Mar 18 2007
Night Goblins
We went over to our friends Austin and Lori’s house on Saturday to do some St. Patty’s day drinking. While there we were taking a look at some stuff in their basement and I noticed Austins Warhammer figurines. He has a pretty good collection and they look really good all painted up.
Today I decided to try my hand at painting some. I don’t have any desire to play Warhammer at the moment, I just want to paint the little guys. I did a bit of painting many, many moons ago but haven’t done it in a long time.
So, I wandered up to the local gaming store this afternoon before going to read my book and picked up a few things. I got one Lord of Tzeentch that looks pretty difficult. He’s kinda my goal at the moment. To get started I picked up the Battle for Skull Pass Paint Set which comes with 10 Night Goblins.
I then sat down for about 3-4 hours and painted them. It takes quite a bit of concentration, and in my case, a good bit of touching up as I go along. I’ll have to admit, it’s pretty fun. You can see the final product taking shape as you go along. I get a bit obsessive and try to fix up as many of my little mistakes as I can, which just takes more time.
I think they came out pretty well. I’m also sure there are a lot of people that could do it better. I’m happy with the results. It was a good way to spend a few hours with an actual tangable thing that the end which is nice. I’m thinking I might go pickup another set, maybe dwarfs or something, to practices on next. Something to get me a bit more confidence before tackling the Lord.
September 6th, 2007 at 17:31
A few tips man…
Don’t use gloss varnish on a model that wouldn’t actually look wet. Night gobbos where robes and are generally dry- you can get matt varnish- non glossy- from games workshop.
Also, if you want to get decent looking models from early on. Use techniques like dry-brushing, shading and highlighting.
You can find guides for these on the American GW website.
Hope this helps. Good start though, don’t let my advice put you off or anything. It’s very rare to be a super bad ass painter off the bat.
Anyways, take it sleazy man
September 7th, 2007 at 08:58
The paint came in a kit with the goblins. I just used the stuff that was supplied. Don’t know if it was mat or glossy.
I’ve done the dry-brushing on a subsequent model and it came out pretty good. Haven’t tried shading or highlighting yet. Will have to look those ones up.
Thanks for the tips.
December 5th, 2007 at 12:19
i think the best and simplest thing u could do would be to base em with some sand, paint the edge green or brwon, and maybe add a little static grass on top. otherwise not bad