Goblins!

 I painted this little crew in record time over the weekend. Knightmare Games goblins from their Greenskin Wars range. Full of character and a lot of fun to paint.

 

 

 

 

Wilderness Encounters

I guess that looking back I got a few things done in the last couple of months. I'm actually kind of surprised.

A trio of Trolls

 

A brace of Bugbears

This pale fellow

A couple of old Marauder Dark elves

The giant comes from the Solomon Kane boardgame

Mysterious dwarf

Pig Faced orcs from Dragon Bait minis. They came along with the Bugbears

Another dwarf.

 

Some Rogue Trader-y goodness

First a squad's worth of the lovely Space Scrapper miniatures from the Skull and Crown range. These are all full of character and a treat to paint.

 

 

 Some old RT Eldar I stripped and repainted. 

Brunswickers for Silver Bayonet

 

My Brunswickers. Just about done. From left to right: Junior Officer, Rifleman, Tactician, Sapper, Doctor, and the Officer.

I made the Sapper using a blacksmith figure I nicked from the Solomon Kane board game.

Children of the Spider Queen

This is a project I keep picking up and putting back but I've finally made some major headway. These are all old Marauder Dark Elves that I've managed to finally finish.

In addition to the elves I've painted a Reaper spider demon to go with them.

Only thing left is a trio of crossbowmen.

Morgoth

 Its been quiet around here and I've been low on miniatures inspiration but I have managed to pull it together and get this fellow done.

This is my take on Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. I used a Ral Partha/Citadel Giant Troll Champion. I substituted his axe with a hammer and made a crown for the silmarils.

The orcs beside him are 28mm Goblins from Oathmark Miniatures.

Morgoth's Horde

 

Benchmark post #2: Orcs

This is the Orcish half of the Middle Earth's First Age project. The orcs tend to paint up faster and I'm not doing much in the way of conversion to them. However, I need to paint about three times as many Orcish troops as I do Elves to keep up with the point values.

Sidenote about Oathmark and my opinion on Orcs: Oathmark differentiates between Orcs and Goblins. Its mostly a performance difference, which kind of falls in line with my feelings about the Orcish folks as a whole. I donI've always felt that the terms used, Goblin, Orc, and Uruk Hai, are just different names for basically the same creatures but are more indicative of their prowess and abilities. Goblins would be equal to Militia type troops, Orcs are the Regular army and the Uruks are your Huscarl types. 

This is what I have completed at this time.

The bulk of the army is made up of Goblin Foot. These are the Oathmark plastic Goblins. Apologies for the sub par image. I have 30 or so of these done with a goal of eventually doubling that 60 goblins arrayed in three units of 20. The only change I made on these from the plastic kit was changing out the various shields from the kit for some more regimented round shields.

Orc Archers. These are from the old Grenadier Fantasy Warriors line and were sculpted by Mark Copplestone. Great figures and I'm really glad they are still around.

Copplestone Orc Blades.

These are my Uruk Hai. These are 15mm armored trolls from Khurasan Miniatures. 

A unit of Goblin Warg Rider Scouts. I used the Oathmark plastic riders here but mounted them on to Games Workshop's Middle Earth Fell Wargs.

Here are the heavier Warg Riders. Again I used the Oathmark riders but mounted them on to the GW Fenrisian Wolves.

This is Gothmog, my lord of Balrogs. I used a Fire Giant from the Norse themed board game Blood Rage. I added the whip using some wire and green stuff.

Here's the whole bunch for a group shot. With the Balrog this is about 1400 points. So we're staying pretty even with the Elves for now.