With a final push the remaining 12 hand weapon and shield hobgoblins are now finished.
Again I have a couple of multi based dudes to allow for quick removal of the expected casualties.
And with that the unit is 38 strong and ready for tournament battle in just over a week.
With my first WAP tournament scheduled for May 22, I need to finish some hand weapon and shield hobgoblins for my 38 strong unit.
Thankfully I still have more of the 3d printed bros that were scheduled originally to be armed with halberds. I had converted about 20 of the halberd armed dudes so it was a tough decision to change these conversions.
However, I am happy with the final product as the cut down halberds provide difference between the standard poses of the sculpts. These dudes also have a mix of shields including the mongol fireforge minis to match those on my other hobgoblins they will be joining.
As I don’t expect them to last too long in a battle I will have approx 16 dudes on multi bases. This will speed up the removal of casualties.
Here is the work in progress unit with another 12 on the painting table.
With two weeks until my first WAP tournament the rush is on the finish the needed hobgoblins for my 39 man (?) spear and 38 hand weapon and shield bros.
Using the fabelzel bros I have converted up the 12 hobgoblins I needed to finish the unit.
The spears mainly came from the old GW goblin wolf riders and some old skeletons plastics.
Here is the finished unit.
So it was a dark day as the daemons seized the watchtower and despite our valiant efforts we could not shift the foul beats of the north.
The giant, wolf riders and war beast hit a blood letter wall.
A double charge of Keshig into the skull crushers removes them.
Belakor destroys the hobgoblin line after they try to destroy each other in a treacherous display of unity.
Ghazrak orders a valiant retreat as his unit of kheshig is destroyed. He joins Oglah Khan’s unit and leaves the daemons to their prize. Vengeance will be pursued another time.
One of mates printed me a heap of these awesome hobgoblins from fabelzel. You can find more of his awesome sculpts here.
Unfortunately, I needed some more archers so it was time to take the hobby knife to these dudes. The resin cuts very easily and using the spares bow arms from the Russian alternative wolf riders I now have more archers.
These are great sculpts and fit in very well with the classic GW hobgoblins.
As they were already undercoated I used Vallejo paints and GW washes.
I mixed up the colours of the clothing to break up the somewhat similar sculpts. After 30 years of painting uniforms the same I have finally broken and started mixing up albeit using the same palette of colours.
I was never quite happy with my original Mongoblin spears so decided to ditch the green stuff heads and go with goblin wolf rider and night goblin heads on the Mongolian bodies from fireforge games.
I am much happier with the final product especially the crazed look of the command group.
Shields come from a 3d print except for the champ who has one of the marauder round shields.
Skin tones are again lighter with Vallejo paints.
