I’m sure I can’t be the only one who has seen a lot of potential amongst the plastic harlequins GW will be releasing this coming weekend.
It being GW they weigh in at a hefty £24 for 6 plastic models, so if you are going to use them for your team that would be £48 for 12 or £72 for the full 16 with 2 spares. Them being a multi-part kit that would mean there would be spare parts that could potentially sold on and maybe recoup some costs.
As I see it there are 2 main routes to go down using them for Bloodbowl.
1. As the much loved 2nd edition style pro elves with masks and Mohawks. I remember Nazgob created a very cool elf team using the metal harlequins and it would be even easier with plastics them being much simpler to chop up. They’d need little conversion work aside from snipping off weapons and selecting which models to use as each positional.
2. As the basis for positionals in any flavour of elf team. The torso’s come with shoulder pads, but do suffer a little from having slightly sci-fi backs with the jump jets and the troupe leader is lumbered with a rather impractical for Bloodbowl. These may not be suitable for all elven teams, but it would be easy enough to swap these with other torsos. Looking at the arms the harlequin’s kiss is easy to take off and the caress even resembles a catcher’s glove, these are all on the right arm and taking weapons off the left arm is trickier. This can be got round by swapping arms or gloves/hands from other sources. The heads come with lots of different masks and whilst most associated with pro elves could just as easily work for high, wood or even dark, equally it would be easy to give them other heads.
For me the legs are the richest source of conversion potential, the ruins would need to be trimmed down or swapped with something more Bloodbowlesque. But they are ideal for making really dynamic positionals. There were already some plastics in similar poses for witch elves or scourges, but these are not as generic in style.
I can see these legs being perfect for catchers jumping to grab the ball, blitzers/wardancers leaping to the attack or star players in some kind of action pose. Alternatively the ruins could be swapped for opposing players for a duel diorama.
The solitaire looks very cool but that jacket makes him ill-suited for bloodbowl with the possible exception of dark elf assassin/Horkon.
