The universe may be crashing in around us, but there's still some 8th Ed to be played. In this case, a green-on-green clash between my goblins and Kasfunatu's orcs (coming to a SkypeBoot near you at the end of this week).
My progress has been slow (or rather, sporadic - uncharacteristically, I have a half-dozen unfinished projects going on) and the goblin army I field may not even be fully painted (it truly is the End of All Things!), but I'll always try to bring something new to a SkypeBoot.
And who better to paint up than the campaign commander himself: Blacktoe!
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| Such a fungi to have around. |
The model is an old metal Night Goblin Champion (as far back as 4th Ed, I believe, when the boxed game was the lovely 'Grom vs Eltharion' set), but he's been given a promotion by virtue of his cheeky grin and superior hat.
And since he was shorter than even my rank-and-file night goblins, I sculpted a mushroom to raise him up (a wooden dowel for the stem, then greenstuff all over).
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| Shield: one previous owner. Probably fond of skulls. |
He seems to have acquired what I can only guess to be a Chaos shield. A little incongruous perhaps, but I like the grinning teeth, and it will make him stand out.
Same paint recipe as always for Night Goblins, of which I am getting very fond. The only exception was that I wanted to give him a white hood (a very grubby white hood) as a mark of his status. That took a bit of back-and-forth to ensure it was suitable goblin-soiled, but still a recognisable colour.
- Skin: Elysian Green base, Drakenhof Nightshade wash, Nurgling Green highlights
- Eyes: Black undercoat, Blood Red dot
- Teeth and nails: Ushabi Bone, Agrax Earthshade wash
- Robes: Black undercoat, Shadow Grey highlights
- Hood: Space Wolf Grey undercoat, Nuln Oil wash, White Scar highlights, then repeat
- Horns: Khorne Red undercoat, Agrax Earthshade wash
- Sword and shield: Ironbreaker undercoat, Mephiston Red detailing, Typhus Corrosion wash, Reza Rush highlights
- Mushroom stem: Kislev Flesh undercoat, Agrax Earthshade wash, Ushabi Bone highlights
- Mushroom cap: Kislev Flesh undercoat, Brown Ink wash, Ushabi Bone highlights, Red Ink wash, Ushabi Bone spots, Agrax Earthshade wash
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| The more common view of a Night Goblin. |
And he's done! Ready to bring that fearsome Ld7 to the battlefield!
That's definitely a chaos shield - the original Chaos Warrior box set, I think, all the shields had outsize faces on them. Proper old school, that.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to seeing the battle report! Nudge Kas for me in the process - there's a Chaos Dwarf civil war report lost in the backlog somewhere.