Thursday 18 January 2018

From IannickM : Zrazoig and Fang (12 pts)

A small entry today in terms of figures, but a big one in terms of power (and points) for the Oldhammer Forest Goblin army I've been working on in the last two months.

I present to you Zrazoig, the almighty Shaman, and his trusted sacred spider, Fang the hairy.



The figure was released in 1991 by Marauder Miniatures, now long gone. Formed in 1988, and announced in WD106, Marauder's miniatures were cast and distributed by Citadel alongside the normal Citadel ranges, although at one time they were using the Wargames Foundry facilities. They were reabsorbed back into the main Citadel ranges in 1993, about the same time that the 4th edition of Warhammer was launched. Not surprisingly, the orc and gobbo ranges matches perfectly with the 4th edition goblins.



Another figure from the heydays of the late 80s and early 90s, it oozes charm. It was also incredibly easy to assemble, being basically a three piece figure (spider head, rest of the body and then the shaman). He's going to be the main magic user in my Forest Goblin army. Once again I found a way to incorporate yellow and orange to tie it with the rest of my army. Most of the spider symbols on my goblins are orange, so I figured it would make sense the sacred spiders from that Forest would be at least partially orange!


I thought it would be cool to show a pic of the progress I've made on this project since I started the project in November. The archers were painted just before this Challenge started. 


There's lots of goblin infantry in the pipeline, and I have high hopes of submitting many more between now and March 20th!

So that's one mounted figure; 5pts for the Shaman and, I'm not sure, maybe 7pts for the spider, considering it's larger than a horse and it's sitting on a 40mm base? Which would make 12pts.

Welcome to Thursday posts Iannick!  You're my last post of the day and what a belter to end on.  That old school army is coming along the treat and this nice bright fellow looks like he could scare the Elves out of Loren should he weave his spells as he wants to (after a mushroom or two no doubt?).  The hair is brilliant and I think he epitomises the fun side of goblins.  I'm looking forward to the rest of the gobboes and I'm a reasonable merciless overseer minion..... so shall we say the first unit of 50 by next Thursday? ;)

13 comments:

  1. This is delightful - a terrific Oldhammer figure, wonderfully whimsical. Zrazoig and Fang are a couple of winners, well done Iannick!

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  2. Just excellent, very good Iannick. Old school!!

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  3. Bright clean brushwork Iannick, very colourful visually and in character. Well done!

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  4. You've got to love the classic forest goblins, top work.

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  5. Awesome! Love the poisonous green mandibles - Old Lead Coolness.

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  6. Lovely Marauder figures, thanks for explaining about them, I just bought them and didn't know the background! Great use of colour.
    Best Iain

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  7. Great work Iannick! I quite like the bright colours.

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  8. Thank you all for the nice comments!!

    JamieM, 50 Goblins would take me months! I'm an agonizingly slow painter! But a 30 figure regiment is nonetheless in the plans

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  9. Nice work on the old lead, Iannick! The forest goblin army is coming along very nicely! I like the orange and green combo on the spider and the gobLin boss with the blue facepaint looks very characterful too!

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  10. Very nicely done, great colour combo

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  11. Very cool. My first metal figure was a goblin spider rider from the same period.

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