Anyway, these days owning an LED lamp rather than a furnace level heat producing daylight bulb means painting is not stopped by the heat of summer. So, I got the brushes out and painted this week. I also did some undercoating and building with the youngest offspring of his choices from GW. They are some bizarre new Space Marine kits that I have no idea what they are. A very funky looking bunker and a hover(?) tank. (Did they get jealous of the Eldar?) I must admit these new kits fit together very nicely even if they have a horrendous number of parts.
I, however am stubbornly sticking to what I know and have been adding to one of my good old fashioned square based warhammer armies. I explained here how I accidently painted a night goblin army and recently I have been wondering what I can add to it. It really needed a proper character to lead the army and so I trawled ebay until a
I found a reasonably priced set of Skarsnik and Gobbla. What better character to lead the army? I also prefer this version to the newer silly looking one.
I'm super happy with how they came out. I painted Gobbla first, the entire time lamenting the fact that any squigs I previously owned were sold in a clearout of old models that I sometimes regret. I really want some more old school squigs now, they are so fun to paint. Skarsnik was a bit trickier as he has a lot of details, some of which I genuinely couldn't see unless I took a photo and zoomed to check what I had painted! I tried something new for the green skin, GW Plaguebearer flesh contrast over Coat D'arms goblin green. (I know, right? Finally success with contrast paints!) It's taken about thirty years, but I think I've finally found a way of painting greenskins I am gonna stick with. (Cue GW discontinuing the contrast paints range...)
So, what should I add to the army next?
Let me know in the comments.
