Gyhrdrak the "Bonebreaker" Druchiisbane

Not much is known about Gyhrdrak Druchiisbane, also known in the Blood Bowl community as the “Bonebreaker.” It is reported that he hails from the more rural communal mountains of Chrace, in the Elven kingdom of Ulthwae. After relocating to the capital city of Tor Achare as a young man, he was selected for service among the Pheonix bodyguard known as the White Lions, where he distinguished himself.

Gyhrdrak plays as a star blitzer on the Tor Achare Lions Blood Bowl team, one of two professional teams hosted by the capital city. It is reported that Gyhrdrak is the strongest High Elf in all of Ulthuan. His propensity to cause numerous casualties each game is what has earned him the moniker “Bonebreaker.” His strength and Stature have become legendary not only throughout the six kingdoms of the High Elf realms, but ubiquitously among opposing teams on the grid-iron.

(Credit: Christopher Burdett; donwloaded from https://christopherburdett.blogspot.com/ 10.8.2024) 

Never compromising his performance on the pitch, as soon as an opposing player is red-boxed, Gyhrdrak is quick to lend a helping hand winning him many friends among other teams, star players and heroes of other mortal races. 

Ironically, Korhil Lionmane, who is the current high commander of the Chrace White Lions bodyguard, displays very similar characteristics to Gyhrdrak.  Whenever the “Bonebreaker” is performing on the grid-iron, Commander Korhil always seems to be conspicuously absent from his duties. However, due to his popularity, nobody (not even reporters) seem to care to comment. 

Regardless, look for Commander Kor… er um… Gyhrdrak the “Bonebreaker” for his next appearance on the pitch!

Read about Commander Korhil here: Korhil Lionmane | Warhammer Wiki | Fandom

Up, Up and Away!

High Elves are suppose to be very 'uppety' and haughty.  They think they are better than everyone else, including their wood elf cousins!  (One of my FUMBBL teams is named the Ulthuan Upstarts simply because of this!)  Well, trying to be a nice 'chap' and help out one of the coaches in my RL Blood Bowl League, I decided to clean the dust off of my High Elf team (they think they are "all that") and play against his humans... a walk in the park, right? NOOOOOO IT WASN'T!!! (Check it out!!!)

Upper Left: My catchers trying to chase down his well positioned team to prevent them from scoring!
Upper Right: Desperately trying to get into position for good ball play!
Bottom Left: Five players "redboxed" (Dead or Injured) with one of my star blitzers DEAD! And my star catcher K.O.d!!!
Bottom Right: Receptare (catcher) frantically running away (by himself) trying to cross the goal line!

In the end... I ended up having to concede the match with a 2 to 1 victory for my opponent.  With so many players out (and not wanting to lose anymore) it was simply becoming too "costly" to keep playing!  However, it was (as always) a good time to get in a game with a good friend and well-respected coach!

(Here is a pic of the whole team lined up!)

You can see them on Cool Mini or Not as well as Ebay!

Sylvan Air Assault

This is a commission job I took for a coach in the Blood Bowl League that I participate in.  He wanted to have his team painted in pink to match his pink pitch that he uses.  Ironic how colors seem to come in globs!  The "Emporer's Children" bottle I have is almost depleted which may contribute as to why feel like I am painting so much pink of late! ;D

This is the model he uses for his chainsaw "secret weapon" mini... I like the dainty-attitudinal pose, with the cheerleader skirt, gloves and goggles! Fun mini to paint!

His two blitzers for the team; if I recall correctly, in the first match he played with these gals (which happened to be against me), his No6 Blitzer got three casualties against my team: two (2) badly hurts and a (1) kill!  She was a machine!

 

Here is the whole team, ready to scrap it up!  I really like the overall look of the team as it is still very 'girly' but the armor, fist weapons, and poses still make them look very dangerous! (That No6 blitzer looks particularly menacing!)

 

I really need to get back with this coach to get better pics.  I took these almost as an after-thought when I was walking out the door to deliver them.  I stopped and thought, "Hmmm.... maybe I had better take some pics, just in case!"  Just in case for what?  (At the time I didn't know I would be doing this blog!) I am glad I did!

Blood Bowl High Elf Catchers

These are the GW converted plastic Dark Elf Corsair minis, with the mits off of the human GW BB plastic catchers, to create the catchers for my High Elf team the Tor Achare Titans!  I gave each one a different pose with different hair color to distinguish them on the pitch.  Remember my previous post? (notice the yellow bands and the yellow cloaks!)

(Please vote on these catchers at Cool Mini or Not!) 

I like how the dip added the extra look of being 'dirty' like they have been scrapping it up on the pitch!  No6 (Valiananore) is currently leading the league in TD's!

WOOOT!!! Go Val!!!!

 

Blood Bowl High Elf Blitzers

Yes... I put in two posts today since I missed yesterday's (waaaay too many irons in the fire!)  This is a pair of High Elf Blitzers for my Blood Bowl Team, the Tor Achare Titans!  These minis were conversions for the GW Warhammer Dark Elf Corsairs, and (as with my throwers), the "Army Painter" method was used, once again, to get them quickly on the pitch.  You may also notice that their dragon-hide cloaks are a different color... that is to help distinguish positions on the pitch, ie: White = Thrower, Red = Blitzer, Green = Hitter, Yellow = Catcher, Grey = Lineman, and Blue = Big Guy/Star Player! There you have it!

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Blood Bowl High Elf Throwers

Last week I posted on (of two) throwers for my High Elf Blood Bowl Team, the Tor Achare Titans!  Here are BOTH throwers ready to scrap it up!  They models are conversions from: GW Dark Elf Corsairs, arms from the GW Blood Bowl Human Throwers, and legs from GW Dark Eldar Troops.  As I hate playing with unpainted minis on the pitch, I used the "Army Painter" method to get these guys done quickly... not bad results!

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Blood Bowl High Elf Thrower

You might notice that (of late) my focus is on Blood Bowl: love the game, and love the fact that you can paint a 'themed' team knowing that there is a 'light' at the end of the tunnel painting wise!  I do have some 40K projects I am working on, but I wanted to share this High Elf Thrower I converted from Warhammer DE Corsairs, and a human plastic thrower, and a 40K DE troop; I really like the result!

 

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I actually have an entire team that I did (which I will post up at a later date) but the result is very pleasing to me!  The BEST thing about the "Tor Achare Titans" (color scheme after Tennessee Titans--just 'fit' with Tor Achare) is that these are one-off minis that NOBODY else has... most appealing!