Every once in a while a song on the radio sends you back in time to a place where life was simple and fun. A place in time where your childhood memories conjures up feeling of nostalgic cliches. A time where Keanu Reeves dominated your top movies of all time with "Bill and Teds Excellent Adventures". A place where your memories are filled with most bodacious toys.
It's here that I take you, the readers back in time to an alternative idea that can be found for making a Blood Bowl team. The reason I have gone to such great lengths is that gaming is not cheap and any chance you get to save some money is a rare one in terms of our hobby. Today I am looking at alternative ideas for making a Blood Bowl team. There is a couple of ways to go about this but it's the second one that's going to take you down memory lane. The first is the most obvious with it being to scrounge up a team via left over models. Let's face it we all love our plastic crack and we all have a metric tonne of it laying around. One box of Ork Boyz and you got yourself a team. A box of Empire Fanatics and BAM you got a team. A single Spawn, some Chaos Space Marines and a few plague bearers gets you a team. It doesn't take much to make a Blood Bowl Team especially when you only need eleven models. What is hard is trying to match your collection to a team that you are interested in.
This is where a trip down memory lane can be a most excellent idea. For Bill and I, it brought us back to a place in time where wrestling was the rage and M.U.S.C.L.E. figures was the craze. For those of you that missed out on the eighties M.U.S.C.L.E. was a flesh coloured toy that pitted Japanese wrestlers against one another. These tiny little figures dominated our childhood and kept our allowances depleted. Flashing forward to present day I found a large bowl full of these at my local toy shop. At that's when it hit me like a Wyld Stallyn. These M.U.S.C.L.E. toys are approximately 25mm in size...but could they be painted? Bill put that to the test and was the first of us to make a Blood Bowl team out of them. And what a team they were. Each model is filled with life. Each one a character of their own. Each one costing a mere single dollar. Following suit I have begun my own M.U.S.C.L.E. bound journey.
Next time you are at your local toy shop, flea market, or roaming through your childhood memories keep a look out for alternative models. You never know what you just may find. With a little imagination "you can be anything. If it's in a book, reading rainbow. Reading rainbow."