Mantic Games Goblin Army

One of the things ive realised id like to do with this project was to bring the mantic goblins (current and original from Kickstarter 1) to life and to do that I figured my army of goblins needed a little story bit of converting and story, I realised the core of my army eventually will be a legion of sharpsticks being the so called ‘elite’ of a goblin force and to remove the monotony of the 50 something goblins that will compose it, amongst all my other goblins i decided to create a goblin ‘king’ on palanquin. I wanted to use only mantic bits to create him so I set about and took my second goblin biggit I had lying around, I then took an old 40mm mdf base, scoured and scored it with my hobby knife before putting a dwarf throne onto the palanquin. I then took three spare spears from the mawbeast rider kit and fashioned them together to form the banner that would sit behind him. I then realised his palanquin was a little plain and so attached some treasure from the terraincrate series that i had spare and I was duly satisfied with how the little tyrant was looking.

The story of my goblins had now started coming together, my little goblin king had broken into an adjacent and forgotten dwarves keep in his lonely tunneling. Resulting in him becoming very wealthy and with enough bribes from his secret tunnel he assassinated and bought his way to lead the tribe of the red sign and become fat and large, no longer a mere rabble runt.

After making it to the top he had his best luggits bring the old dwarf kings throne for him to sit on. He decided however that the source of his great wealth would remain a mystery as he had those luggits duly get eaten by his tribes slasher thereafter. Now the little tyrant gets hauled around by the elite spiky biters legion, their loyalty secured by his gold. However plundering and dealing in dwarves holds and treasure has rapidly lead to him having a mark on his head, the dwarves are not known to take plundering and defilement of their sacred holds well!

The next stage in doing this little dude will be to work out how his palanquin will be carried, but I have to wait until all my spears for my sharpstick legion arrive in the mail, and with corona impacting shipping from the UK to Aus I don’t know when that will be ?