Lead Under The Bed

Witch elves are what makes dark elf teams so cool. They are expensive to hire and break easily, but the amount of damage they can do to your opponent's team more than makes up for this. Witch Elf From a modelling point of view they are really interesting too. I've always fancied Jes Goodwin's Eldar harlequins  and I wanted my witch elves to look something like that. Witch Elf For a very long time I was struggling to find a combination of parts that I was satisfied with and I decided to scratch my first attempts . In the end I decided to use a Marauder witch elf combined with the legs of a female eldar harlequin. Since the face of the Marauder witch wasn't exactly up to Jes Goodwin standards I also used the face mask of the harlequin. Witch Elf The result is a witch elf in an attacking position which suits this kind of player well, I think.

Latest addition to the team is a blitzer. I wanted him to resemble the old starplayer Tuern Redvenom  so I used his face mask, copied his thigh guards and combined them with the torso of one of the original blitzers. Dark Elf Blitzer I used this technique to create the thigh guards and it worked really well. The head and legs were donated by old wood elf wardancers . Dark Elf Blitzer I think he looks both meaner and more dynamic than the original blitzer models  which is the way I like my dark elves. Next up is a witch elf I have been working on for some time now.

Next player up for my dark elf team is an assassin. The fact that this player can run around stabbing his opponents in the back without risking getting caught by the referee is enough to include one, but overall I don't find this player very useful. Dark Elf Assassin The assassin does provide for an interesting modelling project though and I had this idea in my head that I just had to try out. I ended up using the body of an  elf wardancer called Eidyn  because of the very cool fighting claw he has strapped to his right arm. The head was taken from an eldar scout  wearing a scarf. Dark Elf Assassin I green stuffed the skull on the shoulder pad as well as the towel hanging from his waist. I chose to paint the base ring green. Green is normally reserved for blockers , but since dark elves don't have any I figured that it would work as well as any other color.

I've finally managed to finish a couple of the dark elves that I started working on last year. My plan is to do a complete "Jes Goodwin" dark elf team  and this is of course just the start. Dark Elf Runner I ended up painting the runner's mohawk in two tones to make him stand out on the board. After all he is the star of the team, sort of. The lineman has had his head replaced with one of an eldar scout . The facial mask makes him look particularly sinister, I think. Dark Elf Lineman The base rings were done using this technique .

I painted up this dwarf coach many years ago. Originally I had ordered a dwarf siege gun with crew from Mail Order, but since the trollz sent me a miscast  gunner (with no flame) I decided to do something completely different with him and that's how he ended up as a Blood Bowl coach. Dwarf Coach At the time I played one of the Madden NFL games and I stole this running play from one of the playbooks in the game. The blackboard itself is made from cardboard and matchsticks.

I'm currently coaching a team of orcs in a local league  which has inspired me to revisit my Blitzburgh Squealers orc team that I painted for the World Cup in Nottingham in 2007. Since I only painted up 12 players back then I quickly ran out of miniatures as the games went by in the league. Goblin I don't like to field unpainted miniatures and I really wanted to add some goblins to the squad so I painted up two of the old Citadel Miniatures Kev Adams goblins  from the 2 nd edition Blood Bowl range of miniatures. I really like these miniatures and they were a real joy to paint. So much that I'm actually considering painting up a full team at some point. Goblin The theme of the team is a mix of two worlds. They are of course heavily inspired by the original Orcland Raiders team , but as I wanted to add a helmet stripe I chose to paint the helmets to represent the Pittsburgh Steelers . (Not visible on these goblins). I still need to paint up the second thr...