Blood Bowl spares

[Ben_S]

TL;DR: Does anyone know of good sources for Blood Bowl bitz? (For clarity, I do mean spare bitz; not individual figures.)

Newer GW Blood Bowl teams tend to come with some choice of bits, like alternate heads, but I can't find many people selling spares (having tried eBay, a Facebook trade group, and a couple of bitz sites).

I'm specifically interested in spares from the Vampire team - helmeted heads in particular, but maybe other bits too. I think the box comes with a choice of heads for each model, so anyone with a team should have some leftover (though not necessarily the ones I want).

Bits and kits does currently have some thrall heads, but most of the bits are out of stock:

https://bitsandkits.co.uk/product-category/bloodbowl/bloodbowl-teams/vampire-blood-bowl-team-drakfang-thirsters/

Bitzbox has a very limited BB range that doesn't even include Vampires:

Bloodbowl

www.bitzbox.co.uk

Anyone got other recommendations? Or, indeed, happen to have bitz themselves? (UK-based.)

 

[Hobo86]

amazon / eBay / vinted?
(I found stuff there in the past)

contint-side whtreasury and total wargame sometimes have bloodbowl models but I don't know the British equivalents

 

[Ben_S]

I've tried eBay, which is normally my first go-to for bitz.

Vinted I mainly associate with clothes, so I hadn't thought to look there, but also I've heard plenty of not-so-good things about it.

I know you can buy new-in-box miniatures on Amazon. I haven't seen loose bitz sold there.

 

[Hobo86]

I found a mordheim accessory sprue on vinted, it took a month to get here... but I eventually got it

amazon; I assume I had a lucky find 'once'

'the other Belgians and I' found a friendly UK hobbyist occasionally traversing to Belgium...
this bypasses some of the ludicrous customs

 

[Hobo86]

for amazon, I found my old source
> Picclick UK has bloodbowl stuff, including a lot of oldies

bits&kits: if you follow their newsletter you get a 24h heads up when they restock and what they restock.

good luck finding what you're looking for!

 

[Ben_S]

bits&kits: if you follow their newsletter you get a 24h heads up when they restock and what they restock.

I did sign up for email alerts on a couple of items. I don't know whether they use that as a cue to restock or not.

To be honest, it might be more economical for me to buy a whole team box anyway (especially if I could sell most of it as spares).

 

[Hobo86]

I did sign up for email alerts on a couple of items. I don't know whether they use that as a cue to restock or not.

To be honest, it might be more economical for me to buy a whole team box anyway (especially if I could sell most of it as spares).

a while ago I sent them a mail asking if they would restock a few boxes, I didn't receive an answer, but the month after they did restock these kits.
(some bits got sold very soon thereafter)

 

[Ben_S]

Frustratingly, I just stumbled across exactly what I want on eBay, but it's with a fair-sized job lot of other sprues (some 40k, some non-GW) and over-priced. (I assume the seller has no idea what's what, but thinks Warhammer stuff must be valuable.)

 

[Hobo86]

maybe you can persuade to seller to just sell the bits you want? (small chance)

 

[Ben_S]

I have tried messaging them, but not going to hold my breath.

 

[Ben_S]

I let the auction end first time around. Seller re-listed at slightly lower price, so I bought it second time. It was still a bit expensive for the bits I actually wanted but, to be honest, I probably should have bought it the first time round and saved myself watching and worrying about it for another week. (There were several others watching but thankfully no one outbid me at the last second.)