Goblins in Nostalgic style (3d printable)
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About the Project
3d Printable Goblin project, Sculpted in Blender and test printed on a Anycubic Photon 4k mono. Loving old style full of Character minis from the eighties and early nineties, I decided that the modern goblins just didn't inspire me. So I figured I'd try my hand at making my own.
Related Game: Warhammer 40,000
Related Company: Games Workshop
Related Genre: Science Fiction
This Project is Active
Playing with ideas
Not sure how this will work in my game. But could be a fun model.Progress with the clothes...
Basic shapes done now to sculpt the folds.Test colours on WIP models
Nice being able to see how colours will look even when the model is so far from finished.Golden Button! Thank you
Thank you for the Golden button and the kind words.
Sorry, I have no idea why I choose to use an old gamer tag as my user name. My names Pete.
Yes Gerry I am working on the goblin heavy weapon team, but its not very far along yet. The Minis will be broken into two different factions. Military themed and cybernetically enhanced. Maybe more after that.
The Game..
I worked out a skirmish game with 8 characters a side to begin with. Both sides will play very differently, I have tried to have just enough of the old green skin ridiculousness without making the game to random.
Each Character/unit will have a card that is drawn from a shared deck for activation. When a Character is eliminated you choose from a hand of themed event cards to replace the killed characters card in the deck. This acts as a balancing mechanic and also it doesn’t feel as bad if you lose a character early in the game.
I’ve tested with test prints and its quite fun so far.
Pete (Wonky Goblin Miniatures)
Trying to get better at modelling using splines.
The chain was made using a object duplicated along a spline and repeating the links in place of each object. Its harder than it looks.
Adding more goblins to the group, This one is based on my early pose test.
I found it better to make a few models like this, then go back and add details and refine them. I want a big group and progress is picking up.
Lloyd shot, Happy with the folds in the clothe. I am wondering, I have a little skirmish game I've made for these minis, Interesting?
I made a little skirmish game with cards for each of my minis, It needs a bit of work but I was thinking of including it with 2 gangs of models as a kind of print and play starter pack. Should I spend time on this or just get on with making more minis?
I need a better Camera Grrrrr
A terrible photo as my phone won't focus without better lighting. But proof they do print.
A name if I ever sell miniatures
A non existent website is being made.Wip on Goblin on wheels
No details added yet, I like the idea of mechanic limbs. But half goblin half bike? I've seen orcs like this but not goblins.
Need to make it look more like the bike is part of him.
More Poses...
Starting to explore different faces and proportions. I want all the goblins to look different, I hate when you can spot repeated parts on a squad of models. Yes I know they did reuse legs etc on old models too.
Something a bit more expressive!
Kev Adams made a Goblin years ago and I thought I'd give my spin on it.A splash of digital colour
Testing Colours on the model using blenders vertex painting. Much better Second try..
Much better pose, More defined detail and printed well.
Errors still made, The dagger printed, but was supper thin. The straps on the clothing were also very difficult to paint as they weren't exaggerated enough. Early mistakes !
Being in a rush to print something, I quickly Made this. The stance was a bit odd and the details were way to small and not clear enough. Not a waste of time because I learnt a lot from it.Working on poses..
Using a more basic model than my main character base, I started playing with expressions and poses I started by making something to pose...
Doing complex rigging is pointless for my needs, so I created a goblin from lots of basic shapes and parented them together so I could quickly pose the model and swap out heads and other details 
