Two more games in today... (no pics)

First one was a Slaan on Undead game of Bloodbowl.  At the half I was up 2-0, and only two casualties down.. :)  He had to leave about halfway through the second half, but he was able to get one score in - he didn't have enough to pull a second TD though.

Second game was a re-match against the grot revolutionary committee.  This time it was a Dawn of War with two objectives.  I was able to avoid the grot-zukka laden killa-kans and deff rolla, sneak around the side, beat down on the grots holding onto one objective (surrounded by other non-troops to contest) while barely (like within .0001") holding on to my objective.  Highlights include rolling snake-eyes for my first shot of the game with the mek's shokk attack gun - which, if you're not familiar with the SAG is the following:

Boom: The shokk attack gun explodes, leaving a crackling orb of unreality in its place.  No shot is fired.  Remove the Mek as a casualty.  Models within D6" are removed from play.

Only because the mek was on an upper level of the building did the resulting explosion not take out Wazdakka, a Nob, and a biker...

Frog Lovin'

Got the frog's dipped last night.  Had to try a different color of dip - I couldn't find "American Walnut" in the waterbased (my preferred color).  I had tried "English Oak" in the past, but it was a little too gray.  The only thing I could find close was "Vermont Maple."  Turns out, Minwax is switching to a paint-counter mixed product for their water-based products...   or, I should say they have switched and it's just a matter of finding what I want in the product line that stores still have.  I guess I'll have to do some research on the new color lines to see how well they match the old colors.

Anywho - on to the paint jobs.  This is for my Slaan team.  All of these models are from the Gaspez Arts "Frog Men" team - and can be see here.

First up, is the coach.

Next up,my Kroxigor.

Blitzer.

Linefrog:

.. and last, but not least - the Catcher.

So, I've got 1 coach, 1 Kroxigor, 8 Linefrogs, 4 Blitzers, and 4 Catchers.  I was hoping to get them numbers, grassed, and sealed this evening - but my oldest daughter had other ideas...

Who's up for some bloodbowl?

Pesky Humans...

Finally got a game in with the new Slaan team yesterday.  Played against a Human team.  At 1m, I have to keep the team "light" - so it was 8 Linemen, 3 Bllitzers, and 1 Catcher.  He had 4 Blitzers, 2 Catcher, 1 Thrower, 1 Ogre, and 3 Lineman. 

He was definitely going for a "plan B" mentality (that would be B for Beating).  I was able to score early in the first half and then he got away from me at the end of the half and scored.  During the second half I was able to score twice on him. 

Can't wait till these guys get all painted and I can get a few more games in with them... :)

More Gaspez-Arts goodness

First up, here's a screen cap of the model in question (blatantly stolen from their website here: http://www.gaspez-arts.com/?go=store&id=48&pgs=5&pag=5)

 
First of all, the model is beautiful.  It was a dream to go together.  The body is one piece.   Then there's a head (one of two to choose from), the hands, the tail, and the dangly bits on the forearms.  What makes it *really* nice to put together is the hands.  See the things it's holding on to?  Here, I'll give you a close up of mine after building it, see if you can see it:

The forearm and armour is one piece (attached to the body).  The hand, *and strap* is one piece.  There's a little notch on the ends of the strap that fit into divots on the armour bit, effectively locking it in place.  It means the glue can connect the hand bit on three sides - no need to pin a hand down.

Anyway, I just have to say I really am liking their stuff more and more for Bloodbowl... *ahem*, excuse me - "Fantasy Football"  :).  This model took a little bit longer to get here than the other stuff, but they also threw in a "Elfo Selvaggio di linea 1" (Google translates that to "Wild Elf line 1" - which looks a lot to me like a Wood Elf Lineman...).

Anyway.  After next weekend (my fourth anniversary and semi-annual trip into the barren lands of Southern Oregon) my weekends should start to relax a little on the "planned events".  That means I should be able to get some games in, and the wife should be able to start putting some color down on these Frogs.  Pictures will follow, I promise.

What a long strange trip it's been...

Or, how I spent most of my summer:  Famliy stuff.  :)

I did get to play in the OFCC tournament, went 3-2... had a blast.  Started plotting new armies and can't quite get my head wrapped around it to actually do something.. not sure why.  My friend RC thinks it's boredom.  I dunno...

So, to that I decided I was going to do a new Blood Bowl team.  I've been looking at the gaspez-arts "Frogmen" team for a while, and I finally decided to just do it.  I ordered them on August 30th, and they showed up 8 days later - which is not bad, especially since they were coming from Europe and there was a 3-day weekend holiday in there.

My daughter has decided that she needs to open up the package.

The package was well packed, and all pieces came in one plastic container.

After some sorting, here's what it looks like:

The bases are very much like GW's slotta bases... only brown.

The models themselves?  At first glance they're some nice clean models.  They were quite a bit bigger than I was expecting though.  Here's a size comparison with a GW Bloodbowl model:

Most of the pieces are one piece, there's a few who have legs (mmmmm, frog legs) and arms as separate bitz.  The fit seems to be pretty good - I'll get some pictures after I get them washed and built.  One of the models I picked up was the coach - I was hoping it would have been a bit bigger so I could use it as a Kroxigor if I wanted to.... nope, it's the same "size" as the other frogs

So, overall.  The models look much gooder than I was expecting.  The shipping wasn't unreasonable for cost - and it was fast (I've had ebay auctions from across the state take longer to ship to me).  And, they sent me a football and a freebie mini:

I can do a necro team, right?