From SeanS - Six, count em, Six 28mm Goblin Stickas (30pts)

Well here are those oldschool goblin archers, Stickas in the old 3rd edition armies book.

These guys are the plastic ones.

 It occurred to me as I was writing this that these boys, albeit in 28mm scale, are only 20mm tall. I'm sure Curt, in his wisdom, will value them accordingly.

I had meant to submit these last Friday, and actually got them all the way short of varnish and flocking, but just couldn't muster up the energy after flying back home.

Readjusting to our schedules left me in a hobby torpor, so I only just got back to work on the rest of the unit yesterday. As I was planning a fun filled day of weight lifting and chiropractic adjustment, I realized that I had better get these six lads submitted today if I didn't want another goose egg in the points department. For me calling things done is always difficult, but always motivating as well.

The view one is most likely to see in a game.

In my conception of Warhammer 3rd edition (Oldhammer for me) Goblins are the Beau Brummels of Greenskin society. Back in the heady days of the late 80's and early 90's one was allowed a certain freedom with color that seems to have gone by the wayside today.

Since my, still unfinished, Goblin wolf riders were yellow and purple check I thought I'd go with red and black for these guys. For them I decided that they were allowed personal freedom in design, as long as they used the troop colors.

For the "Black" I used Delta Ceramcoat Charcoal. It's my new favorite almost black. When I got home I dug out my Americana Gloss varnish for the helmets and daggers and used the liquitex matt for the rest. The liquitex is finally drying matt-ish and doesn't work as well on armor as it used to. I must have finally mixed it up enough. The Bolt Gun Metal was being fussy and came out very black for this bunch. On the ones in the background it came out of the dropper bottle a lot more silver. I need to put those stainless steel BB's in the bottle to help mix and keep some of the paints from gushing out of the dropper. Or at least that's how that's supposed to work.

Where the magic happens.

 So, since this has been a thing the last week or so, here is my painting desk. This is what it looked like upon returning home, evidence of the late night mad dash to fill as many dropper bottles as  I could for my mobile painting station.

I would show you the rest of the loft, but I think the neat freaks of the group wuld fell compelled to fly out here and organize it for me. It's that bad right now. Just imagine an entire room that looks like the desk. I say I'm a borderline hoarder, but sometimes I wonder when intervention will happen.

Have paint, will travel.

And last, I just wanted to show you what I took with me on vacation to paint. There was one more container of the same size that had the Mother Crushers and Mounts & Riders in it. I checked it in with my luggage and it made it there and back again with no trouble, although the TSA did open my bag up on the way to CA.

TTFN!

From Curt:

These are very cool little guys Sean. Funny, I don't remember these chaps from 3rd Edition, but then again I don't remember much from those years so I shouldn't be surprised... 

I quite like your mobile paint kit! I have something similar for when we travel for which my wife lives in fear of us being searched and me spilling 40-odd paints and a bunch of toy soldiers on the floor at the airport. 

Great work!