Blood Bowl revisited - Dark Elves repainted

 Hello my faithful readers!! ;)

I decided to repaint my Dark Elf team, which I acquired some years ago when I got back into the hobby. Since then my paint style have evolved and more players have joined and I also wanted a more uniform look throughout the team. I'm going for a weathered brass, black clothes, pale blueish skin and metal studs on the black leather. I will be trying out the oxide wash I bought some months back and also tying the bases together with some wash.

Before repaint - the ones to the left are the old paint job w a light flesh airbrushed over their original blue skin.

Before repaint

Before repaint

Before oxide wash

After oxide wash

After oxide wash

After oxide wash

I'm not entirely happy with the result of the wash but I will give a metal highlight on top when I paint the skin tones and details. I also have plans for a decorative motif on the bases for the numbers.

Comments are always welcome!!!

Oh the teams includes blitzers, lineman, runners, assassin and a witch elf + coach Chainflail and the cheerleader turn marker Penny Dreaders.

Thanks for viewing :)
Thomas

Pulp Alley - a short review

A couple of weeks ago, I spent a weekend at a small convention called Åcon in the town of Esbjerg. The theme of Åcon is participation games, painting and chatting and barbeque and beers and the weather was perfect - as was our host and all the other old timers (we were 14-16 give or take a few during the weekend).

Saturday morning, we had ourselves a quick game of Pulp Alley, which I thouroughly enjoyed! It was fast and bloody and run by the good Dr. The Viking of LAF fame who was an exemplary GM. My opponent were the also nameworthy Dr. Zombie of LAF who kindly added to the sillyness and good fun with his style of play.

I took a good amount of pics, which are quite self-explaning.

My space cowboy killer robots advance on the enemy lines

I draw an event card that unleash a giant gorilla

The space hero battle line post giant gorilla attack

Pewpewpew die space hero scum!

A single space hero police warrior tries to sneak around the rocky outcrops and flank the robot autonoms

Mount Objective

Topgun Tony and Pistol Pete shows excellent marksmanship and wound a space lieutenant

Space hero Hans Blixt rescues the damsel in distress and throw Lord what's his face off the cliff

Tony and Pete capture the most coveted objective, the Tomacco plant

Seconds before Hans Blixt in his heroic attempt to escape the giant gorilla lands on his face, breaking every single bone in his space hero body. Moments later, the space heroes fled the battle field, carrying their obviously broken leader in a sack

Pulp Alley is in my mind designed for quick skirmishes and offers plenty of random elements, which I find funny. I liked the counter action system where you could either dodge an attack or fire/hit back, making the gameplay more dynamic. Also the fate/event cards added an element of randomness, which addd to the overall gaming experience. Thanks goes out to the two Dr. The Viking and Dr. Zombie for the good fun! We have already planned a RT game with the Pulp Alley rules in our local gaming club - hopefully sometime in the Fall.

Stay tuned me hearties!

Back to Cold Lead Mountain

Summer is over, the lead tank is full again and I'm bustling with paint energy and enthusiasm!!

My latest entry was a quick ramble on the joy of having joind the Oldhammer forum and the rekindled love for old lead miniatuers and recently I've had a game of Realm of Chaos, which have caused me to bring my old thugs back in front row of the paint queue.

Today I had some 30-40 minutes to splash some paint on them, blocking out the hair and fur stuffs - we go bright red, orange, green to add some sparkle to my otherwise drab and muted chaos fellas.

Pre hair dye!

The Chaos paint queue

The plan is to finish the thugs before the end of July and begin painting the warriors. I have traded ferousiously during the Summer, so there's more to come as I get stuff stripped, based and primed!

Stay tuned! :)

Oi wat's dis den?

Today I decided to revive my old lead blog. I have felt a joy rekindled lately for this old lead hobby and think now that I will try to blog again (not that I've been the most active blogger before).

I have no photos for you tonite gentlemen, but before I bid you adieu I'll tease a little with what's to come.

Current projects (text lists, always a hoot!):

• Good vs. Evil wargaming - ongoing fantasy project morphed into a Realm of Chaos revival
• It came from the desert - 20mm apocalypse game with cars and motor bikes
• Repainting my Dark Elf BB team - currently playing in the Roguebowl league at the local club
• and 4-5 other ongoing projects

Also, I spend my hobby time completing collections of old lead, having recently completed my collection of old Citadel Goodwin Ogres and also his Khorne Chaos Champions. I'm also very close to a complete 2nd ed. 40k Ork collection, missing mostly gretchins and such.

Good night!
Thomas

Post Scriptum

A wee pic for you merry lead heads :)

My ashwasting scavvies, well some of them - can you spot any Oldhammer bits?

Last night we had ourselves a game of 40k skirmish. Niels brought his Iron Fist space marine, I compiled a list of underhive scum, number 4 vs 13. We used the community made rules set, In the Emperor's Name. The game was fast played, rules never bogged us down and it was a bloody slaughter, precisely as 40k should be!

Underhive scum line up for the slaugther

Canned meat lined up to be slaughtered

Inspecting the meat from a different angle

Former rogue trader gone underhive scum leader, Baetlegoys leads his armed vermin towards the hidden crates

Sniper Dead Sirious Black and bodyguard sneak around in the hills above the battle field

Iron Fists advances in open, confident their armour will provide ample cover

Both sides close in on the crates

Remants of the past occupants of this barren wasteland

Impact!

First blood! First turn of shooting saw the underhive leader, flying mutant and pit slave go down to the superior fire of the Emperor's finest battle troops

Melee! Despite their best efforts, the Iron Fists did not slaughter any lambs today

Torrent of fire!

The underhive scum positioned well to snipe the marines while their less intelligent mates kept them occupied

Interim leader Pretty Tony leading the pack, laying support fire from an abandoned water plant

Scum hiver Scabs getting away with the mystery crates

Scabs getting caught by bolter fire on his way up hill, moments later the Iron Fist commander fell to the torrent of fire and the hive scum managed to get back to their den with a crate of ... Creme A

New Rats on the Block

So I've managed to finish the last 3 rats for my ratmen/skaven warband. Picture's a bit crappy but shows the joyful moment when the long lost rat brothers meet on an Ice Death World for the first time since they were seperated as younglings.

 

Hopefully, this update will see me return to the paint station. Last couple of months have been hectic - got an extension on my job, extension expired and not prolonged, gone freelance and moved hobby workshop also, but the new place holds so much promise https://www.facebook.com/Roguetradercph?ref=hl in regards of practicing the aspect of this hobby which I love - painting and modelling (still a newb) and casual gaming! 

Thanks for looking - hope to have more for you next time around (and hopefully sooner than 3-4 months)

//Thomas

Recent weeks, I've been painting 28mm fantasy for the future Good vs. Evil battle we in the "gaming" group are dreaming about doing at some point in our lives - it could turn out to become an Oldhammer thing, since we all are former WHFB-gamers.

I picked up a small group of dwarves cheap, thinking the sculpts were quite nice, then finding out they are GW and cost thrice what I paid - which made the haul so much better :)

First came out well I think, took under an hour to paint (ex. basing and priming - did the whole lot 20+ dwarves in one go) and after using this fella to test my clear orange wash I've decided that's the way to go! Quick dirty painting (more blocking out colours), a few quick highlights and a bit of shading, splash on some orange wash and you're good to go :)

In the most intense fight scene with the nasty giant rats, you see the effects of the orange wash.

The wee fellas in the extravagant dreadnought suits are my Grand Warlord retinue for my Epic Squats.

Just finished a fightning chain-wheeling monk yesterday, but he was still drying when I left the workshop (and perhaps ruined because I didn't dilute the clear orange properly). Will post more when I'm back from vacation - BATTLEFIELD BERLIN here I come ;D

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Thomas