A few greenskins

Felt like needing a break from space elfs and fouond myself a few goblins to paint. I´m always looking to expand my gobbo infantry horde and wolf riders are an absolute must for any 3rd edition O&G army. Suprisingly good troops for goblins.

 This has to be one of the crudest goblin sculpts that I have. Very little details on a very small model.

 These guys on the other hand a pretty nice ones. For both I used some contrast paints but ended up finishing the paint job with regular paints. Really like that musician with the twisted horn.

 Two wolf riders in front of Fogou models farmhouse I got from supporting their kickstarter. Nice piece that will go well with my desert themed IG. Need to be painted though.

Very different riders. The closer one is bigger hand has good details. The spear armed one is small, ugly and has not much details.

50 000 views!

 

Feeling happy as the looney below - Vanhaa Vasarointia blog vent past the 50 000 views  yesterday. I know it´s not much compared to some of the BIG names in Oldhammer scene like Orlygg, Thantsants, Goblin Lee, Willmark and Blue in VT just to mention a few of my favorites. In any case I´m pretty proud of myself for being able to get those views. And a growing group of followers. For a non-native-english speaker/writer with very mediocre painting skills it means a lot.

 

 

The fanatic above is the 2nd model I painted this year. The first one was an eldar who will appear here later when I get a couple of his mates done. This green skin goes By the name of Zoglod Ballrider and comes from C12 Goblins & Fanatics series. The sculpts is By Kev Adams and is among the best fanatic models around in my opinion.

Goblinoids of different size and shape

This will be the last blog text for 2018. My december has not been very productive but with these green skins I´ll be able to close the blogging year the same way I started it - with some goblinoids.

Snotling base. The one on the front row right is actually a Blood Bowl snotling but as I had only four ´normal´snotlings and no other use for him he got a new life here.

A Marauder MM30/2c goblin with a mace and a Citadel C12 goblin Zogrod. These chaps will bulge my goblin horde that numbers 60+ at the moment.

The Vile Rune Tribe Chieftain Fangor Gripe from the Blood Bath at Orc´s Drift scenario. I don´t know if there is another orclops anywhere in any Citadel range of miniatures.

 A group photo shows how small the Marauder gobbo is. He stands just a bit taller than the biggest snots. On the other hand Zogrod is almost as tall a Fangor who would look dwarfish next to modern orcs.

Happy new year! See you in 2019!

One for the gob mob and one for the baggage train

That fast food selling goblin made me dig through one of the many boxes that hold my unpainted miniatures as I remembered having something that would fit the green skin baggage train. And actually found two of the shackles carrying guys. They are from the C27 Slave ogre & Half-orc handlers set. But I see them as half orc slaves doing those jobs too dirty for their pure blooded cousins.

The other model in the pictures is a C12 goblin. Just wanted to show that back in those days goblins came in many shapes and sizes. I mean he is one Big gobbo as he stands almost as tall as the half orc.

Looked for light green skin, dark hair and human eyes with that half orc. Clothes are pretty plain and dirty. The shackles he is carrying are brown-red with rust.I have another one of these models and might give him a more human skin but red goblinoid eyes.

The goblin wears studded leather armor on a mail shirt. I was not sure what that thing on his sword arm is but I imagined being a arm band of some sort.

Next in line are some elf war hounds, an orc villager or two and perhaps high elf kith. Stay tuned!

Goblin horde update

When building a 3rd edition O&G army you are facing a pretty high obstacle - troop minima for O&G is 80 models. And it is quite natural that when you get those 20 orc boyz, 20 orc arrerz, 20 gobbos and 20 stickas painted you propably want to do something else than lowly goblins to boost your ranks. That happened to me too.

A couple of trolls, a chariot and a few other things later I was ready to continue with gobbos. I didn´t set a exact number like how many gobbos I eventually want to field. I sort of just started picking up an odd gobbo here and another one there. And I painted them when I felt like painting a gobbo. At some stage I lost count on how many guys I have.

Today it´s a been a really pretty day here in Finland. It looks like the summer is on it´s way. So I took my gobbos outside and arranged them for a head count. And to take some pictures. Most of these have been presented here before but there are a couple of new ones too.

Front view of the unit. 

Bird´s eye. 6x6+2 is 38 goblins. 

Newest additions. The one furtest to the left is a repair job. His

spear was broken. Replaced it with an elf spear. Mace gobbo

is midhammer but blends in well enough. 

A pre slotta fanatic. These are a must for goblin units. 

From a bit different angle.

Standing at 38 now the next logical goal would of course be 40. That would mean that they could lose 10 of their number before having to test for breaking. 

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?