NAF GT 2019 Prize team
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 3:18 pm
The NAF have once again asked me to paint a team for the GT.
Previous years were
2012 – Khemri
2013 - Norse Dwarfs
2014 – High Elves
2015 – Lizardmen
2016 – Slann
2017 – Skaven
2018 – Wood Elves
Since GW relaunched Blood Bowl I have bought every team that came out along with many of the stars. The previous 2 years I had used these new kits as the basis for the GT team and was tempted to do the same. However all the current plastics were either of teams I’d already done twice or more before such as Orcs and Nurgle, or the models didn’t really appeal to me such as Humans and Chaos.
Despite having painted up 36 teams in total there are 2 I have yet to do; Ogres and Vampires. Both of these have crp stars I still have to do that either already have been removed from the new rules or likely won’t make the cut. For that reason I decided to paint up 1 of those teams along with any outstanding stars. If I can get all the crp stuff completed then I can start serious working on the new stars. This is not easy as several are added in each Spike magazine and some appear to be renamed and/or altered versions of crp stars.
In the end I settled on Ogres as I already had most of the bits I needed for them.
The ogre players were an idea I’d had a long time ago to use the top half of the Dragon Ogres. This turned out to be a lot more work than initially anticipated as I needed to find legs to go with them and enough variety in heads, armour and limbs to make all 6 players look different enough from each other. After a few years GW released plastic Ogryns and these came with suitable legs
I already had some of the 5th edition BB ogres to use for parts and bought the new plastic ogre as well. On top of that some other random bits from other big guys were used on these models to add variety, mostly notable the plastic fantasy ogres.
This is the test model above for the team, he’s been sitting on a shelf for years held together with blu tac. I’ve tweaked the pose a little and given him arms from the new plastic ogre. There were 3 different torsos from the dragon ogres in the team and 3 sets of Ogryn legs I am using. The aim is to have 6 unique players by using conversions and other parts. Knee pads were added to hide the joins in his leg extensions and to make him look more like a BB player.
The next player uses the same torso, but has different legs. I also mixed in a head and hand from a metal 5th edition ogre as well as an iron fist from the WHFB bulls. His gut plate comes from the new plastic ogre.
I wanted the third guy to be playing to the crowd a bit and so gave him a raised fist from the metal ogres. In his right hand is another iron fist from the WHFB bulls. You can also just see the back plate from the plastic ogre I added to him.
These models all need a fair bit more conversion work, things like gap filling and maybe adding some extra details. This kind of stuff takes a while, but the extra attention to little items can make all the difference.
Previous years were
2012 – Khemri
2013 - Norse Dwarfs
2014 – High Elves
2015 – Lizardmen
2016 – Slann
2017 – Skaven
2018 – Wood Elves
Since GW relaunched Blood Bowl I have bought every team that came out along with many of the stars. The previous 2 years I had used these new kits as the basis for the GT team and was tempted to do the same. However all the current plastics were either of teams I’d already done twice or more before such as Orcs and Nurgle, or the models didn’t really appeal to me such as Humans and Chaos.
Despite having painted up 36 teams in total there are 2 I have yet to do; Ogres and Vampires. Both of these have crp stars I still have to do that either already have been removed from the new rules or likely won’t make the cut. For that reason I decided to paint up 1 of those teams along with any outstanding stars. If I can get all the crp stuff completed then I can start serious working on the new stars. This is not easy as several are added in each Spike magazine and some appear to be renamed and/or altered versions of crp stars.
In the end I settled on Ogres as I already had most of the bits I needed for them.
The ogre players were an idea I’d had a long time ago to use the top half of the Dragon Ogres. This turned out to be a lot more work than initially anticipated as I needed to find legs to go with them and enough variety in heads, armour and limbs to make all 6 players look different enough from each other. After a few years GW released plastic Ogryns and these came with suitable legs
I already had some of the 5th edition BB ogres to use for parts and bought the new plastic ogre as well. On top of that some other random bits from other big guys were used on these models to add variety, mostly notable the plastic fantasy ogres.
This is the test model above for the team, he’s been sitting on a shelf for years held together with blu tac. I’ve tweaked the pose a little and given him arms from the new plastic ogre. There were 3 different torsos from the dragon ogres in the team and 3 sets of Ogryn legs I am using. The aim is to have 6 unique players by using conversions and other parts. Knee pads were added to hide the joins in his leg extensions and to make him look more like a BB player.
The next player uses the same torso, but has different legs. I also mixed in a head and hand from a metal 5th edition ogre as well as an iron fist from the WHFB bulls. His gut plate comes from the new plastic ogre.
I wanted the third guy to be playing to the crowd a bit and so gave him a raised fist from the metal ogres. In his right hand is another iron fist from the WHFB bulls. You can also just see the back plate from the plastic ogre I added to him.
These models all need a fair bit more conversion work, things like gap filling and maybe adding some extra details. This kind of stuff takes a while, but the extra attention to little items can make all the difference.