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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
- Thread starter Fimm McCool
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Michael Stockin
Lord
Nice. Yes. The rules were quite the notion.
The Serene Badger
Vassal
Looks fab! I've just got to find time to varnish and base my entry now... Instead I have to go and serve pork rolls at the school Christmas fair tonight.
The Serene Badger
Vassal
We're they the ones where you basically gave it a program/set of responses to situations and then didn't really do much more than set them loose on the battlefield? Am I remembering that right?
Michael Stockin
Lord
That is my memory of them.
Brother Meredith
Lord
Example pf the “programming” you could do:
chrisgoodone
Lord
Said I'd enter and here it is. Not a Dark Elf on a shelf this year, but a Dark Elf I really like.
Think it's Bob N for maybe Grenadier?
Think it's Bob N for maybe Grenadier?
Fimm McCool
Lord
What an odd thing, never seen that before. The sword is fantasy but the helmet and greaves (?) look sci fi.
chrisgoodone
Lord
Agree - looks Eldar-y
Brother Meredith
Lord
Missing pics here https://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=Dark_Elves_(Fantasy_Warriors)#502 but clearly part of the same range.
Brother Meredith
Lord
Course it is! https://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=File:502_Dark_Elf_Infantrya.jpg
Can I blame a dram of whisky?!?
chrisgoodone
Lord
This ia an amazing paintjob. Post some smaller pics or it'll go missing! Blimey
KingOfTheLeadPile
Lord
Thanks! When it is completely done, I will
The Serene Badger
Vassal
Rufus "Red Leader" Gloinsson loves nothing more than the feel of the wind in his beard, swooping over the peaks of the Grey Mountains west of Karak Azgaraz, hunting orc and goblins to help his clan carve out a new hold.
The grey beard engineers call him and his fellow aeronauts reckless, taking to the skies in contraptions that have only been tested for a mere 27 years, but Rufus is confident in his "bird", racing along the ridges with the falcons. He knows her inside and out, every nut, bolt and flange. Although if pressed, after a few pints of Bugman's, he'll admit to being puzzled why his machine always seems to outpace those of Borri and Gotrek, they're identical to the last widget, bar for Borri's having a blue paint job and Gotrek's green...
(Hopefully the pictures have come out at a decent resolution and the details show, I can swap them if not. https://photos.app.goo.gl/K25AqtFYNqcFdTFY6 Google photo album link with a couple more shots. I really enjoyed this and having the goal helped me get it done, as it's been stupidly busy and I probably wouldn't finish for ages if not for Golden Gobbo. Got to try new things with inks, OHL light effects, pigments (soot above the furnace) and the toadstools were my first ever scratch built green stuff creations, so it's been a real learning curve. Not sure when orcs being fungus based came in, or whether that was just 40k, but I like the idea and wanted to play with it)
The grey beard engineers call him and his fellow aeronauts reckless, taking to the skies in contraptions that have only been tested for a mere 27 years, but Rufus is confident in his "bird", racing along the ridges with the falcons. He knows her inside and out, every nut, bolt and flange. Although if pressed, after a few pints of Bugman's, he'll admit to being puzzled why his machine always seems to outpace those of Borri and Gotrek, they're identical to the last widget, bar for Borri's having a blue paint job and Gotrek's green...
(Hopefully the pictures have come out at a decent resolution and the details show, I can swap them if not. https://photos.app.goo.gl/K25AqtFYNqcFdTFY6 Google photo album link with a couple more shots. I really enjoyed this and having the goal helped me get it done, as it's been stupidly busy and I probably wouldn't finish for ages if not for Golden Gobbo. Got to try new things with inks, OHL light effects, pigments (soot above the furnace) and the toadstools were my first ever scratch built green stuff creations, so it's been a real learning curve. Not sure when orcs being fungus based came in, or whether that was just 40k, but I like the idea and wanted to play with it)
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Michael Stockin
Lord
Nice. I do need to get myself an original gyrocopter again. Such understated quality
The Serene Badger
Vassal
I've got three, this one (my original I got in the late 80's/early 90's) and two in bits from eBay I got recently. The idea is to have a blue and green one, but I definitely won't be sticking the rotor blades on before painting the next one, that was a right pain in the bum! They seem to work best on the battlefield as multiples, as one attracts a lot of attention. Once I've got my legacy model done, I'll set up a "work in progress" thread.
chrisgoodone
Lord
I LOVE him. And the fungi. Blimey you is well good. Nice work fella