Blood Bowl: Tomb Kings Test Models

I've been working on the Tomb Kings Blood Bowl team that came with the Third Season Edition box. I'd assembled and primed them all before I went on vacation. I had an idea for a colour scheme, but wanted to test it on a few models before I fully committed to a production line... 

I LIKE IT! I'm pretty happy with how these turned out (as happy as I can be with anything I paint!?) and I'm going to paint the rest like this! 

#12 Sitdjehuti and #13 Ahmose - Tomb Kings QUEENS Linemen...? 

I've not settled on a name just yet... I was thinking of something inspired by the Valley of the Queens and name all of the team members after ancient Egyptian queens, princesses, goddesses and such... 

I do like alliteration... so one idea I had was Malekāt Matrons (Wādī al-Malekāt being where the Valley of the Queens is located...)

Could also use Ta-Set-Neferu, the ancient name for the Valley of the Queens...? Maybe I'll compress that into Tasetnefru.

Tasetnefru Tumblers? Tasetnefru Tacklers? Tasetnefru Tacticians? Tasetnefru Ta-Tas? Tasetnefru Terrors? Tasetnefru Tornados? Tasetnefru Townies? Tasetnefru Tsunamis? Tasetnefru Talons? 

Tasetnefru Tigers would have been fun... but I feel like I'd need to do them in orange with black stripes... and I ALREADY HAVE A TEAM LIKE THAT! 

Or Malekāt Marauders? Malekāt  Murderers? Malekāt Monkeys? Malekāt Magicians? Malekāt Mashers? Malekāt  Mavericks? Malekāt Missiles? Malekāt Mustangs? 

If anyone else has ideas, I'd love to hear them! 

I also finished up two of the ball tokens that acame with the team

Canopic Jar Footballs!? I have to say, I think these are kind of fun! 

I actually saw a few Canopic Jars on my recent trip! 

The Canopic Jars are along the bottom. 

For those that are not aware, during the mummification process, the organs were removed and placed in Canopic Jars - at least, the organs that they thought were imporant, like the Liver, Lungs, Stomach, and Intestines. I think the heart was left in - as it was the MOST important... and the brain was discarded...? Because the Ancient Egyptians didn't think it did much...? 

I'll include more about where we encountered these in another post... at some point... maybe... 

Blood Bowl – Third Season Edition!

So... I did a thing... 

I just kind of happened to be in the vicinity of Dragon's Den Games yesterday afternoon while running errands, and... 

This just kind of ended up in my bicycle bag... 

I had a lot of fun playing Blood Bowl last week with Vera and it brought back a LOT of fond memories of playing Blood Bowl Second Edition back in the late 80s/Early 90s.... And the game seems to be taking off here and I already HAVE teams - including a few that still need to be painted - that have been in the PILE OF OPPORTUNITY since the 80s/90s!!? 

So I'd looked into just basics I'd need to play the game - the rule book... and a pitch to play on... and the set of tokens... and a set of dice... and all that added up to the same price as the new edition's core box, which was still available at my FLGS (Dragon's Den Games!) which includes the rule book... and a pitch to play on... and the set of tokens... and TWO sets of dice... and TWO COMPLETE TEAMS!? 

It is bonkers how much better a deal the core boxes are!?

What have I gotten myself into... 

Some of the aforementioned minis I still have from the 80s/90s... There are complete Dwarf and Elf teams there. The skaven are painted, but I really need to touch up the bases. In fact, MOST of the teams could do with a bit of touching up, lots of paint chipped off from many, MANY hours of use back in the day (and probably rough storage and many, many moves had a bit to do with their current state!)

Some of the paint jobs aren't great and there is a temptation to strip and repaint the lot of them... but they have... "character" and nostalgia is holding me back from just stripping them all... 

Also the basing was pretty sloppy... that I MIGHT redo! I'm not really sure what size to put them on, though... Currently anything that isn't HUGE goes on a 32mm base. But I worry that putting some of these on a 32mm base will just emphasize how much smaller they are that the current minis, and so I'm kind of leaning towards not rebasing - or rebasing onto new 25mm bases (or maybe 28mm bases...?) 

While I have enough teams to host a small tournament, there are a couple of new teams I wouldn't mind picking up - the Halflings and the Nurgle team - just because the miniatures look like they'd be really fun to paint. I am absolutely NOT buying EITHER until I have painted all the stuff I have and have played a few games with them!!