This year I decided to play my very first Blood Bowl competition, so I needed a grand entrance. Meet La Maisontaal Manhunters, the shambling undead team I painted for the tournament.
The Shambling Undead is one of my favourite teams, not my first one I have to say. But from the oldhammer teams, this one attracted me a lot.
After the "special" VI edition of the Old World Army Challenge with lots of oldhammer blood bowl teams, I couldn't resist. I got a team of the old Gary Morley's gems and prepared it as my own world cup team.
However, the only problem I see with the old team is the lack of different sculpts, so I decided to convert several players to met the La Maisontaal theme.
The mummies go as they come. They're simply perfect in the original sculpts. It is the first time I made a complete nmm with a fantasy squad or regiment, so I mixed different kinds of metal to give them a proper varied look.
The wight blitzers have they're own custom sculpt but I chaged a bit one of them to reflect the mighty Mikeal Jacksen, the wight hero from the old lichemaster series.
It also help to differentiate from the tackle and the mighty blow (obviously the good Mikeal).
For the ghouls I sculpted some iron knuckles and reposed a little bit the hands. With the different ghoulish skin colours and the modifications they have now a slightly varied looks and also help to reflect the two blocks and the strip ball abilities from the rooster.
The fodder got also some love, as any other member from the team. Some poor villagers from Frugelhofen made the bulk of the linemen, so I sculpted a beard on one of the zombies and give him the proper greasy and rotten look. Does he also count for a movember entry?
The other one is the linemen with extended clothes to look as one of the poor La Maisontaal monks, who was transferred in the winter market from the local Blood Bowl team to ours after the unlucky encounter with the forces of Heinrich Kemmler.
Lastly, I do not have a spare Gary's zombie to convert for a new linemen, and I do not want either to resculpt one of the repeated zombie linemen. So I decided to paint a skeleton and also give my roster a little and nasty trick.
Enters the fouling zombie and a cheerleader to make for a Fan Factor token.
That's it, the entire Blood Bowl team.
Next entry before the VII OWAC starts, the world cup recap and the achievements.
Until then, Adrian's out.
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