phigs minatures, which ones for which positions?

orcdom · Post by **orcdom** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 5:11 am

ok i bought myself 2 teams from phigs.
i bought the black widows to be used as amazons, and the valkeries to be used as norse (go figure) because i think the figs GW has for these 2 teams are utter crap.

here are the positions i am planning them for my teams, what ones would you or do you use in what positions?

black widows http://www.phigsminiatures.com/catalog/bw.html
(painting in pittsburgh steelars colors yellow and black)
ok for throwers i am using
Black Widow #2
catchers
Black Widow #3
Blitzers
Black Widow #4
Linewomen
Black Widow #1

Valkeries http://www.phigsminiatures.com/catalog/v.html
(not sure of color scheme yet, thinking of miami dolphins, orange white and teal)
thrower (can anyone here sculpt a football or have an idea of what player to steal a football from for a conversion?)
#6
catcher
#5
blitzer
#4
linewomen
#1,2,3

and just noticed i forgot to order throwers for my valkerie team, grrrrrrr.
Steve

Tante Kaethe · Post by **Tante Kaethe** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:17 am

Hi there,

I am also painting up Phil's Valks for my female Norse Team "Iron Maidens"

. I have used the following figures for each position:

Blitzress: V1 and V2 (2x each)
Catchress: V5 (2x)
Linemaiden: V3 and V4 (3x each)
Throwress: V6 (2x)

The figs are great and big fun to paint. For the color scheme I have used a light grey for the shirts, dark red for helmets and kneecaps and dark brown for all leather parts. I have already posted a picture of my female minotaur, you can check it out under viewtopic.php?t=12190 . The only thing that I am not so happy about is that there is no Valk available who is holding a ball (= throwress)

.

Tante Käthe.

orcdom · Post by **orcdom** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:29 am

yea i was wondering if the GW amazon thrower has the ball in a hand that could be converted.
cause i cant scuplt good enough

Steve

sturmjarl · Post by **sturmjarl** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 1:48 am

Hi all,
If I have become an expert at one thing it would be Phil's Valks. I have just finished up a team I use as Amazons/Norse. I did the Blitzers by attching GW Plastic Wolf Capes from the Mordheim/Middenheimer sprue to V1, 2x V2, and V4. This left a combo of the others for linemen , especially V3 which would not support a cape. I even put the plastic human gloves on the catchers, although I now feel that I would leave them as is if done again. I also have an extra V5 that will get a chainsaw/chainsword if/when my team can get secret weapons!

I have 2xV6 throwers although I also plan on converting a V4 into a "unique thrower" and converting the one of the finished V6's into a charging swordwoman for my Norse Mordheim Warband Finding a small enough football hand will be hard though.

I "might" be able to use one of the V5 catcher hands I took off, add a ball, and pin it to a V4?

I also really used those Middenheimer sprues on my Blitzers by adding wrist blade/gauntlets decorated by the Wolf Glyphs. Phill seemed to like them at Three Kingdoms a couple of months ago.

By the way I only got 2x V4 and thank God!! because that Valk is the toughest to paint up nicely with her face half covered and her "odd" left elbow.
As for the Black Widows, I'm using the "catchers" for Pro Elf catchers to convert my Dark Elf team to Pro Elves. I also got 2 each of the other widows for Vampires. Fits the look of my team with a Male Vampire Lord and his Succubbi Brides on the field leading my converted Human team as thralls. Black is good for multiple-use teams in my book. Paint 1 team, get to PLAY 2 teams!! because I paint well but SLOW

Deathwing · Post by **Deathwing** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 10:55 pm

Here's my valks. (Red numbers are Blitzers).
viewtopic.php?t=11205&start=0