Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (undead warband for Mordheim)

[Hobgoblin]

Many thanks, Arundel - glad you like 'em.

Here's one (or two) more - particularly bleached-out photos in this case, I'm afraid. The eyes of all these goblins look much brighter in the flesh/lead:

[Hobgoblin]

And here's a bugbear - just squeezed in before the rugby starts:

[Hobgoblin]

And some followers:

[.:Gunslinger:.]

Wow these are so great! Love the fella with the big eyes...here the pale skintone works even better then on the others!
Great to see some fantastic old miniatures that I haven't seen before!

How do you achieve that skintone? Over a white basecoat?

[Hobgoblin]

Wow these are so great! Love the fella with the big eyes...here the pale skintone works even better then on the others!
Great to see some fantastic old miniatures that I haven't seen before!

How do you achieve that skintone? Over a white basecoat?

Thanks! I use a very pale GW flesh colour (Witch Flesh or some such?) over a white undercoat, pre-shaded with a brown or sepia wash and drybrushed up in white. Then I tint it with a thin mix of blue and green washes and highlight up in the flesh colour again with heavily thinned paint (very occasionally, the wash is thin enough or the figure "receptive" enough that I don't need to highlight up much or at all). I sometimes give them a final drybrush in white. Depending on how that goes, I may mix some of the wash colours in with the flesh tone to do a bit of blending.

It's all much more laborious than my drybrush-and-wash approach to most miniatures, but these goblins do nevertheless breed fast:

[Arundel]

They all look great. I must say I'm dazzled by how laborious the painting of these fellows is, but then, the results are magnificent, so keep at it! The bugbear is a nice old model; not sure it's how I picture them, however. First edition AD&D and Errol Otus have left their marks in the old noggin...

Thanks for sharing!

[DeafNala]

The new additions are UBERCOOL miniature AND BEAUTIFULLY painted. GREAT WORK!
The Group Portrait is TRULY IMPRESSIVE!

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, all! Here are couple more (approaching completion - still the odd detail to add/clean up):

[Hobgoblin]

Here are a couple of very old wolfriders (Citadel red orcs). These must have been end-of-the-line castings, as they were pretty rough: miscast muzzles on the wolves and lots of rough bits on the riders. I'm going to neaten them up a little, but they'll do for the tabletop (they saw their first action in SOBH yesterday morning):

[DeafNala]

You do have a unique style all your own that I, for one, truly enjoy. You also have an AMAZING collection of old minis, many that I hadn't seen before. FANTASTIC WORK!

[Totleben]

I like the diversity, colour scheme and style. 

[Hobgoblin]

Many thanks!

Here are some Chronicle hobgoblins and a few dwarfs.

[Hobgoblin]

And some more modern lizardmen (these and their scaly kin form my son's favourite warbands in SoBH, Lion Rampant and, most recently, Battlesworn):

[Rhoderic]

Nice! You really do have a good eye for picking the right colours to achieve a kind of classic, mature, understated mood (in a good way). The lizardmen look like lizardmen and not like the sort of overstatedly colourful sports mascots that are otherwise quite common as paintjobs (not least among my own old GW figures). I should try to learn from this thread.

[majorsmith]

The lizard men an wolf riders are fantastic