So, as I mentioned at the time, I finished painting up my Elf Blood Bowl team back in October. And I had intended at the time to post some pictures of them here. But for some reason, I never got around to it. Until now.

I should point out that these are not official Blood Bowl models, but are ‘Gridiron football’ models from Shadowforge Miniatures.

First up, the Blitzers, or ‘Guards’ as Shadowforge call them:

Next, four catchers. These are the only position players for which I have any duplicate models. There are only two different sculpts, but up to four Catchers can play on an Elf team. Although it’s hard to see in this picture, I’ve made the duplicates a bit more distinguishable by giving them differently coloured hair, which was about the only thing that it made sense to vary in their colour scheme. Shadowforge describe these players as ‘Receivers’:

The throwers, or ‘Quarterbacks’:

With the position players costing vast amounts to hire, Elf teams tend to start out with a lot of ordinary Line-elves. Shadowforge only do five different sculpts, so there are, again, a few duplicates here. As with the catchers, the the duplicate models all have different hair colours.

One difficulty with this team was finding somewhere to paint on player numbers, as there are not many flat surfaces on the models of any size. Eventually I concluded that the only suitable location was on the player’s left arse cheeks:

In addition to the players, Shadowforge do some nice models of backstage staff. Here are the Head Coach, Assistant Coach and Apothecary (or Coach, Trainer and Nurse):

And three cheerleaders:

Finally, I also have a referee model to accompany the team. Since the clunky ‘I’ve got my eye on you’ rule was dropped from Blood Bowl, referee models don’t have any practical use in the game any more, but, like models for the support staff, they are fun to have on the sidelines anyway, and I have a referee model for each of my teams. However, only this one and the Wicked Elf are currently painted.

I had a lot of fun coaching this team in our Blood Bowl league back in the autumn. The team was hugely successful at winning games (15 wins, 2 losses, 1 draw), but the team’s low armour values meant that the number of casualties suffered was fairly horrific. A total of four players were killed, and of the original twelve players, only four lasted the entire league without sustaining any kind of debilitating injury. Most of the injured players I retired and replaced, although the thrower who suffered a decrease in strength I kept on, as she was too good at her job to do without, and would mostly not be making blocks anyway.

Having this team done means I’ve got three Blood Bowl teams that I can field using only painted models. I still have a few Orc models left unpainted, but they aren’t essential to field a usable team. Of my Dark Elf team (Shadowforge’s ‘Wicked Elf’ models), however, I have only painted two line-elves and the ref. I’ll hopefully get some more done (and finish off the Orcs) once I’m done with the Epic stuff I’m painting at the moment.

In other news, I am now fairly certain that my old camera was significantly better than my current one for macro photography. Also, I have started painting up some of my Chaos army for Epic. I started this army back in early 2007, but ran out of momentum and stopped before I had enough models painted for a full army. Since most of what I have left to paint consists of infantry, I’m hoping that I’ll be able to alternate between painting models for this army and my Titans without getting bored with either, at least for a while.