Lunar Industries Lampreys – DreadBall Nameless Team

Lunar Industries Lampreys

My first finished DreadBall Season 3 team consists of these… things, a collection of sort of crustacean, sort of squid aliens collectively called the “Nameless”.

Lunar Industries
(from designer Gavin Rotherys page (click for link). Used for reference only, so I hope that he doesnt mind)

Lunar Industries is the corporation from Moon, which is a fantastic movie, one of my favourites.  If you havent seen it then you really should make it happen.  Lunar Industries is therefore the imaginary sponsor of my imaginary space fishmen sporting team, The Lunar Industries Lampreys.

I was tempted to paint the Lampreys in a light grey/white, dark grey and orange scheme to match the logo, but I have painted too much light grey and white over the last while, so I didnt.  I am capable of painting a nice off-white, but it tends to be a little time consuming.  As I needed to get quick turnover with these guys (I want to get a second team painted within a short timeframe) I went with a yellowy-brown and blue approach on the players flesh and shells, with mixed results.  The artificially armoured parts of the Lampreys are dark grey and orange though, so that ties in with the logo to an extent at least.

Lunar Industries
(from designer Gavin Rotherys page (click for link). Used for reference only, so I hope that he doesnt mind)

Two Nameless “sticky” guards.

The miniatures for this team are a mixed bag.  I quite like the clawed, crusty guards supported by a mess of tentacles (the “Hard” guard) and the squid headed guard (the “Sticky” guards above, regular player versions of the “John Doe” MVP).  

As the colour scheme that I chose for these miniatures is tied to their skin and exo-skeleton tones I had a problem with the squishy and therefore blue-less sticky guards.  I painted some blue patterning on their heads to tie them in with the rest of the team and ensure that they didnt look too spartan.  I think that it worked, YMMV.

Nameless Striker

The lobster-like strikers dont look quite right to me.  Apart from the oddly static, symmetrical pose, the model is very large, a lot larger than its Striker player position status and game stats would indicate.  I would rather that they were a little more slight.  They also had some sort of design issue that required this sculpt to have extensions put on the bases, which isnt ideal.  But I got over it.  Im zen like that, like a zen aqua space dude.

The Strikers are hard to photograph.  They look a little better viewed top down (as they would be seen during a game) than they do in the eye-level photo.  Check out the group shots for views that give a slightly better idea of what they look like.

Prone Nameless

With the recent release of DreadBall Season 3, all of the teams now have access to “prone” models.  There was a demand for these during the Kickstarter, although generally I dont  think that mine will get used much. People wanted them though, so fair enough.  Some of the prone figures for the various teams are actually quite fun too.

Prone markers are more useful for some teams than others.  The Nameless have two distinct player types that are quite large models that take up a lot of space when lying down on the pitch, so the Lamprey prones might actually get some use.

The Sticky Guards represented on the prone marker look like puppets with their strings cut.  Appropriate for gooey squidmen I guess.

Nameless “Hard” Guards

EDIT: I just spotted the chip on the white part of the base on the guard on the right above.  By the time you read this it will have been repaired.  

My favourite models in the Lamprey line up are definitely these guys, the “Hard” guards.  The notion of sharing an after match shower with a two and a half metre tall lobster-squid is the sort of notion that I find amusing.

The fleshy areas on the Lampreys are painted a yellowy brown in the same way that I painted the tentacles on my Tentacle Brains Tenebrainians.  The blue areas were painted in a similar way to the armour on my Catachan Devil, except with blue rather than red obviously.  It gives an inky, deep blue that didnt work out quite as well as I had hoped, but is still sort of cool all the same.

Nameless Hard Guards Rear.

The blue carapace areas on all of the team got a gloss varnish.  I dont really know if that makes sense biologically speaking, but I like it.  I figure that sentient creatures with shells may well polish and decorate them, caring about their appearance in a similar way to humans getting their hair cut, wearing make up and pulling stray hairs out of their nostrils.  Or maybe space tentacle lobsters just have shiny shells.

L to R: Nameless Sticky Guard, Nameless “John Doe” MVP, Nameless Sticky Guard

I considered matching the Lampreys colour scheme to the one that I used on the John Doe MVP earlier this year, but it didnt fit with what I wanted to try on the carapace areas on the figures, so I didnt.  When I paint the Nameless Spawn Giant figure (soon) I will likely use the same John Doe scheme to differentiate it as a free agents, like John Doe.

L to R: Nameless Hard Guard, Corporation Human, Nameless Sticky Guard, Veer-myn Striker, Nameless Striker.

I have a few more players to paint up for this team before its finished, but for now I have enough done to get them breaking heads on the pitch.  I hope to revisit all of my DreadBall teams to get the extra players done over the next couple of years, but for now these fish-folk are ready to do their thing.

Lunar Industries Lampreys, doing their “thing”, as discussed above.