Old Skool Goodies, Baddies and Whatever

As it says in the title it begins! I have never attempted a project before so bare with me! I have a rather large lead/plastic mountain of shame (pride?) that goes back over… hummmm … years! (I don’t even want to think about it!) So as we are once again in lockdown, although I still do have to work, I thought that it was time to do some painting. Well before Xmas I had actually prepared a load of GW Night Goblins from the Battle for Skull Pass, for my 15 yr old Godson to paint on one of his stop over weekends, but this was cancelled due to the second mini lockdown. Feeling a bit fed up I then started the first couple of units. It was only on completion of these 2 units that I realized I should have started a project … So here it is!

Firstly … here are the completed units

I have now started the 3rd unit, another unit of spear goblins. To make things easy following a quick mould line clean up I sprayed the minis with Halfords Black Primer

Following on from the spray it was just a matter of brushing on black paint into the recesses that the spray hadn’t penetrated.

A quick dry brush with dark grey all over and voila!. I generally mix my own colours, I have many different paints from a range of manufacturers and being an old timer couldn’t give an exact formula! I just added ceramite white to the generic WH Smiths black until it looked right!

As these are just being done to my wargames standard I don’t often do 3 stage painting, except for flesh or yellows and reds, so just the single coat of dark grey!

On to the basecoats. For the basecoats I used the following

Tin Bitz for the metal. As these are Gobbo’s I like a nice rusty/dirty look and tin bitz is ideal for this.

Doombull Brown + black for spearshafts, backs of shields where visible and pouches.

Tausept Ochre for the shield “evil moon”.

A generic scarlet +Doombull Brown for the shield rim and tops of mushrooms.

And finally the infamous Goblin Green for the skin.

So here they are with base coats applied