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Leatherhead Troll: Blood Bowl Conversion W.I.P.

I'd planned on converting a troll for my 'Hobgoblin' Blood Bowl team for awhile now, and this month's Talk Fantasy Football painting challenge is for a Big Guy, so seemed like good timing.  This is a terribly busy month however: holiday travel, a couple commissions on deadline and working on some test pieces for a possible very large army for January/February.. so we'll see if it can be done.  Even with a lot of work projects, I still try to do a bit for myself, to cleanse the pallet, relax and all that.

I selected the 'Hill Troll' from Warploque Miniatures (You'll find a link to the left under 'Places to Go').

This is a great troll with a lot of character.  I used the river troll for my Underworld team, so I am looking forward to my second troll from Warploque.  The pose is ideal for Blood Bowl: a three-point stance: Look at him!  He's just so very cool.
I'd be happy to use him just like he is, but I thought I'd 'Blood Bowl' him up a bit.
To dedicate him to a life on the pitch, he'd need a helmet. But the Hobgoblins I'm going to use are the new Greebo ones, and they have some soft caps, so I decided he'd have to have an old fashioned 'Leatherhead' Leather Helmet.  Leatherheads is an awesome funny movie by the way, worth seeing.  I made a couple of these helmets before on the Undead Recyler team, and figured it'd be good for a troll, who probably wouldn't fit his large misshapen head into a standard helmet.  He'd also need a couple armor pads.
Here he is at the moment: I'm probably going to add a torn, stretched jersey.. something that looks like it's Black orc sized that he's tried to squeeze into.
I like this miniature so much I had to buy a second one, while Warploque has it's Holiday special going on (free shipping) since as much as i like this conversion so far I also want to have him as he was meant to be- so i'll paint him up in all his nekkid glory for a Mordheim/Songs of Blades & Heroes warband.
More to come!
Posted by Laughing Ferret at 9:58 PM Labels: Blood Bowl, Conversions Dangerous Brian said...

What do I think? I think it looks magnificent. Can't wait to see the finished version.

December 15, 2011 at 1:42 AM The Angry Lurker said...

He really is "Fonz" cool......

December 15, 2011 at 4:38 AM Michael Awdry said...

Fantastic my good Sir! Can't wait to see how the shirt is going to work. Good luck.

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