Goblin Spearmen

Here is my unit of Goblin spearmen, expanded to 35 spears. Look upon my works ye mighty, and despair!

Actually, I should post a pic of the rearside of this unit; as that is what you'll prob be seeing as they high-tail it off the board

But semi-seriously, lots of these were painted & based ages ago. Someday will get around to repainting this lot.

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. 

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.

Goblin Wolf Riders

Finally have some pics of my wolf riders. Again, I've used different combos of the same colors I'm using throughout my army for the clothing. Since I like to paint one rank at a time, I'll probably pick a single color scheme for the next rank based on one of these guys. Do the next rank of 5 matching the next guy, and so on... but they will all have slightly different skin tones.

The torsos and arms are magnetized, the legs are glued to the wolf. I want these guys to be able to pull double duty if I want to bulk out my foot sloggers, or if I want to switch out their weapons. The quiver has a small magnet embedded in it but no magnet was drilled into the back of the goblin. The magnetic force between the shoulders and the torso is strong enough to hold it in place.



 Wolf #1: The top is chaos black moving down into bestial brown and the bottom is skull white. I added some Fortress grey highlights as well. Then I dipped it in minwax polyshades tudor satin.

Goblin #1: Skin started with a base coat of gretchin green. Elf flesh was added to this for the highlights up to a pure layer of elf flesh. I usually try to do the highlighting in no more than three stages. What I look for is a noticeable jump in tonality with each highlight layer.

The rest of the model was painted with base coats and highlighted up to bleached bone. I try to keep the blending simple and will work up only the highest highlights.

After this is done, the whole rider gets a wash of roughly 50/50 Badab black & Devlan mud. The wash adds in the shading and decent mid-tones and blends the highlights down. It is a very similar effect with what I was achieving with dipping.

Wolf #2: Top is Fortress grey. Bottom is Skull white. I dry brushed the top with skull white. Then, it was dipped.

Goblin #2: Knarloc Green basecoat, highlighted up to Bad Moon Yellow. Then it gets the 50/50 wash.

Wolf #3: Based coated Chaos black. Added some brown and Bleached bone highlights. Then it was dipped.

Goblin #3: Base coated Snot green with Bleached bone highlights. This one required a lot more blending as the jump from the dark green to bone needs more steps to make it smooth. Then, same as the others, the 50/50 wash.

Wolf #4: The top is based with Snakebite Leather. The bottom is bleached bone. I thought the dipping would move the color towards a more neutral brown but it didn't. So it has a kind of red wolf color to it. I still think it turned out pretty good and adds some nice variety.

Goblin #4: Based coated with the OOP Goblin green. The older version had a more khaki/yellow color than the new version. this was highlighted with Elf Flesh. Then the whole thing was washed.

Wolf #5: Base coated with Skull white and then straight into the dip. Gives it a nice dirty white, gobliny look.

Goblin #5: Goblin Green (new version), with a Bad Moon Yellow highlight. Then, surprise! given a 50/50 wash.

And finally, here's the class picture:

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