At the end of May we stopped past a little hobby store a few suburbs away that a co-worker had told me about. The place is called Miniature Horde and they sell a bit of GW, some paints including Citadel Colour, Two Thin Coats, some other hobby supplies, etc – but mostly they’re big into 3D printing, with a wide variety of bases, basing bits and several licenced ranges including Avatars of War, Print Minis, OPR and Monstrous Encounters among others.
The owner there, a bloke called Irish, also holds a monthly painting challenge/comp with a giveaway model when you make a purchase, so when I bought a couple of figure cases and a model, I ended up with this little gobbo as well – clearly inspired by the old Heroquest models sculpted by Kev Adams.
I only had a couple of days to paint this little guy up, so being a simple model I allowed him to jump the queue and glued him down to a 25mm citadel round base so he’d fit in with my main Orc & Goblin force. I then got to work, finishing him the next day which is actually super fast for me, believe it or not!
Since I don’t really have any other similar random fantasy models to share for May’s work, he gets a post to himself – though there are more fantasy models to come fairly soon…
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Excellent work on the freebie, they can certainly inspire, and jump the queue cant they ! LOL
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Cheers Dave – this one was a small and simple enough model that it was easy enough to do!
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He looks spot on! 🙂 A simple paint colour scheme that’s come out really well!
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Cheers John! Simple clothes for a simple gobbo!
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I need to look back at this little fella and remember that less is certainly more! Love the use of 5 or 6 colors!
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Cheers Eric – there was a time when I used to use WAY too many colours on all of my fantasy models. I looked at them a few years ago when I was getting into KoW and realised they were looking like Skittles, so I went back in and toned down a lot of the pointless colour bombs like purple pouches etc. I think the simpler schemes look a lot more natural and realistic on many models – especially fantasy ones.
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I hear you on the level of extra detail on miniature today. I still get stuck in trying to paint every detail, but have been leaning way into more like this little guy, get a few colors and run with just those, or find the focal point and work that, everything else is just background.
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Brings back memories! That’s a lot like the very first miniature I ever painted, way back in Dec 1987. Even the colours are similar.
Yours is way better than mine though!
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Haha thanks Frank – too kind as always!
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Glad to hear there are shops out there living off 3D prints.
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They also stock a bit of GW stuff, some other paints etc but yeah, the majority of their stuff is prints and printed models. I picked up some AoW stuff from them via the post that only arrived a few days ago – need to do the check and inventory still!
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That looks great! 3D printed? It seems to have come on a long way since I last looked at that stuff, with all the horizontal lines…
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Yeah the resin stuff is pretty nice these days. I’ve got a fair few more printed models in the queue mixed in with regular ones, so you’ll be seeing a bit more printed stuff outside of the usual terrain pieces!
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I’ll look forward to that! Do you buy them printed, or are you printing your own? I’ve recently started to notice a few companies that aren’t just selling stl files but they’re printing the stuff as well…
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He’s great mate. I’ll have to check the shop out too
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Ohhh, looks fantastic indeed! It fits not only in the HQ aesthetics, but in any other classic looking dungeon game. Looking forward to more fantasy stuff!
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Nice and simple, and the end result looks great.
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He looks like good, simple fun to paint! With that said, he’s got tons of personality in spite of his size.
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