Blood Bowl – Black orc team

Posted on 25 March, 2025 by Håkan

Recently I was invited to a small tournament of Blood Bowl in a nearby city.
As I really never played except in the computer game, I had to paint a team that was somewhat easy to play with.
I had already built and primed the figures for the 2nd season edition, and choosed to use the Black orcs including the Star Player figure and the troll.

As I only had done black primer before, I added a layer of grey and then white in a typical zenithal style.

I then gave them all a wash with Nuln oil and dry brushed them with white just to pick out details.

I tried different greens on the goblins.

Then both the orcs and goblins got different green colours.

The troll got a blueish colour with a lighter colour on his tummy and arms and legs.
I will dry brush with a slightly lighter colour later.

Just to see how it looked, I painted the trousers in red and yellow.

I painted three of them with leather colour on their straps and gloves. I will proceed doing the same on the other ones later.

I’m trying to keep the colour scheme simple and consistant within the team.

Finished builds 2024

Posted on 31 December, 2024 by Håkan

Not a fantastic year, but I got a few finished. I think it could have been a few more if I just had been more persistant. Anyway here they are!

Moebius Tumbler with Bane.

Hasegawa 1/32 Thunderbolt. Built for the 25th silver jubilee at Large Scale Planes.

Games Workshop, Spartan assault tank in Epic scale.

Games Workshop, Thunderhawk gunship in Epic scale.

With that I wish you all a Happy New Year! 🙂

Håkan

Blood Bowl Gnome team – part 2

Posted on 6 November, 2024 by Håkan

I gave them all some black primer.

Then I did my usual zenithal primer trick.

I decided to use more or less the same colours. red, blue and green, on everyone. One some I painted the coat blue and hat red, and on the others I did it the other way around.

I painted their socks buff and started with a base skin colour.

I did some testing of the skin colours a friend recommended on one of the figures.

I think it turned out pretty good, so I’ll stick with that.

Still some more painting to do, but hopefully I’ll have a fully painted team soon.

Blood Bowl Gnome team – part 1

Posted on 27 October, 2024 by Håkan

I thought a team with gnomes could be fun to have.

I have no idea how they are to play with, but that could be a fun experience.

As all new kits they are pretty easy to build, but you have to be careful with some parts as they seem easy to break.
It took a few hours to build the first set of gnomes.

Using the optitional parts I build the other half of the team.

The only thing left is to prime and paint them. I plan to use typical garden gnome colours like blue, grey, green and red.

Dwarfen Mountain holds – part 3

Posted on 11 October, 2024 by Håkan

Kind of a quick update. The bolt thrower, crew and Bugman’s cart was primed black.

As well as som parts for the choppers.

I need to paint the interior and probably the bombs as well before continuing with the build.
I’ll try to solve it somehow with masking of some kind.

Dwarfen Mountain Holds – part 2

Posted on 3 October, 2024 by Håkan

Next up on the table was my Ironbreakers and Irondrakes.
I made 2 groups of bodies with 10 in each. There are 4 of each body with a slight difference between them.

The Ironbreakers was assembled first.

The figures are fairly easy to build with very nice fit. The Irondrakes was a bit harder as both arms had to fit together in order to hold the weapon properly.

Games Workshop have made quite a few versions of the White Dwarf on their magazine with the same name. The figure is called Grombrindal and it turned out that I have one of the early ones.

I just have to paint him with white beard and all.
I also have two of the newer versions, the slayer and the latest 400th ed WD.

Some of the figures I have are made of white metal and even if I bought them recently they’re fairly old.
It takes more work to build a metal modell and the fit isn’t as good on newer ones in plastic.

Once I got all the pieces sorted and glued in place my Bolt thrower looks like this.

Next I’ll sort the crew for it. Not as much to do except cleaning them up and glue them to their bases.

I also have Bugman’s cart to build, which also is in metal. That will be the next project on my table.

Dwarfen Mountain Holds – Building an army – part 1

Posted on 16 September, 2024 by Håkan

Some time ago I bought the Mountain holds battalion box, which I haven’t started building yet. I also bought a few other boxes.

The first one was the King and Thane with shield bearers.

I could say that it’s fairly easy to build and being quite new, it is.

The three shield bearers.

The king built as well! I opted for the Odin helmet and great weapon.

I also thought it would be best to paint the shield bearers first, but after checking the fit, I had to rethink that a bit. More about that later.

There’s also a Thane figure, that I for some reason forgot to take pics of.

Next up is a set of Hammerers. A box with 20 figures that can either be built as Hammerers or Longbeards, or 10 of each with full command. I choose the latter option.

With them done I moved on to building some cannons.

The kit is a bit old, but went together pretty well. It’s possible to either build 2 cannons or 2 organ guns, or one of each.

Each crew member can have different arms which gives them a bit of variation.

It seems like I’m forgetting to take pics, but here’s the next one I’ve built.

After checking GW’s site about Grombrindal, I found out that the Slayer is one of the versions. I just have to paint his beard and hair white.

Here’s a pic of how the army looks like right now.

Next up will be these two boxes.

Once they’re built and painted I’ll have well over 2000 points or closer to 2500 even.

Orruk Ardboyz – part 4

Posted on 1 August, 2024 by Håkan

Painting the figures seems to take longer than I had anticipated. Everytime I look I find more parts to paint or fix somehow. But now it looks like I’m getting there, at least with the grunts and the shaman.

Soon time to finish off the soldiers as well. Then all the bases need some kind of dekoration in the form of dirt and grass.

Orruk Ardboyz – part 3

Posted on 19 July, 2024 by Håkan

I started out painting some of them with ordinary yellow, then I decided to use the Speed Paint version, that looks a bit darker.

On those aleady painted red, I painted yellow patterns.

Then I painted some more red, leaving some parts yellow.

My girlfriend suggested that I should paint the helmet jaws in metal. So I did a test.

On some I left even the shoulder pads yellow, as I wanted some of them to look a bit different.

The I took a pic with the boar riders as well.

On those with yellow shoulder pads, I painted some details in black.

I think it’s starting to come together. I’ll paint some more jaws in metal while I’m painting the weapons and other metal parts.

Orruk Ardboyz goes TOW – part 2

Posted on 5 July, 2024 by Håkan

In order to get the red colour “right”, I had to paint more yellow. A few at the time!

Then a bunch of orks and boar riders got primer.

Then as usual I painted grey and white zenithal primer.

Lastly I gave them a wash with Nuln oil and then some white dry brushing.

I started painting one of the grunts with yellow on the armor and green on the skin. The boar was painted with browns and black on the fur.

On the boss I used Speed Paint yellow, just to see the difference.

I think that it turned out pretty cool!

In order to tie the troops together, I decided to add both black and red to my boar riding grunts. I’ve also been painting details like straps and handles in different brown colours.

Still got more to paint, and also need to paint more of the soldiers to figure out how to tie their schemes together.

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