From GeoffT: Bloodbowl Dark Elfs (35 points)

Hello Challengers.

This is probably my last post this year, as am away on business next week.  But the day I return I’ll be playing a blood bowl 7 event.

This team was given to me from the deceased estate of a dearly missed gaming buddy.  So I have painted it up ready for the event.  I must write down the paint colours so I can remember when I do the other half of the team.

Happy with the red, but the purple and aqua are a bit too contrasted and uneven and may need some more work.  But will be fit for purpose in game.

I think I will like playing dark elves, my previous favourite team was elven union.

Kind Regards

Geoff.

From Millsy:

What a great way to remember a gaming buddy! I'm truly sorry to hear about your loss Geoff and I hope the joy you get from fielding the Dark Elfs will go some way to easing the pain of a missing friend. I'm sure he would have appreciated your work, which is some of the best you have produced this year IMHO.

The red and purple is a great combo and the ice blue accent really pops. I know you're not 100% happy with them but I can tell you they look great to me. You've clearly got more patience than me too, painting the name of each player on the base rim.

Thanks for sharing you work with us this year. Almost every week you have managed to surprise me with something new, different, or just plain weird on a few occasions. Always well painted and never lacking for variety it's been a blast to minion your work.

35 points it is and best of luck when these fellow take the field.

Cheers,
Millsy

ByronM - BloodBowl and Trench Crusade [ 100 Points]

For this Tuesday I have an item off my to do list for the year and some more figures for my new Trench Crusade force.  First up is a set of figures that have been sitting around for years that I really wanted to get done this year to help reduce the pile of shame sitting around, that is the set of human Blood Bowl figures.

I painted up the Orks from the Blood Bowl set a few years ago as my favourite NFL team the Greenbay Packers, and painted them up as the Greenskin Packers.  However, to teach people the game I really needed to get another faction painted up.  So I decided to paint up the human team as one of Greenbay's rivals the Minnesota Vikings.

I like how these came out, but they need to be brightened up a bit somehow, maybe when I actually create the team and put white numbers on the back that might do it, but we will see.

Second up in this post are two more miniatures for my Sultanate for Trench Crusade, a pair of Lions of Jabir.  These "Lions" are grown by the Jabirean alchemists to prowl the trenches and destroy the hellions pouring out of Hell.

As for points, there are 12 Blood Bowl figures @ 5 points each, and 2 "Lions" which are on large 45x60mm bases so I am counting them as Cav/Monster figures @ 10 points each.  This should total to 80 points.  Oh, and since my next circle of Hell is Greed, why better submission that a pro-sports team!  I mean after all the Minnesota QB is set to sign a $125M contract???  To play a game he loves???  Wish I could sign onto that!!!  So with that it should take me to 100 points for the submission.

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Lovely additions to round out this Tuesday - I always love a good Blood Bowl team, especially while getting ready for the Superbowl shortly! Those Lions are quite something too. I've somehow managed to not commit to Trench Crusade - perhaps my Turnip induced burnout is to blame!

- Paul

From BruceR - Celtic slingers, Sarah the Succubus, 2nd Circle Lust, (70 points)

I played one game of Midgard Heroic Battles and enjoyed the game.  We used Rome v Briton and I was short Roman archers and Briton slingers.  To the clicker and ordered some Warlord Celtic slingers and saw some excellent Celtic archers as well, so click they were ordered.  I painted the Roman archers (8 of the 24) last week.  

There are 8 figures and they are okay, with a couple of duplicates.  I do like the mustaches and the different hair styles.  Some look young and others old, so I guess why they are slingers.  This will make 2 groups of 4 light troops. 

I've been using speed paints or contrast paints more lately and decided to do the same with these.  I didn't do any designs on the clothing, maybe later, as I want them done and on the table.  I went with solid colorful clothing.  Black undercoat, white dry brush , and then the base colors.  I then highlight some of the colors and finally a dry brush with Iraqi Sand w/ my trusty makeup brush (well my daughters).  A little static grass, tufts and done.  I've also added some plugs for bases to use bases I already have to plug the open holes.  

First photos were taken as a guide for some gaming friends interested in the speed paint technique.   I ran out of steam after 3 photos.  I think they will get the picture.   

The finished troop ready to dent some Roman helmets or break an arm or two with bullets.  

Our game group continues to enjoy The Silver Bayonet and to that end I tend to need some additional adversaries in the form of monsters.  I usually look to Reaper Miniatures for these as their bones figures are cheap as chips and paint up just fine, with quick shipping in the US.  This monster painting is another reason I've taken to speed paints/contrast paints as I'm not looking for ultimate quality just down and dirty monsters.  

I had ordered a number of evil creatures for the Carpathian Book and saw a 3 pack of succubi (I  think that is plural) and for the price clicked.  Back to the circles of Hell.  I used one of the  succubus and did a quick contrast paint job on the wicked flyer.  

Next, I spotted an old GW figure from Blood Bowl sitting on my unloved figure shelf.  An Orc Cheerleader (I think I was given the figure by an opponent at a tournament gathering in the past).  We have just jumped back into Blood Bowl and I'll likely have to get an Orc team to go with the cheer section.  Looks like she punched an empire cheerleader and stole her Altdorf pompoms.  

I'm traveling to the 2nd Circle "Lust" with a female figure offering to Sarah the Succubus and use the other figure to accomplish the Lust Circle.  I'll let the group decide which is which.  The succubus to travel to the 2nd Circle and the Cheer Leader for "Lust"  (I'm sure there is some Orc out there who will agree).  Or the Cheerleader to travel and the succubus as the key to the Lust Circle.  

Hope you enjoy and I don't offend.  Scantily clothed, yet clothed.  

Cheers Bruce

Points sought

10 28mm @ 5  =                                 50 pts

Offering of a female figure to travel = 20 pts

2nd Circle =                                        20 pts

Total                                                    70 pts

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"To the clicker and ordered some" - ah, how familiar that is to me, and so many of us...

Hi Bruce! Thanks so much for this lovely assortment of figures - even if the term "lovely" might only apply in, shall we say, very general terms in some instances above (and of course I am referring to the Celts here, obviously). You have done fine work with the so-called speed paints, and the results on these figures look excellent. 

Your offerings for both the travel and the relevant circle in the inferno are both excellent, and shows that a figure collection can cater to an, er, "wide spectrum of tastes". 

A reminder that painting a female figure allows one to travel outside the direct line in Dante's circles, but does not, in itself, confer bonus points. So you have 70 fine points well-earned here Bruce. Great job. 

GregB

From SanderS: Post 2 - A Gift of sorts! (90 points)

 Hoi,

Now don't keep me up on this, but I am 99% sure this will be my last Library post. With the end of the Challenge well in sight I think I might have one more post after this one in me, but that will not be a Library post. As my first post today has seen me enter the Wilds and do some tree-hugging I am now ready to enter the Gift Shop and have painted something up for my good friend Martijn. 

While on holiday in Norway he bought a Dungeon Bowl expansion featuring the team of Elves and Halflings I have shown you all earlier this Challenge but also a mixed Undead team. I finally got round to painting it. 

That isn't all, at the school where I work we have a laser cutter, and on it my mate Mark and I designed and made a wooden box that takes a Feldherr foam tray for the Blitz Bowl game. So now we have a convenient way to carry a team, cards and dice. We made an extra box and so I can present Martijn with this team in a nice box.

There's 14 figures in the team and that should be good for 70 points, I am not counting the nick-nacks like the markers and ball tokens. With the gift shop bonus that's another 90 points for the counter.

Let's hope that I get time to paint enough for one more post... See you next time!

 Sylvain: What a nice gift! I'm sure Martijn will be pleased. The carrying box really adds a personal touch. My gift to you is a very well deserved 90 points!

From StephenS: Out with the old, and in with new... [Overdues and Returns] (30 points)

G'day All,

This entry is a return rather than anything overdue, despite having had the miniature in question for a few years.

My original Mighty Zug

Probably the first miniature I ever finished and felt like I was finally getting the hang of this 'painting thing' was the old 'Mighty Zug' miniature for Blood Bowl back around 1994/95. I still have that figure, despite all the adventures since my teenage years. 

However, nothing stays the same forever, and it is time to retire my old figure and replace him with the latest version. Hopefully, it also looks like my painting has improved a little bit over the last 30 years (I'm feeling old writing this post).

The new 'Might Zug' is a 32mm resin figure from Games Workshop, and is accompanied by a test figure I did for the human team I'm working on (alongside a few other teams) also from Games Workshop.

Never fear, both versions will no doubt hit the table together, maybe the older wiser head will take on a coaching role...

2 x 32mm figures and a location bonus should be 30 points.

Cheers,

From Millsy: I remember the old Mighty Zug and what a character he was! So cool that you have him in your collection still mate and his paint job has really stood the test of time. The new additions sit very comfortably alongside old Zug so maybe we could fill some sort of player/coach role now? Great stuff and thanks for the trip down memory lane.

From ArthurS: A fresh start (45 points)

Hello Everybody,

I wanted to finally finish my black orc team this year, so that I could start the new year fresh with other projects. After two years sitting on my paintingdesk I am glad the team is finally done.

My captain Glark has a mushroom on his base, that is actually a failed print from my father's 3D printer. 

The goblin with the moon on his back is officially part of the regular goblin team, not the Black Orc team but I traded the goblin that was originally part of the all-goblin team with Dad.

I recently got a box of AoS Lizardmen and I have had a Lizardman Blood Bowl team for some time. I would now like to paint them, so I made a test model for both my BB team and the Seraphon. Different and contrasting colours feel the most Lustria to me, so I gave the Saurus itself yellow with blue spikes and the armor red with green ornaments. At a later date I will use this scheme for my Lizardmen army as well, to be used to play Mordheim and Warhammer The Old World. 

Recently a friend of mine came to play DND and asked if I could paint this model for her, so I did that. I made the big sword green as if it is a magic sword. I wanted to try that technique for a long time because I have seen people do that on the power swords of the Space Marines. I think it's a Reaper figure.

For points I think that 9 miniatures in 28mm would get me 45 points to get me started this Challenge.

Currently I am working on my other lizardmen, both the team as well as the Saurus Warriors, so they will hopefully appear here soon. Goodbye for now!

Arthur

TeemuL: These look great, the Orcs are especially very neat! You definitely have gotten new skills during the years. Your Saurus looks good, as you said, very Lustrian colours. All the best with the rest of the team and army. And the very nice magic sword wielder to make it nine models, a nice start for you and a nice start for Thor's days. I'll add "Sarah's Choice" to your tags because of the female miniature.