Hello everyone!

My name is Patrick, and I am known online variously as Gen.Steiner (Dakka Dakka, Warseer, Bolter & Chainsword and other such fora), PMC317 (reddit), and PatTheAnarchist (on the PC version of Blood Bowl 2).

I have been a wargamer for 27 years, and in that time have most obsessively played Games Workshop’s various games, and I have particularly enjoyed their Specialist Games systems, such as Necromunda, Mordheim, Epic 40,000 and so on.

However, until this year, I hadn’t really ever got into fantasy football in general or Blood Bowl in particular. Then a friend of mine got me to play a few games and, it is safe to say, I am hooked. On the tabletop I like to play Dark Elves, but on the computer game I have rather fallen in love with the Amazons.

So, having decided I really like playing with the crazy ladies of Lustria, I went to try and find a set of miniatures so I could bring my team, the Tlaxlan Tigresses, to the tabletop.

But I couldn’t find any I really liked.

Whilst there are a couple of good teams out there (notably Impact! Miniatures and Black Scorpion), they all suffer from two or three significant problems, as far as I am concerned:

Most of the players seem to actually be underwear models. These women look like supermodels, not professional impact sportswomen who participate in running very fast at very large things like Orcs or plate-armoured men, and making them fall over. Duplicate poses. Lots of the teams have two or three poses that are repeated, meaning that a full team just won’t look individual enough. Not feathery or Aztec/Incan/Maya enough. Lots of the teams are very streamlined with only a little bit of an homage to the cool Aztec/Inca/Maya-through-a-fantasy-blender style that I really like about the Games Workshop team.

So what to do?

Well, being a complete lunatic, I thought, “why not have some sculpted and made up myself?”

And that, my dear readers, is why this blog exists – to chronicle the slow grinding drive towards a crowdfunding campaign to score a nice big touchdown and get a box of at least 16 uniquely posed, properly dressed, properly proportioned, jungle-dwelling blood-sport-loving football players into my hands and yours.