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Author Topic: Most overdue project ever: Warhammer Chaos Goblin conversions  (Read 2985 times)

Offline Hobby Services

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Pretty sure these poor polycephalic gobbos have spent 29 years in a box waiting for a finished paint job.  Kind of sad, really.  I dimly remember doing the conversion work for them with an eye towards using them as screening troops for my Chaos warrior and ogre mercenary regiments.  You could do that sort of thing back in 3rd edition WFB.  Nostalgia, nostalgia.















All things considered, those old Warhammer Fantasy Regiments figs hold up fairly well even after three decades or so.

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Re: Most overdue project ever: Warhammer Chaos Goblin conversions
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2016, 06:29:34 PM »
They look kind of cool, nice conversion work.

You got them ready just in time for the destruction of Warhammer.  lol
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Re: Most overdue project ever: Warhammer Chaos Goblin conversions
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2016, 06:50:29 PM »
They look kind of cool, nice conversion work.

You got them ready just in time for the destruction of Warhammer.  lol

Well, Age of Sigmar is probably the first time since 3rd Edition that Chaos could even take goblin archers in a legal Chaos army list.  Still garbage, but you can certainly use anything you like, which isn't something they've encouraged much in the last three decades.  :)

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Re: Most overdue project ever: Warhammer Chaos Goblin conversions
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2016, 12:54:47 PM »
Great stuff!  Suitably mutated.

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Re: Most overdue project ever: Warhammer Chaos Goblin conversions
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2016, 05:00:13 PM »
Love them.

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Re: Most overdue project ever: Warhammer Chaos Goblin conversions
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2016, 09:24:26 PM »
Note that even way back when, GW plastic sprues came with extra parts for kitbashing.  Some things never change.  :)

Offline Shaved Dwarf

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Re: Most overdue project ever: Warhammer Chaos Goblin conversions
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2016, 12:25:36 PM »
I didn't even know there was something like Chaos Goblins...

I like the way you did your conversions. All too often I feel people overdo chaos mutations, but you are right on the mark. 8)

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Re: Most overdue project ever: Warhammer Chaos Goblin conversions
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2016, 09:23:54 PM »
I didn't even know there was something like Chaos Goblins...

I like the way you did your conversions. All too often I feel people overdo chaos mutations, but you are right on the mark. 8)

Thanks.  There was a time when Chaos armies could (and did) take just about anything, and then layer mutations on top.  Of course, those were the days when we were still holding out hopes for a Nippon army (complete with suicide bombers lugging barrels of gunpowder), Wood Elves had units of Zoat allies, and Dwarves had access to flamethrowers and rocket launchers ("bazuka" being Dwarven for "not approved for field use" IIRC).

Kind of miss the gleeful silliness of 3rd edition WFB, even if it wasn't a very good set of rules.

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Re: Most overdue project ever: Warhammer Chaos Goblin conversions
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2016, 12:57:22 AM »
Of course, those were the days when we were still holding out hopes for a Nippon army (complete with suicide bombers lugging barrels of gunpowder),

I am pretty sure, I have seen some blisters with Nippon rocket troops or something like it, back in the early 90's or so.
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Re: Most overdue project ever: Warhammer Chaos Goblin conversions
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2016, 02:04:15 PM »
I am pretty sure, I have seen some blisters with Nippon rocket troops or something like it, back in the early 90's or so.

Sure were - late 80s I think, but they probably lingered into the early 90s in the catalog.  Rolled a bunch of d6s to determine their range while shooting making them hilariously unpredictable.  3rd edition was fond of random-ish ranges (and statlines, and mutations, etc).

Never quite enough variety in terms of sculpts to do a big Nipponese army just off GW's catalog, though.  Been pretty much nothing for support since 3rd even though that part of the world got mentioned in the fluff pretty regularly.  Really a shame, especially since they've blown up the entire planet in the Age of Sigmar reboot, so no chance of them ever doing anything more with the setting.

 

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