Dreadball: the Men

Introduction

Once again, life (work, family &c) is getting a bit on top of me and I haven't been posting or commenting as much as I would like.  My apologies for that; I'd like to say that normal service will be resumed shortly, but I rather suspect that this is normal these days.  Need some more mojo - too much to do and not enough energy & time to do it...

OK, enough with the moaning.  Here are some Dreadball players for your delectation.  These are the 2nd squad from the boxed game: the humans.  Unlike the Ork squad that I showed previously, I haven't got my own name for this team yet, so for now they'll just have to be the official Trontek 29ers!

Strikers

3 of this squad are strikers.  These players have the lightest armour, but they're nimble and good at ball-handling.  Their job is to score points!

I've decided to make all the numbers for my players unique, no matter for which team they play.  Since there were 8 members in the Ork squad, this new group starts from 09 and carries on from there.  Note that should I expand the Ork team some day (with extra players or stars/MVPs), I'll just give them whatever numbers are next in the sequence without worrying about any discontinuities.

Jacks

As befits a team with no particular extremes, the 29ers have 3 jacks in the squad.  These are all-rounders; neither as good as the strikers at carrying or throwing the ball nor as good as the guards at pushing and shoving - but they can do either job moderately well.

Guards

The biggest, strongest human players are the guards; their job is to protect their own ball handlers and hit the opposition's equivalents.  They're reasonably good, though they'll never be able to match an Ork one-on-one.  Better double-team them, then!

Conclusion

I've tried my own colour scheme on this team, rather than using the "official" patterns.  It still uses the same basic palette of silver and mid-blue, though.  Personally, I'm not very happy with the way it has turned out; these were something of a rushed job.  Still, I suppose I could paint another human team in due course, if I find I really don't like them.

Actually, I do have another human team on the painting desk, but that's the all-female Void Sirens.  They'll look much better than this bunch, I promise - they're certainly taking much longer to paint!