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Recently I've been taken with the idea of getting back into gaming at a small level and Blood Bowl presented the perfect opportunity to merge my passion for modelling with my long terms love of American Football.

Previously I had always been put off of Blood Bowl by the poor models, however, the new special character sculpts (Griff and Zug) have changed that and inspired me to create my own human team in a similar style.

The first model on the desk for this project is the new mighty Zug himself:



As you can see I couldn't resist doing a little GS work on him - mainly to cover difficult to remove mould lines. I don't like mini's without proper eyes, they seem to lack a bit of visiual interest and focal point without them, therefore I decided to alter the eyes to make one which I could actually properly paint in. The other will be empty as if lost in the incident which resulted in the scar.

The rest of the team will be converted from empire and some IG plastics. The new greatswords in particular will be plundered for parts. The main brief I'm setting myself here is to make a dynamic looking team that improves significantly on the current range but also maintains traditional GW design elements.

More on this project soon.

Cheers,

Dante

I swear your modeling ADD is worse than mine is.

I love this model. I really hope GW starts to put out some more figures for their Specialist Games lines.

Now, to sit and watch it all unfold, one little addition of GS at a time. Can't wait.

Agreed,Very nice.I have loved Blood Bowl myself for a long time,never had enough to to set aside to make the custom team I wanted so,I have never got around to it.

Keep up the good work,hope to see him painted soon.

Cheers for the comments guys. I know there isn't too much to comment on so far but general ideas and opinions are always helpful in the creative process.

@ grey_death - Lol, you know me too well mate! What can I say, when a strong idea for a project takes me, I'm off to the races!

This project serves a duel purpose in that it combines my favourite sport with modelling stand out single miniatures that will be collected into a team used for my re-introduction to gaming.

As for the GS, on Zug it is now done. Since I took the photo I added a little more to the left eye (right in the pic) to balance it out size-wise with the other. I also tidied up the thumb nails that I have added. He is now ready for a coat of white primer at the weekend and then some paint. The beauty of this mini is the large surface areas and simplicity of the model. Despite a comparitive lack of detail with many of GW's other character mini's, the figure loses none of it's character and I anticipate it being a joy to paint.


@ Deff Dread - Cheers buddy. I know what you mean, I've always loved the concept of the game but never the miniatures until the more recent human figures. Given my tendancy towards converting and scratch building these days I figured I should just take the plunge and put together my own completely unique looking team.

I've had the new Griff model cleaned up and ready for some gap filling for a while but not got round to doing it yet. While it is a beautiful figure, the way the pieces fit together is frustrating in terms of being able to paint it in sub-assemblies and then put it together without any unsightly gaps. The arms in particular have some really noticeable gaps where the shoulders meet the torso.

It will certainly take more planning than Zug did! The beauty of the single piece figure!

I hope to do some painting on him this weekend along with some final detail work on the magus and finishing up some commission sculpting - busy weekend ahead!

More soon.

Cheers,

Dante

Dante

What's your favorite NFL team? Will we see their color scheme appear on these guys?

Cheers
Dave

I'm a Panthers man through and through (been a fan from their first game actually) but the colour scheme will be traditional Reikland Reavers I think. What can I say, I like blue!

Who do you follow yourself?

Cheers,

Dante

I espically loved the Ogrelem Gob Trotters(based of the Harlem globe trotters which are a basketball team).

I have always wanted to do a team based on the Chicago Bulls.As I myself am more a basketball man.

well goodbye bloodpact and hybrid projects :(

I just got the rules for Blood Bowl 2 days ago, so this should be some inpiration for me and my bro. Have you seen the TV ad where an American person says
"We will host a game between the Australians.......and the Americans"
Australian person "What? You mean like Ozzy Rules Football?"
American person "Well maybe we think we rule football."
Australian person "No, its a completely different game."

The joke is that Ozzy Rules is the name for an Australian football game.

For blood bowl my favorite team is the Orcland Raiders.

@ Deff - Yeah the Cha' kagor Bulls would be a good name for a beastman team.

@ typhus - Not so, the Magus will defo be getting finished soon. As for the blood pact, well I said before in the BP log that they would be on hold for the time being.

@ General Stubbs - Looking forward to seeing how you get on with the game. Not seen the advert your talking about. Guess its an Aussy ad?

@ sonofruss - Everyone knows the Raiders suck! The Orcland Raiders aren't bad though....

Got anything new for us tonight?

Yeah, its an Aussy ad

Hey dude, get back to your Cult! and Pact

I love the Zug model. I wish we saw more of this kind of nice one off additions to the collectors range. I already have plans for the same model - =I=munda obviously

Hey buddy,

How's it going? You've been keeping us waiting on Legion updates!

Don't worry the cult are continuing apace but I just needed something that would show finished results quicker to keep the motivation up.

When I first saw the Zug mini I immediately thought "Heavy weapons guy for =I=munda!", he's just gagging for a heavy stubber or bolter.

As a one piece mini I think this is one of my all time favourite GW metals. Bags of character and enough detail to be visually interesting, but lots of big areas for easy and fun painting.

I primed Zug this morning - skull white GW primer.

I really should stop using this useless ****.

As with the last time I used it, on my Rouge Trader, it crazed as it dried leaving a rough and gritty finish.

So, grabbing my milliput super fine and tools, I've spent a few hours going over the entire mini and filling and smoothing every rough surface. In a way it helped because I also fixed a lot of tiny little rough areas of the actual cast too. Therefore, I now have a perfectly smooth, white, Mighty Zug awaiting paint.

Might do a little on him this evening once everything has fully dried.

More soon.

Cheers,

Dante

Looking forward to see some paint on him (and seeing how you'll paint the skin).

As for my favorite team, The New York Giants.

Cheers
Dave

PS. was that a new can of spray? Or the same one?

The same one, I don't know why I did it. I suppose I was just hoping it was a one off blip the first time around.

I'm going to be doing some experimenting on him on painting over a white undercoat. It's been a long time since I last painted anything over white but I want to experiment more with it as I think it could speed things up and also make smooth blending easier.

Cheers,

Dante

Hey mate I can see why you should do this project! You like the real version of the game too And like you say, doing something faster, more straight forward is hugely important for balance.

I've been absolutely kicking ass at work. Sadly missed all the free time as a consequence. Trying to get back to it asap, but traveling next week.

I do like that new Zug sculpt. now post more pictures of painted players. Go on. Get to it!

migsula wrote:Hey mate I can see why you should do this project! You like the real version of the game too And like you say, doing something faster, more straight forward is hugely important for balance.

I've been absolutely kicking ass at work. Sadly missed all the free time as a consequence. Trying to get back to it asap, but traveling next week.

Sounds interesting mate, need to catch up with you on it. Been pretty busy work-wise myself lately so its been a real challenge keeping myself involved hobby-wise too.

Painting will follow tomorrow.

Cheers,

Dante

I Love that model
and Blood Bowl is the only thing i play now so its nice to see someone else backing up the game
what models will you be using for your players
the normal box or conversions?
Im setting out for a Undead team using Tomb King skeletons
and a Dark Elf team using Dark Eldar peices
cant wait to see more
ABH

I just checked the schedule Dante, Giants play the Panthers on Sunday December 27. Perhaps we'll have to have a wager?

Cheer
Dave

Think I said at the start but I plan to convert the majority of the team (if not all) from plastics and sculpt work.

I picked up a box of the new DE corsairs last weekend for some parts, might eventually make a second, DE team so that my friends can play with them when they are over and dont have their own.

Cheers,

Dante

Lol, sounds like your on Dave! You just nicked us last year but I think the G-men aren't going to be the same offensive threat they were last year.

Quick shot of some early progress:



Still earliest stages, all I've done so far is some early toning and shading and tested the eye to make sure the sculpt work looked ok.

Pleased with how it's turning out so far. Painting over a white undercoat is far more fun than over black!

More soon.

Cheers,

Dante

I like how the skin tone is looking in these early stages.

Are you planning to build a stadium?
Because that would be,AWESOME!I hate those card boards that you get with the starter kit.

Also,I would suggest that if you want more ogres check out Heresy multi-part miniatures.They sort of have there own more twisted blood bowl called Death ball.They make some awesome(IMHO)ogres.Also some other cool models.

Looking fantastic so far Dante. I really love the depth you're getting already on the face. The variety in color is working nicely too. That's a nice fleshy violet tone, what colors are you using so far?

Cheers guys.

@ Deff - I hope to make a pitch at some point, though its worth noting my plastic card and terrain building skills haven't been used in years and weren't great even then!

I have a bit of a compulsion that I'll only use GW parts for GW related mini's. Therefore ogres will be converted from GW parts. I like the BB metal ogres so will probably try and make some that look like them.

@ grey_death - So far the skin has been done using super thin layers of tallarn flesh, then tallarn flesh (hence-forth known as TF) mixed with some vallejo game colour dark purple (can't remember exact name), then finally a few thin layers of the previous mix and a little p3 sanguine highlight. The lips and scar have had a thin layer of sanguine and tallarn mix to accentuate them.

Finally, the lower 2/3 of the face have had some highlighting done with mixes of dheneb stone and tallarn flesh.

Still lots more to do but I like how its shaping up so far.

Cheers,

Dante

Nice painting and ide like to see how your conversions turn out as i was thinking of doing the same thing

Cant wait to see more
ABH

I see,well at any rate a custom built "home stadium" would be cool.

We need more,paint quickly!

Im surprised you dont support your home team
Glasgow Tigers
My Home team is Manchester Titans though well never be as good as the guys in the NFL Lol
keep up the great work
cant wait to see your team come to life
keep it up
ABH

P.S The reason for my love of blood bowl im not sure if you agree, is because its nice small games which dont take up to much time.