Blood Bowl - #58 Jack Crambert

Wolfenburg Steelers Blitzer

My first completed model for my human team is Jack "Crambert".  Based on legendary Pittsburgh Steeler Jack Lambert, a linebacker who literally embodies the look of 1970's American football.

While looking for an Old World Empire town with "burg" as a suffix I found the perfectly named Wolfenburg which sounds sufficiently macho while also allowing me to use my Space Wolves transfers as the team logo.  This was the first model where I tested the yellow and black scheme.  I think with future models on the team I will go a little stronger on the black highlights, they seem to really vanish when I gloss varnished the model.  I don't varnish every model in my collection but these Blood Bowl minis get handled so much just in the course of one game I think it's a necessity.  While I'm going to try and get as many models "pitch-ready" as I can first, Jack here gives me the goal post of what I want my final product to be when I have the time to finish the details and numbers.  Thanks for stopping by and stay safe out there...

 

WH40K 2nd Edition Army Challenge II - May Completed!

 Dr. Jones Said That Crystal Skull Should Be Here Somewhere...

Epistolary Azathor Commands the Deathwing squad holding the ruins of the xenos temple while scout squad Rhellion advances in search of the foe.

Another family picture of all the units I have painted so far for the 40K2ndAC II.  Epistolary Librarian Azathor was an awesome model to paint this month.  It was nice to have a whole month to focus on one miniature and I have always wanted to paint one of the original Terminator Librarians ever since my early days of reading WD in 1990.  The intricacy of the Aegis hood and force axe were interesting details to explore and painting blue armor was a nice break from all the usual dark green. The lessons I learned from wet blending with the greens and last month's bone white were able to be applied to the blue armor and gave it a look I really liked.  The banner is a slight cheat since it came from the 3rd edition codex, but I think the visual meta in early third still hewed very close to the banners of 2nd edition.  Sometimes the geek in me lives for sentences like that one where I can make the 30 years I have spent in the hobby sound like I had a career in very esoteric academia :-)

Three months into season 2 and I have already painted 700 plus points so I really need to start thinking about bonus models.  I have already planned out how I have enough models left if this endlessly enjoyable project goes into season 3, so I'll have to plan carefully not to dip into that material.  There's a fun twist on the bonus models that other participants have taken in the past that may be the route I go.  So that cliffhanger will hopefully have all you bat-viewers tuning into the same bat-time and same bat-channel here in the future.  Stay safe out there...

Be sure to follow along with all the great entries from all the participants for the month of May over at:

Dr The Viking's Cowabunga

Cover Gallery - White Dwarf #129 Back Cover

 What Ever Happened To Lothar Bubonicus?

 

Cover Gallery - White Dwarf #129

 

As much as I love some of the earlier issues that were my first WD purchases, this issue is still my favorite WD of all time.  I think this was the 4th or 5th one I picked up back in 1990 when I was first getting into the hobby.  Loads of important WH40K lore content including History of Space Marine Armor by Rick Priestly which still stands as my favorite piece of the lore GW has ever created.  It also featured the highly detailed painting guide for Mk VII armor that still forms the basis of the schemes I use on my Dark Angels today.  There were also updated vehicle rules, the first descriptions of artificer armor, the first beta rules for overwatch, intricately detailed Painboy rules for orks,  and, in a move that has the most bearing on the current era: this was the legendary issue where space marine Toughness went from 3 to 4!  It's hard to believe all this content was in one humble issue and that's why as much as I enjoy many other issues, this one still takes the crown for me.  Thanks for reading and stay safe out there.

Blood Bowl WIP II

 Match Ready

The two catchers on my team have had their base coats applied along with an all over wash of Reikland Flesh shade.

My long held dream of playing in a Blood Bowl league is finally reaching fruition.  Some friends and our kids are the participants and we kicked off the season with our first matches last weekend.  There are only five participants for our inaugural season but that's enough for us to all get some games in against a variety of opponents.  In the fall I'd like to run a season with more players concurrent to the American football season so this spring season will be great practice for that endeavor.  Follow along after the jump for more pictures of my human team, the Wolfenburg Steelers.

Truth

 

Cover Gallery - White Dwarf #128 Back Cover

 Strange Beasts Of Nurgle...

WH40K 2nd Edition Army Challenge II - May WIP

 My Least Favorite Stage

Trying to get all the base coats on these very detailed and very old minis is always daunting.  As I have written before I feel like the base coast stage always make the miniatures look clownish.  On my particular models, my choice to add many different colors to all the details and blow the three color rule out of the water probably only magnifies this comical appearance.  That will change once all the colors are on and the shades start defining the different areas by darkening the recesses.  I have to rely on my prior witness of these transformations to keep me going through what seems like an endless process just to cover up the primer with my chosen colors for all the different parts of the model.  Make sure to follow the links to see all the great work completed by the participants in the challenge for the month of April.

Cover Gallery - White Dwarf #128

 

WH40K 2nd Edition Army Challenge II - April Completed!

 

Just a quick post to show off this month's entry for the 40K2ndAC II, plus a group photo of what I've painted for season II of the challenge so far.  These Terminators add some heavily armored punch to my second edition army list.  Once I have some decals applied to the Terminators I'll add a post with all the angles of the minis, they were a lot of fun to paint.  Thanks for reading and be sure to check out all the great participants in the challenge:

https://c0wabunga.com/2021/05/01/40k-2nd-ac-ii-month-2-wave-1/