Human Blood Bowl Team

Another team I had bought 'back in the day'... I had got the 3rd Edition metal human team from GW mail order, before its official release, so I had the basic set of 1 thrower, 2 catchers, 2 blitzers (though there was a third in the box once released), and 6 linemen.

Although these had been destoned to live in a figure case for ever, their time had finally come when I fished them out about 4 months ago.

I made a start on the players I had and kept a look out for the extra positional players to give me a full squad. As luck would have it, I was able to pick up a full boxed team, giving me more than enough players to cover every plausible team combination. I also managed to grab a couple of human cheerleaders for about two pounds.

Human Blood Bowl Team

Inspired by the many Historical Fiction books I like to read in my free time, I was keen to make this team a very Roman Legion themed team, feturing heavily the Red and Bronze colourings used in the mighty Roman Legions.

Blitzers

More Blitzers

As I had 5 blitzers, and to follow on from the theme for the team, I decided to paint my 5th / spare blitzer in silver armour, akin to that presented to Marcus Brutus by Julius Caesar follwing his victory in a Roman Legion swordfighting tournament. 

It would also come in handy to have one blitzer which could be readily differentiated from the others, in the event of a suitable skill upgrade, such as perhaps the legendary +1 Strength.

Blitzer Marcus in his Silver Armour

Limited by the models for the throwers and catchers, subtle differences were used in the colourings to make them stand out that little bit more from each other, such as the hair colourings, and the wrist bindings.

Human Throwers

Human Catchers

Human Linemen

And of course the finishing piece for any Human team, that bit of extra muscle needed and supplied in the form of an Ogre.

Blood Bowl Ogre

After painting most of the ogre as shown here, I decided that the skin tone just wasn't right for what I wanted. He has since been stripped and re-sprayed. Still currently a work in progress.