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 😬 

Blood Bowl Orcs painting: The finished team!

Orcsenal are finally finished, and just in time for Orctober!

The best photo of the front row

Here the back row are in focus

I love painting orcs / orks in this scheme (it's an update of the scheme I used for the small force of 40k orks I've painted), but I have only painted Blood Bowl models for the last year or so, which has lead to two full teams with spares. Therefore I need my palette* to be fully cleansed before I paint anything else Blood Bowl-related. So expect the next models to appear on here to be a little out of left field**.

* Pun not intended, but I'm leaving it in anyway
** Ditto

Blood Bowl Orcs painting: Final Lineorc

The title speaks for itself!

Left has no flash, right has flash

So now I just need to add their numbers and varnish them, and then this team is done! :¬D

Blood Bowl Orcs painting: Goblin #2

My initial intention had been to only paint one Goblin for my Orc team, but the model I chose is the least interesting of those in the kit, and for a 'full' roster I might eventually need two. So I decided to suck it up and paint a second one, who will probably become the one I will field because he looks awesome!

One Orc Lineman to go, then it's just a case of sticking on numbers and varnishing them and this team is done!

Blood Bowl Orcs painting: The Troll

'e's done! Here is the Troll for my Orc team, who shall be named: Goona.

A lot of people really don't like this model, and whilst it's not my favourite in the Blood Bowl range it was actually a lot of fun to paint due to all the little details. But they in turn meant it took me ages to paint him ;¬)

Blood Bowl Orcs painting: The final two Black Orc Blockers

After painting up my first two Black Orc Blockers, I've now done the last two!

This means that, once I add the numbers to their kit, I'll have a decent starting Orc team to go a-krumpin'!

 

Blood Bowl Orcs painting: Goblin

This is just a small update (geddit!?) to show off the Goblin for my Orc team.

I may eventually add a second one, but for now one will be enough.

So now I've painted 11 players for this team, but it's not a good starting roster. To get that I need to paint the two remaining Black Orcs. Then to have a 'full' team I will paint up the Troll, and a third, just-in-case, Lineorc.

It's so close to being done!

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 Orcs painting: The first batch

With my Goblin team finished and most definitely blooded (RIP Kutta Monsta 😭) I'm moving on to my Orc team from the main game's box.

So in relatively record time (for me) here are the first batch, all of which look a little better in person than in these pictures (where the armour looks a little too pink). They're not 100% finished as I'll add the numbers at the end once they're all painted, but they're otherwise complete for now!

A Lineork

A Thrower

A Blitzer

A Black Orc Blocker (which I will use as a Blitzer)

Comments and criticism are appreciated!