From JamieM - Dreadball teams (160 points)

For this week’s post, I have four Dreadball teams.

“What’s Dreadball?!??” I hear you say. Well, Dreadball is a really good fun sports game produced by Mantic games quite a while ago. It’s fast to play and easy to understand once you get the hang of it (after about half a game) and it appeals to me as I find Bloodbowl to be a little too time consuming but I do really like sports games. When it came out, my gaming group played a season and we could get a  couple of games in per night.

The first edition was good, but Mantic put out too many teams and the power creep was real and damaging. Second edition was released a couple of years ago and essentially reset all of the teams. I’ve had these teams hanging around for ages and I suddenly decided that I wanted to play it again so out they came!

First up are the Kalyshi team (Dark elves)

Nice and bright colours for the armour. The game separates players into strikers, jacks and guards, but not all races get all of the positions.

 

To help differentiate when on the pitch, I’ve painted the strikers with pink hair and the jacks with green.

Next up are the cyborgs. This team takes mortally wounded players of any team, patches them up (with added cybernetics!) and chucks them back out there.

Lots of metallics in use here.

The next team are the Brokr - space dwarf miners! Although Snow White is nowhere in sight…..

I went with yellow and black as a nod to JCBs….. and the blue hair because sci-fi. Strikers with no hair, jacks with blue hair and guards with helmets.

Hobgoblins form the last team, with a particularly large “hulk” as their blocker.

The big lad makes up for the others and I expect he wanders around pulverizing people whilst the others bicker and fight.

Liberal use of contrast paints and highlighting to get these all done and I’ve doubled the amount of teams that I had available so time to play!

Nice and easy, 32 x 28mm figures for 160 points this week.

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Just what we needed Jamie! Another game to distract us and take up our attention! It does seem to me that this game maybe requires fewer figures on a team than "Bloodbowl" - is that the case? Regardless, they look lovely. Even the Space Dwarfs, who I am sure are totally useless at both mining and Dreadball. Great work, and a nice little points explosion (although I'm sure Paul SS has just painted 200 points of Union infantry in the time it took for me to type this). 

 

GregB

From BrendonW - Dreadball Robot Team (75 Points)

Dreadball for those who don't know is a sci-fi sports board game. These miniatures are made of a material that will drive most experienced hobbyists crazy. Very difficult to remove the flash. It's plastic like material but needs superglue to get the arms attached.

One Robot remains unnumbered. I believe he may be a Star player. On the red back circles before and after the decals had been applied I painted gloss varnish. I also gloss varnished the single blue eye they have which have a white centre. The Star player received gloss wherever red appears. 

I think they might make for good Rebel Robots in a Judge Dredd setting so here is a Judge bringing some Law and Order to them. The Judge was completed in a previous Painting Challenge so no points for him.

Terribly busy looking photos. It may have been a lot better if I went for a black background but lesson learnt. These are my first Dreadball team I have completed. I am yet to play a game of Dreadball. Cheers from Brendon.

Wow, what an amazing cacophony of movement, textures and colours. It took me a moment to be able to focus in on what's actually going on, but these figures are excellent. The vibrant red panels on the robots really identify them as a team and make them more visually interesting. Love the Judge in the final shot!

From JamieM - Dreadball Veer-Myn team (44 Points)

The Orx team published a week or so ago inspired me to get out my Veer-Myn team, who had been sitting in their green undercoat, gathering dust for a while.

I find that I sometimes have excuses why I can't paint something - "I don't have the right shade of purple for the epaulettes", "I can't start them until I have all 400 figures that I need for the full army" or in this case "I don't have the little clear bases that DB players come with". I gave myself a stern talking to after seeing the Orx team and found, in about 14 seconds of rummaging in the garage, some wooden hex bases of the right size that I'd bought for some other reason, stuck them on and I was away.

I'm normally a man who washes any figures that move, but I decided I liked the weathered look of the armour and so didn't want to chance changing it too much with a wash.

I was even inspired to make some small change to the poses so that each model is slightly different, but it reminded me why I dislike working with Mantic's "restic" plastic as it's horrible to cut and re-position.

I like to think of it as a game of "spot the difference....

Numbers from the FoW soviet tanks, as that seemed oddly appropriate. The bases were black to match the standard futuristic pitch with an orange line to show the front and backs of the bases, as facing is very important in Dreadball.

I do like a good game of Dreadball, simple to play and fun.

From Curt

A very cool entry Jamie. I liked how upon reading  Brian's Orx entry you were inspired to get your own team based, painted and ready for the arena - well done! The Soviet number decals are a brilliant touch and your repositioning of the poses really adds dynamism to the team as a whole (I'm adding a few extra points for the effort). Great work!

From BrianB - Dreadball Orx Team (46 Points)

This is my first official entry although I did submit something for the cold round as well. I started off with an Orx Dreadball team as part of my personal goal of trying to get 4 teams painted for the holidays. I kinda feel like I really should of started with some LotR figures however seeing all of the excellent recent entries from Tolkien's world.

I wanted the team to look like their gear was well worn and beaten up but I'm not real sure how well it came across. I also kept away from the the typical green skin as I wanted them to look more Sci-Fi and less fantasy in space. Other than that, five of them have had some conversion work done on them to change up their poses. I've never been very fond of having 4 out of 8 figures looking exactly the same and out of the box there are only three poses. This way they are a little more unique as a team. This 8 man team should be 40 points.

From Curt:

Welcome to the Rumble Brian! These bruisers look wonderful and are obviously raring for a match. I particularly like how you've weathered-up their equipment and chose not to give them the typical Greenskin green skintone. 

I'm going to give you a few extra points as a couple of these lads look rather huge in relation to their squadmates (40mm perhaps?), so 46 points total. Great work!