Mickey da Rat coach/team owner.

Darkson Designs · Post by **Darkson Designs** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:17 pm

Mickey da Rat is a true underworld gangster, overseeing a vast criminal empire from the sewers below the heart of the Tragic Kingdom in Anaslime. A former Blood Bowl player himself, his career on the pitch was cut short by a block from a particularly viscious Black Orc. Off the team and in the gutter, needing gold to pay his mounting apothecary fees, Mickey took to slinging warpstone dust to the mutants wandering down from Hollyweird and began building his fortune. As his wealth and criminal influence grew, Mickey branched out into other illicit activities which eventually, and unsurprisingly, included gambling. His interests in various bookmaking rackets naturally coincided with his continued love of the game he could no longer play and while he might not be able to affect the game from the pitch, Mickey certainly continues to do so from the shadows -- many a Blood Bowl coach, player, and referee has been "convinced" by Mickey's warpstone-spiked bat that they shared Mickey's desire to see a particular score when the final whistle blew.

Mickey da Rat concept and backstory by Lahatiel, with character sketch by Dark Lord of the Impact! Miniatures forums. Figure sculpting and production through Darkson Designs.

Cheers,
Robert

Grim Reaper · Post by **Grim Reaper** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:20 pm

robert, the gaming store i play at is looking for new places to get minis from. how do i have him get ahold of you??

Darkson Designs · Post by **Darkson Designs** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:23 pm

PM sent.

Digger Goreman · Post by **Digger Goreman** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:14 pm

Now that's not something you see everyday....

ME LIKES!

Lahatiel · Post by **Lahatiel** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:35 am

Robert did and absolutely tremendous job in helping us get Mickey produced in very little time as the limited edition figure for the West Coast Quake tournament we held here in Los Angeles this past weekend. And now that the tournament's over, we've got Mickey and a slew of over limited edition tournament goodies available for sale:

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And once again, thank you very much to Robert and his team at Darkson Designs -- in the short timeframe we left ourselves, we never could've pulled off this figure without him!

Darkson Designs · Post by **Darkson Designs** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:49 am

It was great to be able to help out. Next years fig is going to be even better.

Mickey is a Limited Run miniature and will be available in the Darkson Shop in the next week or so. He will be up for pre-order till he is in stock.

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:48 pm

I got this mini in my hands and i have to say, very nice stuff !

A very nice reward for putting up my website archive all those years now!! (Thx to Dennis again for sending me one)

Traveller

bareuf · Post by **bareuf** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:46 pm

it is very coooooool!
grats

Darkson Designs · Post by **Darkson Designs** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:44 pm

traveller wrote:I got this mini in my hands and i have to say, very nice stuff !

A very nice reward for putting up my website archive all those years now!! (Thx to Dennis again for sending me one)

Traveller

It will be great to see him on your site.

Has anyone painted Mickey yet?

howlinggriffon · Post by **howlinggriffon** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:04 pm

Darkson Designs wrote:Has anyone painted Mickey yet?

I've painted mine. Normally models have to reside in deep storage for a good couple of years before I get around to painting them but I painted Mickey the same week he arrived from the US! Apologies about the weird colours - they match my team...

thebluemonkey · Post by **thebluemonkey** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:32 am

Necroing a post but

wow

How on earth did you make that?

Lahatiel · Post by **Lahatiel** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:09 am

thebluemonkey wrote:Necroing a post but

wow

How on earth did you make that?

I'm not 100% sure just what you're asking, but to flesh out the information that's already in the first post a bit:

1. Daloonieshaman and I came up with the concept of what we wanted as a limited edition figure for our inaugural West Coast Quake tournament, which took place back in January (and was just 6.5 miles from Disneyland).

2. I fleshed out the concept and wrote up the backstory that appears in the first post.

3. I did a crude line-drawing of how I wanted Mickey to look and gave it to Dark Lord of the Impact! forums, who we hired to do the actual concept sketch seen in the first post.

4. We gave the sketch to Darkson Designs, who runs his own miniatures company of the same name, and who (at the time) was local to us and occasionally played in our league. Through his company, his sculptor worked up the green seen in the first post, we approved it, and Darkson Designs produced a limited run of the figure for us.

5. Every attendee at the WCQ09 got a figure, and Daloonieshaman sold the rest to help offset our costs. The last of the figures were sold a month or two ago; even I only have a single figure, myself.

Hope that helps.

Ikterus · Post by **Ikterus** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:01 am

Do you have any pitches left?

Lahatiel · Post by **Lahatiel** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:05 am

Ikterus wrote:Do you have any pitches left?

I believe so, but my partner Dennis (daloonieshaman) is the one handling all of the goodies sales. You can get in touch with him at daloonieshaman@yahoo.com and he'll take care of you.