Well, a new year.....and nothing new here in the dystopian nightmare that is the dying husk of the UK. Did I say nothing new? Well, not quite nothing..... 😉
Long have I wanted to paint up my Night Goblin army, but for an equally long time have I pondered over what colour scheme I wanted to use. Most of my musings rested on the question of how to paint black and, of increasing importance since joining the OWAC last year, how to paint black in a realistically fast way. I had initially planned to do my goblins for last years OWAC, but I couldn't find a way of painting black that I really liked or felt comfortable with. But then I stumbled across a tutorial by Vince Venturella on YouTube and eureka! I liked the method, felt even I could do it, and loved the result!! My second question related to colour. An army of black could look somewhat uninspiring....how was I going to give it some brightness?? You guessed it.... Squigs!! 😀
And so, weighing in at 136points for month one, I give you 2 Squig Herder teams and their 6 Squigs!
I look forward to watching your progress, with your horde!
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ReplyDeleteGotta love squigs! And you have an extra week for the archers now! They look wonderful, BTW!
ReplyDeleteTaste the (squig) rainbow! Nice variety of colours on them
ReplyDeleteAll metal for the archers? You've done well there!
ReplyDeleteLovely stuff, do share the link to the black tutorial.
Hi, thanks. Yes, I've been lucky in getting them and using a couple of conversions to fill out. The link for the black is
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Yay Squigs! Your black is looking good too - no mean feat painting that much of it across a whole army.
ReplyDeleteI always love night goblins and yours seem pretty cool!!
ReplyDeleteThe black painting did turn out well. And I do love the color you introduced with the squigs -- which are also very well done! But I also think it's OK to let a night goblin army be... dark. Some armies will inevitably be bright and flashy, but I think subdued colors work better for others and I really like seeing that worked into a project I think the black, green, red of the goblins themselves looks great so far. Looking forward to more.
ReplyDeleteAlso like the bases -- they really compliment the figures.
Don't normally like the washed out style, but really compliments these well. Looks fab
ReplyDeleteAs the overlord mentioned the rainbow of colours is great. The spots of bright colours from these should compliment the blackness of the goblins nicely.
ReplyDeleteThey look great and will certainly stand out against the black-green horde. I like the multi-coloured squigs, particulalrly the blue onnes. Looking forward to the archers. Do love the night gobbos, but found the prospect of painting hordes of them a bit daunting. Looking forward to your archers
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