Blood Bowl rat ogre

Eeek! Eeek! 🐭

As mentioned after finishing ogre mercenary clubber I was considering starting Blood Bowl team and there's quite a big chance it's going to be Skaven team. Although I've played the game only once, I deeply believe I can play any game as long as I like the models. 

And those stinky, eeking, sneaky creatures are just so damn cool...

But before purchasing any new model (skaven or any other) I decided to paint a test piece just to see what can I achieve to support the Blood Bowl league. Few years back I got pair of placcy rat ogres. These were supposed to be base for some sci-fi conversion, but it turned out I hated these plastic crap so much they both landed on the top of Pile of Shame. 

Until last week, when one of these has been excavated...

Not sure this one's going to become a player, but I am sure I wanted to test some colors planned for the team. Skaven are pretty dirty (and stinky...) creatures so to provide some contrast I picked white for clohing and yellow for armour. That should look pretty effective worn by gray-ish creature standing on green grass.

At first I wanted tu use static grass applicator - haven't tried adding static grass on normal size base yet, but it turned out it got broken during last moving. Started digging in the hobby box and found some old modelling flock. It's really old - I guess I got it like 10-15 years ago? 

It's nothing like static grass, but looks just fine as Blood Bowl field.

Add green base edge to this and we're back into 90's again! 🥳

I am pretty pleased about this test piece. Apart the fact generally I hate plastic models I could use is for gaming. Looking at the pics and model in th flesh there's something missing. Some strong, focal point. I was thinking about some fresh blood on the claw or on bandages (or on both) or maybe some reddish dirt around bandages. 

I'll think about it - there's no need to be hasty while painting miniatures.

Ogre mercenary #4

I am still waiting for some heavy support for my slowly growing Bolt Action Hungarian army so in the meantime decided to paint something different. The ogre mercenaries have been waiting for some support for quite a long time so now they finally got the 4th guy! 🤗

Like before I chose natural tones trying to make the model look rather real instead of "total fantasy" like in oldie army books and White Dwarf issues. Definitely like the final result, it's much more than enough for gaming purposes. Painting this fella was lots of fun - just like the rest of the team: the magical charm of mid 90's I guess. I know there are different opinions but IMHO these ogres plus orcs and goblins line are what defines whole that middlehammer aesthetics. And what got me hooked into the hobby.

Looking at the pics I think the mace should've been painted more thick orange, like totally corroded nasty piece of iron but like it anyway - provides nice contrast with pole and flesh.

So looks like there's one more left plus getting rid of blood from the first one, and I can take a family shot 😎

Just before having short holidays my buddy invited me for Blood Bowl game - to introduce the game and show what's it all about. It must've been something, 'cause he already has 5 different teams!
I started little research - until now I was pretty sure there're no interesting (that is: metal) models available, but, to my surprise, I've found some really cool teams, ready to kick the spiky ball, break limbs and chew grass!

At this stare it's kinda teaser only - I am still choosing THE ONE team. Was pretty sure it'd be Undead squad, but after checking the options I am torn between Skaven,Chaos and Deaders of course. Hope to make the decision before finishing the last ogre mercenary 🐭