Blood Bowl team Madd Hakkas!

Well let's start things up again!

A lot has happened and it has been very quiet on the wargames front.

But now a lot of things are happening at our wargaming club, Blood Bowl being one of them.

I've never even played the game before and I only have a faint idea of how the whole thing actually works. And then somebody started up a BB league championship over the upcoming months...

At first I wasn't all that interested, but the game looks fun enough and the fact that I had an entire Orc team got me into it.

I had made my team a couple of months earlier, just for fun because I felt like it...

Being a 40k Orks player and collecter I had plenty of models at hand to convert into some crazy Ork Blood Bowl team! And that's what I did...care to see?!

So far I have 4 Blitzers, 4 Black Orcs, 4 Linemen, 1 Thrower and 1 Troll. I'm planning on adding another thrower and some goblins 'cause they sound like fun! (as is pretty much always the case with Goblins, no?!)

These are my 4 Blitzers, made from various 40k ork boyz, some careful repositioning of arms and legs to give 'em that running blitzy feel. They all carry some sort of Iron Knuckles for bashing foes!

Here are the Black Orcs, made from Assault on Black Reach Nobz spiced up with some Fantasy Black Orc bitz. I am most pleased with these as they really look like the big muscled heavies they are supposed to be!

Third from the left is mostly finished, the rest awaits more highlights and a wash. Same goes for most of the other models in the team!

The Troll made from a fantasy Skull Pass troll, again with Black Orc bitz and a banner top helmet. This guy will hopefully stomp many opponents and throw many goblins!

The Thrower, another nearly finished model. He awaits dullcoat and some flock to finish off the base. This one has a green stuff ball added to it for obvious reasons...

Last but not least we have the linemen, these guys look a little more basic so they don't outstage the Black Orcs and Blitzers. They fit in perfectly and I like their helmets wich look like them old Football helmets.

So I will probably make some Goblins next but this is pretty much the models I will be using to build my team. Every model wil get more highlights followed by a wash/dip to bring out the details. Finally the bases will get that grassy flock treatment with white "chalky" lines to represent part of the pitch.

I'm curious how they will hold up in a tournament but as long as they have fun bashing some faces in it's all good with me!

Ready, set...fumble!!!

Regiment a month: the revival!

It has been way too long since anything appeared on my blog, the meddling of everyday-life getting the best of me...Despite of several nearly finished projects, none came to revive the derelict wasteland that is my blog.

As you may or may not have seen in several fellow (much more active) TSA blogs, we started collecting Gundam models for an all out but simple demo-game featuring these fantastic giant combat suits. Here is the first of my two chosen Gundams: Sword Impulse

The model is simple yet very dynamic, and much of that comes from those two huge blades, so they are the main focal point on this Gundam...no doubt about that!


Colourwise I had no big plans so it retains it's original colour-scheme, the only addition I made was to very lightly spray all of the parts before assembly giving the model a weathered look.

Then battle damage was both painted and converted on and once everyting was put together final paint touch-ups and added decals finished the model.


As these models stand roughly 15cm/6inches it needed a good sturdy base so in came a CD.

I glued big chunks of plastic and styrofoam onto it to give it that rubble battlefield look and then added sand, finishing off with black basecoat, grey drybrush, rust and flock.

I'm very pleasd with this model as it really reflects the nature of a close combat Gundam Suit.

The battle damaged look and the rubble base show that this model stops at nothing to get to it's opponent and carving him up!!!

"A Regiment a Month" part 1

For this first part of "A regiment a month" I chose to paint up my Nurgle Chaos Marines.

Unfortunately they're not entirely finished yet but I'm pretty pleased with my progress already.

Main feat on these models was to get them from regular Chaos Marines and Space Marines to sick Nurgle Marines!

For this I chose a combination of green stuff and a rather unique though unconventional method of melting plastic...blistering buboes and fleshy metal forges being the result.

As far as painting goes, I tried different varities of green, in the end going for a mix of three spraycan greens applied liberally and thus getting different shades in different places.

Next step was the nurgle's rot. Painting over all irregularities with a dark shade of red and working my way up through a light fleshcolour to Bone white.

For the metals I opted for boltgun and copper, wich contrasts nicely with the greens.

Still need to tone down some of the colours and the copper, and most impotantly, give them a thorough wash with brown ink and adding some grime wich will complete that all important Nurgle look!

In the end, although very nice, I thought they would end up differently and I would have liked to see them in another shade of green...but this spraycan method was way faster!

Still need to get them based and shaded and hope to get a playable army af these guys together!

I always liked Nurgle and finally getting around to building an army around it, hope you like it too!

Look out below!

Here is another one of my finished projects, soon to be used in 40k Apocalypse.

There's a little bit of a history behind this little thing. I bought the model kit in Omaka, New Zealand where I was visiting the WWI aviation heratige centre (http://www.omaka.org.nz/)

...after seeing all of those excellent flying displays I came by the famous "Red Baron" and seeing that funny red plane I thought :

"I oughta make me sumfin like that!"

And so I did! Here is my Ork Fighta!!!

The whole kit was put together as it was intended, the only major difference being the wings which I attached upside down so they were angling down instead of upward giving the whole thing a very different dynamic feel.

As you can see I also added some sort of turbine/jet engines 'cause the propellar just wasn't gonna cut it, so I left it off. I had to fill a gap behind the pilot where there should have been a gun turret, but I didn't need that for my Fighta. The whole kit was then plated over and I could start with details such as guns, wires, nut & bolts, more plates and the likes

Most of the Fighta's I've seen have either some open cockpit or just a frame on top, but the glass cockpit frame really suited this model and so after squeezing an ork model in there (wich required some cutting and grinding) I glued the thing in place. The result is a damp, foggy window through wich you can just make out the crazed pilot, excellent!!!

This thing needed a solid base so I "salvaged" a cap from some sort of light fitting and set out to making it into a propper base.

The pole is actually a wooden meat skewer, the best and most solid thing I could find at that time. The entire base was then loaded with sand, rocks, rubble and the occasional debris lying around.

When I glued on the oil drum, I had no intention of painting it up like a toxic waste barrel but when I chose the colour yellow to paint it, the toxic theme introduced itself and after painting the symbol I couldn't resist adding that "Simpsons-style" green glowing ooze...

After I decided to make myself a Fighta the first thing I did before I started was looking up how a Fighta was armed. So two twin-linked big shoota's, two rokkits and a bomb later I had everything to make this regular little airplane into a speeding bolt of death!

Now tell me, who doesn't like a bomb with a gnarly smiling face on it?

I know I do!!!

Some of the finishing touches are always the red 'cause red ones go fasta, the checks and dags and of course skulls and kill-counts!

I'm very pleased with how it turned out! It was really fun and not too hard to make. I already bought myself a second model kit so this mad ork doesn't have to fly all by himself!

Hope you like it!

It's Stompin' Time!

So as you were able to see a sneak peek in my previous post, it's time to reveal my latest Ork contraption; the Stompa!

After building my Skullhamma, talk started of playing Apocalypse! However with just the 'Hamma it wouldn't be much of a game so after a while I set out on getting myself an Ork bashbot! Although GW's model is pretty nice, it's also far too pricey...so how hard could it be making my own?! Let's find out...

Pretty basic at first, I started with an upside-down plastic container/bucket and a spraycan cap!

Switched from one cap to another, reason for that will be revealed later.

The body got it's first layer of "plates" made from simple cereal box cardboard, this was the easiest and fastest way to cover it up and would make a good start to build upon later! The head got a visor slit and jagged teeth...but as vou will see in following pics none of these head-features survived the end result!

The addition of the "shoulders" was a very important step, as Stompas usually have some sort of shoulder plates as where these bulby additions gave it an entirely different look! They were connected with lots of piping and tubes, and got the magnets attached to them wich will be used for the removable weapon arms you can see. (intention is of course to make a lifta-droppa arm so it can be used as a Mek-Stompa too!)

The spraycan head was raised so it wouldn't sit flat upon the body, the construction it rests upon will be used as a cockpit for the Ork-pilot. So as you take away the head you can see him steering frantically!

The Dakka-dakka arm with lots of killy stuff like the Deathkannon and Supa Gatler. I didn't make it so it that is is exactly WYSIWYG to the rulebook armament, most important thing was that it looked good...no, awesome!

This is a big jump from the pics shown before, a lot of details and gubbins were added already like engine, exhausts, a lot more plates, glyphs, guns, feet, pipes, wires and of course a supa-dupa red paintjob!

Gave it a good and dirty was and added some checks, dags & coloured plates!

As you can see, the visor and teeth were replaced with a plated Skull face and as big sharp Iron Gob! Way better than

before!

Still need to finish some details before completing it entirely, mostly painting some battle damage and small details! Hopefully I can get this done soon and then this thing is ready to make some mayhem!!!

Up and running again!

Well it's been a while now since I got back from my other-side-of-the-world trip and between getting back to reality and wargaming, a lot has happened!

For starters, I'm heavily updating my Ork 40k army, especially on the Apocalypse matter!

Scratchbuilt Stompa, soon to wreak havoc on Tyranids!

This means I've nearly completed my Stompa, started a Battlefortress and a whole bunch of new units or additions! They will hit the table pretty soon, once the 'eavies are finished completely I'll start nagging Creepy Corridor Andy to get his fantastic new Bio-Titan out to play!

See it here: http://creepycorridor.blogspot.com/2011/04/lpl5-round-4-recap.html

As if this isn't work enough already, I'm also competing in the Lead Painters' League, 10 weeks of frantic painting wich in the end will leave me with over 65 painted models of all sorts!

My round 5 LPL entry

Then there are all the games from wich I have the new rulebook and models, but haven't played em yet...but soon...

Games like Future War Commander, Uncharted Seas, Supersystem, Valor Steel & Flesh,, Apocalypse (yes, lots of models, never played!) and probably some more I forgot!

Getting into that many new games also involves buying and painting a lot of new models!

All of the above are the reason I had so little time for my blog, but I will try to make amends now!

It's back to the workbench now to make another effort to get all the goals I set myself, finished!

South Pacific Paint-A-Thon

Some of you may know, most of you won't but I've spent the last six months "living" Down Under. 3 months in Australia and 3 months in New Zealand!
Even though I had a lot of other plans I managed to stuff some miniatures and paint into my luggage to help me through the occasional rainy or lazy days. (not all that much of them, honestly!)


As said, our time here was packed to the rafters with activities and in between sunny days at the beach, surfing, hiking, skydiving, canyoning and driving around a lot I still succeeded in finding painting time...
My selection of models involved a lot of 40k Ork Boyz and even more fantasy Night Goblins. These were the main things to tackle as I had bought several Ork Black Reach and Gobbo Skull Pass sets in the last couple of years! Also some Deffkoptas, Burnas, Spider Riders and empty spaces in my box were filled with 6mm Dark Realms Pax Arcadia.
The majority of all this stuff was even unprimed so I had to start from scratch!

Painting a lot of the same models tends to become pretty boring but taking on small batches and switching between the 3 options helped somewhat.

The 28mm models (Ork & Gobbos) remain unbased for now as that was too much a hassle to do! (basing stuff was something I didn't bring). However, the Pax Arcadia had to be done because I always base them before painting so some creativity with local sand, rocks, twigs and kids PVA glue was in order! Now my time here is almost up, it was absolutely fantastic but all good things come to an end! While I'm still painting up models in my last week, it's time to look at the numbers and this is what I've managed:

-about 115 Night Goblins (lost count somewhere) including champions, musicians, standard and battle standard bearers, Fanatics, Gobbos with bows, spears, hand weapons, shamans and spiders!

-95 Orks comprised of 29 Shoota Boyz, 40 Slugga Boyz, 4 Burna Boyz, 3 Big shoota, 5 Deffkoptas, 4 Kommandos, 10 Gretchin and a Runtherd.

-a lot of Pax Arcadia being 8 Scout bases, 8 Heavy Weapons bases, 4 Valiants, 4 Hammerjacks, 4 Ramjacks, 4 Chasseurs and around 16 troop bases.

Now most models still await some dip or ink followed by a dullcoat, which will have to wait 'till I get home. Then the whole lot needs to be based or finished with static grass and flock, so I'm not entirely there yet! But I'm extremely pleased with what's done and with this and the Lead Painters' League coming up it seems that my lead mountain is getting considerably smaller!!!

So...no other conclusion then to go on another 6 month trip to reduce it even futher!

...if only...