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So I have a Blood Bowl tournament coming up this weekend. One of my buddies is running it and he had to cap it and 60 people because the venue couldn't hold anymore. This is his second year running and we are both AMAZED he got 60 people (more actually, there is a wait list). We live in Va. and have people coming from as far as the Virgin islands. Pretty crazy. I have been working on my team for the event lately. Meet the Tzeentch Zappers led by Lord Borak. Chaos isn't the best blood bowl team... but they are a fun one!



I also picked up some of the new Warcry stuff yesterday. The Ogre cards really caught my eye and I had some Ogre models laying around the house so I started last night working on my warband. I normally don't do a lot of WIP shots here but that's exactly what these are. Not bad for a night / morning's work IMO. A couple small conversions, head swaps etc.







Not the greatest pics. I assure you I will take better ones once they are finished. There is a GW about 80 minutes from me that is having a warcry tournament in a few weeks. I may try to get these painted up and take them down there. I cant imagine Warcry being the best tourney game, but an excuse to play it all day sounds ok to me.

Best of luck with the tournament, the Chaos team looks great.

I too picked up the Ogre and OBR Warcry cards this weekend, a couple of sets of Feast of Bones I have for them will be great fodder for the war bands.

May I add that it is always fun popping into this thread just to see what you have been up to. Great stuff.

Great looking BB team. Depending on how the tournament is set up you play to win or play to cause casualties (which sometimes helps the first option to happen ).

So I am DMing my first game with our normal DM as a player and a couple of newer players as well. One of the new players doesn't even have any miniatures so he sent me his character sheet and I grabbed this model for him I had painted a month or two back. He is a dwarven fighter.





I also made a little progress on my Ogre Warcry Warband tonight. I am trying to have them painted for a tournament in appx. 2 weeks time. Again, I know I don't normally post a lot of WIPs but these are very much that.

The whole warband (got a few options).







The guy with the gun and sweet mask is going to be my leader. I have a few more guys but I want to get these done and then add more options as time allows. Anyways, that's all for now! Wish me luck at the BB tournament Saturday!!!

The BB Chaos team looks very cool. Good luck!

squall018,

The Ogre Warcry Warband is coming along.

Cheers,

CB

So I played in the Blood Bowl Tourney this weekend. 56 people showed and I won 2 games and tied 1 which I was pretty darn happy with, especially with Chaos. Tie Breakers were not especially kind and I came in 10th but still pretty pleased. Took pictures of each of my games but for some reason the 3rd games pic didn't save so you will get to see the first two.

First game was a gentlemen who drove in from Indiana (we were in VA). He was playing Khorne. We ended up tying 1-1.



My second opponent drove most of the way across Va. He played Bretonnians. I took 2 of his blitzers out early in the game and he could never really recover. He only had 4 men on the pitch at the end of the first half but I could never get the ball off of him. I got the ball in the 2nd half, slowly ground down his team and scored on turn 15 to lock in the victory.



My third opponent came up from around Raleigh NC and he played Vampires. This was the best game I played all day and I eeked out a 2-1 win on the last turn of the game. Pics didn't save for some reason on this one so you will just have to take my word for it.

On a slightly different note I am hosting my own BB tournament at my FLGS in May. It will be called the Cave Squig Cup. If you can make the drive to Va. PM me and I will send you details. Here are some pictures of some of the custom swag I have gotten made for it. More still incoming.

Custom Turn Markers



And custom dice



I have also made some slight progress on my Ogre warband so will post pics of that shortly.

Congrats on the games.

Cave squig cup battle caps and dice with the symbol on the 6 (how they should be).

Where did you get the dice made if I might ask.

I got them from a company in the UK called Dice International Ltd. Less than a dollar a dice shipped and took them a little over 3 weeks from when I paid for them to arrive at my door. Easy to work with, cant say enough good things really.

Speaking of Blood Bowl. I have been really enjoying messing with Ogres lately so I also started work on an Ogre team for Blood Bowl. They are one of the worst teams in game but I figured they would be good for intro games or against newer players.

Here is what I have done so far. 4 Ogres and 4 snotlings. I had painted the snotlings awhile back and used a different color for the base. I am in the process of fixing that so they all match but that explains the different color bases.







Gotta finish 2 more Ogres and probably 6 more snotlings. I plan on taking these guys to a tournament at the end of March so I have plenty of time. Will post pics of Warcry Ogre progress later tonight.

Quite the disparity in player size...

Cheers,

CB

Looks like a good time. Congrats on making Top 10. Caps and dice are sweet!

Ogres are looking good. May I inquire, what colors you used for the skin?

Thanks guys!

@CB - Snotlings are the only players in BB that are strength 1. An average human is strength 3 and an Ogre is strength 5, so there is quite the disparity there.

@Viterby The Dark Color skin is P3's battlefield brown. The Caucasian skins are Bugmans Glow, Kislev Flesh and Cadian Flesh. Nothing Fancy. Just base, wash, and a little clean up with the base color.

Ive got a couple more guys done for my Warcry warband, including my first snotling. Also, I know they are technically called Gnoblars now, but Im always gonna call them snotlings. Anyways, here goes.





Now, I just have to finish the leader and 2 more snotlings and I have a legal force. Going to paint a few more just to have some options. I got a box of the two handed weapon Ogres in yesterday so they will be built and added soon. This has been a super fun little project and Ive really enjoyed messing with mostly larger models. Probably going to spend another 2 weeks or so getting the Warcry group ready and the BB team done. Then who knows whats next!

So first thing, a few reinforcements for my Ogres. Got an Ironguts kit and made a couple plus some snotlings. Will paint soon.



So earlier on this page I talked about DMing my first game ever. Well that was today. We ran two small dungeons. I only took a couple pictures but a good time was had by all.









And that's about it for today. Later this week should be more Ogres!

Thanks for the info with the skin colors.
And congrats on dming a successful bout of doungening!

So a few of you guys have been talking about Gaslands on your blogs. I have the original book but never did much with it. I was out and about this weekend and saw some matchbox cars so looked through them and picked up a few. The Burger car is my favorite of the 2 but I bet I can do some cool stuff with the flat bed.

Been a slow hobby week. Didn't make it out to the Warcry Tournament so Ogres didn't get finished. There has been progress made on that front but there is nothing worth showing yet. There is an event at my FLGS March 21st and Im going to bring them to that, so they will be done sooner than later.

My RPG group is planning a one shot here in the next 3 months. We have 4 players, one of which is the DM so we only have 3 actual players. We prefer to have a 4 person party so one of us usually plays two characters. Well that's me this go round. I decided I wanted to have a dedicated magic user. Now, I have plenty of models for that to choose from, but that doesn't sound like much fun so I ordered the new frostgrave female wizards box. Here is what I did with the first sprue.

These top two are my favorite. The one on the left looks like she is summoning something and the wind is swirling around her. She has an evil look to her, which makes me not sure if I will use her for this game, but she is my favorite of the four. The other one is probably the one I will pick. Went with a classic witch look and she looks like she is casting a cantrip or something.



The one on the left here looks like she is in combat and slinging spells. The right hand one doesn't look like much of a magic user, but will make a good frostgrave henchman carrying a potion.



So its not much but its what I have. I have a Blood Bowl tournament Saturday. I will take pictures. I also had 2 other models come in with these that I will show off soon as well!

Nice dungeon squall.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks, CB! My buddy who hosts the games has a bunch of dwarven forge and a bunch of home made cast terrain. Its a pretty great set up.

I made the rest of the Frostgrave female wizards box. I like the first four I made better than these four, but these aren't bad.





Gonna try to get a couple of these ladies painted today.

Yesterday I went to a small Blood Bowl tournament in Cary, NC. I went 2-1 and came in 4th of 12.

The first game my dwarves and I got matched up against a Lizardman coach. This guy is a tournament regular and one of the best coaches in the region so I knew it was gonna be a tough game. I lost this one 2-1 which was about what I expected.







Next up I played a super killy Chaos team. I won this game 1-0 but it felt like I was losing most of the game because he took out so many of my players. He almost tied it up but I was able to dodge a dwarf blitzer out and get a 1 die block on his ball carrier which knocked the ball out and allow me to recover. By the end of the game he had 4 of my dwarves injured and out of the game.







Last I played an Elven Union team. I won this game 2-1. Scored the go ahead TD on turn 15. This was a tougher game than I thought it would be.



Finally, this was a tournament for charity so there was a raffle held. I won 2 awesome teams during the raffle. A Greebo Necromantic team and a Succubus Miniatures Khorne team.



And that's all I have for now. Will hopefully post later today with some painted wizards!

squall,

Glad you had a good time at the tournament.

Cheers,

CB

Wow, so its been over a month since I have posted. I have not been painting as much, as my work hours have increased and my wife and I are both working from home. On top of this our kids daycare has closed so we are both trying to work with a 3 year old and a 6 month in the house. By the time the day is done I usually have little energy for painting. But that doesn't mean I haven't done ANYTHING.

This is a small unit of dwarven linebreakers for Joe Mcullough's new game Oathmark. I havent painted rank and file infantry in about 5 years so it was a fun project. Going to add another rank and an officer here over the next day or two.







I have a few odds and ends like a female wizard I have painted up as well that I will post later today or tomorrow. A lot of the tournaments I was prepping for got cancelled, so some of those projects have fell by the wayside but I will be getting on them soon. Thanks for looking everyone!

Great job on those dwarves and I hope work-kid-balance improves! We're in a similar situation since middle of march, but luckily no increased hours for me and my wife until now and some vacation days atm, but it can take it's toll. Hang in there!

So still working from home. Still with 2 small kids at home. All day every day. But even still, getting some painting in.

First up are a couple additions to my Oathmark Forces. First up is a unit of Giant Spiders. Nothing special here, just good ole contrast paint.



Next up is an Eachy. Never heard of this before but its in the book. This was my take on one. Again, Contrast is at work.



Finally, I painted up an old metal Troll Slayer as a Dwarven Barbarian for a 3.5 DnD one shot for next weekend.



Ive actually gotten in a few games of Oathmark over the past couple weeks, so pictures of some of those games will be up soon.

That old Slayer is simply classic. Nice to see you still working. Keep safe.

Nice work on those minis, spider picture made me immediately scratch myself

Havent posted in a couple months, but I have been painting and gaming. So Gonna do a couple posts here in the next few days to catch up. To start with, in honor of the upcoming Blood Bowl release, I present my version of Bilerot Vomitflesh who is a star player for Nurgle. He's not very good in game, but I wanted to make the model anyway.





Lots more to come. Hope everyone is doing well out there!

Im awful at updating this thing. But I remember it exists and I always end up coming back to it. Never fear, I have been gaming and hobbying despite not posting here in about a year and a half. Still playing a lot of Blood Bowl. I recently painted up some chaos themed miniatures to add to my Ogre team. There are no chaos ogres in BB but I just wanted to try something a little different. Let me know what you think.







Thanks for looking. Will be posting more soon (for real, I promise).