Showcase: Reikland Reavers Team Shots. Plus Markers!

 

Heyhey, it's been a long time coming, but here the full team's finally together. And they brought their markers too!

Showcase: Reikland Reavers Characters

 

Heyhey, here's some lovely Forgeworld characters for the Reikland Reavers.

It's a lovable band of misfits, and fan favourites throughout: Helmut Wulf, Griff Oberwald, Morg'n'Thorg, The Mighty Zug & Karla von Kill.

A good bunch. :) Sadly this Griff Oberwald isn't available any more due to the release of the GW one. I'd give painting the new one a go though; he looks pretty impressive. 

Showcase: Reikland Reavers

 

Hi, friends. It's summer, isn't it. So it's time to do the sporty activities, which for me is painting sporty people.

Showcase: Blood Bowl Group Shot

...and here's the whole gang all together. Painting those guys wasn't always easy, but it was fun and I really love the look of them all together. I hope that you like them as well!

Showcase: Human Star Players

Now these two here took the most time to do. The female star player is a very pretty sculpt, but there is one flaw to her: There's a mould line running right along her face, running slightly to the right of the nose. Really takes some work to get rid of that properly.

Showcase: Blood Bowl Sideline Personnel

Going on with the Blood Bowl! Here is some essential sideline personnel: A cook, an Apothecary (gardener --> apothecary for treemen, geddit? :P ) and the compulsory Bloodweiser Babe.

I put a lot of effort into making that chicken look delicious.

Showcase: Blood Bowl Slayers

Time for more eclectic Blood Bowl minis! Today it's Slayers. Very interesting sculpts. I like them. I mean they're a bit coarse one might say, but this is BloodBowl. And they're happy. I do like happy lead. There's more than enough grimdakness I say!

Showcase: Blood Bowl Fans

First part of a few Blood Bowl minis I recently painted for a special little commissoned project. Here we got a bunch of Dwarves and a Halfling Blood Bowl fans.

Really, really fun figures. The sculpts are pretty rough (very old-school stuff), so I wasn't sure if I'd be able to paint them so they look pretty. Hope I got it right. What do you think?

Showcase: Blood Bowl Orcs Team

And here's my finished Orcs team. They had their baptism of fire a few days ago and it took a while until they were all patched up and presentable again.

WIP: Blood Bowl Orc Team #2

...aaand another WIP shot. The orange-yellow on the armour is mostly done (none of that lame airbrush business. This be real painting. ;-) ), metallics have been basecoated. I considered using NMM on the metal parts, but I think that it would have detracted from the "old school" feeling.

WIP: Blood Bowl Orc Team

Here's an early WIP of my Blood Bowl team. The skin is mostly done, just got started on the armour. The black basecoat on the trousers, shoes and shirts will also be very much incorporated into the colour scheme as base colours.

Showcase: Blood Bowl Orc test mini

The weirdest thing happened last Thursday. On our more or less regular Gaming Night we planned to play some Blood Bowl Team Manager. Typical FFG game - easy to learn, fast, fun, very solid, very good with keeping the theme. I mentioned in passing that I'd never played proper Blood Bowl. Since the Team Manager game was over pretty quickly (we were only two players to test the rules) out came the real Blood Bowl and we had quick little game. Good stuff. I can see why this, along with Space Hulk, is considered to be one of the best games GW ever published. As things go sometimes I ended up with the plastic Orcs team from the 3rd edition BB box that night and got to painting. 

The test mini isn't completely done, but that's pretty much the colour scheme I'm going for. What do you think?