A small but important addition

Have to admit, I´ve been pretty lazy both painting and blogging. I do have  multiple projects on my panting table but this little fellow is the only one I´ve finished since last blog entry. In that last entry I mentioned getting a musician for my unit of gobbos and here he is.

He is a Marauder miniatures MM30/6 goblin musician. The sculpt is By Aly Morrison if I´m not completely mistaken. This line of models is from 1989 but in my opinion the face and clothing are pretty close to stuff that came out during red era and afterwards.  The totally oversized weapon is also something that we got used to seeing starting from 4th edition WFB.

This was propably not a very popular model back in the days as I couldn´t find a single painted example of him online.

The instrument is a drum of some sort. It clearly has a piece of animal skin stretched over a wooden frame. Studs or spikes that hold the skin in place can be seen in the picture. One can only wonder how well that instrument would last if pounded with that huge mace of his as he appears to be doing.

This little gobbo is an important addition to my army because in 3rd edition WFB a musician ads a +1 to leadership rolls when testing to make a second or subsequent manoeuvre. With the goblin´s Basic LD of 5 you need all the help you can get.

Let´s hope february will be a bit more productive month for both painting and Vanhaa Vasarointia.

Greeninforcement

What a way to start 2018 - with some goblins. They could actually be called reinforcement too as these ten chaps take my gobbo strength from the army book minima of 20 to 30. In 3rd edition WFB that actually means quite a lot. The unit can now lose seven green skins before and not have to test for panic where it was just five before.

 All ten of them. The first three on the left are Citadel

C12 Goblins and the rest come from the Iron Claw line.

A closer look on the C12 goblins. That chap with eye glasses

is simply a lovely sculpt. 

Iron Claw goblins in the middle.

And the ones on the right side. Lost of teeth visible.

Please don´t mind the drawn-by-a-5-year-old-goblin shield. Just

wanted to show you the nice details of the back side of this sculpt.

The feet wrapping, belt and pouches, studded leather armor. I like it.

The unit these guys are joining is still missing a musician. And when I get one I will propably need at least one gobbo more to get their total number to 32 and break point to 8. Or should I aim for 40?

And now I hate to decide what to paint next.... Ruglud´s orcs for big uns? High elf cavalry? High elf chariot? War machines for green skins?