Sam's Intro OWAC VI : Ah yes Sportsball!

Like my good friend AdamH and many other OWACers this year, I also like balls! And cups! Especially those! Yes, the thrill of the competition, that’s me in a nutshell! So for this years OWAC I’ve decided that I’ll be cupping balls… wait, no, that’s not what I meant to say! Bloodbowl, yes that’s it! Painting Bloodbowl!

So back when I was growing up I played a shit-tonne of Bloodbowl. In fact it was probably my most played game. Not only was it more accessible due to the everything in a box, low model count, self contained rule set, it also was a lot of fun to a bunch of snotty nosed teenagers. The edition I played was 3rd Ed. and looking back at all the old artwork by Wayne England and David Gallagher gives me that sweet sweet nostalgia hit every time. So with this years specialty focus I was onboard in a heartbeat.

For the models I’ve got four teams, humans, dwarves, chaos and undead making up the rank and file. A bunch of star players for the leader month. And for the wildcard month (assuming I don’t need to bail myself out with a crispy fried mulligan) an absolutely stunning 3D pitch kindly printed for me by AdamH.

 

A few Chrimbo latecomers still in need of a stripping

Finally in tribute to The Beneficent Overlord I submit this happy little chappy.

Any preference of player number O mighty Overlord? Otherwise my inner child will decide and it'll be 69

Otherwise, as always I look forwards to all the sweet painted models by the rest of the challengers. Good luck to all and peace out!

Sam

AdamH’s OWAC VI Intro Post – It’s Sportsball time; Go team!

Anyone that knows me, knows how much I love all things sports! With the running and the balls etc. so much fun…

OK maybe not so much, but I do like models and games so I guess I can give this Blood Bowl thing a try at the least. I never really got into BB back in the day, however it seems to have had a bit of a resurgence recently (or maybe it never really went away, I don’t know).

The thought process I had when picking which teams to do was:

1. Pick the teams of the armies I have already (i.e. Skaven, Chorfs, Chaos)

2. Pick the teams of the armies I think I might do next (Delfs)

3. Pick Halflings because treeman

So that is how I have ended up with the following:

Normally I would post up the list and points values of what I am planning to paint during the challenge but I am actually not sure how Blood Bowl points work yet, I should probably get on that and learn before my Jan post.

Finally here is where I should post my overlord offering:

(I'm so good at the memes, definitely not a case of "hello fellow kids")

Yea, work decided that I didn't need to spend more than a week of December in the country, I am currently writing this blog post from my hotel room. So with agreement from our glorious overlord I have been given special dispensation to provide pictures of this during January’s post. I can’t help but feel I was given this leniency after having painted three horde armies in a row of the OWAC.

So anyway that is me for this year, should be fun getting to paint lots of different colour schemes, and as always I am really excited to see what other challengers get up to. 

Good luck everyone, let the painting commence!