Daeothar's Night Goblin Extravaganza - Objective markers

[beefcake]

How have I missed this!
This all looks amazing. I love the basing trays, very nice.
Those trolls look amazing. Great PJ's on them. The night Goblins were definitely my favourite of the goblins. I'll be interested in seeing you do the squigs (most fun units I think) Do you plan on doing netters, I can't remember if there were minis for them in that style.

[Daeothar]

Cheers guys

I painted the Trolls with washes and glazes mostly, to practice for my eventual tackling of the Rackham Confrontation minis, which were all painted mostly in that style. But that also resulted in a more subdued hue on the skin and scales, which I actually like a lot.

My goal is to make a Goblin army consisting of Night Goblins only (as in; if there is a goblin unit, it's going to at least look Night Goblin). Case in point; my Wolf Riders just above. There'll be a second unit as well, of archers. So no steppe warriors in sight; just crazed, robed and photophobic cavedwellers here

Squigs are in the queue for sure, and Squig Hoppers too! I'll probably go with a traditional red for them. I did a smallish one already, that was a part of one of the Skull Pass Shaman sculpts. I did that one with a couple of red ink layers over a white undercoat, and highlighted into an orange/yellow direction. So I'll probably do that on the big ones as well.

And Netters and Clubbers were not in the Skull Pass box, but in the multipart kits that were released later there are parts for those, next to archers, spears and handweapons (and shields, obviously). I still need to get my hands on one or two of those boxes, but there'll be at least one unit fielding them, for sure.

Oh, and I intend to add a number of Fanatics to each block of infantry as well; to me, they're the most iconic Night Goblin unit!

[beefcake]

Yes, you can't do without the fanatics.
I painted my squigs pink when I first got them around 15 or so. It worked surprisingly well.

[DeafNala]

COOL STUFF! I too am a Night Goblin Fan(atic). Keep up the GREAT WORK!

[Daeothar]

Thank you; much appreciated. Especially since it comes from the mushroom master himself

I've been tempted by some real shiney new project; astronauts and a lander for the game Lunar, so these may be the last Night Goblin installment for some time. Still; I had to force myself to plough through this because what I thought was a simple and small addition to the line-up turned out to be quite the slog.

Mainly because I had decided long ago that this already quite detailed model should be embellished even more. So I added shields, spears, skulls, mushrooms and some weird fauna that came on some greenskins sprue. But this meant even more detail, and it took some time to get it all addressed.

Only to find during taking pictures that I had totally overlooked a beetle on the rear of the contraption. So that's still plain black right now, but I'll tacke that one somewhere along the line. These all still require varnishing anyway

I'll be using these as objective markers when they're required, with the hut/cell/idol possibly working as a prime objective or something. I even made a 3rd small objective marker by using a spare moon standard and some skulls.

Anyway; here they are. I'm off to the moon now...

[AndrewBeasley]

Do love the bonfire - it's such an odd model but every goblin army should have one!


I've been watching the Lunar videos - interesting game but not sure it's a solo one (so out for me). Bit of a change, though I do wonder if cave squigs live on the moon...

[Daeothar]

... I do wonder if cave squigs live on the moon...

Apparently, they do...  

[beefcake]

Nicely painted. Love that little snail with the skull shell.

[majorsmith]

Really nice looking gobbos! Love the movement trays!