Thursday 21 January 2021

From Barks: Down, down, to the Orcs' Pit (220 points)

These goblins has been a real albatross around my neck- I primed these many Challenges ago, but it took the Pit to give me the impetus to get them done. These are goblins from GW's Hobbit range.


They're pretty straightforward to paint. The skin is the main feature: Fyreslayer Flesh Contrast, then drybrush Army Painter Elven Flesh and Corpse Pale. The boils get a thin wash of Vallejo Red Wash. The goblins are wonderfully grotesque, making a good low-tech mutant rabble.



Goblintown High Command

The Great Goblin doesn't have a lot of texture to his skin, unlike his wonderful minions. I had to build up the skin with milk-consistency strokes of the above colours in lines and dapples, with a stippling of pale brown as well. I painted the irises and pupils, to make up for not painting any of the eyes of the horde!




38x 28mm figures: 190 points
1x Great Goblin: 10 points
1x Orc's Pit: 20 points

GW Side Challenge: 200 points
Skull-o-meter™: 1

34 comments:

  1. Great looking goblin horde! Yes I can see lots of uses for these little deranged chaps beyond Lord of the rings!
    Best Iain

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    1. I've seen some nice conversions with low-tech firearms for post-apocalyptic muties.

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  2. Love these, the washed out colour scheme really works

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  3. Awesome looking group of goblins. It seems that their long wait was well worth it.

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    1. And yet the peak of Lead Mountain is still so far away...

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  4. Cracking figures, love the overall effect

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  5. Lovely job, horribly slimy and nasty - the goblin lord/king chap is superb!

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  6. Very cool and really looking the part!

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  7. Excellent fantasy figures! Cheers Jez

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  8. Fantastic work, both in quantity but more important, quality

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  9. Great work Barks, well done.

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  10. Great work on these guys Barks. Love the skin tones, they look like they’ve not seen the sun in a loooong time. Only one skull?

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    1. Just the one- GW must have been having an off day!

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  11. These are fantastic LOTR figures

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  12. These look great, really great work, you could almost squeeze those spots 🤢
    Regards Ken

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  13. What a great goblin bomb Barks - great job mate!

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