Never mind Goblins being at the 7th Level of Dante's Inferno! It's more like Pandora's Box here...
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The Goblin infested 7th Level of
Dante's Inferno!!! Note the completed
40 figure Goblin unit mentioned
last week |
All the old unpainted (some undercoated) goblin figures that I have in the 'Plastic Mountain' are literally kept in a green A4 storage box, having opened it to paint the Goblins last week - low and behold a unit of Spider Ricers and Wolf riders have forced their way out onto the workbench for painting.
Sadly there are similar boxes of Orc and Empire figures all awaiting a paint job...
So these are my first to batches this week. 10 x Forest Goblin Spider Riders were purchased when they first came out but never painted, I guess I didn't really overly like the figures at the time - GW had just moved away form the multi-part kits that allowed figure builds with real variety of poses,instead they moved to manufacturing 'fixed pose' figures, I wasn't (and I guess am still not) a great fan.
But time has mellowed me and I was actually taken by the detail on the bases and thought why not give them ago!
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| First group of 5 Spider Riders |
I decided to base coat the spiders a deep red and then dry brush over with a brighter red on the main body and legs. Then transition the legs from red to brown to a bone type colour to make these really stand out.
The whole spider was then washed in Sepia Ink to blend the colours together.
The Goblins were painted up in a pretty standard manner, I decided the feathers would all be white with black tips in a nod to Native American decorations and these were offset by red items - as if they had come off the spiders them selves.
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| Second group of 5 Spider Rides |
Goblin skin was washed green and the other parts washed with Nuln Oil to give that grubby appearance I think they should have.
The bases I covered in sand and electrostatic grass as usual - but I took care to keep as much of the additional detail as possible on them, tiny red spiders, skulls and tree stumps etc.
Calculation - 10 x 28mm mounted figures @ 10 points ea = 100 Points
Next up were 8 x Goblin Wolf Riders. I have a silly number of these units already - maybe that's why these guys never got painted before now, that and they seem to have taken a bit of a battering in the Green Box' over the years so I have had to add replacement tails for a number of the wolves.....
... some of these are not the original wolves tails in the kits so I have substituted other animal tails! In the rough and tumble of battle - I'm sure a few wolves would have lost their tails!
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| 8 x Goblin Wolf Riders |
Goblins themselves again painted in my usual manner, however, with the wolves I undercoat these black, then dry-brush dark grey and then light grey and then very lightly dry-brush white, details such as mouth, teeth, tongue and other armour etc are picked out, all before a wash of watered down black ink.
I try and give some uniformity to a unit by keeping shields similar, these were all painted on the frame and then super-glued on when dry, before giving the figures a series of washed to tome all together.
Bases done in my usual manner.
Calculation - 8 x 28mm mounted figures @ 10 points ea = 80 Points
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NCO /Musketeer stand,
awaiting matt varnish |
Next are the 16 musketeers to go with the command and pike stands from Robel's Saxon Infantry Regiment,that I completed last week. These are split in to 2 eight man wings, I group them 4 to a base,with one base having an NCO.
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Musketeer stand,
wet weather preventing Matt
varnish spray |
The painting technique is again as previously described,the hard part here being the number of buttons and apostles that need to be painted in. That said - I have got reasonably good at doing the apostles, its the buttons that kill me! Up to 20 buttons a figure,you can't help but get 'over-flow' onto surrounding coat colors and this just means going back over every figure to fix such errors...
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| Finished Musketeer stands, Robel's Saxon Infantry Regiment, 4 figures per stand, 4 stands. |
I took above photos whilst waiting for the weather to improve and allow me to use the Army Painter Matt Varnish Spray, hopefully I can add one of the finished unit as a whole over the weekend prior to the deadline time..
... and here they are! A break in the weather and a couple hours of sunshine!
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Robel's Regiment, I opted for green pikes and matching
apostles to help tie the look and feel of the unit together. |
Parading in front of the Benkendorf Regiment that I got completed a couple weeks ago, these guys will be the core of a Saxon brigade that I can use in any siege of Vienna Game. I usually have brigades of 3 or 4 regiments so the next Saxon unit will likely be the last and I might do it in grey coats - giving a nod to the records suggesting this was a transitional time for uniforms.
Calculation - 16 x 28mm mounted figures @ 5 points ea = 80 Points
TOTALS =100+ 80 +80 = 240 Point
Very nice work again, Mike. I wonder how your Saxons will fare against the mounted goblins!
I have learned today about apostles! Great colour choices.
Barks