And even though the troll’s a fairly old model at this point, I still think he holds up rather well, to be honest. I am really happy with the finished model, and it’s a great feeling to have finally completed this particular piece. At the same time, I also tried my best to both make the troll look suitably toadish and swamp-ish while also trying to maintain some visual coherency, in order to tie the model together with the rest of the team. This made for a very entertaining painting session with lots of impromptu experimentation. I did some research online to decide on a general approach for painting the troll, but when the time came to actually get started, I surprised myself by going for a pretty spontaneous, fairly loose painting recipe. So anyway, to make a long story short: I’ve had this guy for years now, and when I recently sat down with my good friend Annie for a painting session, it was actually a matter of honour to finally complete the model (keep in mind that Annie was the one who got me involved in Blood Bowl in the first place). At the same time, the troll also struck me as a brilliant base model for a Blood Bowl player: The pose is already perfect, and it only took a few orc armour plates to mock up some reasonably convincing football armour for him. Made of only two parts, it’s a pretty cool (if slightly dated) example of the time when GW started to do really clever things with their snap-fit starter box models. The model was originally a part of the “Battle for Skull-Pass” starter set for Warhammer Fantasy: And I was fortunate enough to find the model you see above in the deal bin at my FLGS one day. But while that gave me enough parts for most of the boyz, I needed a suitable model to serve as a big guy in the team. Most of my Orc Blood Bowl team was assembled using leftover models and bitz from an old WFB greenskin army project that never quite materialised. This is no clever strategy on my part, however, but rather a bit of a happy accident, because I have wanted to get today’s model painted up for ages - ever since I picked it up in a secondhand deal, back when my dear FLGS was still alive and kicking ( *sniff*). And as luck would have it, I now have a new model to show, right around the same time that GW is putting their redesigned Blood Bowl starter box up for super-secret sneak-peek pre-order 😉 It’s been a rather long while since I have last talked about the Orkheim Ultraz, my Orc & Goblin team for Blood Bowl.

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