Bradleys, Abrams, and Ogrelando Predators...oh my?

FINALLY finished up 10 GHQ pieces of armor.  These have been sitting on my desk taking up space for well over a month.  Frankly, I just got bored of 'Iraqi Sand' and moved on to something else....

But what Im really excited about is something that is turned into more of a 'long term' project than I would like.

One of the few games I have actually played is 'Blood Bowl'.  I started playing as a kid when me and a buddy of mine would play with the plastic blue and green men - I think Version 2.  We had a huge 'league', and we would take turns playing teams against each other.  I think I was 10.  What a great summer that was!

Ive followed Blood Bowl all through the years, and although Ive never played a true game of it (im pretty sure my buddy and I had the rules wrong, because I lost a lot :) )  Ive played through email on a java client occasionally, and I bought the PC game from Cyanide long before it came out here in the States.

Im now finally gonna paint up my own team!  Ladies and Gentleworms - I introduce the Ogrelando Predators!  (6 Ogres from Heresy Miniatures)

Slightly converted ogre from Games Workshop

The cool part about the ogres from Heresy is also the curse.  Each ogre is made up of a head, a torso, two arms, two hands, and two legs - 8 pieces!  Great for just enough variation between 6 ogres.  They are pretty heavy (obviously) and I had already planned on pinning - however, as cool as the figures are (great poses, very much 'alive' sculpts) they dont fit together for shit!

Check out the spaces in between arms and the torso

Each joint is pinned, some of the joints are DOUBLE pinned!  They were also pretty messy as far as flash and mold lines.  It took a good part of last week to clean them up and put them together - I think nearly 7 hours or so so far.  (In fact, I think I see some I missed a couple pics up!)

So, next, there needs to be a lot of putty filling.  I also have some really cool ideas about the 'uniform' to fit the Predator motif.  Im also waiting on some 'numbers' that ill be able to glue on to shoulder pads, the snotlings that will round out the team, and the famous Orc coach, Bo Shemborcler, straight out of retirement!