From Mike W - 28mm Greenskins (105 Points)

 So after a hiatus in my painting production last week, I'm gradually getting back into the swing, albeit that this post is a smaller contribution that I'm usually able to do.

This week I present a group of 21 Greenskins - 20 x Orcs plus one Night Goblin!

The completed batch of Greeskins

The reason for my hiccup in painting was that I succumbed to my wife's entirely reasonable request to redecorate my office / studio room! It's very hard to argue that I'm no good with a big paintbrush when I spend so much time painting with little ones! 😀

Some big 1:1 scale painted terrain! 

I was thinking I could claim a point or two basis this work being classed as terrain but no, that would bee too cheeky.

Back to the Orcs, the painting method was exactly the same as previously described an the 20 Orcs and single Night Goblin will be distributed to add numbers to existing regiments in my collection.

Another view of the Greenskins

Close-up of the Orcs

So 5 more Orcs Biguns to join the regiments I already have

Three shield armed Orcs, two with spears and one with
choppa to re-enforce existing regiments

First smaller group of the 12 x Orc Archers that are in this batch

The 3 x Skulls I'm claiming for in this post are clearly seen here!

Final shot of thee Orcs and the stray Night Goblin!

Hopefully lots more figures in the next couple weeks - until some re-carpeting needs to be done.....

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SKULLS

+3 Points

POINTS

20 x 28mm Orcs @ 5 Pts ea                                    100 Points

1 x 28mm Night Goblin @ 5Pts ea                             5 Points

TOTAL                                                                    105 Points

From DaveD.  Cracking green skins sir!. Good to see you have scored points with the boss too then. I like the biguns particularly. 105 it is.

From Mike W - Another Deadline missed but another Challenge completed....

In the scramble to get some final figures completed by the looming deadline, which I missed, I have finished my current  backlog of Greenskin odds & ends. Unfortunately on the evening of the 19th March after an evening of painting, I thought I'd let the figures dry overnight and photograph and submit in the morning. Little did my befuddled brain recall at the time that the challenge closed at 1 miniute past midnight on the 20th....

So rather sheepishly, I present a late unit of 16 x Night Goblins which includes a boss, musician and a netter with acompanying clubba! Maybe this tale ofd mis-timing can be viewed as some kind of consolation and warning to others to watch the calendar! 😅

The completed unit of 16 x Night Goblins

Close-up of the left side of the unit - you can see the blue highlights I have put into some of their robes quite well here.

These guys have been kicking around my workdesk for a few months and came as parts of various batches of other Orc & Goblin figures that I had completed earlier in the year. The figures are the 1990's multipart versions of the Night Goblin, bigger than the later monocast bretheren and to my mind much more characterful.

The right side of the unit, lots of figures have tiny skull ear-rings and/or skulls on their waist belts but I'm not claiming for these!

Another view of the full unit

I undercoated these in dark grey before doing their robes in watered down black, many were then washed and highlighted with Prussian Blue to give them a stand-out appearance from other units. As much as I like black Night Goblins, row upon row of purely black figures does get dull.

Rear rank to the front, you can see the Netta here. Net has 5 skulls attached, which I am claiming for!

Their green skins were added, appropriately enough, with GW Goblin Green and then washed with AP Green ink and highlighted again with Goblin Green. Mouths, teeth and other details were then addd. I have a vision of Goblins thieving shiney gold items and weearing them and so I give all my Goblins and Orks with gold ear-rings, bracelets etc - just to add more bling!

Figures were based in my usual manner with fine sand and electostatic grass.

Completed Doom Diver model

From a slightly different angle

And from the other side!

Next is a venerable item - A Goblin Doom Diver, something that I had been  looking for, for some time. I painted this up with a mix of regular and speed / contrast paints and think it has come out pretty well. I do not have the complete set of the original crew, but do have three Doom Divers (I think two of these may be original versions) whilst the device is a 2nd version released by GW and a more 'realistic' model.

I think these two Doom Diver figures are GW original release versions.

This guy is made for the 2nd version of the model.

I've added a few Snotlings - left over from last week's post, to the base to suppliment the crew. The original figures of two snotlings pulling a hook & rope being unavailable to me! 

Newly completed Orc Boar Rider

Finally I have an Orc Boar Rider, again left overs from other batches of Orcs that I have had over the last year or so, painted and now pressed into service.

I know that ther are newer Boar models for the Orc Riders but the rest of my collection uses thes old style ones so I'm hapy!

If I were to start using the newer (and beter) boar models I'd feel compelled to replace all the old ones as well...

With that done it is on to my Challenge Wrap-up, thanks again to the whole Challenge crew for making this event happen, I call out Martijn (my long suffereing Minion) and thank him for correcting my bad maths and also to Curt for his continued drive to keep this annual event running. 

It's pleasing to see that I managed to meet my self-set points target, position at a respectable 8th place in the points chart and to get two new armies on the self and ready to go - namely 28mm Arthurians and 15mm Epic Carthaginians. Of which photos below....

28mm Arthurian Army, still work in progress

Video of the Arthurian Army!

15mm Epic Carthaginian Army

Two bases of Archers, again two bases each of five figures.

Warlord Games, 15mm Epic,  Allied Italian Infantry

Warlord Games, 15mm Epic,  Celtiberian Infantry

I continue to needlessly add to my Tomb King & Greenskin Warhammer Fantasy armies, they are so much fun to paint and I have made a spluttering start to a Warhammer Elven army as well, although I have gone back to the drawing board on these as I need to plan out when I want to do, rather than just buy units on a whim.

21 x Tomb King Guardsmen

21 x Highland Miniatures, Aegean (High) Elves

Prehaps my favourite figure of the challenge, a venerable Elven Mage

Another new area for me was the raising of a Warhammer 40k Necron unit, I really liked these and will likely also plan out some thing for the next few months in this area as well.

3d Printed Necron Unit

Added to the mix this year were some more Landsnechts, some British Colonial Infantry, AWI Americans, Epic Romans, plus other odds and ends!

6 x 28mmLandsknecht Pikemen, based and ready to go!

Five Riflemen in Sudan

Five AWI American militiamen

Three stands of '30' 15mm Roman Soldiers, as supplied by Warlord Games

As a final wrap-up congratulations to fellow SAS Wargames Club member Grahame H. who absolutely smashed it this year with 4871 Points and several new armies.

From PeteF Goblins for Arda (50 points)

 

My background is in historical wargaming and many moons ago, when I was thinking about branching out into fantasy there were no skeletons, orcs, goblins, ogres, lizards, dwarves or elves on my shelf of shame*.  Fortunately a generous local wargamer gave me a bunch of Night Goblins for my SAGA Age of Magic army. I've been a bit slow bringing them to the table - other projects distracted.

If you've not played SAGA - I highly recommend it for it's innovative activation system - it's a great skirmish game to give you an excuse to paint up new historical or fantasy factions or dust off some minis that haven't seen a table for a while. It can be competitive or friendly depending on your preference. I introduced SAGA Age of Vikings to my local group a year or so before the pandemic and it's gained a life of its own - now we have Age of Magic, Age of Crusades, Age of Hannibal and Age of Invasions - with more to come!

A few of these night goblins got painted for Challenge XI - I went with red hoods because there are "Red Goblins" in Mantic's Kings of War fluff. I'll eventually put magnets on them so they can be ranked up on metal trays for Kings of War. They got red shoes like the old pope.  I'm trying to get more hilighty with the light gray on the black cloaks - still looking for tips on this - would dry brushing work better?

Picking out the teeth was enjoyable - nice sculpts from an earlier time at GW.

6 x 28mm infantry = 30 points plus 20 for a new planet = 50 points

1 squirrel point (total 4)

1 skull (total 1)

*this has been rectified and all of these are now represented

Well these old school Gobbos are the Pope's Shoes Pete!  Love the red on the shows, cloaks and those little chromes on the standard.  I confess to not having taken to SAGA, I find it rather gamey but that's likely because it doesn't suit my rather linear thought processes.  

From Mike W [Chamber of Darkness] Grey Scale Night Goblin (25 Points)

 Another day, another challenge!

What I like about this Challenge is that it... well challenges you! I would never have attempted a grey scale figure but to complete the First Level of the Dungeon here is one I did earlier!

First ever grey scale figure - A Night Goblin

A single Night Goblin Archer, undercoated black, dry brushed with a couple shades of grey and then details highlighted in more solid grey.

Arrow feathers are white!

Another view - slight hint of green on skin?!

All muted down with diluted black ink washes the only controversial area being that I washed the skin areas with a green ink over black to give a slightest hint of the underlying Goblin flesh tones, it hardly shows....

Base was flocked with a grey ash coloured flock I've had for some time but on the photos this looks a light brown - oh well!

Rear view, where the flock looks brown, not grey!

POINTS

1 x 28mm figure                         5 Pts

Chamber of Darkness Bonus    20 Pts

TOTAL                                     25 Pts

From BruceR "The Chamber of Darkness" 25pts

 As the party flees the Russian militia Zombies (you can't fight zombies) the next chamber they enter is as dark as a moonless night.  As the party attempts to catch their breath they are assailed  by a horrendous gong sound.  Repeated and repeated.  "Gong" "Gong" "Gong" followed by a maniacal cackle, reminiscent of the fantastic faced earlier in their journey.   Again "Gong" "Gong" "Gong" causing the party members to wither on the floor attempting to cover their ears to block out the sound.  All at once the gonging stops and shuffling approaches the prone party members.  Out of the gloom comes a wee character with a huge gong.  The little fella simply grins and says "Gonging my way"... eeek

My first attempt at greyscale.  Still not sure.  Found the night goblin musician on the wall of shame, already base coated black so why not.  I have quite a large WHFB goblin army sitting in boxes as the world has crumbled.  Moved on and this fella was left behind.  I did give him the red eyes to simulate the photo daemon look.  So another games workshop night goblin 5 pts as he is a 28 mm scale model, bigger with the gong.  20 pts for the Chamber of Darkness.

Pardon the bad pun.

Cheers.

BruceR