From ReillyOG: The Bright College Fyre Fiends make their debut as a full team! (Caprica, Lady Sarah's Star Yacht) (108 points)

Finally, weeks after these initial draft pics were revealed by Head Coach 'Right Stuff' of the Bright College Fyre Fiends, the rest of team is ready to step into the dungeon under his leadership! Lead by Captain Mighty 'Mo, an Ogre Runt-Punter fresh from the Maws Edge Mountains, the team has proven to be incredibly brutal in their approach to the game. Much to our delight!

In real world speak, I really enjoyed taking my time with this team and treating every single model like a full character and trying everything I could think off (bar nmm) to up the quality of the paintjob and it was an absolute delight. 

Captain Mighty 'Mo

This was also my first foray into major kit conversions with GW products with Mighty 'Mo who I converted from the lovely Ogor Tyrant model with some spare ogre arms and heads from the team box and I’m super happy with the final result. Had a lot of fun putting the arm on, imagining him throttling this snotling about to chuck him down a long corridor, for him to inevitably faceplant into a wall :-)

Close up of the Fyre Fiends at the start of a match

When it came to the rest of the team, the dwarves were an absolute hoot going to town on all their beards and really trying to nail the layered highlights to make them pop, and translating that same gradient to different beard colours. Unfortunately, I don't have close up photos of them all at the moment, but you'll see why in a moment.

Fyre Fiends at the beginning of the Promo Match

Yet another first for this team, this was my first time painting genuine forge world miniatures, and thus resin models. The forge world models in question were the 2 Bloodborn Marauder Linewomen from the Khorne Team Booster pack. They were also a lot of fun to paint, as it gave me the (unfortunately) rare opportunity to highlight more feminine features on a model, and a more muscular female model at that.

Overall, the team was tons of fun to take my time on, which was one of my major regrets from past blood bowl projects. Lots of learning in terms of painting skin and layered highlighting.

Last but not least, I am really chuffed to be able to claim that both this full team and its rival, Paul O'Gs Willoughby Shadow Walkers, are currently on display in our local GW store. After a fun few promotion games in the store showing off a painted copy of the Dungeonbowl box set, our teams now inhabit a shelf in one of the stores lovely display cabinets showing off their awesomeness to all who enter.

As for the planets credited to this entry, Caprica (doomed, ambush) worked quite well as due to the sheer beatdown this team has put onto all that face them, you are DOOMED to face them. Then using the wonderful female bloodborn marauders, I shall be boarding Lady Sarah's Star Yacht to take me to Istvaan V for an entry coming soon...

Overall this entry amounts to a neat point total:

2x Gnoblar: 10 Points

2x Bloodborn Marauder Linewomen: 14 Points

2x Ogre Runt-Punters: 14 points

5x Dwarves: 25 points

Team Icon: 5 points

Caprica: 20 points

Lady Sarah's Star Yacht: 20 points

Total: 108

Happy painting all!

Reilly O'G

Always good to see more Blood Bowl action, and it's great to see you stretching your painting abilities with this team. We'd love to see more up close photos when you can- congrats to both of you on your store display.

Reilly- label your post!

Barks