Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (Frostgrave undead and construct)

[Hobgoblin]

And another blue orc. One thing about these old Fantasy Tribe orcs is that there are lots of "duplicates" - in quotes because the faces may be the same but not the bodies, or vice versa. I'd earlier experimented with some jet-black goblins and may do a few more, but the devilish blue hide gives a quick means of adding variety to the fish-white lot (of whom I must have around 100). The blue skin is much quicker to paint.

[beefcake]

Cool. I like the upper lip that fades to pale flesh.

[manic _miner]

 Great painting on these.I too like the top lip colour.

[randycarter]

Your posts are ever more interesting: keep on updating, please!

Great paintjob as usual.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

Here are couple of GW ogres (for the same recipient as the night goblins on the preceding page). They're not really my cup of tea (I much prefer the older and smaller Goodwin and Lund ogres), but I hope they'll go down well.

[LeadAsbestos]

Everyone claims to not care for the new GW Ogres, and yet, they paint up well, are excellent size-wise in comparison to Orcs, goblins, etc in various ranges, and are easily convertible, being plastic.

AND, in the hands of a talent like you. they look great! These are excellent!

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

I think the size is part of the reason I'm less keen on them. They don't scale well with these chaps (who were much quicker to paint). Also, there is an awful lot of bare flesh, which is time-consuming. I take your point, though, that they are quite decent models in their own right. I could imagine painting up another one as a small giant or ogre mage (probably with some lurid, non-human skin colour).

[Hobgoblin]

I ran a game of Song of Blades/Mutants and Death Ray Guns for my son and two of his friends yesterday: two sets of "space pirates" trying to prise a robot with valuable information from the clutches of some primitive lizardmen who had adopted it as an idol. It worked tremendously well (the introduction of a couple of progressively weaker reserve warbands for the least lucky player helped!).

Given clamour for more such games, I've been knocking up some quick conversions so that we have plenty of Mos Eisleyish creatures for multi-player games (their firepower brings the points cost up nicely, so that each player has just four or five models). Here's the first:

[Hobgoblin]

And another:

[Globlin]

These are great, especially like the skin tones on the orc (or should that be ork?)

[Hobgoblin]

Cheers!

Here's an "ash gremlin" for the Star Wars-ish games that we've got going. But I originally acquired these GW plastics to use as kobolds in SobBH, so they may see action as such too. I might also use them as kobolds in a D&D game I'm plotting. And, just for completeness, here's another science-fantasy conversion: a blue-furred mammalian from the Zentros system ... or something.

[Hobgoblin]

Here's an old Citadel gnoll. I've got loads of these chaps kicking around; I'm planning to paint them up gradually in a variety of earthy, rocky and fleshy hues. As many share more or less the same heads, they'll need some variation.

[Hobgoblin]

Here's a "weremole" from Ganesha Games' Song of Hammer and Forge kickstarter. I'm going to be running a Dragon Warriors campaign for my kids and some of their friends, and I can see this little fellow being used as a boggart or hobgoblin in that.

[sespe]

I just got my weremole in the package and yours is already painted!  (And 10x better than mine will ever be...) 

Great painting!

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks!

Here's an orc - part of an SoBH warband for a friend's son.