• Welcome to the Golden Gobbo painting competition. If you'd like to read some of the ancient history you can on the Realm of Chaos 80s blog.

    This competition is held some years and you'll find threads here describing how to enter and when the competition is running (typically after BOYL each year).

    Other than the fame and wonderment of your peers there is often a prize kindly donated and you'll have the wonder of being awarded badges for your profile here.

GG 2025 Golden Gobbo '25

When Golden Gobbo was announced, I thought about my entry for this year, and quickly decided for the Jabberwocky from Old School Miniatures. Not an actual old school mini (quite recent model and still in production), but an old hammer model in motive :)

I cut off the integral base of the model, bent the left arm for a slightly more interesting silhouette, and based the model on a 40mm square metal base from Products for Wargamers. A little bit of greenstuff was needed to fill the gaps between wings and body, and to blend the cutting edges where I removed the integral base to the metal base.



 
The main inspiration for the color scheme I found by searching online for coloured pictures of Jabberwockies, in a painting from William Stout.
Then I remembered a video from Marco Frisoni, where he painted a dragon, and more or less copied that approach. Basically, you start with a violet basecoat, then go around the color wheel in one direction (red -> yellow) for one major color on the model, then the other direction for the second major color (blue -> green) to build up the colour progressions.


The hands and feet are too yellow, and will be tuned down a bit more towards orange as in the inspiration picture in the next step. The hairy bits and most of the skin got a fairly neutral greyish color. Their final look will be determined when I am done with the main color parts. The hair might just stay dark grey/black, or perhaps turn towards the red from the reference picture. The skin will stay fairly light, but might get tinted towards a colour.


What really itches me at this point, in the pictures I discovered mold lines I missed in real life. But removing them now means I will have to repeat all the airbrushing in these places, with the risk of overspraying others...


 
Looks like a real process paint job! The counter intuitive base colour really seems to be working!

Marco’s an amazing artist, really gobsmacked what he achieves with his speed painting and such a lovely personality too.
 
I know I received some love for my choice of an imperial guard sergeant but, my hobby focus has changed and I have packed the 40k stuff away and brought down from a high shelf, a dusty, but heavy box full of Chaos.
This is a project I started with paper round money in the mid eighties and its finally going to get some attention.
I have chosen a Bob Olley Tzeentch Beastman with a metal citadel shield that looks like a pink horror

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Black Shuck (Ben) said:
I know I received some love for my choice of an imperial guard sergeant but, my hobby focus has changed and I have packed the 40k stuff away and brought down from a high shelf, a dusty, but heavy box full of Chaos.
This is a project I started with paper round money in the mid eighties and its finally going to get some attention.
I have chosen a Bob Olley Tzeentch Beastman with a metal citadel shield that looks like a pink horror

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Classic! Olley really set the RoC aesthetic in these sculpts.
 
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