Nurgle Blood Bowl Team

Greetings,

  Here is my Nurgle Team. Gloriously draped in a pinkish-purple and a subdued green. I was also playing around with Nurlge's Rot and trying out different skin tones on the Nurgle Blockers.

  The box is pretty good. 4 Blockers, 2 Pestigors and 6 Rotters. It is not quite the best fit for the team but it is passable. More Pestigors and Rotters are needed for more flexibility in starting team builds though. In the box you have 4 Blockers, 2 Pestigors, 6 Rotters and 2 Re-Rolls.

 Blockers I, II, III and IV. Apologies for the asscracks....

The Pestigors. Uglier and Terrifyingly Gross. They kind of grew into their names...

 Mayhaps I used a little too much Nurgle's Rot on these two...

 The Rotters. An unlucky bunch of targets...

 The markers and coins. A liberal use of Nurgle's Rot on these as well....

  These were really quick to paint to be honest. It was also the first time I have used Nurgle's Rot. It is one of the more fun Technical paints to use and also one of the easiest ones to figure out what it looks like while you are still painting it.

Regards,

English Pillock

Blood Bowl Chaos Chosen

Greetings,

 It has been a long time, but I have not been idle. Very much not idle.....

 Here is a start to what I hope to be a prolific resurgence of posts. The next dozen or so should just be about my Blood bowl teams. They are all based around a simple colour combination to unify them as a modern sports team would be.

 The basic colour scheme is orange, brown, black with silver and brass armour. All GW paints, some getting on to be ancient, some will likely disappear soon.

 Icons for the Chaos Chosen and BB coins.

 The 4 Chaos Blockers, who don't have block... because reasons... Numbered I, II, III and IV.

 The first four goat people. I used a variety of different skin tones on the goat people as in the fluff they are meant to be mutated from human stock. Numbered V, VI, VII and VIII.

 The latter four goat people. Numbered IX, X, XI and XII.

 

  The first 12 miniatures are all contained in the plastic team box from GW. You get some variant heads and the build is pretty much what you would want for a starting Chaos Chosen Team.

  Then I went a bit silly and bought the Minotaur Big Guy from Forge World. The miniature was really easy to put together, but it did require the gluing of a coin to the bottom of it as there is a hell of a lean in the pose.
  He is numbered XVI, but that is mainly because he is unlikely to be used in a regular game as Minotaurs, while fun, are not as predictable as people would like.

  I do have the dice as well, but they are currently at work. I Will do a separate post about them soon-ish.

  I hope that this will do as a re-entry into blogging again. I am going to set up a better photo booth and play around with my camera functions a bit more to hopefully take better photos.

Regards,

English Pillock

Syndicate Vessels: Raphael and Donatello

Greetings,

I have been rather busy recently with work and so on, but here is some of my recent efforts.

This is the Phantom and the Spur from the Syndicate Traders League of the Marauders Faction from the Firestorm Armada game. Here is the Donatello and the Raphael. 

These were a lot of fun to paint and go to town with the insignia and the different logos upon the vessels. I can't wait for the other ships in the fleet become available.

Comments are welcome, as always.

Regards,

English Pillock 

Hiya Mr J!

Greetings,

Here is something a little different to my recent painting. I only got this on Saturday. He took about 80 minutes to finish, including a little bit of green-stuffing to marry up some of the parts better.. i am pretty happy with it. The base needs some work though. I am postulating possibilities at the moment...

Comments are welcome as always.

Regards,

English Pillock.

Fish and Ships

Greetings,

Been having a hell of a busy fortnight at work, hence a lask of posts. I have bee painting though.

Here is my current fleet for Firestorm Armada. My fleet is from the Aquan Sebrutan, and they are fish people... well aquatic sentients at any rate (their species includes whales, dolphins, humanoid water breathers, crabs, lobsters, squid-thingys and more. Just don't mention a smorgasbord...).

The paint scheme is more or less sorted out. The hulls are painted in a variety of purples and greys, and are washed with a purple ink. the weapon crystals are the reddish orange blisters and the engines will be a two tone blue, when I get around to finishing them. 

The ships, on the whole, are simple to put together. Unlike most of the other faction fleets, the Aquans are mono-piece. In fact, the only multiple piece vessel that I currently have is Zoidberg.... ahem... the Medusa Class Dreadnought (the big, tentacled monstrosity).

 Fleet overview

 Manta Battle Carrier. This is kind of like the Battlestar Galactica

Medusa Dreadnought. This is like the Battlestar Pegasus

 Poseidon Battleship. Hits similar to the Manta, but with a much reduced strike craft compliment.

The three vessels on the left are called Stingray Class Destroyers, The central three are Storm Class Cruisers. The three on the right are called Tsunami Class Heavy Cruisers and the six minnows at the front are called Piranha Class Frigates.

The Fleet's basic characteristics is a mass of broadside power from close to medium range, backed up with a mess of torpedos and strike craft. The vessels are pretty fast and they do tend to attack like schools of fish. Swarming their opponent and shooting from every angle. 

the only flaw I have with the Aquan ships is that they are rather insubstantial compared to the other races. the Poseidon is 13 and a bit centimeters long, but that pales in comparison to the vessels of the Dindrenzi. The design of the MkI vessels aren't as good as the MkII either. When the starter fleets came out in Orctown all of the other fleets were snapped up quickly, apart from the Aquans. I hope that this will not be a sign of things to come.

Comments are welcome.

Regards,

English Pillock

DreadBall Season 2: Z'zor and Buzzcut

Greetings,

Here is what I have been doing this past week.

Buzzcut

Buzzcut is a MVP Guard, someone who hits people into paste. He is of unknown heritage, maybe Orx, maybe some kind of Ogre-esque breed. I like the look of the green better than the official model painting him as an Ogre.

   

Buzzcut and Z'zor

Here is the big green dude with the gribbly critters. Mantic made a packing error with the team for a number of people. Three Guards were in the pack I recieved instead of two and four Jacks instead of five.

The Z'zor are painted with a brown dermis and an orange carapace. The eye colour is different for the position that the model plays. Red for Guard, yellow for Striker and blue for Jack.

Me and my friend have started playing a mini-league on Sundays. Starting with the Sunday just gone. We have both played with every S1 team and I have played with all 4 S2 teams and he has played with the women. The S2 teams do require a bit more thought to play with, especially since, apart from the women, they are so alien to the S1 teams.

The Z'zor has him a bit worried though. We played a Marauders vs Z'zor game (using SP201.b), and the Orx took a hell of a beating. I managed to drag out the score due to hitting things and being incompetent. I finally scored around turn 11, leaving him two rushes to score, which he did. I have never seen the Orx take such a beating from any other team. I didn't cause any deaths, but for about 4 turns he had only a single Orx on the pitch and there were none on the pitch for two turns... 

The Z'zor Guard is insane to start with, but having two in the starting team...

Not that I am really complaining though.

Comments are welcome, as always.

Regards,

English Pillock

Shas'La

Greetings,

 I have been meaning to post this for a week and a bit now.... Had a rough few weeks at work.

 Here are my two squads of Fire Warriors. 12 are fully finished (the ones with flock on their bases), 12 just need a bit more work done on them.

Comments are welcome.

Regards,

English Pillock