Goblin update

things have been slow on this front. im trying to change how i paint, as im finding im getting bored painting the same stuff over and over. so im going to be mixing up all of my projects and giving smaller updates as i progress.
so whilst ive got my chaos troll in the works.
and an army of skaven
im still going to progress with goblins as and when i fancy a change from the above. this should in theory yield more posts on my otherwise post shy blog :)

anyways enough yapping.
heres another gobbo into the dungeon.

i wanted to focus on the shield for this dude. the whole blue & white halves colour being a common theme from my previous Heroquest Henchmen. so i wanted to apply the same theme to this shield. as if a henchman was slain in this same dungeon many moons ago. his shield was looted and botched back together and now this goblin carries it!. simple

and here he is with the other already completed goblins.

rowdy looking bunch! i think on the work table. ive got about another 10 of these guys waiting to be painted. so expect further updates as i manage to get each one completed :)

and happy belated easter!! :)

2 more goblins

whilst pursuing further with my goblin/gnobblar mashups. i have 2 more to show here.
i really like how these guys are turning out. i wanted a more gritty earthy look to them as opposed to the more bright fluorescent colour schemes you see normally.
after all these are for a dungeon where its dark and NASTY!

 get back or i'll break yer legs!

you may of noticed these pictures are a little better than my previous FOLDIO attempts.

as such, ive finally decided to pack the foldio away. as i can get better results with my old lamp and a sheet of A4 paper. (i'll do a write up on why soon)

but yup so far we've got 4 new goblins ready for the dungeon. with another 12 on the way.

i really want to get these guys finished as im chomping at the bit to start working on skaven.

recent ventures with AHQ have gotten me want to further skaven bestiary for that. and having a ruck load of island of blood skaven sitting around is making me itch like a rat with fleas!

till next time

first of the goblins

gnoblins actually. but mentioned in an earlier post from late last year
snotling everywhere
here is the first of my goblins, both being mash ups of gnoblin heads and goblin regiment bodies.
for me they kind of embody the look i feel a goblin should have as opposed to the look that GW now give them

now these may look a little washed out. and if anybody used any sort of anti shine matt varnish. you will know sprays and cold weather just do not mix well. so i went out and bought this paint on anti shine

which turned out to be total and utter crap. only instructions that came with it were "SHAKE WELL!"
well i shook it all night long. and even still after drying. it was making my models shinier than they first started out. so ultimately i had to go back to the spray and bring it into the house where it was warmer. much to the wifes dismay...but i actually like the scent that sprays give off and it gives me a nice whirly headed feel too lol.
so the models you are looking at above...actually have about 10 coats of anti shine on them...eek
but i managed to save them regardless....and the rest is history :)

more to come soon

SNOTLINGS EVERYWHERE

and I'm back in the house!! sort of...........

ok so its been a long long while since i posted anything up. but truth be told. ive simply had no hobby time what so ever. all the real things a husband and father has to do have been much more important for me to tend to throughout 2014. that being said. i do sometime get a smidgen of time to sit down and paint. and believe me im learning new things...paiting whilst a 20 month old little girl is trying to climb up your leg to see whats going on is no mean feat i can tell you. along with that and my hiatus for some reason i decided to pick the smallest frikken critters in the warhammer bestiary to tackle....i know right no sense in that whatsoever.

i did however discover a nice little way to get these painted up with relative ease.
so without much ado.

i had painted more than this but only realised after id taken the pictures that id left a couple on the shelf.
i painted these with a simple wash over base colours, due to me not painting much i felt my skill were somewhat lacking (even at the best of times) so wanted to take the shortcut approach with these.
the skin was simple basecoat with Ogryn Camo and then washed over with Biel-tan green. simple and very easy.
ive always viewed snotlings as the lightest of all the greenskins so this seemed to work a treat right here.

that snotling right there at the front picking his nose was actually from the first blister packet i ever bout way way back in the 80s. he came from a bloodbowl blister pack of 18..all for the grand price of £1.99........now it costs 6 times that for the rest of the snotlings you see above...
actually i paid 8 quid for mine from an ebay batch of amazing proportions (something like 80 figs for that price)

anyways i dont think they turned out too bad. my first project for a while that i had actually completed all of. so im happy. and happy to be able to finally post something on the blog again.

so there we have it. bunch load on snotlings. packed full over character and ready to bite you ankles.

a little more
.
whilst ive been toying with teh whole greenskin flesh tones. ive also been toying with the idea of using gnoblars instead of goblins (an idea i saw on this amazing thread over at warseer. HERE)
on that great little thread hes taken the same approach i like to take to dungeon fodder and the likes...and thats to give as much character as possible.
now ive not liked the look of goblins for a long time. not sure why, but to me they just lack character. Kev Adams is still the master of the goblin.
  so with that i needed new gobbos, ithink the 80s is stuck with me on this front. because I kind of get the vibe of David Bowies little buddies from the flick Labyrinth

these little twerps had character and would swipe a baby right from under your nose.
and Gnoblars kind of have that same feel about them. not quite as sinister looking as GW current goblins. but still have character and look kind of nasty in a "stab you in the back" sort of way.
i claim no ownership of this idea. Seb did it before me. and i wanted to do the same.
so below is a WIP on my new Seb inspired goblins using various greenskin bits and bobs.
gnoblar heads
goblin regiment bodies
night goblin arms
and various shields i have in my bits box

so far. im quite happy how number 1 is turning out (paint job not quite finished yet)

also im trialling some new skin tones. when i have finished them all . expect a much bigger update..

anyways that it for now. my first blogpost in a long long time.
hope you enjoyed :)