Heartbreaker Goblin polearm regiment

Hello again,

Finished up this here regiment of Heartbreaker goblins and despite the numbers and lack of diversity I quite enjoyed them.  I believe these are all Kevin Adams sculpts and for the most part quite nice if a bit heavily armored for goblins.
Normally when painting large units containing mostly the same miniatures I try and vary the color of skin tones, armor and clothes etc but for these guys I just painted them pretty much all in uniform and glad I did.  I actually found it relaxing plugging away at these guys without having to put much forethought into each of them. The bases were a slog to paint though.

42 nasty well armed and armored goblins.

The bulk of the regiment is made up these two fellas. Very difficult to rank up, unfortunately I had to split the unit pretty much down the middle to get them to rank up.

All of these guys are of course metal, with the exception of the one below on the left. I got him with Impact Miniatures recent kickstarter re-producing most of the old Heartbreaker models in resin or rather some kind of plastic/resin.  He's not actually an exact copy of the original as he has armored boots and a flame etched onto his blade.

I do have about a dozen gobbos made up of these guys to help break up some of that tedious uniformity.

The command. A little bit of a skull fetish..

So onto the next project.
I think I'll be working on sorting out my wolf riders. I believe I now have enough metal wolves to get things moving along. The only thing I hate more than the old plastic wolves is the old plastic boars. But anyhow I should now have enough metal wolves to swap out my 90's wolf riders with proper mounts.

Bye for now!

Half year review 2018

So way back in October or November of last year I tried jumping on the Oldhammer painting challenge and although I didn't actually enter, I have endeavored to follow the rules or at least the spirit of the challenge and get myself some painting done these past 6-8 months.

Last night I did a quick photo shoot of everything I've finished painted since roughly last Novembor.

Here's my "army" laid out on my new FLG gaming mat. Not exactly a "legal" army by Warhammer Armies supplement standards but that's not what I was shooting for and frankly the beauty of  3rd edition was its open interpretation of the rules. A good case in point is my goblin slingers unit. Not a normal troop type in the Warhammer Armies supplement but I fancy them used as skirmishing slingers rather then proxies for goblin stickas with shortbows.

The "army" so far:

First done was this mighty horde of Orc arrer boyz with crossbows

A huge pile of Trolls

 A levy of Orc villagers

   A bunch of bolt throwers 'Spear Chukkas' 

Orc boyz and their captain.

and last the Goblin slingers

More goblins in progress-

Bye for now-

Goblin slingers

Well things got a bit bust around here and these guys took a bit longer to get finished then I had expected, but better late then never.

While rummaging through my considerable number of un-painted gobbos a few months ago I found I had 8 slingers in the mix and that got me thinking. Add a command and we're at 11 and I just need 9 more to make a proper unit. After a few conversions and a couple oddballs tossed in I've got myself a proper unit of 20 Gobbo slingers.

As far as I can tell there were only three slingers released in the main Goblin line or at least thats all I can find in the 1988 catalog. The one in the middle and on the right must be fairly common as I have multiples of them. I also have to admit I've always had a soft spot for the one in the middle ever since I spotted him in the Heroes for Wargames book years ago.

A few of the oddballs. The fella on the left is a 40k grot I'll probably replace if I come across something more suitable. The gob in the middle is a pre-slotta goblin with sling and fits in fine.  The grinning fella on the right, well I suspect he has a sling, he just got a little confused when the boss told him to put his rocks in it (or maybe he knows exactly what he's doing idk).

A few minor conversions. I must have a dozen of the Marauder MM30 goblin with club (middle) and converted a handful for this project.

The boss is one of my favorites from the Kevin Adams line of gobbos. A simple sculpt but the mutton chops and mustache lends him a natural air of authority (the spiked club helps too).

I also managed to paint up a Goblin shaman from the old Heartbreaker line I believe.

So that's it for now. I'm not sure whats coming next I have another unit of Goblins I'd like to paint but things a busy around the compound again so it may be a while.

'till next time-

Last 10 Orcs finished. Mork's Mutilatorz complete!

Ten new recruits have wondered down the valley to join the infamous Mork's Mutilatorz gang.

Finished these guys last week and finally got them photo'd up. A little rushed but they still came out pretty good. The fella with the mohawk helmet is one of my favorites.

 So that makes for a nice fat unit of thirty Orcs and no duplicates! Looks like the Mutilatorz gang is all set for a season of raiding a pillaging the local farmsteads.

OK, on to the next project. I think my goblins need some attention now.

Bye for now-

Ten more Orcs and 2 spear Chukkas'

So ten more Orc boyz are done as I crawl towards what I hope to be a large unit of 30 Orcs. 20 down 10 to go.

Some more examples of Kev Adams excellent 80's work.
Though I'm not sure about the one second from the right as a Kevin design. I was a little unimpressed with him at first, he's smallish and sort of man-ish but he painted up well and I kind of like him now. The guy on the far right is one of my favorite designs. Some of you might recognize Bruglodd in there, he wont be part of the greater unit but he was in reaching distance when I was painting so he got the treatment.  I'm thinking the banner depicts "Mork da' Kunnin" or maybe its Gork I don't know.

And the next five. Nice models in general although the one on the far right has a face that is a bit miscast with what might be his left eye resting on his cheek.

The completionist in me made me pick up these two spear chukkas. They are similar to the Notlob bolt throwers I previously shared except they are festooned with all sorts of furniture. I believe these were the Dwarf bolt throwers from the same period. Unfortunately I could only dig up enough crew for one of them at least for now.

While taking pics I noticed one of the boyz had acquired himself a cute eight legged squigly beast. 

OK, so 10 more orcs to go.

Bye for now-

Ten more Orcs and two more Trolls

10 Orcs boyz and couple more trolls completed.

I think I finally got my Orc painting mojo back. The crossbow Orcs I over blended their greens, the villagers I got bored and relied too much on dry brushing but these guys came out just right sticking with bolder contrasts.

I also feel the need to re-iterate my love for these old models, each with their own uniqueness. I was pleasantly surprised to find the drummer's drum is made from a stretched gobbo hide, which adds a little charm.

A mix of Kevin Adams and the Perry twins with one White Hand LOTR Orc that I'm not sure who designed probably one of the Perry's or Morrison's.

Showing off their artistic side. Its difficult for an Orc to create a face uglier then his own.

Last a couple more Trolls. Both are from Heartbreaker. The one on the right is from their Magic the Gathering line, the other is from their later Tim Prow line I think but mine I picked up with the recent Kev Adams/Tim Prow kickstarter run by Impact! Miniatures and is cast in a plastic/resin similar to fine cast.

More Orcs in the pipeline.
Bye for now-

The village people

About eight years ago I got the crazy idea of collecting all the Orcs from the 1988 Citadel catalog with the exception of the villagers. They never really did much for me back in the day and I felt they were too collectable making them more expensive and hard to find then they should be. Despite that I still ended up with a pretty decent collection of villagers just from purchasing assorted lots here and there over the years with only a few duplicates. At this but I think I'm only 7 or 8 short of a complete collection.

When or if I ever get around to using these guys in an actual game I think the old 3rd edition levy rules would fit quite nicely although I may even add stupidity to them to take into account of their drunk and disorderly behavior and making for a thoroughly ineffective unit as they should be.  And of course they'll also make useful additions to the baggage train should I ever put one together.

So here's my unit of twenty seven rabble villagers plus three laying down on the job.

The brawlers

The looters

The drunks

The ladies

Last, the village witch doctor surrounded by the boyz with enough presents of mind to bring along something resembling weapons.

Thanks for looking. I'm currently working on some more trooper boyz and couple more trolls.

bye for now-

Spear Chukkas'

I wasn't quite able to finish these guys up in December. I was about 80% done two weeks into the month and there they sat until last weekend when I finally finished basing them and stringy the bolt throwers.

I have two old Notlob's bolt throwers and two of the newer style (relatively speaking) Orc "Spear Chukkas".
http://www.solegends.com/citrr/1rr14notlobs/index.htm

The two older style bolt throwers. One I had painted a little while back but I updated it with bow string.

 The newer style bolt throwers (3rd ed Spear Chukkas).

 The Orc in the middle is the acting engineer/boss and I believe is the Notlob model. As far as I can tell Citadel made at least two variations of Notlob, one with an all chain mail coat and this one with a scale mail vest.

So that's about 186 point and if we call the Boss a 5th level hero that should put me over the 200pt mark.

Not sure what I'll be doing for January. We're already a couple weeks into it and things are busy, might need to call this month a wash.

But I'm looking at either finishing my Orc villagers or working on another proper unit of Orc boyz.  I'm leaning towards the villagers as they're unique and fun but I don't think they'll total out to 200 pts but meh- who cares..

Bye  for now-