Blood Bowl: Humans (Garroting'em Forest - Part 4 - Throwers)

I mentioned in my first post in this short series that these models are antiques (in fact, they're older than my children and two of them have left home!)

That said, they're not a precise match for what is currently the standard line-up for a Human Blood Bowl team.

You'll notice that there are indeed some Throwers, but there are also some Kickers, who for my purposes "Counts as" Throwers (well, their main job is to move the ball through the air to another player. Who cares if they use their hands or their feet, right?)

More Garroting'em Forest stuff:

Blood Bowl: Humans (Garroting'em Forest - Part 2 - Blitzers)

When I first painted this team, about 200 years ago, they were largely painted white, with orange armour and some blue fiddly bits. The orange was very washed out and they were a bit flat and uninteresting.

But I like the blue/orange combination, so this time around I decided to make that the featured colour scheme, and this is what I ended up with:

Here are my Blitzers:

More Garroting'em Forest stuff:

Blood Bowl: Humans (Garroting'em Forest - Part 3 - Catchers)

Today I present the penultimate portion of my first Human Blood Bowl team; the Catchers.

It's a general rule with me that - for reasons unknown - it takes me longer to do Blood Bowl teams than any other model type. Never worked out why. They're finished to the same sort of standard as everything else I do, so it's not that I'm going any further with them, they just tend to drag on a bit.

Which is probably why I don't do them very often. Maybe one team per year.

Anyway - here are my Catchers:

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Blood Bowl: Humans (Garroting'em Forest - Finished! - Whole team)

For the last post in this short series, I've collected together my whole Blood Bowl team for a group photo.

Enough said. Enjoy!

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Blood Bowl: Humans (Garroting'em Forest - Part 1 - Linemen)

Garroting'em Forest - a pun on the English soccer team "Nottingham Forest" with a soupcon of violence added 'cos this is Blood Bowl!

These are more of my antique models, repainted as I can now do far better than I did first time around (25+ years ago!). That said, there's something about these models that I struggled with. I don't know why, but on the whole I'm dissatisfied with them. I'm also a little burnt out on them, so I think they will stay as they are. I won't revisit them again.

And as they are antiques, things have inevitably evolved around them.

Back when these guys were made, Humans could field Kickers and Blockers as well as the Blitzers, Throwers, Catchers and Linemen that they can field these days.

So I've re-purposed Blockers as Linemen and Kickers as Throwers.

So, for your viewing pleasure, Old-style Blockers:

Old-style Linemen:

And the collected Linemen of Garroting'em Forest:

More Garroting'em Forest stuff: