28mm Reaper Miniatures - Cave Goblins - Breakers, Warriors & Archers

As I often do, I thought I'd whip these out quickly. About five long days later they are finished: 

This is actually all three packs of Cave Goblins (I keep calling them "Goblins of the Cave" - a nod to bats, that are called "Chicken of the Cave" in one of the Anchorman sequels.)

 

I used a mix of Contrast/Speed paints as well as my usual layering techniques. For the skin, I actually started with a blue wash over a light gray basecoat to give them a cold tone. Lotta drab colors though make them blend in a bit with the cavern background.

I also used a lot more washes and glazes over this and that - reddened up the noses, knees, knuckles. I also tried another glowing eye effect as the sculpted eyes were not much bigger than a brush point. Most of the pupils are sculpted well enough but they are so tiny, I decided not to bother and risk screwing up the skin with he inevetable errant strokes.

Hard to tell from the pics but I put in little piles of gold coins using glitter suitable for that purpose. Under the lights they are quite sparkly.

Monkeying around with the lighting here.

They really disappear into the background here.

This was supposed to be a quick side project (they are all side projects), but probably more scarecrows, Frostgrave Wizards II or Silver Bayonet Austrians coming up next.

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28mm Goblin Factory, Heavy Armored Goblins

I had done up the command for these back in 2011 and luckily taken good notes on the colors and mixing recipes I had used, so I was able to finish the warband so that they fit in seamlessly.

A few years before, I was lucky enough to have befriended Don, the proprietor, at some HMGS con and was able to get basically "one of each" rather than any specific pack and thus I have exactly 39 figures in Heavy Armor seen below with no duplicates. (In retrospect, I suppose I should have taken one more .) Over the intervening years Don released more goblin forces, both "Lightly armored" and "Unarmored", as well as similarly equipped units of goblin cavalry on wolves. Each time I was able to pick up "one of each" of whatever was new giving me a tremendous variety of models.

But being an active duty serviceman, I believe Don's deployments and other issues prevented the Goblin Factory from fully prospering and I note that only small portions of the line remain available at Slave2gaming.com. I consider myself quite lucky to have collected nearly all of what I'd ever need and am grateful that I posses perhaps the finest range of goblins ever made, with almost 200 one of a kind models. They are ol' fashioned in that they are not encumbered with tons of flashy details, yet they have extraordinary character, animation and variety. They look hungry, grovely, with gibbering and hooting faces, but also very dangerous. Hats off to designer Mike Broadbent!

I do need a break from goblins for awhile so will finish up the army command, which to the best of my knowledge is totally unavailable today, then call it quits for a bit here.

I'm also certain there are many figures below that are no longer available, so enjoy!

The Command again

The archers

The Pole-Axe

Axe and shield

Two-Handed Axe  (those horns bug me - both in their sculpting and in my painting. I may go back in and add some more transition in there.)

The goblin in the middle has hair! The only one!

The halberds

I made a point of rusting up the armor on every model though I mostly left the chain mail alone.

Swords and boards: I "sharpened" all the blades by running Mithril Silver over the top most edges.

Shield details

All have glowy eyes

More bronze shields. I tried mixing in dark brown in with the gold for the base coat to mixed effect.

The only goblin wearing gloves is the one at right.

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28mm Reaper Goblins & a Citadel Night Goblin

Throw Back Thursday - Part 3 - from the Fantasy trays is a random assortment of goblins  - mostly Reaper, but a Citadel Night Goblin in there as well. I think he came in a White Dwarf special. I have about 12 more from other manufacturers done in the same style, completed at the same time, but I'll save them for a later date.

I'm also wrapping up a large set of  the beloved Goblin Factory Goblins so these will be of a different tribe entirely in their toxic unnatural greens.

Ben Siens' Goblin Shaman at center with John Manor's Goblin Warriors to either flank

These were also done well over 10 years ago. I basically didn't start doing 25/28s until the turn of the century after I walked into my first GW store in Greenwhich Village in NYC - up until that point it was all 15mm historicals.

More from Ben Siens at Reaper  - the leader, a goblin mage, then aone from Goblins II with the GW Night Goblin spearman at right. He's sort of his own thing and I only have the one.

I've said it elsewhere that sometimes I think I was a better painter some years ago than I am today! I still can learn from my earlier work. It's also possible that the great sculptures help a lot compared to the relatively stiff historical figures I've been doing of late.

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25mm Goblin Factory: Goblin Armored Command

Two sets of command actually, the senior officer (far left) you've seen before ...

I wanted something mean for the banners but after doing the right one and feeling vaguely unsatisfied with it, I went online looking for inspiration and found the motif for the flag at left which I like a lot better. The banner itself is angled so it looks asymmetrical here but it is fine when examined directly. You'll get a better sense of it below:

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Sometimes with Fantasy figures I just try out random stuff. I'm not super happy with the red on the cloaks but it'll do.  The scale armor on the flag bearer on the right looks almost like fur after the two washes I put over the metal. I wanted something rusty but not quite right ... 

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25mm Goblin Factory Goblin Lord

This is the commander of a rather large force of goblins I'm putting together. I tried to get one of every single sculpt that Goblin Factory does which is approaching many tens of miniatures. 

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The last time I talked to the proprietor a few years ago at Historicon, he said he soon had to go back to active duty. I have not seen any update on his site ever since so I hope he's ok. These are hands down the best goblins I've ever seen and he promised a bunch of other things too halflings or dwarves I thought.