


#Orcs blood bowl 2 plus
I am also going to post updates on him on Instagram, plus I am planning some live videos on him so have a look for them too! He is currently in my workbench getting some paint and he will get his photos once he is finished, so keep your eyes on this spot for more. One big (in the quite literal manner) absence from this group photoshoot is my troll. I built him using bits from the old Goblin kit and adding a wire frame to create the blood bowl helmet. Last, but definitely not least, the Goblin of the team. Of course the backbone of the orc team, the Linemen, couldn’t be absent, so here they are in all their black and yellow glory! Staying to the positionals, the Throwers are straight from the box, although one too many, I painted both to complete the team. Nothing fancy here as you may probably see. Same problem here, I had to build 2 and again my Ork bitz box came in handy. The model is built using all sorts of bits and pieces from the (mostly Warhammer 40K) Ork range, the body of a Nob, the hand of an Ogre, and shoulder pads from Space Marines and a Dreadnought (yes you heard that right :P )īlitzers are a must in any Orc team and I had to include 4 of them. I may eventually build another one whenever I decide to play them again. I have eventually managed to buy one back later on in the league, so I decided to build only one out the initial 2 extras that I had on my roster. Where is the second one you ask? Well, in the very first game that I have played one of them died, and then in my second one I lost another one. So, I have decided to build my own Black Orcs, one of them you can see in the pictures above. The general consensus appears to be the change was unnecessary and hurt a team that was already weak in terms of winning games, but won't be going away any time soon. I had decided to play with 4 Black orcs and 4 Blitzers, and I had only 2 of each available in the box. Blood Bowl 2 has now been out for well over half of a year, so we should have plenty of information on how Orcs start out with the change to blitzer pricing. I have decided to stick to the original colour scheme, mostly because I love painting yellow (those of you that follow me all these years might have figured it out ) ), but also because I think yellow suits Orcs wonderfully! The ModelsĪs I was building my team, I have stumbled upon a problem that I’m sure most orc players have, the absence of Black Orcs and Blitzers from the basic sprue.

The Orcs are certainly no exception to this, as ever since Brian Nelson revolutionised the design of Games Workshops’s greenskins I have loved their imagery and really wanted to have a go at modelling them, but the usual prospect of 100+ models has put me off.2.1) Blood Bowl Stuff Orcland Raiders Galleryīeing a quite slow painter, I have just managed to finish up my Blood Bowl Orc team, the famous Orcland Raiders. One of the things I love about Blood Bowl is the chance to model and paint lots of different races while only having to complete a dozen or so models. Inducements cannot be purchased before matches in Campaign mode and the transfer market and stadium enhancements are locked, as are staff until later matches. Orcs have been playing Blood Bowl since the game was discovered- indeed it was an Orc who discovered the shrine where the sacred book of Nuffle was hidden. It just goes to show that at least some of those spur of the moment purchases end up going to a good cause. This mode sees you become the coach of the Reikland Raiders (a Human team) and try to lead them to victory in the Blood Bowl championship. The Black Orcs I think I mainly bought because the models were just that good although they got a brief outing when I tried to combine their torsos with Dark Elf cold one bodies to make Dragon Ogres for my fledgling Chaos army.Įither way, neither kit was properly used until my new Blood Bowl project brought them out of the depths of my bits box and onto the painting desk. The Ork Boyz were for a short lived “Deff Korps” project where I intended to sculpt and cast my own resin kit of trenchcoat wearing Orks inspired by Forgeworld’s Death Corps of Krieg. Half way through my Wildwood Wanderers Wood Elf team project, I got suddenly inspired to create an Orc team when I remembered that years previously I had picked up boxes of 40k Ork Boyz and Warhammer Black Orcs. Techniques: Kitbashing, glazing, wet blending
