Oldie goblins!

Here's some old Goblins that have been piling up for years. I thought this summer was a good time to finish them up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Narthoks the Excellent

"welcome, come in! I love having adventurers for dinner!"

I have a bunch of half painted figures I'm trying to finish up. This one I started painting last summer.

Some black orcs

One shouldn't let a year pass without painting some greenskins, so here's a bunch of black orcs for my army!

Orcs and Goblins for Heroquest

Here are the orcs and goblins for my Heroquest project. The earthy colour on the dungeon bases is to make them blend in with my brown-earth based Warhammer orcs and goblins when needed.

That pretty much wraps up the figures for the project. Now I just need to finish the furniture!

Chaos Warriors for Heroquest

A bit surprisingly I had trouble sourcing metal chaos warriors for my "HQ in old metal" -project. Apparently metal chaos warriors are less common than I thought! Good thing I got Slambo!

At first I planned to do bright 80's style colours but opted for a black armor look in the end. It was much quicker to do and they look a bit more menacing now.

Team Undead for HeroQuest

Next up I have the undead figures for my HeroQuest project, including a custom Chaos Sorcerer sculpted by James Sherriff. These were a lot of fun to paint and turned out quite nice.

It was my first time trying to do zombie skin with some blue and purple tones and I really like how it turned out. I have a bunch of old ghouls in my pile that I'll probably do using the same technique when I get around to doing them. If I can remember the recipe for that skin at that.. wait, I can't remember how I did that NOW. Oh, well.

"Gargoyle" Bloodthirster

My kids have now grown old enough (ripe old age of 3 and 6) to play Heroquest with me. I want to play with a painted set, but the original figures might not be a joy to paint. Luckily there are plenty of old Warhammer figures to use! Here's the gargoyle. Better pack your brodesode!

I tried to do a "glowing hot iron" effect on the horns. Works for an oldhammer figure.

The figure is based on a 25mm base so I can still put it on a Heroquest board. I was afraid that the small base would make the figure unsteady but it's surprisingly stable. I think the center of gravity is pretty close to the center of the base.

Scale creep *sigh*

Goblin Wolf Riders

A bunch of old Goblin wolf riders off my oldhammer pile. Nothing inspirational but I think they'll complement Grom and his chariots nicely to form the fast attack force of the army.

Grom the Paunch and friends

Here are Grom and his mates. I took advantage of my airbrush while doing the wolves which made the project a bit easier to tackle, but this still took me some effort as there's quite a lot of surface to paint, shade and highlight. 

A unit of three chariots can be used in Kings of war. I never used light chariots in Warhammer Fantasy itself, thinking they were too flimsy.

"Witness me!" I got a bit of a Immortan Joe vibe from Grom so I made one of the goblins give him a salute.

The backs of the wolves have been airbrushed with a couple of layers of grey on top of white. I then gave them some sepia wash as well as Nuln Oil. The end result is quite acceptable for the quick paintjob.

I found an old Goblin banner from my bits box. It was in rough shape but ended up fitting quite well!

The skin on these goblins ended up a bit darker than I planned.

Grotfang the orc warlord

I was supposed to start painting something else than orcs for a change but I had old Grotfang here already basecoated so what can I do?

This model was the general of my first wargaming army in the late 90's so it's the second time I painted him. I do hope there's been some development in my painting! I tried a new skintone on him to get a break from the Goblin Green monotony I've devolved into. This time around I did a base of citadel foundation orkhide shade and built that up to Vallejo Camo Green and I'm pretty happy with it. The shield is not original to the model but I found it in my bits box and thought it gives Grotfang a nice, oldhammery feel.

Some 90's Savage Orcs

And the quest to reduce my mound of unpainted old GW stuff continues! The shaman I've done a few years ago, but now I painted him some company so he won't feel lonely.

It's a mixed weapon unit for the games that allow them to be used as such (Dragon Rampant, for example). I can imagine the savage orcs being skirmishers rather than rank and file, acting as scouts for the army and launching kunnin' ambushes in the woods. I also swapped the basic round shields the melee figures had into something more tribal. I never sculpt anything so doing those shields from green stuff is a roaring success for me :)

Orc reinforcements

My pile of unpainted old/middlehammer orcs&goblins has grown worryingly so I suppose I have to do something about that too.

The boar boyz and big 'uns have been nearly complete for almost a year now. First I needed to wait for those original paper banners. Then I tried to find some shield decals and then.. I just hate doing shields sometimes so I kept them on the shelf instead of finishing them. Now that I painted Ruglug's Armored Orcs I finally completed the whole batch. Doing those shield decals freehand on the big 'uns and boar boyz was no fun but I console myself with the thought that orcs aren't exactly artists themselves so quick and crude shield symbols will do.

The original Ruglug's Armored orcs are probably some of the worse orc sculpts for Warhammer but I've had a bunch for probably a decade now so I had to give them some love eventually. In contrast, the Big 'Uns are some of the best orc sculpts Citadel ever made in my opinion!

 

The boar boyz are ok. The boars are of course pretty dull but at least now I have some orcish cavalry where there used to be none. 

Retro dwarfs refurbished

So, I bought a whole lot of old Citadel and Marauder dwarfs on whim one night. More than half of them were painted but only a few had been based. The owner had painted them in the 90's and the bases that had been done were of the good old goblin green variety. Still, I saw the potential as there were quite a few nicely painted ones in the mix so I decided not to strip them of paint but to finish the basing as there were enough painted figures for a small army.

Ok, bad picture time but you get the idea.

These don't look half bad when you look past the bases.

I touched up the models here and there but tried to avoid doing too much. After all, I wanted to preserve the old paintjob, not paint over it. Rebasing was easy as there was no flock or anything like that. Just add glue, sand, paint, flock and tufts. All done!

 

Pretty nice eh? These old sculpts really are some of the best dwarf figures ever sculpted! Credit for painting these goes of course to the original painter who I am grateful to for these even if I think it was a bit heartless of him to sell them at all :P

Some "oldhammer" undead

My first finished models for the year and it's already March! *tries to remember it's not a second job but a hobby that should not stress you out*

Along with old Marauder and Citadel Orcs, a bunch of old Undead models have found their way into my lead pile. I delt the urge to do at least some of them so here's 15 skeletons and some spooks. The Skeletons are a mix of old Nightmare Legion models and some other old skeletons, the ethereals consist of two ghosts and two barrow wights. Nice models all in all. Reader Samuli S commented that I should try some different backdrops for my photos, so I did. How's it look?

The next batch of models will be some additional 20mm WW2 Germans to give me some support options for Chain of Command.