What balls?

[Dave]

I usually go team colours only .. I even go as far as to give the throwers of teams (at least, those that carry a ball) a ball in hands with tam colours of other teams ..

[Blammaham]

No replacing the 2nd ed ball for me. S.

[Elyoukey]

[quote="Dave" I allways paint one to go with a team once I've got it painted. My teams seem to play best when playing with their own balls[/quote]

I did this twice, but right after the tourney i went the ball was lost. because i forgot it somewhere or because my opponent packed it by mistake or whatever. So i thought i would not do it again because i know i will loose each and every custom ball i paint (sooner or later).
Now i ask my opponent if he has one, if yes we play with his ball, if not i take some bluetac and form kind of a ball with that. so i don't get afraid to loose it at the end of the game.

[outcast]

Thanks for all the great suggestions. Interesting to read everyone's various takes on it.

[Smurf]

We use several balls.

Lego Fish
Rat
Cat
Beer mug
brick
cheese
grenade
Lego Chick
'diamond'
skull
plus the 3 different blood balls.

We also use them as score markers after we have scored.

May make up a few balls to take to Eurobowl and if the player scores with it they can keep it.

[Axtklinge]

We use several balls.

Lego Fish
Rat
Cat
Beer mug
brick
cheese
grenade
Lego Chick
'diamond'
skull
plus the 3 different blood balls.
(...)

Hum... You actually made me google-fu for "lego fish"...
How about the other 'balls', all lego or other stuff? (cheese?!?)

(...) May make up a few balls to take to Eurobowl and if the player scores with it they can keep it.

Now THAT is super cool.
Thumbs up to you mister!

[bound for glory]

i have about 10 of the old dungeon bowl spiky balls i use. tho lately i have been using the "brain ball" from one of the manufactorers(i forget who, it was a "freebie" i got from cominonix). its cool and i have it painted pink with a high gloss coat. does the trick...
i must have 40+ balls, be they balls from one of the boxed sets, a bunch that are the wacky types(see the above "brain". i also have a face, a chicken and a heart that is all stitched up) and i have just made a bunch of "throwaways" from greenstuff.

[neilnickson]

I've also gone down the one ball per team in team colours route. Here are most of them

[bound for glory]

nice bunch o' balls, there, neil!

[Smurf]

We use several balls.

Lego Fish
Rat
Cat
Beer mug
brick
cheese
grenade
Lego Chick
'diamond'
skull
plus the 3 different blood balls.
(...)

Hum... You actually made me google-fu for "lego fish"...
How about the other 'balls', all lego or other stuff? (cheese?!?)

(...) May make up a few balls to take to Eurobowl and if the player scores with it they can keep it.

Now THAT is super cool.
Thumbs up to you mister!

Just cut up some green stuff and paint it.

[juck101]

I allways paint one to go with a team once I've got it painted. My teams seem to play best when playing with their own balls

^ Yup me too. Good man

[Rewslaun]

I use the spiked ball that came with the 3rd edition. I like the idea of having a customized ball for each team but I have a large painting queue that I don't want to add to it.

[Kilowog2814]

I've also gone down the one ball per team in team colours route. Here are most of them

Holy crap that's impressive... and ... now I want to do that...
DAMN YOU NEIL!!!!!
<drops to knees and screams to the Heavens Shatner style>
"BAAAAAAAALLLLLLSSSSS!!!!!!"

[neilnickson]

ermmmm. Is this one of those occasions when a 'sorry' is enough?

[Axtklinge]

Those are indeed great Neil!
Congrats!

Its funny how I've never really did pay that much attention to those.
I mean, I've been using the plastic ones from the boxed set (and they are painted), but never actually though of giving them a bit more attention, until a short while ago when I saw this thread (from fellow TFF'er raivan) viewtopic.php?f=23&t=37617&p=665119#p665119.

Apparently I've been missing a small (but very interesting) detail in my hobby!
Gonna start working on that right away.