Tom's Goblins and Orcs: Rank and File #1

Aaand, we're off!

Only just though... I had a terrible time gathering up motivations for these troublesome goblins, but they're finally done - the last lick of paint being the 28th of Jan. I have managed to paint my leader, but he's in the back pocket ready for another month (I was worried about not having anything to post, and one leader mini trumps 10 rank and file minis!)

Anyhow, here are ten of the LegBiter goblins (pic from the awesome Stuff of Legends site: link). These were sold to me cheap a few years ago, on the provision they're painted for the OWAC, so it's lovely to have finally painted them!

In the run up to Christmas, I painted my first boxed game (the 1995 Warhammer Quest) and I've carried on a process from there. 

Basically, rather than shading each colour with a separate colour I've washed them all over with the Army Painter GrimDark Shadow, and then highlighted up. It's saved a lot of time! Here's a goblin from the Warhammer Quest set (which is currently displayed at the Warhammer World shop in Nottingham!👇

And a random goblin from this month 👇

You can see that I left a load of flash on the belt around the spikes. I'd run out of good times,...

The tunic is Contrast Dark Angels Green, with white added for the trim.

And all the boys together

Here's a bonus! A goblin fanatic very generously given to me by the OWAC very own Jaakko (instagram). Many thanks!

I've not counted him as model, as he had some basecoat on him from OWAC8 🙂

And, I thought well - 10 goblins might not cut the mustard for this month. I painted up one of the ogres as a reward for pushing through the terrible rank and file!

On a side note, I had the most disastrous disaster. Whilst painting the goblins, the DA contrast paint unknowingly spilled, and dripped into my sock... I then proceeded to GO UPSTAIRS and retrieve a model and I only noticed on the way down that I'd left green toeprints everywhere.

Fortunately, it all came out ok but I really did a big fear! Thank the gods for whoever varnished the floor 🙏

And finaly, I did neglect to post a pic of my OWAC tribute model - so here it is with my goblins in the background as a timestamp. He's currently winging his way over to Overloard Byron in the States. Full colour pics next month!

 

Hopefully now I can push on through and paint the other sticking unit - the unit of wolfboys... That's the plan for next month anyway!

See you then 👊

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Intro: link

January: Rank and File #1

30...    10 x Goblins with slings (counts as short bows)

40...    1 x Ogre

Total: 70 points

Oreo inspects the very first issue of the oldhammer zine Lead Rot ✨ Link for online PDF

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