Mantic Games Goblin Army

I just recently finished my giant! He was an incredibly fun model to paint and is a huge fellow, I really love the mantic giant kit and painting him was just a treat.

So to paint him i first primed him in AP uniform gray. I then airbrushed on barbarian flesh, followed by a wash of flesh tone, I then let that dry and then airbrushed more barbarian flesh, then airbrushed in koboled skin. I then drybrushed koboled skin on the raised areas to create texture. The blue was just griffon blue, followed by blue wash and then a layer of crystal blue. The white cloth was just AP spaceship exterior, given a wash of contrast apothecary white, then relayered with ap spaceship exterior. The red was simply dragon red, washed ap red tone, then brought back up in dragon red with final highlights of Mars red.

The browns were a mixture of leather brown for straps, werewolf fur for fur, oak brown for wood and then all were washed in Ap strong tone before being brought back up with drybrushes of the original colours (except the fur which I gave a light drybrush of leather brown).

The nails were all done in my usual process of AP oak brown, AP desert yellow and then AP skeleton bone. Hair and eyebrows were matt black, followed by necromancer cloak and then finally highlighted in uniform gray.

Basing followed on from the rest of the army!

So today’s goal to get out of a hobby slump was to finish king gaggle being carried on his palanquin. I wanted a quick easy win which would add flavour to the army and he fit the bill perfectly. So after spending a couple hours here he is in all his tyrannical  glory!* I wound up removing the banner bearer for the rabble legion to fit Gaggle but I think it looks better now! Plus now I’ve already got a banner ready for the next horde!

I’ve actually also started painting my giant but he’s a bit of a bigger project so it may take me another week or so to finish him, but finish him I will!

*glory sold seperately

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted an update but I have been busy painting! So busy in fact I forgot to post this a few weeks ago! So I’ve finished painting up my goblin mincers, two regiments of mawbeasts cavalry, all my character models and I’ve even started painting my giant! I’d say painting alot of goblins has been a slog but I’m genuinely enjoying every stage of this project, so much so I think I’m going to keep painting units for it for the foreseeable future (I already have hit my goal of 2000 points and then some).

So what’s next? Well the aforementioned giant, then I want to move onto the winggit and artillery, followed by mawbeasts splitters (two regiments of them) and thereafter the war trombone and mawbeasts packs, and then finally and fittingly I’ll finish the project with a return to where it all began, a horde of spitters!

As promised I have finished my trolls! I wanted to do a mixture of forest and cave trolls with the idea being the goblins just herded together whatever random trolls they’ve found and covered them in scraps of rusty metal. This was my first time attempting rust using GWs typhus corrosion and ryza rust, I like the effect!

I know it’s been a bit quiet of late between all my other projects (finishing the enforcers army was the big one) but I’m finally back in goblin town and I have now at last finished all the infantry for my base 2000 points of goblins I’d like to have done by years end! Now that I’m free of rank upon rank of basic troops I can finally just paint trolls, mawbeasts and my mincers! Stay tuned as I tackle the trolls next!

So I needed to do a new legion sized base since I accidentally destroyed the one intended for these guys last week by accident, but it’s a good opportunity for me to explain how I’m basing the army!

So I start off with getting the proper sized multibase ready, then I tear off some cork board from the sheets I get from Bunnings (or your local hardware store). I do a dry test to see if I can make a natural looking sort of arrangement and once satisfied I superglue the cork down. Now on some of my other bases I then attach using superglue some plaster cast rock formations but not on this one (as I would’ve had to cast some more and I was feeling lazy.

The next step is to apply sculptamold, this is a magical material that helps me to create realistic ground undulations and stops the cork from being just flat platforms. I discovered this from LukesAPS YouTube channel and knew I had to try it some time, if you’re doing terrain building or multicasting this stuff is awesome.

I then allow the st uj lptamold to dry overnight as I don’t want to apply paint and keep it damp. Once that’s done I then prime the whole base with army painter leather brown. I then paint all the exposed cork sections black before giving them two drybrushed, first with army painter uniform grey and then army painter ash GrayI also layer some cheapdollar store dark brown onto all the areas that aren’t exposed rock. The base is then ready for the basing material, using of a glue I first apply LukesAPS brand arid grasslands basing on the areas I want to be grassy and then arid earth okn the lower parts to make it look like rocks have be washed out after rain.

Then for the finishing touches I apply some gamers grass dry tufts and mixed green tufts sporadically, the base now looks like so!

I then glue the little goblins on and voila! A legion of rabble ready to swarm over my enemies!

The past two nights as a palette cleanser I’ve been working on Magwa and his best mawbeasts pal Jo’os. It’s been a quick little project and only took two nights because I had to wait for washes and basing to dry but progress is progress and I’m now one goblin unit closer to my goal!

Okay, so theyre not based yet but they’re completely finished painting wise, I made a mistake and destroyed the legion scenic base they were supposed to go on so now I have to wait while my local movement tray provider cuts a new one up for me. Which actually provides me with a good excuse to finally do a tutorial on how I’m basing the army later this week, so stay tuned for that! Now this rabble legion took me far far longer than I wanted it to simply because I think I was intimidated by doing 50 something models in a single batch, but now that they’re out of my way I’m kind of itching to do some sharpsticks… call me a masochist but I’m quite enjoying cranking out rank and file goblins…

Though some mawbeasts riders would be pretty cool too… ii don’t know let’s put it to a vote in the comments, more goblin infantry or some cavalry?