Captain Lackhand

Another stab at coming up with a coil of rope.

Either to tie up captives with or an item that the Dwarves fetched with them.

The thinner one is cotton, the thicker one from a party popper.

(Never throw anything away!)

A closer look at the captain's injury. I think he should get along to the M.O.

 

Goblin Batch 2

The next batch of six Goblins (six more to go) with their captain and Grinnah. Note that the captain, the shorty guy, already has an injury. Don't know when he lost his hand. Anytime over the past 8 years as this kit was used as a display box in the shop.

 

More Hair and scary eyes

 

Henry spotted that I'd missed the hair at the front. While there, I added the orange to the eyes though I thought they may be rather large for that treatment. However, once the dots went in, which I normally don't do for models as they simply look insane, I think it looked quite good.

Goblin Town and eBay extras complete

 

The last of the large floors from eBay now completed and in situ with all completed components.

King's bits, the weapon pile and packs

 

While waiting for paint to dry on the King, I've painted these little extras. The weapon pile, dry brushed with Chainmail, then the non metal bits painted, then the whole washed in Nuln Oil.

Finally an edging on the blades of Chainmail.

The bundle of packs, looks like five to me, is hardly enough for 13 dwarves and Bilbo, is it? Which gave me the idea for a cunning plan.

These dangling heads are not your usual skulls but look more like shrunken heads.

A little more of his totem which won't stand a chance against Gandalf's staff.

The Goblin King

I've painted this guy over and over and he just gets worse. I tried the dry brushing that someone recommended for a smooth finish but it ended up, rough as hell. My brush? My paint? (It is rather old) My painting? Ah! That's it! 

The photo shows even less of the flesh wash that is there except round his boils. That's a slightly watered down drop of Reikland Fleshshade which collects round the bumps and gives a

good impression of the sore area.

An uninteresting rear view.

 

Goblin Town, so far

 Like Topsy. Here's how we are, so far. One more large platform to go, then I start on the GW box of 2 level Goblin Town extension. It's been sprayed black though I'd hoped to spray brown and go straight into dry brushing lighter browns. Unfortunately, the brown spray is enough unlike these earlier one to make them look different. 

Goblin town platform 1

 One of the two large platforms from eBay is now complete. The skulls and bones in one corner are now buried in a pile of rocks. One obviously hit a goblin on the way down.

Here's the complete thing.

Goblin Town ramps 2

 

Here's the last of the three ramps from the eBay selection.

The coil of rope works OK so I might use it again, elsewhere.

Goblin Town ramps 1

 Slowly getting there with the additional elements from eBay. Here's the first two ramps with not very well painted litter. The 'unknown' in the foreground seems a little too red but I'll live with it. I'd like to vary the scenery but scraping off the bones is not an option. Perhaps covering them with something?

Here, right, the still fresh chunk of flesh, if that's what it is, seems too red. Both it and the darker one are coated with Blood for the Blood God but I've used different reds for the basecoat. Scarlet and Scab.

I'm trying a piece of cotton as a coil of rope hanging from one of these curious metal pieces atop the posts on the right. Picture to follow, if it works.

Goblins Batch 1 done

 I think they are done. Splodges of Wazdakka Red, Balor Brown and even Yriel Yellow for the sores and boils. Bleached Bone for the odd horn, here and there, mostly there.

At the same time as painting these up, I've been dry brushing the additional parts of Goblin Town that arrived a week ago. Now for the tedious business of painting all the bones!

The Goblin Town extras from GW arrived yesterday and look perfect for what I have in mind.

Goblins Batch 1

 The first batch of 6 are  moving in the right direction. Over the white spray undercoat, they were painted with Rakarth Flesh, as per White Dwarf Dec 2012 and the beginners box leaflet. Then instructions diverge. The leaflet suggests a wash in Corroburg Crimson which I tried on one of them. Again, I feel this is too much of a contrast so used the WD advice - Reikland Fleshshade. Then it's a build up of Rakarth Flesh again and a final highlight of Pallid Wych Flesh. They await the orange eyes and painted bases.

The bibs and nappies and the cute little handbags were painted using WD info. ie Rhinox Hide, Mournfang Brown and Vermin Brown. Woodwork is Mournfang, Metal is Leadbelcher, washed with Nuln Oil and 'rusted' with Vermin Brown. Hair is Mechanised Standard, high lighted in Administratum. I've assumed that some of the spikey weapons are bone or horn and painted them with Rakarth, then Bleached Bone. All rather 'flat' but there are a lot of them!

The sculpts are excellent.

Goblins undercoat

 The first batch of goblins, including the captain, the rather unpleasant looking guy with a whip, and his majesty, all sprayed white over the original black spray.

New Cobra spray for half the price of GW.

Goblins. The Scribe

Tricky little guy to assemble. I glued his chair together first and was then able to ease his cradle 'ropes' aside enough to glue the top parts together. 

I'm afraid his writing is worse than mine.

 

Goblin Town 2

There. All done. I'll get a better shot when the scribe and his wicker basket are painted. That's next up. There extra pieces ordered through ebay have arrived but they are not as I expected. Still good value but without the vertical variants that I wanted. The gibbet etc. I'll order a complete set from GW when I can sort out the tangle that the accounts are in.

Still cannot work with this thing!

 

Goblin King's Throne

Now the additional painting has been done, nice comfy cushions etc, and a fine view of 'what lies beneath'. Not only a fine assortment of dem bones  but General Patten himself, 'old blood and guts'

A side view and a close up of the prime exhibit,  complete with the massive potty, a half barrel which is in desperate need of emptying. I wonder whose job that is? I mean the emptying job, not what's in it. We know whose that is!

Goblin King's Throne

All the pieces for the throne and other odds, as well as the Goblin King were sprayed black moons ago.

Now dry brushed through the various shades of grey and ready for the decorators to move in.

 

Goblin Town supports

Now some of the verticals are pretty well done. I've given the decorative bones, on the poles, a wash in brown wash. I figure that as they obviously don't hoover round very often, they probably don't bother to change the décor too frequently either.

 

Goblin Town

Well, progress is being made on Goblin Town. I set out painting the bones with Karak Stone and tried to finish with Ushabti Bone. I thought it still looked too dull to stand out on the platforms so ended up using Bleached Bone. Well, that's what it's for, right? The ribs were dry-brushed rather than painted.

There are some objects sprinkled around that I can't identify. Hair? Guts? I went for guts and painted them with Scab red, washed with Blood of the Blood God and then Nuln Oil. I painted in some streaks of yellow and green in places too.

It looks to me that the kit could be extended using coffee stirrers and lollipop sticks (with verticals of twigs?) but I spotted a kit on e-bay for Goblin Town at £20.00 instead of GWs price of £35.00 and couldn't resist. 

 

Goblins from Goblin Town

Right.

 I've abandoned a look at a different blog set up as I've been busy with invasions, bad head colds and other illness and work on the allotments,

 so I'll stick to this mangled gadget for now.

At last I've got moving, after slotting the Balrog back down the mines, and opened

the starter box of' The Hobbit' Goblins. In the main I've followed the little guide that comes with it though I'm not sure about the use of Carroburg Crimson

for initial shading - seems to large a contrast to me.

When I come to those in The Hobbit Boxed Game, I'll reconsider.

They are not quite finished. A wash on the metal parts and shading on the newly glued rocks will do it, I think. A sprinkle of plank off cuts ties them in with 'Goblin Town' walkways which are in progress. Coffee stirrers come in handy.

I've coloured up some of their bumps and sores.

I might do a spot of yellow there too.