Stikka Album

... or are Stikkas meant to be archers? Well, for the purpose of a good pun, let's assume goblin spears are the ones they call 'Stikkas'

You find a good pun, you Stikk to it.

This is the second of my Night Goblin originals. They served me well for many 6th Ed battles, but as with the archers, the time has come to repaint them.

Also like the archers, it took a hell of a lot longer than I thought - mostly because I had to dance around all the detailing when I was giving them completely new skin tones.

As before, the skin was made considerably more pasty: Elysian Green base, Drakenhof Nightshade wash and Snotling Green highlights.

Brown Ink to darken the spear hafts, and my new favourite rust-maker (Typhus Corrosion and Ryza Rust) to dirty up the blades.

One thing that didn't sit right with me was the shields: I love the 'bad moon' motif, but I couldn't justify why a ragged bunch of gobbos would all have the identical, mass-produced, three-dimensional shields.

After much deliberation (mainly along the lines of, 'bollocks, how long is this going to take?'), I decided to go for it: popped off all the old shields and prepared an assortment of random ones.

There are some wooden boards in there, plain rounds, dwarf shields, empire shields, skaven shields (since I figured they'd pick up anything they found - elven shields excepted. Nasty elves). I hacked chunks out of most of them with clippers, rusted 'em good, then painted 'bad moons' over the top, to look like crude daubings.

(it helps that my freehand is pretty crude to start with)

Speaking of bad moons, I jazzed up the banner before I finished: a few more details on the face and a shimmering glow around the edges.

And, as with my other unit of 30, I retired 5 models so I would have room for a unit filler - so there's still that to come before I can call this one done!