Night Goblin Shaman

Just finished working on this Night Goblin Shaman. I wanted to spend a little bit more time working on this guy and try out a few new techniques.

Skin: Gretchin Green highlighted with Bad Moon Yellow.













 

So I started with laying down base coats. Then I gave it a Badab Black wash. I think the brush I used was too small and I ended up getting a blotchy kind of covering. So I think in the future if I try this again, I'll use a bigger brush or try to apply it in a more controlled manner.

Then, I went back in and reapplied the base coats. I tried to blend it up to maintain smooth transitions.

At this point, I went in and highlighted all the non-skin areas up with bleached bone.

Next step was to give the whole model a wash of Devlan Mud.

Finally, I went in and fixed a few spots. Had to re-establish some highlights in a few places.

Pretty happy with how it turned out. I know I still have a ways to go to get where I want, but after a while you just have to put the model down and say, "Finished."

Orc Character on Boar

This is an OOP Orc character riding a boar. On the blister packaging he went by the name of "Grotfang."


I painted this guy a long time ago and at the time, my main technique was to dry brush everything. I really like the model and I don't think the paint job is too bad for tabletop gaming.














I would like to eventually repaint him as I think I've progressed in some painting techniques. But for now I'm happy with it.















I made the banner out of a piece of paper folded in half. I used the lightning bolt motif to echo the design on the choppa and on the boar.















I free handed the design on the shield using a micron pen to outline the design.

















The skin color, iirc, was Dark Angel's Green, followed by Goblin Green, followed by Rotting Flesh. I may have used a green ink wash over that. I don't really recall.
















Anyways, hope you enjoyed this blast from the past.

Goblin Warboss

So I was looking at the current GW version of a Goblin Warboss with sword and board, and I found myself thinking, "I could convert something like that fairly easily." So I set about gathering up various bits and finally settled on this idea. It's my first real attempt at sculpting or kit-bashing.

The basic form is from the plastic Goblin kit. The hair on top is from the boar chariot kit. The skull is from an old Orc warrior kit. The sword and arms are from the Goblin kit. The shield is from the Orc vs. Empire 6th ed. starter set. The trophy head is from the wolf rider sprue.

I sculpted the chin guards on his helmet out of green stuff. The red "epaulets," are green stuff. The spikey shoulder guard was made from green stuff and a toothpick. I bought a small size chain off ebay and green stuffed it to the shield. Sculpted some chain mail for the loincloth type thing. I added a spikey knee guard to one knee. On the right foot I added a dag type piece of footwear that I made out of a flat piece of a plastic milk carton. On the left foot I green stuffed some armor to the foot.

Skin tone: OOP Goblin Green/Coat d' Arms Goblin Green. Blended up highlights with Elf Flesh. This is becoming my favorite combo.

The base colors on everything else were blended up to Bleached Bone.








After everything was painted and highlighted, I washed it all with 2 - 1 mix of Devlan mud and Badab black. I went back in afterwards and re-highlighted some of the pieces.









So, all in all, I'm pretty happy with the conversion. But...with all the time I took figuring out how to do it, I think I might have been better off just buying the current version.