Saturday 10 January 2015

From TeemuL - Blood Bowl Ogre (7 Points)

I don't think I have seen any Blood Bowl figures in the challenge yet. Well, this is not an official Blood Bowl figure either, but it will count as Ogre in my human team. Originally he is a Grenadier War Troll from 1988 without weapons. You can take a look at his friends here: Link to eBay


It took me while find out who he is, he was part of huge pile of lead and plastic I bought over a year ago (most of the classic orcs and goblins are from that same pile, too) and has only "Grenadier 1987" on his base. I was looking for a proper stand-in for ogre for my team and happened to find him there. Looks ogre enough for me. Looks Blood Bowl enough for me. I like looks of his eyes.



My team colors are white and blue, just like the colors of Reikland Reavers in the 3rd edition starter, which I copied to my own team. Hence he is wearing a blue loincloth and whitish rags around his arms. He also liked the yellow plumes of the blitzers and decided to dye his hair in the same style.



I was thinking about to sculpt him a little badge, to write his number, but then I decided not to mess around with this old and beautiful figure. Human teams allow only one ogre, so it should not be impossible to separate him from this team mates. I just put him on a base (30mm washer) to give him a proper base and better balance.



At the moment he is not actually part of the team yet, because there's not enough gold coins in the treasure. But as soon as the next season starts and I get the first income from the gate, he will join the team. That's why his team mates have not named him yet, he is only known as the number six. Is he a man or free, that's another story.



Here he is posing with future team members. Blends in quite nicely, I'd say. Shows also little of his size.

I think that there were no 28mm miniatures in the 1987, so he is most likely a 25mm guy. There's no monster category in the rules either so I leave it to Curt... 5 points at least?


From Curt:

Okay, I'm going to age myself here, but does anyone else out there think that this guy looks like Sweetums from The Muppets? Or is it Mickey Rourke from 'The Wrestler'...? Then again his facial expression also reminds me of Stalone yelling out, 'Adrian!' in 'Rocky'.






Whatever the cultural reference, he's a wonderful figure, Teemu, a real classic from the 80s. You did a great job on his flesh tone and I really like how you painted his dirty boxing wraps. Nice work!



13 comments:

  1. Great piece of work Teemu - he's sure to help out by intimidating your opponents :)

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  2. Nice classic from Grenadier. He's a biggun and will help your team out next season. Well done!

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  3. Spot onCurt... That was my thought..nice job

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  4. Yep definitely "Sweetums" from the muppets. Good call. He should give the opposing team something to worry about. Good job mate.

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  5. Blonde/Yellowish hair seems to do wonder to miniatures. Most people tend to paint the hair usually brown or black. With black hair, would he look even more like Balboa? :)

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  6. Wow! A truly unique figure. Love it! In answer to Curt I was sort of thinking he was trying to look like the Ogre Fabio.

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  7. Nice on Teemu! I've done the same thing with my BB humans as well although your choice of miniature is much better. Are we going to see more of the team in the Challenge?

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  8. A very suitable BloodBowl Ogre, Teemu! I agree with Curt"Sweetums" has a striking resemblance to him. I bet his hugs and congratulatory backslaps are lethal! ;)

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  9. Very nice painting work. This is a really nice miniature!

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  10. Great painting on the ogre. Well done.

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  11. Reminds me of Kevin Greene from the Steelers too. Real nice and fits in perfectly with your team

    Ian

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  12. What a wonderful figure, and a great paint-job to boot. Smashing stuff. Nice to see these old figures are still out there getting some tender loving care.

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