Goblin Shaman Finished (+Tutorial)

Here's that goblin shaman that I'm sure every Orc and Goblin player will pick up at some point.  He's a neat model, and fairly simple to paint, but I added some extra colour to make him stand out.  As usual, the painting guide is at the bottom of this post, and the video is after the break.  In this video I actually show the whole process (at 4x speed) because its such a fast model to paint.  I think the total painting time was under an hour (plus the time it took for the washes to dry).

Hobbit Goblins Finished (+tutorial)

Here's the finished Goblins from the Escape from Goblin Town box.  I mostly used the simple painting guide from the latest White Dwarf but took some artistic license with a couple steps.  The most noticeable of those is the use of a red glaze to make the sores look infected.

Check out the video and all the still images after the break.  Let me know if you have any questions or comments.  I have been following taleofpainters.blogspot.ca and like their tutorials, so I may use those for the dwarves (and break out my painting rig to show the actual painting in fast forward).  Hopefully I find time to do that over the Christmas Holidays.

Hobbit Goblins WIP

I've been working on these guys and am getting near the final stages.  I used the basic scheme from the latest white dwarf (Pallid wych flesh), and added some red glaze to the growths to make them look gross.  I'm doing the goblin king at the same time, but giving him a bit more attention with blending.

Goblin Nasty Skulkers Video

Here's the full video at 4x speed of how I painted up the Nasty Skulkers. These guys ended up being pretty effective and worth their points in the battle I had against Matt. I only wish my goblins ranked up nicer.

Goblin Nasty Skulkers Pics

I just finished painting these guys up for a beat Matt Batrep I'm going to be playing next week at miniwargaming. I really liked the look of these guys when the army book came out and I have a unit of 40 goblins painted already.

I filmed the whole process, and took these pics for the end of the video... it will be posted in the next week or so.

Finished Goblin on Gigantic Spider

Here's some finished pictures of the Goblin on the Gigantic Spider... I'll be doing a video of this shortly, but here's the pics.

Spear Chukkas done

Finally. I got a little distracted with Azhag and the Giant, but I'm done them now.

Next up: Spear Chukkas

I think I'm ok with the goblin bases now. I ended up with all 20mm bases, but since its pretty easy to slice them off I may revisit the 40mm base thing in the future. I've done them up right now for 8 wide, but I'm going to make sure that its easy enough to do 6 wide. I'll number the bottom of the bases when I put magnets on them and make up a magnetized movement tray.

Next up: Spear Chukkas. I actually have three of these puppys laying around, but I'm only going to do two for now. I'm probably going to use the wood technique that GW posted for the new skaven screaming bell painting article, so we'll see how that looks for this.

Goblin - Basing question

Ok, I've finished off the skull shields and am ready to tackle the basing issue with the goblins. I have two questions for anybody to chime in about...

With 40 goblins, what is the best formation to run? I'm still pretty new with fantasy, but I know it needs to be at least 5 wide and 4 deep, but since I have 40 goblins neither of those is a limiting factor.

Second question is regarding bases. I've been toying with the idea of regiment bases, but then it occurred to me that I could use 40mm square bases (which I happen to have few extra lying around). Does it make sense to use either of these, or should I just reglue the guys to their 20mm square bases in a way that they fit together in formation?

Goblin's shields

Today I decided that the goblins were finished enough to add the shields. This turned out a little worse than I had hoped. I initially glued the shields to their forearms thinking that there would be more surface to glue, and they would look more realistic. This turned out to be a mistake because when I tried to rank them all together nothing fit. This added to the challenges I had with the spears meant that nothing would fit. So, I decided to rip them off and glue them on the front of their left hands as shown on the GW site. I'm hoping they will rank up better. The part that sucks is that I'm going to have to touch up the paint on their left arms where the glue is left over.

I still have to paint the skulls on half the shields, finish off the champion, musician and standard bearer.

Goblins skin and brown done

I was able to manage a couple hours of painting and made some good progress. I finished the 1st highlight of brown and put a second highlight on. Then I moved on to the skin with a scorpion green highlight followed by thraka green wash. The guys (except the banner bearer, musician and champion) are basically table top ready. Since taking these pictures I picked out the teeth on half of them, and I still need to do something with the metal (probably devlin mud) and eyes. I might give the brown a wash... either devlin mud or sepia. And of course, I need to add magnets to their bases and make a movement tray.

Goblins brown 1st highlight

Yesterday I was able to finish the red highlight and start the 1st layer of brown highlight. The red was just reaper blood red on top of the deep red, and the brown is reaper leather brown on top of GW scorched brown.

I just received a huge lot of stuff I bought off of a person on a forum... including the mega paint set, so it looks like I'll have even more GW colours to choose from going forward. I'll probably buy some more reaper paints because I like the triad format, but now I should be able to do some interesting stuff with all the paints I would never have bought otherwise.

Goblins base colours done

I've been working on the goblins during the last couple posts. I made a couple changes from feedback here and from the fixtures at my FLGS. I removed the command section from the regiment base and decided to go with spears and shields. I figure that'll work fine for my purposes, and if O&G get the refresh that the rumour mill seems to be saying perhaps GW will make new goblin sprues.

Anyway, base colours include: Reaper deep red (pants, shields, spear shafts), GW Knarloc green (skin), GW bolt gun metal (spear and armour), and GW scorched brown (boots, shirts, hats, everything else). I'll be using reaper paints to highlight the reds and browns and GW paints for the greens and washes.

Next project: Goblins

Here's the next big project I'll be undertaking... 40 goblins. I'm expecting to get side tracked along the way, but that's ok with a unit this size. The one thing I'm debating is whether or not to convert hand weapons for them. It seems the way to go for the +1 save in close combat as opposed to the 2nd rank getting in there with spears. Hey, does anybody know if the 2nd rank gets to fight if they are charged? The rules say something about not moving that turn. Too bad GW doesn't provide hand weapons on the sprue.
And I'm using one of the regiment bases for the command section... I'm not sure if this is a good idea... anybody have suggestions about this as well?

Night Goblin shaman

Here's my September entry to the Painting death match side challenge over at Miniwargaming.com/forum. Previous entries to this have been my Troll and Big Mek (I'll post pictures of him soon).

I left this to the last minute, so in total I only actually spent about an hour and a half on this model. I started out with a black undercoat.

Troll - MWG August death match

Here's some pictures of a Troll I did for a painting deathmatch over at miniwargaming.com. I did the base colours of the skin with my airbrush and the details by hand.