Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Night Goblin Archers


Here is my unit of Night Goblin Archers, now up to 37 gobs. It includes full command and netters.

As with most of my stuff, I've got some old paint jobs and bases that I'd like to redo. Maybe when I get this army up to around 2000 or so points I'll start reworking some of the older stuff.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Night Goblin Archers



Here is another rank of Night Goblin Archers.

The color scheme for this rank is Bleached Bone and Chaos Black split on the hoods. The tunic is Bleached Bone.

The non-skin areas were higlighted up with Bleached Bone as usual.

After the model was highlighted it was washed with a 2:1 mix of Devlan Mud and Badab Black respectively. I experimented with thinning down the mix with some water. I won't do this again as it seems to increase the surface tension of the mix. It left some rings and a less smooth transition as with the undiluted mix. I did go back in afterwards and highlighted the Bleached bone areas.

Skin tone: Snot Green with Elf Flesh highlights.


 I added a little mushroom made out of some green stuff and a toothpick.














Skin tone: Gretchin Green with Bad Moon Yellow highlights.

















Skin tone: Knarloc Green with Bleached Bone highlights.


















Skin tone: Camo Green with Elf Flesh highlights.


















Skin tone: Coat d'arms Goblin Green with Bad Moon Yellow highlights.

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Night Goblin Archers

Here is another rank of Night Goblin Archers.

The color scheme for this rank is Codex Grey for the top and the tunic is split with Bleached Bone and Bubonic Brown.

The non-skin areas were higlighted up with Bleached Bone as usual.

After the model was highlighted it was washed with a 2:1 mix of Devlan Mud and Badab Black respectively.

The netter was covered in a previous post. netter

















Skin tone: Catachan Green with Elf Flesh highlights.

















Skin tone: Goblin Green with Bad Moon Yellow highlights

















Skin tone: Snot Green with Bleached Bone highlights

















Skin tone: Gretchin Green with Elf Flesh highlights 

Friday, December 7, 2012

Night Goblin Archers

Here is another rank of 5 Night Goblin Archers.

The first 3 were dipped in Minwax Polyshades Tudor Satin. The last two were washed with a 2:1 mix of Devlan Mud and Badab Black respectively. The dip works great on the grey part but on the bone paint you can really see the difference in staining the color compared with the wash.

The clothing color scheme was Bleached Bone for the top and Codex Grey for the bottom.

As usual, the non-skin pieces were highlighted up with Bleached Bone. After this it was either washed or dipped.

Skin Tone: Catachan Green with Elf Flesh Highlights
Minwax Polyshades Tudor Satin Dip
















Skin Tone: Camo Green with Bad Moon Yellow Highlights
Minwax Polyshades Tudor Satin Dip















Skin Tone: Goblin Green oop/Coat d'arms Gob green with Bleached Bone highlights
Minwax Polyshades Tudor Satin Dip















Skin Tone: Goblin Green with Elf Flesh Highlights
Washed with 2:1 Devlan/Badab
















Skin Tone: Catachan Green with Bad Moon Yellow Highlights
Washed with 2:1 Devlan/Badab

Friday, October 19, 2012

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.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

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.

















































Sunday, September 2, 2012

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.