Goblin Spearmen

A unit of Goblin spearmen for your viewing pleasure. Most of these were painted and based ages ago. You can really see some of the different techniques I've tried out. Now that I think I've nailed down a definite color scheme and style, I'll probably end up repainting these guys ...eventually...someday.

Goblin Command

Here's the finished command group for my goblin spears.

The Boss was covered in another post. The standard bearer and musician are from my Wolf Riders. They have magnetized torsos so I just set them up on some infantry legs.

Mage Knight Repaint

I picked up this little guy on ebay. I was looking for a champion for my unit of goblins. I had no idea how this guy would scale up against my goblins but was happy to see that it fits in just fine.













It was however, a pain in the ass to strip. Took about a week of soaking in pine-sol. Then lots and lots of careful scraping. The paint in places was just globbed on, completely obscuring the detail. At one point, I thought I had pulled off some of the plastic, only to discover that there was a lot of detail under there.






There were some faults in the casting. I had to re-sculpt the back of the weapon hand. I also sculpted some straps for the shield.









I looked at a lot of Mage Knight figs as possible alts for my O&G. Some are good, some are bad. A lot of the figs seem to be comically out of proportion. Some have almost no detail at all. They might be useful as bits to cut and choose from.







Skin Tone: Catachan green blended up to Bleached bone.

Clothing: Main color is Snakebite leather. As usual, everything is blended up with Bleached bone. Also experimented with adding some chipped paint effects.






Whole model was given a generous wash of Devlan mud - Badab black mixed 2 to 1. Had to go in and touch up a few areas after. Think I might have put it on a bit too thick in some places.

Night Goblin Fanatics

Finished up with a group of three fanatics for my night gobs.

I Love this first sculpt, even with the scale creep that happened with this edition of goblins (this guy is almost as big as an orc).

Skin Tone: I used Catachan green (I think), for the base and highlighted up to a pure Bleached bone.

Clothing: Hood is blood red. Tunic is chaos black. Everything is highlighted up to bleached bone.

After the base and highlights were done I dipped the whole model in Minwax Polyshades Tudor Satin Varnish.

 

The business end of a Fanatic.

 This is another sculpt that is just fantastic. These two were just so enjoyable to paint.

 Skin Tone: Knarloc Green highlighted up to Elf flesh.

Clothing: Hood is Bubonic brown. Tunic is Snakebite leather. These were blended up to Bleached bone for the highlights. Then it was dipped in the Minwax Polyshades Tudor Satin. This model and the one above are good examples of what happens when dipping turns out just right.

He's coming right for us!

I spent quite a bit of time debating with myself whether the eyes are actually open or squinted shut. In the end, I decided it was more dramatic to have the eyes shut, spinning around madly and blindly as it were.

 If you think I'm posting a lot of pics of these guys it's only because I'm so happy with the way they turned out.

 Can I get some old school love? These older figs are what drew me to O&G in the first place.

Skin Tone: Camo Green highlighted up to Bad Moon yellow.

 Clothing: Hood is split with Bubonic brown on one side and Snakebite leather on the other. Tunic is Codex grey. Highlighted all with bleached bone. The whole model was given a generous wash of Devlan mud mixed 2 - 1 with Badab black.

Night Goblin Netter

Here's a old school Netter I've finished up for my night goblin unit.

Skin tone is the old, old goblin green with highlights worked up to bleached bone.

Hood is codex grey. Tunic is split with bubonic brown on one side and bleached bone on the other. These were all worked up to a bleached bone highlight.

The whole model was washed with a 2 to 1 mix of devlan mud and badab black. I went in and re-highlighted some of the bleached bone clothing afterwards.