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.
With my first WAP tournament approaching I needed to finish off a new Oglah and the second unit of kheshig.
These are definitely some of my favourite miniatures from the golden (90s) range from GW.
I decided my earlier version would be the first unit champion and the second is to be the real Oglah. I continued my lighter skin tone over contrast paints for the skin, wolf hide and armour. Am really happy with the finished product.
The extra boyz (the z is intentional) had a slightly different paint scheme with more leather to break up the sculpts.
Finally, here is the complete unit of kheshig ready to kick ass across the old world.
With my first WAP tourney approaching it was time to finish some more hobgoblin (or mongoblin as I prefer) elite cavalry or kheshig.
This will be my second unit and feature Oglah Khan himself.
I changed the minis around from those who usually carry the horn and the standard and also converted a champion to be holding an axe.
As these are my second unit I went for the lighter skin tone of my more recent hobgoblins but kept the core colours and basing of my older minis.
I have another four to finish in the next month.
Also recently finished is a crew member to match in with the other recent Bolt thrower crew I finished. Again using the lighter skin will differentiate them from the other bolt thrower and crew I have in my current tourney list.
Under the warhammer armies project rules the hobgoblin bolt throwers have three crew so after a little leg surgery for one of these minis (who was missing one) I now have an extra couple of crew for my two way machines.
As the sculpts are limited I changed up the painting to make them a little different to my original ones. This will break them up from the others.
Also next is a couple of halberds dudes I had converted who have again been converted into archers. The bows come from left overs from the Russian alternative dudes who have become Ravagers.
I wanted to try and capture the frenzied approach of these bros and am happy with the look of these dudes which was achieved by multiple layers of greens for the skin and the red of the eyes.
Also finished was a standard for my wolf riders that incorporates the old school 90s banner and the hobgoblin symbol from the 9th Age rule book.
Next on the painting table is a unit of hobgoblin ravagers for the warhammer armies project.
Think frenzied loons on hounds wielding a weapon in each hand and you get these guys.
The minis come from Russian Alternative that I won a few years ago in a Chaos Dwarfs Online painting competition.
Most of weapons come from the GW tomb kings skeleton kit.
I used a lot of GW contrast paints on the first test mini which sped up the painting a little. I dig the finish so will keep on going to have the unit finished for a May tournament.
First up is a bladedancer for my Araby army courtesy of Reaper minis. I went for a darker skin tone but it’s a nod to Storm from the Xmen.
From Reaper also is this assassin. It’s an old school thick metal mini that will double as a throwing weapon if needed.
Lastly from Harlequin/ black tree design is one of their Saracen assassins.
Here they are with the also recently finished palace guard.
