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draig - Jun 29, 2009 - 03:35 PM
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Heya folks. First post Very Happy

. I have been away from BB for a long time. I played a lot when 3rd edition had just been released but not much since, focusing mostly on WH Fantasy where I play Orcs. So I decided it was high time to dust off my block dice and make a new team to play with.

With a pretty huge collection of Bitz kicking around, I decided to use the new 40k Nobz as the basis of my linemen / blitzers. There are plenty of nice extras on the sprues and the shoulder pads are very blood bowl ish. The only disadvantage was the one piece torso/legs, which was simply sawed in half in each case to give me more positioning options.

Heres what I have done so far. They all still need filling, some moul line cleaning where I missed them and a bit of GS detailing.

Linemen

I followed the new ogre poses on these and some American Football photos. Pretty happy with the way they came out though some were a little fiddly.

Lineman 1 Front

Lineman 1 Side

Lineman 2 Front

Lineman 2 Side

Lineman 3 Front

Lineman 3 Side

Blitzers

For the Blitzers I wanted a more dynamic pose. I added a Jaw plate and a bit more armour, with larger shoulder spikes to make them stand out. Only one finished so far...

Blitzer 1 Front

Blitzer 1 Side

More to come when I manage to get my hands on more Nobz!

L3athalK - Jun 29, 2009 - 08:30 PM
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Very nice job! Hope to see the rest of them soon Very Happy

Axtklinge - Jun 30, 2009 - 03:19 AM
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Oh yeah, thats a mean orc team you're building there!
Those orc sprues are great.
Keep us posted on your advances!

Cheers
A.

AbraxiS - Jul 03, 2009 - 09:24 AM
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Kick-ass Orc Team... 5 stars Wink

Cheers

draig - Jul 04, 2009 - 07:34 PM
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Thanks for the comments Very Happy

Managed a few more models, though they all need filling and GS work. Firstly I altered the Blitzer to make him a bit more dynamic

Then added my fourth and final lineman

And a second Blitzer running (or tripping) full tilt

Thats all for now. Hopefully get the final two Blitzers done by the end of the coming week.

Apocrypha - Jul 04, 2009 - 09:33 PM
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Damn nice work. Very envious!

What does the total roster consist of?

draig - Jul 05, 2009 - 09:24 AM
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Thanks!

Looking at 4 Blitzers, 4 Black Orcs, 1 Throwe, 4 Linemen, 2 Goblins and a Troll, though one of the Goblins may become a second thrower.

draig - Jul 06, 2009 - 04:47 PM
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Finished up the Blitzers which means I just have the Black Orcs, Thrower and Troll to do.

Blitzer 3

Blitzer 4

Axtklinge - Jul 07, 2009 - 04:57 AM
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As I said before, they look great!
Theres just a couple of bits I dont recognize (I dont buy orc spreus for a long time so it might be it): Were did you get the jaws from blitzer 3&4 and the should pad from (and arm cover) from blitzer 4 (from the arm with the glaive)? Are those from what particular orc sprue?

Cheers
A.

draig - Jul 07, 2009 - 11:51 AM
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Thanks Axtklinge. Nearly all the bitz were from the nobz sprue. The only one that wasn't was the spike which came from a power claw in my bitz box. i trimmed it to shape and glued onto the Nobz arm.

Started work on Snuggles the Troll

Axtklinge - Jul 09, 2009 - 05:15 AM
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Thanks!

It looks like Snuggles has something stuck to his arm...
Wink

draig - Jul 23, 2009 - 09:36 AM
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Black Orcs...

Axtklinge - Jul 23, 2009 - 12:38 PM
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Brutal...
That team is looking just fantastic!
Very Happy

Cant wait to see that painted!

thevoid - Sep 29, 2009 - 08:00 AM
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Great. Now the Orcs I converted myself seem so boring. I will have to remake them now. But be assured, I will copy most of the stuff You did ...

MyKi#1 - Oct 28, 2009 - 12:41 AM
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Any thing else done to this team, enjoying what i have seen.

MyKi

AbraxiS - Oct 30, 2009 - 04:51 PM
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Wow...i want this team so much Wink

Really nice indeed.

Cheers

Paulo

LordManHammer - Oct 25, 2012 - 07:30 AM
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Very nice indeed! Keep us posted!

madsherman - Aug 09, 2014 - 03:33 PM
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I really like the way you've posed the orcs. They all look very nice and I'm almost envious of all the possibilities for customization you orc boyz have. However, I really think the GW orcs have grown too large. The linemen look like blitzers, the blitzers look like black orcs and the black orcs look like trolls. Is that a human that black orc is holding out at arms length? I mean an orc liney is still only ST3 right? Everybody looks ST4+ ... Anyhoo I'm not dizzing your team, I think it's awesome, I just dislike the scale creep GW has put into its orc line. (Actually they might make my oversized halflings look proper scale)