Orctober 2025

Eric

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Well it's the busy painting season isn't it! Alas I don't have any lovely recently painted goblinoids to kick off Orctober with some inspiration, but I do have my intended minis for the month to hand...

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So picked up these two Pogo Stick Blood Bowl players for not too much because they are both broken.

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Quick dunk in the Biostrip (well actually I left them a few days) and we're nice and clean

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Then a bit of drilling and a couple of bits of brass and we're back in bouncing business. I wondered a bit about the right hand one and if I should attempt to do something about the ding the base must have suffered, but decided - well it's a spring and a Goblin one, so it'll be fine when painted. So I just need to clean them up and get some primer on and then good to go! I can do that in a month surely!?

One thing I can't remember off the top of my head is what role Pogo Sticks played. Evidently one of these was a Catcher, but did they all have to be Catchers? Anyone remember the rules for 2nd edition and save me looking them up.

Anyhow break out your Goblin Green and slap some on something this month and enjoy the wonderment of that lovely badge for another year!
 
Brother Meredith said:
Argh!! Decision paralysis… :roll:

Any suggestions from this pile of lead…?
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Ignore the others! Do the old school tiny tiny doom diver. I love that model.

And Yay Orctober. The best time of the year.

And Eric, my recollection is pogo stick gobbos had great leap. But were otherwise all about the mad aesthetic rather than any great utility. It's a goblin trait....
 
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I feel you've got the peak of goblin goodness right there. Can't wait to see them painted up and good skills for aspiring to do all three. Although had i thought you might actually listen to the suggestions, the small child in me would have suggested something evil like a full unit of the monopose plastics!

And how do you do your bases by the way? I really like the volume they've got, especially the spider rider.
 
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Mostyn said:
I feel you've got the peak of goblin goodness right there. Can't wait to see them painted up and good skills for aspiring to do all three. Although had i thought you might actually listen to the suggestions, the small child in me would have suggested something evil like a full unit of the monopoly plastics!

And how do you do your bases by the way? I really like the volume they've got, especially the spider rider.
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Thanks, they are only small minis so shouldn’t take long once I start batching the colours down!

The bases are simply bits of ripped up cork sheet, Vallejo pumice texture paint, sprinkled with some scale gravel, sand mix and bi-carb.

Felt the spider rider would benefit form a little height and angle on the base as the model sits a little flat otherwise. Am having a little ponder how to better get him to sit flatter on the spider, for some reason there is no saddle or fold in his loin cloth where he is sitting and looks like he is floating! :roll: :?
 
weather is one reason I got an airbrush enclosure even years before I got an airbrush.. I used it for spray painting ^_^ but makes it nice, safe and tidy to do spraying and the like inside the house. I have a cheap one which cost about £20 or so.. I have no clue where I put the power supply for the extractor fan but it has the same voltage and polarity as my Airbrush, and since the airbrush is battery, so it only needs the mains for recharging, It means I always have the adapter near by ^_^ (the fact the enclosure has a compartment for the power supply didn't appear to help not lose the thing but I have tons of power supplies around)
 
I'm usually prepping for game in October so very rarely actually get to paint greenskins in this venerable month! And this Orctober is no exception. But I'll see if I can sneak one into the painting queue.
 
Fly boy is out of the bath and based up ready for the prime once Storm Amy passes over!

Also pulled out the old 4th Ed Warhammer Armies supplement for some inspiration on colours. Not sure really want to go full “red-hammer”, but perhaps a vibrant colour in the mix.
 

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ManicMan said:
weather is one reason I got an airbrush enclosure even years before I got an airbrush.. I used it for spray painting ^_^ but makes it nice, safe and tidy to do spraying and the like inside the house. I have a cheap one which cost about £20 or so.. I have no clue where I put the power supply for the extractor fan but it has the same voltage and polarity as my Airbrush, and since the airbrush is battery, so it only needs the mains for recharging, It means I always have the adapter near by ^_^ (the fact the enclosure has a compartment for the power supply didn't appear to help not lose the thing but I have tons of power supplies around)
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What spraybooth do you use?
What do other people recommend? I only have limited desk space and it is my partners work space when I am not cluttering it up, so would need to be compact and easy to dismantle…
Sorry that a little off topic folks!
 
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