Category Archives: Orc and Goblin Army

Not-HeroQuest 1989 – Monstrous Encounters Classic Goblin

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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…

Age of Sigmar: Gloomspite Gitz – Endless Spells: Scuttletide

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Age of Sigmar: Gloomspite Gitz - Endless Spells: Scuttletide

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

Age of Sigmar: Gloomspite Gitz - Endless Spells: Scuttletide

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.

Age of Sigmar: Gloomspite Gitz - Endless Spells: Scuttletide

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!