Another of the Endless Spells that has been sitting, half-done with some paint on it for an Endless amount of time today – the “Scuttletide” from the Gloomspite Gitz (or Night Goblins to you and me). As with the other endless spells I’ve finished recently, this one was started some significant amount of time ago, got delayed for whatever reason (most likely I got distracted and enthusiastic about some other thing – then shoved out of the way, put into a tub and then forgotten for several years
I went with a fairly bright scheme for the spiders here because I live with an arachaphobe, so they need to be unrealistic enough so that they can be on the table with Marouda playing a game. I mean, I’m not especially fond of the creepy little bastards myself, so this works as a game piece. I also dulled down the smaller ones with a few extra layers of wash because the whole piece was just a mess of visual noise, and now the larger ones do at least stand out a little. I also painted fake shadows on the undersides of their legs so that they look a litle more like legs as opposed to walls of plastic.
I didn’t have any painted goblin shamans handy for the size comparison pic (they’re all put away in a case somewhere), so you get a Savage Boyz Shaman instead!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Superb! I reckon they look way better in crazy red than they would in more realistic colours – proper loony gobbo stuff 😂
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Cheers Alex. They’re pretty bright but as long as they look decent – and aren’t unusable – then I’m ok with them. 🙂
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I just started the book that rolled out with this part of A.oS. Know next to nothing about what it’s about. Great paints
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Cheers! I haven’t really read much of the AoS background, let alone any of the novels, so you’ll know more than I very quickly I’m sure!
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Ive also been very hesitant on getting deep into AoS, i still have so much of Oldworld to discover
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Makes sense, though I guess if the books are good, it’s only one more literary setting. 🙂
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Fantastic work mate, and the added shadow works wonders at covering the excess plastic. as for the colour choices they look very much like the ones I used on my alien spiders ( Don’t tell Marouda, I based mine of a real spider ! LOL)
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Thanks Dave – they looked pretty bad without that done, so it felt pretty non-optional. Those are some pretty nasty spiky spiders on your site as well!
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I took lots of elements from real spiders that made the arachnophobes I know cringe and combined them together, unfortunately it meant I was the only one willing to touch the models at shows ! LOL
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Haha I’m not surprised!
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Nicely done! 🙂 Quite an impressive piece in itself!
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Thanks John! Perhaps it will actually be used one day…
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Well you certainly wouldn’t want to see that coming across the table towards you! Nicely done mate!
Cheers Roger.
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Cheers Roger! I’ll have to try to play AoS again and find out what it’s like! 😉
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Eeeek! They are scary enough in that palette, glad you didn’t make them black or whatever!
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They could look pretty creepy in black, I reckon!
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What a fun sculpt. Love the colour choices
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Thank you, mate!
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They look great. The bright red suits them.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete! It should look alright next to some Night Goblins or even Forest Goblins! 🙂
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GW did a great job sculpting these as it really does look like a swarm of spiders heading towards you! I would imagine it wasn’t the most exciting thing to paint but it certainly came out nicely. I think the color scheme fits the faction really well too.
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It’s not the most amazing model, but as long as it’s effective for it’s intended use I guess it works. As you note, the bright colours work well with GW’s Night Goblins!
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Creepy!
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Thank you!
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I don’t envy you having to paint those! I’ve got a smaller Reaper Rat Swarm that keeps getting a pass over and over. The mini looks good though and your little touches help sell it. The last pic with the Shaman is definitely the icing on the cake! 😀
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The good (best?) thing about smaller sub-models like these are washes, contrasts and drybrushing. 😉
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They look great as does the shaman. I like the red.
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Cheers! One day I’ll (hopefully) get back to my Savage Boyz, but I think first I’ll be trying to finish off this particular boxed set of spells….
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