Not dead! <Orcs and Goblins WHFB army begins>

These are great. I hope the army isn't too huge as it'll take a while at this quality but I'm really forward to seeing the forest goblins contingent come together.
 
Mostyn said:
These are great. I hope the army isn't too huge as it'll take a while at this quality but I'm really forward to seeing the forest goblins contingent come together.
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It’s really big but there’s no deadline so I can focus on quality over quantity. This summer my goal is the first picture and my own dragon ogres. Let’s see how far I can get.
 
Ok, the thing is: We could not find a big enough supply of the kind of flock my friend and I liked for the goblins (as most old materials are not in production today -hello toxicity- or can't be bought in the EU at a decent price); also, the collection is huge, so we needed a lot of it, and cheap.

So he chose a product by Army Painter (a kind of smashed cork), but that's brown. I needed to glue it with PVA, then add some fixer, then primer coat, then 2 paints of goblin green, then yellow drybrush, so in the last phase it's hard and doesn't fall off when manipulating the models (the cork is light so it flies off the base if you hit it hard with the tip of the brush unless it has lots of paint on it).

Also, that last drybrush would kill the painting on half of the models, so I decided to do it BEFORE painting the model (forcing me to paint carefully on the miniature -I take that as a positive, as I make less mistakes during the process-).

And that's how the rest of my friends think I'm crazy by doing this differently than the rest of my collection.

(edit: yesterday's WIP, forgot to take pictures this morning).
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Haha! You ARE a psycho! 😂

Great painting as always, I’ll let you off the hook. 😉

Way I see (justify) it a little bit of ambient colour off the base drybrush helps tie the model with its environment? Course that is not really the aesthetic of Hero-hammer period painting where everything is very distinctly blocked out
 
Brother Meredith said:
Haha! You ARE a psycho! 😂

Great painting as always, I’ll let you off the hook. 😉

Way I see (justify) it a little bit of ambient colour off the base drybrush helps tie the model with its environment? Course that is not really the aesthetic of Hero-hammer period painting where everything is very distinctly blocked out
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Indeed. I will often add some of the mud base colour under the flock to the feet of my men, especially if you can see their soles.
 
Today WIPs include the little buffed gobbo, some details on the metal the camera doesn't want to catch, and the almost finished Big Boss (I even have a backstory* for him):

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(*): <Not sure about the name yet> was proclaimed Big Boss after being the first member of the tribe that survived being launched by a Goblin Doom Diver, equipped with his infamous spiked helmet. He managed to one-shot a Nurgle Champion of the opposing force, surviving only because of the stolen (magic) ring of protection he wore on his right hand. He took an old curved blade from the fallen Champion and used it as a two handed weapon for the rest of the battle. Nowadays he's afflicted with an eternal flu-like illness along with some red pustules and sores he has to take care of constantly. Although no one seems to link the high rate of premature deaths among their servants and slaves with that condition, he hasn't removed the ring a single time since his "victory" so the legend of the invincible little goblin goes one to this day.​
 
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Nice little origin story for the gobbo. Always though that fancy looking ring on such creature with runny nose was interesting combination, now it all makes perfectly sense. Painting is top notch quality as always.
 
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