tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25033968623855189172024-03-21T15:17:16.243-07:00Triple SkullTriple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-13334632352151966342017-05-04T23:55:00.000-07:002017-05-05T13:37:11.747-07:00Project 6: Skaven <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have always had a turbulent relationship with the rat
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I created a stat card too from a Photoshop template from <a href="https://thedeathjungle.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/blood-bowl-evolutive-skaven-cards-for.html" id="id_8af8_8b17_a50d_9b7b">thedeathjungle.blogspot.co.uk</a> I don't have Photoshop so I used a free tool called <a href="https://www.gimp.org/">gimp</a> and added the Photoshop file plugin.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><img id="id_aadd_81ff_8291_b2b3" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IgiCYUdK4JA/WQziNSrKr7I/AAAAAAAApf8/FF7k6HizBn4pr4Cvsh3i_bbpBWO5I11UwCHM/%255BUNSET%255D" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 298px; height: auto;"> <br></div>
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This team is made up of the new 2016 blood bowl skaven team. To get the 4 gutter runners I needed to buy a second box. But I managed to recover a lot of the cost by selling the remaining models on eBay.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img id="id_4606_9d6f_c6f2_c8c8" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jjgmfwczlw0/WPI7TqweZiI/AAAAAAAAn-s/rTjzeN7xfOk/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 298px; height: auto;"> <br>
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To get variety in models I have done some minor modding with felt tip pens for pipes, and added slime with clear adhesive UHU. I cut out clear plastic to a small point then used the adhesive to dribble/cover it.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img id="id_d711_85c2_dd2f_b347" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E_NDXewguZM/WPI7VFo2VLI/AAAAAAAAn-0/SolmiImUZNY/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 298px; height: auto;"> <br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><img id="id_dcb1_b15d_42ac_b5ec" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eGzlTyCEvg4/WPI7TvNuwCI/AAAAAAAAn-w/NYxK9gyJcQk/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 298px; height: auto;"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br>The Skaven are spit into a few skin colours to further separate the models.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img id="id_814b_2952_5dcb_1cd5" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ak8jNAugCZE/WPI7SLGHwHI/AAAAAAAAn-o/DUUBEDJkVIw/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" tooltip="" style="width: 298px; height: auto;"> <br>
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The newest team is a joint one with my daughter who loves doing crafts of all types so we are doing this project together. Well she is doing most of it, I am just helping with tips and the odd idea.<br />
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We are both relative beginners at green stuff so we are using a combination of card board with PVC and simple green stuff shapes.<br />
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To keep costs down the team is built from <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Mirkwood-Rangers">Mirkwood Rangers</a> as they have a range of dynamic poses.<br />
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The weapons are clipped off and quivers removed. The simple green stuff tails are used to cover up marks.<br />
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The box comes with 10 elves, so we have bought a single tree man from old sprues of <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Sylvaneth-Dryads">Sylvaneth Dryads</a> from ebay. You can often get them from places like www.letthedicedecide.co.uk.<br />
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Here is the full team of 11 for around £30, depending on how the painting goes we may fill out the ranks with custom war dancers. We have added the odd shoulder pad with card board and sculpted a ball for a thrower and added a severed orcs head to scare the opposition.<br />
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Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-72655274016805408162013-06-27T13:55:00.000-07:002013-06-27T13:56:38.401-07:00Project 4: Dwarf Custom Blood Bowl Team<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Thought I would post some pictures of my next project. A dwarf team built from the Avatars of War, <a href="http://www.avatars-of-war.com/eng/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=79&Itemid=114">Dwarf Berserkers</a> set. This is a first for me as I am trying to create helmets and shoulder pads to make them look more Blood Bowl like.<br />
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I don't have very much experience with green stuff so I have bought head bits from <a href="http://www.letthedicedecide.co.uk/">letthedicedecide</a> to make helmet moulds, chopped up parts of the dwarf horn from the Avatar of War set. Also chopped up a <a href="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod840915">Black Orc's</a> head and knee plates to make shoulder pads. I then created some casts using <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub70AU5RfmI">Instant Mold</a> so I can create multiple copies.<br />
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The Blitzer below had parts of the horn for shoulder pads, and initial a cast of a dragon for wings on the helmet which I replaced with home made fans.<br />
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Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-22807382020757079122013-06-25T09:38:00.001-07:002013-06-25T10:13:53.824-07:00If Blood Bowl was mine.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There has been the usual rumours about the release of a new Blood Bowl box this year with a few minor differences. The removal of specialist games support and the discontinuation of block dice with the NAF. To an optimist (which I am) this could be markers for them to relaunch the site and taking their IP back to make their own block dice.<br />
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If Blood Bowl was mine, but I still had the constraints of GW vision of focusing on the core games and producing miniatures for large armies I would do the following...</div>
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Release a core game of orcs versus humans and if it sold well produce a second themed set. Maybe a nature theme with wood elves versus amazon's or lizards or a chaos or undead themed game. Within this core box set, I would include two versions of the game. The current competition rules and Blood Bowl 7's with a card overlay to cover each side of the pitch to make the smaller pitch. Each side overlay would be team themed.</div>
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The next tactic would be to change the game to operate as a support role for sales to their core games. I'd Look at current lines of the core armies and synchronise the 24 Blood Bowl teams to them. Producing articles on how to convert core lines to Blood Bowl teams. There are already examples of the standard armies successfully converted. Check out bensworkbench.blogspot.co.uk for the following <a href="http://bensworkbench.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/skaven-blood-bowl-team-project.html">skaven</a> conversion or my own <a href="http://tripleskull.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/project-1-naggaroth-side-skates.html">dark elf</a> and <a href="http://tripleskull.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/challenge-possible-team-2.html">orc</a> conversions. For future releases of core units for 40k and fantasy I would keep this in mind and design core units with more options to be weapon-less or assembled in different dynamic poses to meet the needs of multiple hobbies.</div>
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Another possibility to modify teams could be to produce small plastic expansion packs of shoulder pads heads with helmets and hands. This could be taken a step further to have rookie, veteran and star expansion packs. The rookie teams could be simple pads and helmets with the vet and star packs becoming my more elaborate. Maybe even packs for player progression to make models to look like they have a specific skill. All the above still encourages purchases of their core models.</div>
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To further make the game more collectable, I would follow the path of the electronic codex's, producing them over time for each team.<br />
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Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-82701730542204444522013-06-04T14:42:00.000-07:002013-06-04T14:42:43.207-07:00Project 2: The Reiksfang Penitentiary Racketeers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Necromantic Racketeers are finished and are now my league team for the <a href="http://faceplantmagazine.com/">Victory Doughnut Cup 2013</a>. I also took them to the NAF Championship 2013 in Nottingham, I had a great time but did awful.</div>
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Most of the miniatures from this team are from <a href="http://willy-miniatures.blogspot.co.uk/">Willy Miniatures</a>. The werewolves and golems painted themselves but the wights and zombie were difficult to get right.</div>
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On another note does anyone have any strategy tips for facing Norse when using bash light teams like Necromantic and Dark Elves especially in tournaments. Both teams do something similar with regards to frenzy and using the side lines to surf the opposing team. But the Norse come with a lot of extra block and frenzy with a sprinkling of might blow. The best I can seem to muster is a sprinkling of wrestle to try and negate the block.</div>
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Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-1005189496524092102013-06-01T10:18:00.000-07:002013-06-01T10:18:03.844-07:00Project 1: Naggaroth Side Skates<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I finally got round to finishing my dark elf team the Naggaroth Side Skates. I am quite please with how they turned out and took them to the Waterbowl 2013 tournament in February.</div>
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Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-47444199149743387492011-10-25T08:26:00.001-07:002011-10-25T08:29:31.530-07:00Project 2:Size<div>As size does matter, here is a comparison picture for Simon.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6106/6279861327_843d3dee2c_z.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 480px;" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6106/6279861327_843d3dee2c_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-91779873554776984042011-10-25T02:39:00.000-07:002011-10-25T02:45:59.392-07:00Shout Out! Unite All Action<div>At the birth of this blog one of my aims was to create a blood bowl set for around £30. It has fallen by the wast side of late, but I came across <a href="http://uniteallaction.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-next-blood-bowl-team-skaven.html">this post</a> on <a href="http://uniteallaction.blogspot.com/">uniteallaction.blogspot.com</a> which detailed putting together a team for my favourite team the Skaven at a bargain price!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-75411293016898752182011-10-23T03:17:00.000-07:002011-10-23T03:25:41.788-07:00Project 2: Flesh Golem<div>The second miniature is done, a flesh golem from <a href="http://franarcilla.es.tl/MINIATURAS-28_32mm.htm">Franarcilla</a>. I did not want the skin to be the same colour and thought two of the heads had a Frankenstein look so tried to blend in a green skin.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6100/6271636999_55243dd861_z.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 480px; height: 640px;" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6100/6271636999_55243dd861_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6235/6271637671_592feb5fba_z.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 480px; height: 640px;" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6235/6271637671_592feb5fba_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-15281138219432664792011-10-16T02:21:00.000-07:002011-10-16T07:28:31.806-07:00Project 2: WerewolfThis is the first painted miniature for the jail break themed Necromantic team. It is the werewolf from <a href="http://willy-miniatures.blogspot.com/2010/12/werewolf-1-wip.html">Willy Miniatures</a>. This is a great model and was a pleasure to paint. Hope I can make the prison stripe work through the rest of the models.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6153/6249329320_4878fe0fb8_z.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 480px;" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6153/6249329320_4878fe0fb8_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><div><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6229/6248801605_5479503c91_z.jpg" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 480px;" border="0" alt="" /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-58744736284834704122011-07-03T11:35:00.001-07:002011-07-03T11:37:14.646-07:00Project 1: Dark Elf Runner<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5898185460/" title="Dark Elf Runner"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5034/5898185460_7c9c51482c.jpg" alt="Dark Elf Runner by pressie74" /></a><br /><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5898185460/">Dark Elf Runner</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/">pressie74</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>This is a little update on Project 1, the Dark Elf team. The picture is the miniture for the runner position. It is the <a href="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440232a&prodId=prod1160120a">Mandrake Games Workshop</a> miniature. I will use 2 for runners and 2 for assassins, if I ever include an assassin in the team.<br />I have trimmed the weapon and replaced it with a green stuff football. So he fits in with the rest of the team he has arm plates. I am not the best at green stuff sculpting, so they are made with card board from a cereal box. I cut the piece's out then dampened with a little water so the card board bends without creasing. Then glued and added a light wash of PVA to hopefully seal the card board and make it easier to paint.</p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5898187222/in/photostream/">Back view</a></p>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-38949031119208256572011-06-28T04:51:00.001-07:002011-06-28T06:16:13.252-07:00Three Projects Part 3: Human<div style="padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 500px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5880597834/in/set-72157626942408309/" title="Copper Catches" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6027/5880597834_965492c110_s.jpg" alt="Copper Catches" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5880598414/in/set-72157626942408309/" title="Copper Catches" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5276/5880598414_aaa52c6257_s.jpg" alt="Copper Catches" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;" /></a><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;" /></div><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;" /></div><div style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;" /></div><div style="padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/gallery-empty-icon.gif" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;" /></div> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/sets/72157626942408309/">Human Copper</a>, a set on Flickr.</p></div><p>This team just has GW miniatures and no converting. Just an idea to create a human team called the Copper Catches with a theme of copper, brown's and orange colours. </p>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-73301108412369568472011-06-25T04:57:00.001-07:002011-06-25T04:59:10.546-07:00Dark Elf Blitzer<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5868817405/" title="Dark Elf Blitzer"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/5868817405_17cbe536d0.jpg" alt="Dark Elf Blitzer by pressie74" /></a><br /><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5868817405/">Dark Elf Blitzer</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/">pressie74</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>The first Dark Elf Blitzer is almost done. She just needs basing, numbering and varnishing. This team will be my first attempt at skin tones so I will follow <a href="http://blog.brushthralls.com/?page_id=3680">this</a> guide closely.</p>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-70142684468280570702011-06-23T13:08:00.001-07:002011-06-25T05:12:30.194-07:00Three Projects Part 2: Necromantic<span class="Apple-style-span">The second team I am putting together is a Necromantic team. I do not have all the miniatures yet, as I still need to decide on what zombies to get. I have the Werewolf’s and Wrights from <a href="http://willy-miniatures.blogspot.com/">Willy Miniatures</a>. The Wights come in one piece but the Werewolf’s need to be assembled. They come with arm’s jaw and tail separately and most parts need to be pinned. The flesh golems are from <a href="http://franarcilla.es.tl/MINIATURAS-28_32mm.htm">Franarcilla</a>, I loved that a head on each miniature had a football helmet and I am looking forward to painting these.<br /><br />Both companies don’t have order forms or have check out functionality. But I just sent an email with my order and delivery address and asked for a total cost then sent the paypal payment. Both orders came in around a week and I was impressed with the response and speed of mail from each company. More pictures can be found <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/sets/72157626991973680/with/5846644680/">here</a>.</span><div><br /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2570/5846644680_9e341020c7.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" border="0" alt="" /><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></p></div>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-56918006953880917662011-06-18T14:00:00.000-07:002011-06-25T05:13:07.551-07:00Three Projects Part 1: Dark Elves<div>I am putting 3 blood bowl teams together. This is the first. A dark elf team made up from 40k miniatures. The main-stay are <a href="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440233a&prodId=prod900152a">Dark Eldar Wyches</a> and my two witch huntes are <a href="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1160051a">Lelith Hesperax</a> miniatures. So she wouldn't look too out of place, one is mounted on a willy miniature blood bowl ball, and the other on the head of a black orc. To get the ball and head to stand up enough so Lelith wasn't leaning I have pinned them to the base. I am not very good with green stuff, so the black orc's neck is made of some orc arm so you get to see the muscle.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have not come up with a name yet but I think the main colour for the team will be a dark navy blue. I'll post more when I am further along painting them.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/5842771464_308e76d560_z.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 480px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/5842771464_308e76d560_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5113/5842228227_536c11c01b_z.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 480px;" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5113/5842228227_536c11c01b_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5314/5842772608_b4dbc4f947.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5314/5842772608_b4dbc4f947.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/5842230543_171299e6a2_z.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 640px; height: 480px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/5842230543_171299e6a2_z.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-69039764986690951172011-06-13T14:43:00.000-07:002011-06-13T14:50:34.889-07:00Human Team War time theme<div style="text-align: left;">Here are a few pictures from a human team a friend of mine wanted painting, there are no shoulder pads or helmets. But the positional's are all clearly distinguishable.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/5205786539_1bcb64d25a.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" border="0" alt="" /><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5203/5205786685_bf276d6b94.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" border="0" alt="" /><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5047/5205787261_4674823b17.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" border="0" alt="" /><div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div></div></div>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-64906911296593964442011-06-09T13:41:00.000-07:002011-06-09T13:57:55.788-07:00Willy miniatures TrollWhile at the NAF Championship I bought some miniatures from the guy's from Willy miniature's. I needed the troll for my orc team as the previous troll I was using was to go with my goblin team 'Catchagoogoo'. I thought the previous troll was a little small to go with the orc's. I also bought a werewolf and just ordered some more from them to bulid a necro team (post to come).<div><br /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2724/5815941946_919a1fb130.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" border="0" alt="" /><div><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3623/5815382759_7697729b9d.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3220/5815376693_854a5c9a7b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" border="0" alt="" /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3623/5815382759_7697729b9d.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span></a><br /><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3569/5815947722_5bf8cdb25a.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3569/5815947722_5bf8cdb25a.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-6013651051914242942011-05-26T01:58:00.000-07:002011-05-26T13:06:12.507-07:00NAF Championship<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>This entry is a little late, as I went to the the NAF Championship Blood Bowl tournament a few weeks ago. I have plenty of pictures (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/sets/72157626587763219/">see link</a>).I took my new lizard-men team the Lava Island Zipper's and even wore a straw hat to go with the volcano island theme. I bought the Games Workshop miniatures team. You only get 4 Saurus and after reading some threads on <a href="http://www.talkfantasyfootball.org/">www.talkfantasyfootball.org</a> the general builds use 6. I ordered two more but didn't get time to finish them before the event.<div>Only having 4 Saurus and no practice before the tournament meant I did't do very well. The Skinks didn't have enough cover and I was constantly getting out bashed. You can see how well I did <a href="http://thenaf.net/index.php?module=NAF&type=tournamentinfo&uid=16380&id=1235">here</a> at the NAF website.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>All my opponents over the two day's were great and I didn't have a bad match. My two highlights was a game against Andy who brought Orcs. I was 1 touch down up and 4 squares away from my opponents end zone. I had Skinks surrounding the ball and all I had to do was pick the ball up and run for the touch down. Obviously the Skink fumbled the pick-up, it bounced to two other Skinks who failed each catch then bounced out of bounds. The throw-in went back down the field just passed a line of orcs.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The second was a great game against a goblin coach Glowworm. The score ended in a 2 -2 draw. I'll remember it for the death of my Crox by a goblin no less and the charismatic coach.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The tournament of 190+ players was excellently organised. The setting GW world was great and even the food each day was good. I met loads of great people and even got to pick up some miniatures from the guys at <a href="http://willy-miniatures.blogspot.com/">willy-miniatures.blogspot.com</a></div><div><br /></div><div>On the second day I met up with Simon of <a href="http://starblayde.blogspot.com/">starblayde.blogspot.com</a> who has a great write up of the event. He was organizing a chat with Jonny P of <a href="http://zlurpcast.com/">zlurpcast.com</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>I could not recommend these tournaments enough, they are a lot of fun and you get to meet great people who love Blood Bowl.<br /></div><div><br /></div><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3252/5762327825_f7a077b9e4.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" border="0" alt="" /><div><br /></div><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3241/5762869516_9de669ffff.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" border="0" alt="" />Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-20299705410852965712011-03-24T10:36:00.000-07:002011-03-24T10:59:00.577-07:00Preparation for the NAF Championship<div><span class="Apple-style-span" >So we have just over a month to wait for the <a href="http://www.thenaf.net/index.php?module=News&func=display&sid=355">NAF Championship</a> in May. But I am still undecided what Blood Bowl team to take. With two teams still unpainted I need to pick one and crack on with finishing them. Do I take a human or lizard men team?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >I started to paint my lizard man team in the style of <a href="http://privateerpress.com/hordes/gallery/legion-of-everblight/warbeasts/carnivean">Everblight</a> (see below). But the end colour's were a bit bland for my taste and my skill with the brush has not yet got to that level. I still like the brown blending to black scheme. Which I thought looked a bit rock like and maybe even volcanic. With the lizard theme being tribal, this seemed to fit in with those tiny volcano islands. With that in mind I have gone for yellow to red blending. The miniature's below are not finished but you get to see the the gist of what I am going for. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5528264097/" title="IMG_0553 by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5251/5528264097_eb3f0dda82.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_0553" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5528853930/" title="IMG_0555 by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5216/5528853930_43aa5076af.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_0555" /></a></div>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-9093787274670003672011-03-12T05:12:00.001-08:002011-03-12T05:19:43.460-08:00Mantic Elves<span class="Apple-style-span" >In an effort to create the second team for the challenge I bought two boxes of the Mantic elves. I also bought some green stuff and instant mold. The later two are excellent and I'll make a post soon on them. But the Mantic elves are the wrong size. See picture. I have included a few other models in the picture so you get a feeling of size. The dwarfs from Mantic were perfect.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >I am also working on a human team called the 'Copper Catchers'. Not sure of I am taking humans or lizard men to the NAF championship.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5512232229/" title="IMG_20110309_182931 by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5013/5512232229_0b80071f21.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_20110309_182931" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-24083055355402954202011-02-22T01:01:00.000-08:002011-02-26T03:34:32.682-08:00Waterbowl<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.4190171374939382" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">The past weekend I went to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/sets/72157625963866343/with/5465806614/">Waterbowl</a> a two day Blood Bowl tournament held in Stockport. If you still have never been to a tournament I would really recommend it. The coaches who play are very welcoming and are willing to help you with rules and give you tips. The Swiss system of play is good for new players. Your first round is draw is against a random coach then all you games reflect how you are doing in the tournament. So win matches and your playing the best players. Loose matches and you play coaches more akin to your level of play for that day. With this even as a newer coach has a chance at winning the odd match.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Here are my results:</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; white-space: normal; "><table bgcolor="#858390" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" border="0" style="text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><th bgcolor="#D9D8D0" style="text-align: left;border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Game</th><th bgcolor="#D9D8D0" style="text-align: left;border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">CR</th><th bgcolor="#D9D8D0" style="text-align: left;border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">TD+</th><th bgcolor="#D9D8D0" style="text-align: left;border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">TD-</th><th bgcolor="#D9D8D0" style="text-align: left;border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Opponent</th><th bgcolor="#D9D8D0" style="text-align: left;border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Opponent's Race</th><th bgcolor="#D9D8D0" style="text-align: left;border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">CR</th><th bgcolor="#D9D8D0" style="text-align: left;border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; 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">5.5</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">2</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">150</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" align="right" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">0</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">3</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">Leipziger</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">Skaven</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">150</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">-5.5</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">3</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">150</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" align="right" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">1</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">2</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">NippyLongskar</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">Dwarves</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">150</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">-5.5</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">4</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">150</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" align="right" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">2</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">2</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">Gingadom</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">Norse</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">150</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">0</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">5</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">150</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" align="right" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">3</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">1</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">lauth81</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">Ogres</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">150</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">5.5</td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">6</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">150</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" align="right" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">3</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">3</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">littlejonnyfrostbite</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">Skaven</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">150</td><td bgcolor="#f8f7ee" style="text-align: center;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; ">0</td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I enjoyed all of my matches and met a lot of great people. Another great point in going to these tournaments as a new player is the range of teams and skill of coaches you meet. I had never played a Skaven on Skaven match and played two in the Waterbowl. Both were great games and I learnt a lot to take into future matches. My two favourtie matches were on day 2. The first against a Norse team and the second an almost mirror match against a Skaven team.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5465803702/" title="IMG_20110220_160201 by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5012/5465803702_0c4f42b687.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_20110220_160201" /></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5458936707/" title="IMG_20110219_141156 by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5012/5458936707_a631e91854.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_20110219_141156" /></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5465806614/" title="IMG_20110220_180332 by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5215/5465806614_8ab4991635.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_20110220_180332" /></a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-63080463879188786732011-02-09T11:58:00.000-08:002011-02-09T12:04:06.591-08:00Orc 1999 Part 2This is the second orc team I have painted made from Warhammer fantasy and 40k miniatures.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5430631763/" title="IMG_0315 by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5216/5430631763_851bdb35e6.jpg" width="500" height="309" alt="IMG_0315" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5430625223/" title="IMG_0303 by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5060/5430625223_e65042faea.jpg" width="500" height="234" alt="IMG_0303" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5430633057/" title="IMG_0317 by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5297/5430633057_3183bcdca3.jpg" width="500" height="351" alt="IMG_0317" /></a><br /><div><br /></div></div>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-38121159485394330022011-02-02T04:47:00.000-08:002011-02-02T05:19:20.035-08:00The Challenge: Blood Bowl Pitch<span class="Apple-style-span" >As part of the challenge we need a pitch to play on. There are a few mat's on the market but our budget doesn't stretch that far. So the remaining option is to make one.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >There are already a number of good jpeg's out there to download. 'Adam Souza', <a href="http://www.talkfantasyfootball.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=31918&hilit=custom+pitch">Wood Elf pitch</a> is one of my favourites. But I wanted to create a pitch you could downloaded and modify easily. The excel file is available <a href="https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5vEE8LoPs4bNTA4NjZjZTUtYzU1YS00ZmFiLWIzZTQtMzUzYTFiMjY0N2Y2&hl=en&authkey=CIyWgIQC">here</a>. The pitch includes items for dugouts and a scatter marker. If you want to change any parts you can just open the document in excel and copy and paste parts to move dug outs or turn markers.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5408013477/" title="IMG_0300 by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5298/5408013477_af433528a3.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_0300" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >If you would like to change the background you just need to go into page setup and add you own tile set to repeat. By changing the image in the header. Also just incase you did not know *.xlsx can be renames to a *.zip and you can explore what is inside the excel file. Look under 'renamedfile.zip\xl\media\' and you will find the image jpeg you should be able to swap out.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5409859253/" title="Header by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/5409859253_a928122b67.jpg" width="500" height="281" alt="Header" /></a></div>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503396862385518917.post-44208599928863624242011-01-25T05:01:00.000-08:002011-01-25T05:08:35.108-08:00'Doctor Fink' Skaven Ogre<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I have just finished my rat ogre using the Warhammer fantasy model Maulerblades. I looked at </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">the fantasy football miniatures and didn’t really like any of them. He is to fill in on my Skaven team <a href="http://tripleskull.blogspot.com/2011/01/skaven-team-purple-drain.html">‘Purple Drain’</a> a Prince themed Blood Bowl team. I thought Maulerblades being covered in bandages fitted with his name on the team. Doctor Fink was a keyboard player in Prince’s band.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; "></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I have played a few games in my last tournament and a few with friends, and found my Skaven team lacked punch. I know you are meant to be able to play around the opposition with the Skaven’s speed. But found it difficult to break cages and punch through the line. Having the rat ogre has alleviated those short comings in my play. At the very least, now I can frenzy a corner off the cage and leave the opposing team with a huge, prehensile tale beast in their midst’s. Or break the opposition defense line and still have my 2 blitzer’s to provide protection.</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I will be taking the Skaven team to the <a href="http://www.talkfantasyfootball.org/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=31324">Water Bowl Weekender</a> a two day blood bowl tournament on the 19th February.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5387487168/" title="DoctorFink by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5213/5387487168_603a075736.jpg" width="441" height="500" alt="DoctorFink" /></a></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5386882375/" title="DoctorFink by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5213/5386882375_b05b5dfa35.jpg" width="500" height="391" alt="DoctorFink" /></a></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14539460@N07/5386883193/" title="DoctorFink by pressie74, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5212/5386883193_81ff8c7c8c.jpg" width="500" height="480" alt="DoctorFink" /></a></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; "><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></span></div>Triple Skullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04828322777118901073noreply@blogger.com0