, purely because they're newer to it than me.

So to solve that problem, and because I wanted to do some converting, I decided the first team I'd make would be Goblins using the Night Goblins range, not the 'official' GW team (especially as they had not yet released the remaining three positionals, which as of writing have only recently been announced).

These are the guys I bought

Fortunately I already had a Fanatic as I'd bought a box for my fiancée as she wanted to paint a goblin, and four of the rest were covered by the Night Goblins box. The remaining positional, the 'ooligan, I used a Gnoblar for (and thereby guaranteeing I would also have to convert an Ogre team :¬D ).

And so here they are...

Da Fanatic

I don't really need to explain this one. It's a Fanatic straight out of the (now old) box!

Waaagh!-nimal

Da Looney

Using an Ork choppa and the bow arms this one was probably the easiest conversion.

Kutta Monsta

Da Bomma

A sack of Ork stikkbombs from the Ork Boyz box on his back, a spear arm cut off at the bottom and the top, and a stikkbomb head stuck to the end which I carved from a tube of spare plastic.

Doc Bunzen

Da Doom Diver

I created one in a bit of a flying Superman pose, and then hacked up the nets and stuck them to his sleeves to look like a goblin version of wings. It's not much, but hopefully it's enough to help him glide a few squares closer to the endzone!

Da Great Gonzo

Da Pogoer

This one was by far the most involved. The player himself has a spear arm in his right hand with no modification. In his left is the banna pole arm, with the pole itself cut off to match the spear in length.

The wooden slats he's standing on are simply bits of thin sprue that I cut to shape, whilst the bottom of the stilts are actually club heads from the same kit which I'd cut from the line goblins' hands, but turned upside down.

Kermit da Hoppa

Da 'ooligan

This gent is the Gnoblar with the bottle in his hand, plus the Fanatic head with mushrooms growing out of it. Perfick!

Statla Waaagh!-dorf