Goblin Army Additions

I've been very slowly building up an Orc and Goblin army for Warhammer. Every time I get some miniatures painted however, a new rule set and army list comes out to ruin my progress. AoS of course completely ruined things so I'm now aiming at a Kings of War army instead. I hope to play 2nd Ed this Monday if all goes well.

In any case I made these Squig hoppers. I had received a couple of stock standard GW figures as 'extra' bits in an ebay purchase but these were not really enough to make up a unit. I decided that I could make my own from plastic night goblins out of one of the warhammer boxes plus some green stuff. Here they are unpainted.

Here they are painted and based

I remember fondly the native American inspired goblins of 4th ed and always wanted to get some of them made up. Time of course ruined these plans with them being completely dropped and then partially brought back, only to disappear in the void of AoS. I've since ignored this and went ahead and created two heroes on gigantic spiders. The first one is a GW metal goblin with a plastic orcy sword swapped in and a bunch of feathers stuck to his helmet. The feathers were off some GW plastic Empire handgunners who didn't need them anymore. I painted the sword yellow as an attempt to look like a 'magic flame sword' to give him some heroic flavour, something goblins desperately need ;-)

This next one is I think some kind of goblin miniature, I can't remember from where, painted up to look like  a goblin shaman on a gigantic spider. You might be able to see the spider's victim wrapped up in spider silk on the base underneath him. I think the victim was green stuff wrapped with everyday cotton thread and a skull stuck on top for a head.





The two spiders were like the one pictured below. I tried to bend the legs into interesting shapes but they snapped so I had to pin and glue them back in place. I don't think you can see too well but the front legs are raised in a menacing way. They are based on 40x40mm bases.

Hobbit Conversions, screamers and an old pine box

I've been sick with a cold this week so this update is a bit late in coming. I still have a blocked ear for some reason :-)

As a job lot of miniatures I received from eBay a while back, I found 6 hobbit miniatures included as an extra prize.

They all looked like the guy above but different colours. I think they'd be from the board game 'The Hobbit: defeat of Smaug'. I thought I'd use them for roleplay games but the same static pose was a bit boring. So I converted them to these...

Using bits from my bits box and some putty, I now have a wizard, soldier, swordsman, slinger, spearman and an archer.

I also had a shrieker figure from *many* years ago that I had never painted. I decided that it would be fairly easy to make up a few more of my own with green stuff, so here they are.

I'm sure the keen eyed can spot the original.



Lastly, I knocked up a pine box coffin for dungeon detail.

 

I made this from paddlepop sticks and glue.

Tree monsters

Here's some tree monsters I created about a year and a half ago from wire, green stuff and leftover bits from the GW dryads box.

They were supposed to be treekin for Warhammer but then, you know, that *thing* happened to the Warhammer world and stuffed up my plans for building a wood elf army. I'm sure they'll still pop up in a roleplay game or Kings of War battle somewhere. 

Faces added with greenstuff. Ironically the hands I added were mostly made from dryad faces. 

Paintwork done including owl, little imp and skull with leaves.

I made a total of six of these beasts and based them on 40mm bases.

Eldritch blob, giant leeches and larvae

More Monsters

Eldritch Blob

This is some molten lead that I absent-mindedly splashed on my workbench one day. I thought I'd paint it up as some sort of Lovecraftian nether-world thingy.

Giant Leeches

"Millions of leeches, leeches for me" sitting round a fire pit. They are made from wire and green stuff, including the bricks on the base. The fire is made from bits of stick and kitty litter. The leeches are about 25mm tall.

Larvae

Don't know if you can see it but these are the tortured souls of naughty people doomed to crawl around as larvae in the very pits of Hell itself. The bases were an attempt at lava. So, larvae on lava. The heads are GW zombies but the bodies are putty and wire.

Some Monsters I made...

Some monsters I made

Cacodaemon

Supposed to be the Cacodaemon from the old PC game DOOM. Made from scratch and stands roughly 35mm high. I used a largish wooden bead on a brass rod that I covered with greenstuff. I added more brass rod for the horns which were bent to shape and then had green stuff added. I added 0.6mm wires for the underbelly bits.

Eye of the Beholder

 

This one I made from scratch from a wooden bead, brass wire and greenstuff putty. Roughly 40mm high.

Otyugh

An Otyugh! Or is it a neo-otyugh? I could never tell. Scratch built from a wooden bead, brass wire and greenstuff. Stands about 30mm tall. The base is covered in kitty litter.

VSF 1890 German Flyers

Here's some pics and info about my German flyers for HotT.

Firstly I took an airfix WWI German crawling figure and removed the pipe thingy he was carrying in his right hand.

Then I made a VSF looking wing out of brass wire and greenstuff. The wing was made to look pretty much the same both sides so I could use it as a left or right wing. I then made a two part mould of it by lightly covering it with vaseline, pushing it into a blob of two part epoxy (blue and white), letting the epoxy set and then doing the same on the other side. I bought the two part epoxy from Auto One or some similar shop. I could have used greenstuff to make the mould from but this other stuff is cheaper and greenstuff is much better for sculpting.

Then I made a pair of wings by putting a piece of wire down one side of the mould, then pushing some greenstuff into the mould and then squishing to two halves together. Guessing the right amount of greenstuff takes a bit of practise. There's usually quite a bit of flash that needs trimming after the greenstuff cures. The wire was then snipped so only 2mm or so is left. This was bent a little and then pushed into the shoulders of the soldier. I used a pin vise to drill a small hole into each shoulder beforehand to make this easier and then I superglued the wings in place.

I've yet to paint them as I'm waiting for the next base of figures to be complete so I have two flyers. You can see in the above photo the original wing I made on the left most soldier.

Sargon II looking suave in his groovy chariot

A photo of Sargon II and attendants dashing around the battlefield and lopping heads off his cowering enemies all while being skin cancer conscious.

The photo is a bit yellow and a bit dark.

The chariot itself was made of matchsticks, brass rod, very narrow PVC pipe and greenstuff.

I modified the old Assyrian horses with greenstuff to look more like the McBride painting in the Assyrians Osprey book. There's nothing like using Primary sources, is there ;-)