Lead Under The Bed

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've always loved dark elves. I've played them in local leagues, tournaments and on fumbbl  and I've always preferred them to their lawful wood elf and high elf cousins. For some reason I've never painted a team of these evil elves though I've owned the miniatures for ages and it was only recently that I found out why. More on that later. It's not that I didn't try in the past. In the early days of Blood Bowl 3 rd edition I ran a dark elf squad named the Purple Reign. I painted a blitzer and that was it. I enjoyed playing the team, but I didn't enjoy painting the miniatures. Dark Elf Blitzer Years later I tried again. This time I wanted to recreate the 2 nd edition team the Naggaroth Nightwings . Again I failed. Naggaroth Nightwings Blitzer The years passed and I forgot all about my beloved dark elves, but then the dark elf roster was changed as it was too similar to the high elf roster. One of the changes was the introduction of runn...

I recently discovered the wonderful concept of Oldhammer via Orlygg's amazing blog: Realm of Chaos 80s . I've always been a fan of Citadel Miniatures from the late eighties and don't really bother with any of the newer stuff so this was a nice discovery for me. Chaos Thug I have until recently never owned or painted any of the thugs from the Realm of Chaos range, but through a trade with Fuljason from Rogue Heresy I acquired the first few minis. Chaos Thug The first guy I've painted up is a thug who bears a striking resemblance to The Prodigy frontman Keith Flint and I just had to paint him with green hair and eyeliner.