Vintage fantasy (Snurd Hideflayer)

[blackstone]

Made a start on the first figure in a vintage fantasy project today. I'm going to try and keep the figures from the late 70's to mid 80's pre-slotta and base them on thin squares or rectangles. As a start I'm working on figures from the Citadel SS4 Goblin Raiding Party. First up is Snurd Hideflayer. Will try to nail down the skin colour on this one and then carry that over onto the other goblins.

[Doomhippie]

Ooooh, I'm excited! I have those around my attic and they are cool miniatures.

You gave him so much character! Great. Keep on painting and posting!

[Thantsants]

Great stuff - keep eyeing these guys up on ebay.

[DeafNala]

VERY COOL mini! AND a paint job worthy of that coolness...love his face. VERY WELL DONE!

[JollyBob]

Loving the skin tone, and such a characterful face! 

Bob approves. 

[The Dozing Dragon]

Looking great. Looking forward to watching this project develop. I have still have the original minis, bought when they first came out.......still unpainted 

[M.P.]

Love the skin tone and his face expression .

[manic _miner]

Great painting on a very nice miniature.

[Damien]

Whoa there, the pic just stopped me in my tracks! What an amazing paint job! The skin tone is superb and is the shield freehand? I hope you have a lot of minis 'cause I want this thread to go on for a long time.

Great stuff
 Damien

[blackstone]

Thanks for the comments! Shield design is sculpted on so just had to pick it out... hopefully will get a chance to finish him at the weekend. I've got one full set of the goblin raiders plus about 10 duplicates (and a second Norgus the Flatulant heading over from miniature heroes!) so will have a nice warband when finished. Also the original Grom figure has been stripped and will be painted up with these along with a pair of trolls from '79.
 

[Vongoosewink]

I really love the way you painted the flesh on this guy.  The peachy/pink bits contrast beautifully with the green of his skin, really a great job. 

Looking forward to seeing the rest of his friends!

--Fitz

[Fates Fickle Finger]

Fantastic, really makes me want to get some vintage stuff! keep on posting your progress

FFF

[blackstone]

Managed to get a few hours of painting in today. Didn't finish anything I worked on Snurd and slapped a few coats of paint on two old Ral Partha Trolls. I tried to get the colours stronger on Snurd as he looked a bit washed out. May have gone too bright with the green skin though. The two Trolls are fun old sculpts, look more like ogres to me though!





cheers!

[blackstone]

Probably won't get a chance to continue the painting until the weekend but thinking about a (3rd) change of colour to Snurds skin! Possibly going to try yellow... blame the military picks Once I get the colour worked out on him it'll be plain sailing on the other goblin raiders, (found a couple more in the lead pile today and a third Norgus arrived... anybody have any of the troop type figures from the raiding party set to trade or sell send me a PM).

Anyhow here's a pic of some recently aquired figures for those who like pictures of old lead:



Left to right Citadel goblin, (never seen this one before purchase, unusual style like a screaming punk haired barbarian goblin in furry pants!) , citadel Hill giant (classic figure), lance and laser ogre, (don't know much about this figure, odd pin-head reminds me of zippy comic character), citadel giant (3rd one I've owned though other were sold on years ago, they had better bodies too   ) and finally a awesome Ral partha troll.

[Andrew May]

Snurd looks great. You don't realise how good some of the vintage sculpts are until you see them painted to a high standard. It's heartening for a sculptor to remember that you've always been able to make interesting one piece minis.