Warpfire Wanderers - Finishing Up Modeling

This weekend I did a crash session of model building.  I finished building and most of the green stuffing for the Wanderers.  Here they are:

Mutated Linerats

Yes, the guy on the back left has poop on his base.  Back right has tentacles.  The front rat has two heads.

Thrower and Gutter Runners

Back left is a Gutter Runner with horns.  Back right is a Gutter Runner with very long legs.  He is a linerat mutant model with a cape, hood, and dagger added to make it a Gutter Runner.  The front player is a thrower with sores added because of his warpstone usage.

Blitzer

This blitzer's name is Snaketail, I tried to give his tail a cobra head but it turned out terribly.  I decided just to give him a greenstuff snake on his base.

Other Mutations

The team has a special pre-kickoff chart, and one of the rolls makes you give a mutation to a random player.  These are things to add to the bases to signify what mutation they are getting.  I'll probably make a few more.

Cheerleaders

Three lady cheerleaders and two guy cheerleaders.

Apothecary

Skitter Hisonvurj, new apothecary.  Also he's the team's dealer.

I plan on getting these primed and basecoated this week.  The team/family should be 19 rats.  The only piece I haven't included yet is Reek Nosebiter the assistant coach.

Warpfire Wanderers Dugout and A Room for 12 Plus - Part 1

I'm trying to come up with some extra "flair" for my Blood Bowl Legends Cup team.  I think I finally have my team colors down so now onto some extras.

3D dugout ideas:

Items used:  shoe box, paper towel roll, toilet paper rolls, doll house brick sheets, foam core, mdf board, glue, two sided tape, and a blade.

Nothing is glued down.  I only used the blue tack so the walls would stand for the picture.  The plan is for the counter area to be on the top.

Locker room/Carry case

One of my ideas is to create and carry case that will double as a locker room of sorts for the Wanderers.  I often draw up my ideas on ms paint, yeah I know classy, but this project is more stream of consciousness.  regardless, here's a starter drawing.

You can really see it right?  Anyhow, I've got some ideas for the inside too.  Here it is now.

I used this for the Dwarfs of Anarchy team I made a while ago.  I sold that team so I'm reusing the case.

Warpfire Wanderers More Basecoating and Shading

Here are the next two.

Skin:  VMC Red/Beige + VMC Hull Red + VMC Car. Red 2:tip:tip, Citadel Car. Crimson
Fur:  VMC Hull Red + VMC Flat Brown 2:1, Citadel Car. Crimson
Claw:  Wet blend  VMC Red/Beige + VMC Car. Red + P3 Khador Red Highlight + VMC Hull Red, Citadel Car. Crimson

Skin:  VMC Medium Flesh + VMC Black/Grey 2:1, Citadel Nuln Oil
Fur:  VMC Black/Grey + VMC Ger. Camo Beige 2:tip, Citadel Ag. Earth

Cloth, armor, leather, and claws the same as before.  Couple mess ups to be corrected.

Warpfire Wanderers Basecoat and Shade

I finally got some time to put toward my team.  I did the basecoat and washes on Snachit Quikk, number 1 thrower with agility 4 and big hand.

This miniature is painted a lot like my test model that I didn't care for.  The small things that made the difference for me was muting the flesh and fur a little and the orange areas change.

Cloth: VMC Royal Purple + VMC Hull Red 1:1, Citadel Druchii Violet Shade

Metal: P3 Khador Red Highlight + VMC Hull Red 3:Tip. Citadel Reikland Flesh Shade

Flesh: VMC Medium Flesh Tone + VMC Dark Sea Blue 3:tip, Citadel Reikland Flesh Shade

Fur:  VMC Flat Brown + VMC Off-White 3:2, Citadel Agrax Earth Shade

Leather and Claws: Citadel Dryad Bark

The little tab on his elbow pad is flash I missed, I'll fix it.

Blood Bowl Legends Cup - Logo Work

Here are some logo designs I made for the Wanderers.  I think throwing a little green to accent the orange and purple helps them pop.

Shield

Skaven Font

Main Logo

The Flame

I intend to work some of these designs into the mobile locker room and/or the 3D dugout I'm making for the team.  I am hoping to have the team prepped for painting by this weekend.  I need to get busy on greenstuff for this team and building my AoS stuff.  My cars have had other ideas though and think I should be working on them instead.

Blood Bowl Legends Cup - The Test

I painted up a test model for the Warpfire Wanderers over the weekend to see if the color scheme I had in my head would work.  The majority of the teams have their team colors laid out in the existing fluff, but I have one of two teams with unknown colors in this tournament.

Through suggestions made by the other coaches in the tourney and thoughts I had, I decided to go with a dark purple and orange scheme.  Fans of American college football think Clemson.  I also tried out zenithal (sp?) priming for the first time.

It really helps the details stand out so I will continue to do it.  I was just putting base colors on for the test so I didn't use this style of priming to its full potential.

Test Model:
Cloth and leather - VMC Hull Red and VMC Royal Violet, 1:1
Metal - Citadel Dwarf Bronze
Skin - Citadel Ratskin Flesh
Fur - VMC Flat Brown

1st test

Verdict?  PPPPPPPPPTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

The skin and fur are much too saturated.  The bronze is meh, not orange enough.  The purple turned out how I wanted it to.  His base broke so the picture isn't very good too.  This is the first time I've done a test model that I was this disappointed with.  Back to the drawing board.  I hope the next test works better.

Blood Bowl Legends Cup

In 2016 Games Workshop re-released Blood Bowl.  Since then they have released a couple supplements describing league play and adding a bit to the fluff of the game.  The supplements included descriptions of 8 classic teams.

Xtreme (Zlurpcast's Other Guy) created an event, that is going to be a series, around these legendary teams.  Eight coaches from around the Midwest have been assigned to each team and will be leading them onto the pitch.  As new teams are introduced they will be created but for this round there are eight.  Each coach is responsible for creating the players as described in the fluff, using proper colors and physical traits, and creating new and interesting fluff about the teams.

The teams are:
Bright Crusaders, Human
Orcland Raiders, Orc
Celestial Comets, Elf
Grudge Bearers, Dwarf
Greenboyz, Goblin
Warpfire Wanderers, Skaven
Chaos All Stars, Chaos Pact
Underworld Creepers, Underworld

I was assigned to the Warpfire Wanderers.  I've not coached a skaven team more than a couple times so I'm looking forward to that aspect.  The first step I'm taking is acquiring miniatures and prepping them to become the Wanderers.  The team has a bit of a warpstone issue.  They like the green and their bodies have the mutations to show for it.  I've chose to use mostly third edition skaven miniatures to make up my team.

Here are some of the metal I've chosen:

Linerats

A lot of the linerats need mutations.  The extra arms is a sculpt, I'll need to make the rest.  There are six linerats on the team so I won't need to use all of these minis.

Blitzers

The one with the claw will have red fur.  The other will have a snake-like tail.

Throwers

 The miniature without the big hand is supposed to be fur-less and covered in sores, should be fun.

Gutter Runners

 There are only two gutter runners on the team but one has very long legs.  I'm trying to decide how I can use the one in the middle (with vll) to make a gutter runner.  Both runners will get weeping daggers.

Extras

Some of these may become sideline figs and some may just be inspirations.  The rat that looks mostly painted has been in break fluid for a total of 72 hours and the paint still won't come off.  I don't know what was used on that model.

Other Plans, these haven't been fully fleshed out:
Cheerleaders - Comixininos pieces, mod some unused linerats
Apoth - Comixininos
Counters - giant rats, Warpstone thingies
3D Dugout - Sewer Themed
Team bus
Locker room/Carrying case - Sewer Themed

The other coaches are all putting their stuff together and are coming up with great and inspiring ideas. This event is gonna be a blast.