From SimonM - "Games Workshop" Blood Bowl Dwarves (27 points)

"Greetings eager sports fans, and welcome to the latest edition of Thursday Night Football. I'm Jim Maddenberg and along with Elven Hall of Famer Thom Grassyglade, I’ll be bringing you all news concerning the latest developments for Blood Bowl Sevens.”

"The big news today is that the amateur game appears to have attracted the attention of an aspiring Dwarf team called the Rusty Buckets. Thom, those are some seriously old long-beards at no mistake. Do they really go as far back as the game’s classic second edition..?”

“That’s right, Jim. Remember the days of the World’s Edge Wanderers, Zhufbar Marktag, Durums Destroyers and the Dwarf Anvils..? Well, all five of the players on this latest team’s roster stem from those heady days of single cast metal sculpts, courtesy of a much-appreciated swap meeting with Iain White of “caveadsum1471” fame.”

“Why the club will even be re-employing an old Kicker model from the Dwarf Giants to use as a Runner for the modern-day rules. Sadly, there’s no sign of a glamorous Cheerleader or two, though Jim. But, to be honest, I doubt the Rusty Buckets would currently have the copper pieces to hire any.”

“So what’s the plan for these old, second-hand players then, Thom? Is their colourful yellow and blue attire going to survive the transition to the amateur leagues, or can we expect a completely new kit for these grizzled thirty-year plus veterans..?”

“Well the runes certainly haven’t been kind to these guys, Jim, as they’ve all received a coat of “Vallejo” Heavy Sienna, so as to obscure the sculpts’ previous paint-jobs. Each figure was then dry-brushed with “Vallejo” Gunmetal, before being treated to a mixture of “Citadel” Agrax Earthshade and "The Army Painter" Strong Tone Quickshade.”

“Next the Dwarves had their boots, belts and beards predominantly ‘picked out’ with “Citadel” Abaddon Black. Whilst their trousers and tunics received a layer of “Vallejo” Heavy Sienna and (more) “Citadel” Agrax Earthshade. The players’ gloves were initially coated with “Vallejo” Heavy Brown (or on the odd occasion Heavy Red), before they too were shaded in “Citadel” Agrax Earthshade.” 

“I understand some additional touches of "Mig Productions" Extreme Rust Wash were also used on the numerous spiked knee-caps, elbow-pads, shoulder-pads and helmets, Thom..? These areas were then later given a delicate dry-brush of “Vallejo” Gunmetal to add some additional highlights to the aged metal.”

“Quite right, Jim. Of course, the Rusty Buckets have already signed three other Dwarves to the team, including a Blitzer (Troll Slayer) and Kicker (Runner) prior to the start of the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. So that means the club can now field a fully-staffed Blood Bowl Sevens side for a tour of the Sarisbury Green amateur clubs later this month.”

"Thanks Thom. That just about wraps up this Blood Bowl Sevens special. But please do join us again next time when we'll be taking a closer look at some of this sport's other players..."

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Alongside these five 28mm Blood Bowl figures, I've also painted another couple of 6mm Conqueror Robots from the long OOP Epic range by "Games Workshop". These two miniatures were painted to represent the Ultramarines and Imperial Fists space marine chapters, so were predominantly pigmented in either a combination of "Vallejo" Heavy Blue and "Citadel" Drakenhof Nightshade, or "Vallejo" Sun Yellow and "Citadel" Reikland Fleshshade. Their Lascannons and Heavy Bolters were later picked out with "Vallejo" Gunmetal and "Citadel" Nuln Oil.

I had hoped the Dwarves would be suitable for me to claim a visit to Glorantha, having started my space-based adventures on Istvaan V - after all, the Old World race are as synonymous with "runes" as you can get in wargaming. However, having painted these little fellas up I've realised that they don't actually have any runes on them. So I'll leave it to my noble minion to decide if they hit the criteria..?

Hopefully this third of my AHPC entries will provide:

2 x Robot – 2 Points (as per previous submissions' scoring)

5 x Dwarf Blood Bowl Players - 25 Points

Glorantha – 20 Points..?

Total – 27 or 47 Points..?

You're putting me on the spot, Simon! I love Blood Bowl, and my first team were dwarves (the 1994 third edition). And you've done a superb salvage job on these classics! They will be, ahem, dwarfed by the latest scale creep afflicted figures.

However, I run a tight ship and standards must be kept, or else we are no more than beasts. I don't think they reach the Gloranthan standard of 'Quest/ Runes/ Heroes', and so will deny you the sweet sweet bonus points. I remain open to bribery or appeal to A High Power. Or you could, you know, quickly freehand some runes on those shoulderpads. No doubt a powerful grudge against me and all my kin...

Barks

PS Nice work on the robots!