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Post by Mallo on Jun 20, 2019 16:39:47 GMT
I've returned to WFB from AoS, having regretfully not gotten to play any 8th before. I was active in the hobby during the 8th edition period but due to a severe case of life getting in the way, I never really got to enjoy the hobby in what would otherwise had been my favourite period of warhammer! With more space & time in my life now I intend to correct this! I'm in charge of painting up all the armies in our house, so as too not overload myself (as has often happened before) I'm going to paint them up in small 400-500pt forces and try and get some games in with them before moving on with the next unit. As the only painter in the house it can be a bit daunting- we have a huge collection of unpainted minis (I've been in the hobby since 1989 now and yet to still finish painting a full army for myself! ) and have been eyeballing several other projects we have always wanted to do, but until now not had the time or space for! Being a bit of a hobby butterfly doesn't help either. So rather than create a bunch of logs which end up with sporadic or next to no posts, I'll keep them all in one self-contained hobby blog. I did have a goblin based one on warseer, but there was only a handful of pictures of interest on there, so I've saved the handful of good ones and decided to start again fresh. The first army I'll be painting for myself will be Gobbos! Goblins have always been my favourite army and to not refresh them first would be criminal! I'll finalise my list of the first 500pts or so in the next few days and add it in as a checklist for getting it painted! It will be a slow process as I love converting and intend to go to town on my goblins! The first army my misses is having redone will be her High elves. She's been undecided between wood elves and high elves for days and has finally made her decision this evening! High elves being the most awkward as she's missing some key models, as well as not having any of it already painted or built (unlike the high elves which we had already started on for AoS! ) I've no idea what she intends to take right now, but more than likely it will be the lions of Chrace first! Sorry for the wordy post, on to the more interesting stuff from here on out: First off, here is a couple of the pictures I saved from my old Warseer log. I was gifted a huge night goblin army back in the late days of 4th edition and while it was passible back then, it's taken a few too many knocks since and the painting quality is far below what I do now. It will be sad to see it stripped down, as it is an irreplaceable gift, but it's in a real sorry state (having survived something like 20+ moves including relocating overseas) and I'd like to see it back on the table, looking as menacing as it did so many years ago!
Goblin Big boss on Wolf: This was the model I was most pleased off back in the day. Painted around 1999. A super simple conversion and the only time during the 90s I was happy with a paint job! I'm going to be very sad to have to repaint it, but it got badly dinged in the last move. his shield seems to vanish at some point as well! Snotlings:
Part of the huge night goblin army I was gifted was a huge mass of snotlings (still one of the best sets of models GW ever did!) I had hundreds of them and all the swarm bases had slight conversions and other oddities and squigly beasts going on! It was one of the most special parts of the gift and so when it comes to repainting them all, I am going to try and recreate them exactly as they were! And on to new stuff: Gütz, The green swordsgrot: My snotling warboss! This is the second attempt at this conversion, I started making him probably back in 1999(ish) but he's been in and out of storage since then and the original body got too smashed up! I'm not much of a fan of sculpting, but I think I did a passable job, hopefully a careful paint job will sort out the issues with my poor sculpting! I've loved the idea of this conversion since I've started him and I'm really pleased to finally have him done and ready for painting!
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Post by mottdon on Jun 20, 2019 17:17:22 GMT
Lol, that's so much fun! Sounds like you've got a good painting que ahead of you and looks like you already have a good start! I too, am a fan of a good Snotling tarpit! I have enough to take 12 bases into combat. Good luck chopping your way through all that in 6 rounds! eefl.freeforums.net/thread/37/mottdons-hordes?page=5Your Snotling Warboss looks great! What a fun idea!
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Post by TheREALricksalamone on Jun 20, 2019 22:09:16 GMT
Stuff looks great and welcome to the golden age of WFB. In order to show off your work better, one or two small desk lamps would make your pictures look much better.
I’m looking forward to seeing much more on this log.
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Post by grandmasterwang on Jun 21, 2019 6:03:31 GMT
Loving that snotling warboss.
Nagash himself would be wary of such a fearsome foe.
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Post by knoffles on Jun 21, 2019 6:18:02 GMT
I have such a soft spot for snotlings. They maybe a bit pants but they still inevitably end up in my lists
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Post by Mallo on Jun 22, 2019 0:35:31 GMT
Lol, that's so much fun! Sounds like you've got a good painting que ahead of you and looks like you already have a good start! I too, am a fan of a good Snotling tarpit! I have enough to take 12 bases into combat. Good luck chopping your way through all that in 6 rounds! eefl.freeforums.net/thread/37/mottdons-hordes?page=5Your Snotling Warboss looks great! What a fun idea! haha snotlings are awesome! I have 8 bases ready to be stripped & repainted and three for my AoS warband and a decent enough handful left over for a couple more! I think I'll follow suit and aim for 12 also, that sounds like just the right sort of nasty to have ready on the shelf for future larger games! Cheers, while I don't have enough of the old gorkamorka snots to make a whole unit to go with the warlord, I do have enough for a few more conversions to go along with him! I'd like to make a couple of variants as well, like a fully armoured version and a mounted version, but I need to get some of the core painting done first now! Stuff looks great and welcome to the golden age of WFB. In order to show off your work better, one or two small desk lamps would make your pictures look much better. I’m looking forward to seeing much more on this log. Thanks! There should be some noticeable improvement in the photos already, the photos on the first post were mostly from my old warseer project, which I rescued out of nostalgia. Everything from here on out is taking in my new hobby room, which is light up like a christmas tree! Loving that snotling warboss. Nagash himself would be wary of such a fearsome foe. Thanks! Oh, Now I want to find a spare head from the Nagash model as a trophy kill and make an even larger base for him to sit in/on! I have such a soft spot for snotlings. They maybe a bit pants but they still inevitably end up in my lists Yeah, me too. I was always surprised that we never saw a plastic pump wagon and snotling kit after they made all those great rules for various versions of pump wagons! Even weirder is they released a bunch of new snotling models with the AoS stuff, but got rid of them from the rules completely at the same time! Still, at least snotlings are still a thing in WFB! Progress from today: Got stuck into the basing for my first unit of wolf riders. The painted goblin was borrowed from one of my AoS warbands, he might stay or I might replace him outright as I don't want to repaint him, but I'm likely to go with the classic red goblin scheme for my old world gobbos, where my AoS ones have been blue. I'm missing a couple of wolves, but they are in a box somewhere, but it's gotten too late to dig them out, that's a tomorrow job now. I have a pile of goblin parts all cleaned up and ready to go, but I do already have a bunch of built riders, but I think they are in the same box as the missing wolves, so left the rest of the goblins for now, in case I don't need to build them. I've added a couple more skulls and mushrooms since taking the photos as well, I'll be adding more as painting is done where ever they look a bit sparse or need some more colour. I hadn't been sure that I could build the movement tray decently out of the plasticard I had but I really didn't want to use wood, but it worked better than I had hoped and they fit snuggly. So I'll be sticking with plasticard for the rest. Not sure if I'll sand it all down and keep them plain, but I was thinking of extending the basing all around the edge of the movement trays this time round. Mostly as an excuse to use even more skulls and mushrooms! I also painted this chap up a little while ago. He's meant to be a mushroom and squig leg seller from the outskirts of Mordheim. He was about to join my AoS warband, but having not gotten around to it yet, I had yet to replace his base. Though his original square base still needs painting, I was always quite pleased with how the base turned out, being one of my very early attempts at using green stuff, so he will likely be used in a unit in this old world project now, as I didn't want to see him torn apart anyway! And as one last bonus shot, this is a bunch of close ups I took of my AoS Goblin warband for the miniature close up challenge ( #miniaturecloseup2019 ) earlier this year. There were far too many serious conversations going on about it and far too many people getting very worked up over it, so I injected a bit of snotling humour into the mix!
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Post by Mallo on Jun 25, 2019 13:22:46 GMT
A couple of snotling bases done. I still have to paint the snail squig (As the Irish summer is here, which has meant it has rained non stop the whole time I've been waiting to prime stuff!)
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Post by redknight on Jun 27, 2019 7:51:39 GMT
I just found your thread, looking so fun and cool ! I will keep following
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Post by Horace on Jun 27, 2019 9:18:00 GMT
Excellent! Looking forward to more 4th edition Night Goblin goodness!
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Post by Mallo on Nov 18, 2019 16:33:15 GMT
Been a bit long since I was able to find a decent amount of time to hobby or even find time to check all the threads here! Spent the end of summer dealing with some extra classes and exams I needed to take and had very little free time. But I was working very slowly on all my projects when ever I could steal 5 mins to paint, which really wasn't very often. Hopefully I'll have more time as the winter sets in as I only have a bunch of classes to finish this year, until it all starts again next September- so hopefully I will steam roll through some of this painting backlog by then! The skeletons got another batch paint completed and I built the rest (finished after I took the photo) for a unit of 20 (along with a unit filler for them) but I've not had an dry evening to undercoat them, so they have remained unpainted. I painted my first test models for a small (ha!) dwarven force. These are from the oathmark kits and I think they are superb! Not overly designed, they paint up nicely but still have tons of details and loads of extras in the kit! I'm really looking forward to the upcoming rules and the new models that are on the way! If anything, the army deals should be amazing value! and I finished building my snotling warlord and finally painted him! Still got a couple of details to do and some work to do on the basing, but he is complete enough to sit inside his unit with out looking shameful and grey!
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Post by dannytee on Nov 19, 2019 11:53:27 GMT
A little here and there is better than none at all. Keep at it. New stuff looks good.
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Post by knoffles on Nov 20, 2019 7:37:52 GMT
Where are the skeletons from, are they GW? They are really reminiscent of the ones from the original clash of the titans.
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Post by Mallo on Nov 20, 2019 13:59:42 GMT
A little here and there is better than none at all. Keep at it. New stuff looks good. Thanks! A little is less than I'd liked to have done, but a lot more than I could have hope for at the moment! Where are the skeletons from, are they GW? They are really reminiscent of the ones from the original clash of the titans. Good spot! They are indeed based off the clash of the titans! They are the old wargames factory ones, now repurposed by warlord games! If you buy the massive set of them they even come with a necromancer based off the same movie! I think the kit is superb! A couple of youtubers gave them a bad review and put people off from picking them up, but I think it was unfair opinion, as they appear to be lazy modellers, more interested in the end result than the building kits for fun. (Not that is in itself is bad, but cursing a kit because its not suitable for their own hobby is a bit dirty imo) The kit certainly takes some getting used too if you are used to games workshops style of kits, especially the modern easy builds. The skeletons come needing their feet attaching and you have to build in batches and wait for each stage to dry, if you rush them or try to do them in one sitting, the weight of the arms tend to flop the model over where they attach at the waist. Also their weapons come separate and as the arms are ball joints and don't clip in, you have to wait for them to dry or the arm drops off. I personally don't mind. They are dirt cheap (I think I paid something like €0.80 per model not including the free necromancer) and they come with plenty of options. I enjoy building (it's probably my favourite part of the process, I can chuck some youtube or show on and zone out for a whole day quite happily dealing with mould lines!) They also come with their bases on the sprue. Only down side is there isn't enough bows to do an entire set with bows, but thankfully there are so many sword & spears, by the time you've built one spearman unit, you'll have enough spare bows to do a 2nd box. Only really big issue with them I can see is if you travel a lot for games. They are pretty thin (which is a good thing, as they look like they might actually fit inside the skin of an empire troop!) and remain quite bendy even once glued together well. Trays are fine, but I can imagine a lot of snappage if you use foam & cases! For anyone that picks a set up- don't try to jam the feet into the leg pegs. instead, use just enough glue to act as lucubration and slide each leg peg into the foot, one at a time. then add a touch more glue to really hold it in place when you glue it to the base. Any mess will be hidden by basing anyway! It might take one or two to get into the rhythm of it but once you have the technique down, it's not as bad as the youtubers tried to show it to be. I've yet to break a set of legs doing the feet!
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Post by knoffles on Nov 20, 2019 14:51:41 GMT
Cheers Mallo. I think I’ve possibly seen one of the reviews as the chap entitled it worst kit ever (or something like that). As you say it’s probably because you have to put in extra effort to build them.
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Post by Mallo on Nov 22, 2019 14:14:21 GMT
Cheers Mallo. I think I’ve possibly seen one of the reviews as the chap entitled it worst kit ever (or something like that). As you say it’s probably because you have to put in extra effort to build them. Yeah, sounds like the same video. Honestly, it didn't take me more than building two or three before I was in full swing. The feet may be a fiddle, as can the arms/weapons, but they certainly don't take longer than GW models to put together and they certainly don't take anywhere near as long to paint. I think the video was really unfair and probably put a lot of people off from buying them. Which is a shame, because I'd love to see warlords take on a full blown fantasy range and I had high hopes that the erewhon range would do well. Oh well, I'm happily with them and I'll probably still buy a 2nd big box (if I ever finish the first big and little box I have!) Just a small update, but nothing new painted, just a few pictures of some home made terrain that I also did over summer which I'd forgotten to add in the update with the rest of my summer work. I built a hut, based on the old farmyard modelling workshop guide from white dwarf. I made it to match the plastic farm terrain I got a while back, which I need to get some nicer pictures off. It's a tad large compared to the brought buildings, but I don't think I mind. I was pretty happy with it. I still need to add the steps going up to the door but I wasn't sure if I am going to base it or leave it as it is, so left them off for now. I'd also like to add a couple of details around the door- perhaps some spare empire shields or a couple of torches, but I couldn't decide if it was more of a farm store house or a lived in hut. I thought it might be weird to add shields or flames to a store house! Also, I put together some terrain for a Mordheim game we were planning for this winter, but had to put off for now. I've just been offered a new job and I won't have the time to put the game on over winter now. I'll keep chipping away at it though when I can, just in case I get a unplanned holiday or anything! This is just some of the scatter terrain I've been building here and there. My freehand on the sign is pretty awful but I keep trying to get better at it and this sort of thing is ideal as I can always bin it if it looks too naff. Also, I put together this little conversion, based off the rulebook art, in celebration of Mordheims 20th anniversary! This pesky little rat is getting away with the towns ' M' !
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