Moria Goblin Prowlers in SBG formation. A mass of nasty-sharp axe-blades!
My original trio of Prowlers, painted a few years ago now.
I finally finished these Goblin Prowlers last weekend after starting them about a month ago during my Moria Goblin push. Unfortunately, and, I guess rather predictably, I got sick of painting Moria Goblins, and they sank to the back of the front of my queue. I took them to work a couple of times. but there were just too many of them to get anything substantial done, so they sat for a little while. I finally split them into two groups and took them to work last week to get stuff done in a more focused manner, and then finished them off on the weekend.
A Conga Line of Prowler Axemen – all newly painted.
More of the New Blood
…and only a couple more of this sculpt.
As with this sort of thing, I put more effort into these than I do with faceless plastics, but still – they’re not exactly models that inspire my top-tier paintjobs. I also wanted them to look grotty and grubby, so after my usual highlighting and shading I gave them a glaze/wash of AP Soft Tone. One commentator remarked at one point that they felt that the Moria Goblins were Ochre rather than Green, but my reviewing of both stills as well as and statues and other such merchandise makes them pretty well green. Though it’s more of a light olive. I’m using Citadel Foundation Gretchin Green (sadly discontinued) as a base, then highlighting it with blends into VGA Rotting Flesh. They do blend upwards into yellow-greens, but Ochre really seems to be something based off this particular still, which can be found with more than one tone to it anyway. Either way, this tone fits the Moria mob much more than the traditional Goblin Green of my (and many other) WHFB Orcs and Goblins.
Both pics here just pulled from pages on the intarwebs, with no touch-up by myself except for resizing and renaming.
How Green is my Goblin?
All depends on the light or filter, I guess?
In Kings of War they’ll be part of my Goblin army, though I couldn’t find an appropriate unit for how they’re armed – and the actual goblin infantry all seem to be listed as pretty much rabble.
Since this simply won’t do, I’ll be using the unit profile of a KoM unit – either Foot Guard with 2-handers or perhaps Berserkers – it works legally as the armies can be allied anyway, and it thematically fits the unit. I’ll be doing a similar thing with the Gundabad Blackshields when I get around to doing them (probably “regular” Foot Guard).
My only real issue is that even Goblin Kings in KoW are Yellow-Bellied, so it’ll be a bit odd to have their Elites braver than their leader. Then again… even that kinda works thematically as well if you think about it…
12 for a Regiment of “20”, and two leftover for other duties and fill-ins. Unfortunately with only three sculpts there are no fancy-pants models to be banner bearers or leaders, but such is life. Let’s face it, I’m way too slack to convert any for this mob!
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I’d say they look very much the part. I like how you subtly use similar colours in different places to draw them all together. Would it be possible to link the smaller pictures to the bigger originals, to see more of the details? How will you paint/craft the regiment bases to match them to the bases?
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OK, the three pics of the individual sculpts have been updated with larger pics. Just not the “unit” shots.
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Sure. I’ll get some bigger pics up soon (probably on the weekend).
I tried to stick to a similar palette but vary it enough so they don’t all look entirely like clones – hard with only three sculpts. I’m not sure about the regiment bases. I made a couple of my own early regiment bases for the Ogres from Plasticard and such, then gave them the PVA/Sand/Paint treatment, but they ended up scratchy on my shelf and on occasion catch the table mat. Since then I’ve taken the easy/weaksauce option and decided to worry about it later since these Renedra bases are reasonably low key.
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