Atlantic Coast Charity Cup: Capturing the Spirit!

Well, just got back from the ACCC hosted by Nate Beam, and the Knights of Columbus in Norfolk, VA.  Many of the participants in attendance have become friends over the last few years while rolling the dice on the Blood Bowl Pitch.  This year the even raised $2,500 dollars with the proceeds going to the Wounded Warrior Project!  Very worthwhile venue!

I attended with young-blood Ryan, and former Marine Paul, as well as former soldier Jacob.  We got up at 0'Dark-thirty on Saturday morning to drive up, and play three games.  I finished 2-1-0 and had a great time! Everyone that I spoke with was in high spirits (yes, pun intended!) and having a good time!  I don't know why Blood Bowl attracts such awesome peeps... but if you don't play, you really should start!

Here are a few pics from the Mayhem had at the event:

My Orc team, the Bittersand Swamp Gators lining up to face off against Bob's Norse! (Yes, I drew two Norse players this tournament!)

Mike's Snow troll and Ulfwerner laying out two of my Orc Blitzers! Unfortunately for me... this was too frequent of a scene for my poor Orcs!

Mike's Snow troll ended up red-boxing eight of my players in my first match-up! He went on to take the "Most Violent" trophy for his ol'pal Dave "Doombeard" Dwarf-master... and somehow I managed a tie this game! ::Sheesh!::

Roy sharing war stories while several coaches finish up round two of their matches!

Jacob, Paul, and Ryan look on while Bob "The Barbarian" of Norsca strolls by while the lead tables wrap-up their matches!

 

Roy Miller's fantastic looking goblin team with the gobbos sculpted as Jawas from the epic film Star Wars, and the Trolls are sculpted as some kinda funky droid these little nippers probably sold on their goofy looking merchant barges!

Agememnon the Troll!

We interrupt these inquisitorial WIP proceedings to bring you this special message:

AGEMEMNON THE TROLL!

 

One of my good friends is sponsoring the Black Hole Brawl, NAF sanctioned Blood Bowl tournament in Raleigh, NC this weekend, and asked that I provide the painting for one of the prize miniatures that is to be given away as a prize.  This fantastic Troll Star Player (Agememnon) was a blast to paint!

 

I tried hard to stay with a complimentary color-scheme sticking with blues and oranges.  Here are some frontal poze pics...

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And here are the back ones! :D

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I surely hope that whomever draws this big guy can put him to good use!

Bittersand Swamp Black Orc Blockers...

With FedEx misplacing one of the boxes for the store yesterday, it was a terrible time tracking it down to make sure that we received it... luckily it made it in today!  Unfortunately, it carved a significant portion of the day out... and so I had to wait, (yet again) to get these bad boys up!

Yes, these beasts have been waiting for a post for a couple of days now, so it is high time I throw them in!  These are the Black Orc Blockers for the Bittersand Swamp Gators (whom I posted previously) borrowing the color scheme from the Florida
Gators.

 

 

I customized these guys from a GW Warhammer Black Orc unit, and had a great time cutting, sanding, gluing, and posing these guys todether!  The "mighty blow" claw and knuckle-dusters came from some GW Ogre Battalion bits I had layin' around!

 (image borrowed from: www.games-workshop.com)

Black Orcs are the big, bad, nasty equivalent of the Uruk-Hai from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings!

 

They are brutish, unforgiving, and just plain nasty!  In Blood Bowl terms, they don't necessarily start out with any skills, but they DO come with a very high armor value, (and are at a strength 4 to hit!) so your average Joe as to come in with two buddies just to get an advantage!  Very valuable for forcing the opponent into attrition with his players, and while they aren't fast, they are the back-bone of any Orc team worth playing on the pitch!  Can't wait to use these guys on the grid-iron against my next opponent! :D

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Tribbles, Trouble & Trolls!

There was an episode of Star Trek entitled "The Trouble with Tribbles" that became one of the more re-watched episodes of the series... well, if you play Orcs in Blood Bowl, you are going to have Trouble with Trolls!  They are 'always hungry' and are subject to being 'really stupid' and just might eat your goblin right before they 'throw team-mate' which are a few of the reasons that make them so fun to play!  This guy has been in my collection for quite some time, and was near complete--so I just whipped out a few more colors, slapped'em on and finished him up!  This one consistently gets positive comments for being a really Cool Mini!

 

This model is the GW Blood Bowl Troll Star Player, Ripper Bolgrot which I use as the troll on my Orc team.  Chris, one of the other coaches in the league inspired me to capture some collegiate teams, and so I borrowed the color scheme and mascot from the Florida Gators... (not a fan, just liked the how the color scheme worked!)

(Tim "The Superman" Tebow running with the ball!)

 

 

The team is named the "Bittersand Swamp Gators"

Here are a few more team members who will be fielded during this next season of Blood Bowl in pursuit of the Dungeonbowl Trophy!

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Waaaaaaagh!!!

This is an Orc Warboss right out of the box set produced by Games Workshop for Warhammer 40k!  (Credit to GW: their plastics have really been 'stepped up' the basic stuff used to be quite rudimentary!) I used glazing for highlights on this mini, along with the army painter method for some additional shading and protection... overall, I like the finished product!  Tell me what you think at Cool Mini or Not!

 

This guy will be commanding a "beach assault" army... hence the sandy base!

Warhammer 40K Gretchin

These grots (gretchin) are part of a "beach assault" unit that I am working on amidst my many other miniature projects that are underway... thought they were pretty cool in a quirky sorta way--so here they are!

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

I think the 'ninja' hooded one with the revolver is cool... but the one with the 'bug-eyed' goggles makes me crack up!  Who could take these things seriously in combat?