I have finally broken my Skaven addiction and have moved on to something different. Have always wanted to do a Hobgoblin Army but with a slightly different look . . .
Never being a fan of the Green skin of the “Normal” Hobgoblins, I have always liked the Goblin models being painted with Human skin, making rather ugly looking Hobgoblins and something different to do. Also - I wanted to challenge my normal painting preferences (lots of muted browns and colours all over the place) so I set myself a challenge to work as close to a Black and white colour scheme as possible.
I will be using the O&G Rulebook for the unit types/rules - so the Smallest Hooded Hobgoblins will be Night Goblins, the next size up will be Orcs etc.
Really enjoying painting the models, will update as and when. Hope you enjoy. Ratapult
wow those are really well painted! you should do a gobbo army like that! but i can only imagine how long it’ll take to paint a whole army that quality, especially a gobbo army!
@fairoaks024 - Yeah, I thought the checks would be easy. It is styrene sheet with grooves all over. I thought painting every other square would be easy but it turns out its a bit of a bind :-/ . . . Going to follow it through though, thinking some kind of “Temple Guard” theme
@thrawn - The main unit took about 4 Hrs from beginning to end for the Night goblin models (a bit each evening). Am working on the 12 Strong Larger Hobgoblin unit now to match the champion (Unit of 12)
@rpitts2004 - Borrow away, I think I stole it from somewhere anyway . . . The “Orc” size goblin head is from an Old Night Goblin Unit champion I think. The rest of the units heads are made from Old Night Goblin heads (much larger than the latest kits heads). They match the Stormvermin bodies that I am using for the unit
Nice work. I am kind of chuckling at how much work the checkered effect takes… I made the same mistake as your initial thoughts - how hard could it be? I gave up though - good for you for sticking with it!
Small update - Two pics. The first is a Hobgoblin Bigboss with Great Weapon (an old Goblin Netter - they are bigger than the normal modern plastics and make great leader models) and a Squig conversion (I am using the O&G rules after all)
Hobgoblin Big Boss with Great Weapon
Squig conversion made from a River Troll Head, Ghoul Arms and Kroot Feet
@CopperPot - Yeah, planning for it, just need to get hold of the heads now. I have 4 and need to root through my bitzbox for the 5th. Other than that it will be keeping an eye on the Bitz sites and Ebay to see when the heads come up.
Mini-updata as I work on the main Hobgobbo units - a better shot of Squig conversion 1 and a a shot of Squig 2, have also added chains for a little more detail
