Squigs, spiders, snotlings and even more Goblins

The Green Tide keeps flooding in, so to speak. After the previous waves of Goblin Banner Bearers, Wolf Riders, Orcs and assorted Night Goblins and Orcs I have one more wave of Goblins to share. Let's call them 'Da Rest of Da 'Orde' and be done with it. (Until I finish painting more Greenskins, or decide to rebase the last holdouts on rounds after all). 

Boing, boing, boing, or should that be Poing*?
* The sheer horror of remembering that song is worse than anything this horde could ever inflict.

A lot of these may be familiar to those of you following my blog since its early days. I have a rather large bunch of metal Squigs and even a small cadre of Squig Hoppers that have seen quite a bit of use on Age of Sigmar battlefields. Most of them rolled out of an assortment of very affordable 'I'm done with the hobby'-boxes that were a side-effect of AoS's launch way back when (ten years ago this month, time flies...). I found Skarsnik (in the back on the left) floating on a pile of plastic Night Goblins and Spiders (some of them on the right) in pretty much the same circumstances. Let's say the AoS launch was the best of times and the worst of times, and stop reminiscing now. 

Get to da choppas!

I always thought my pink spiders looked rather nice on their oval bases, but I have to admit ranking them up in blocks does add to the intimidation factor. If you're wondering why the spiders are pink, there are two reasons. To start with: pink is an awesome color to paint and gives them the Schwarzenegger-look (+1 (imagined) Strength and Toughness). Secondly: my wife is afraid of spiders, painting these monsters pink stops her from going berserk with a newspaper on my fragile models :). I briefly considered repainting the Goblins on the spiders. Their paint job is a bit very hasty and slapdash. After starting on five, I decided I didn't feel like it, and just plonked the painted Grots back onto their spiders and called it a day.

Snotling on a stick? Sausage in a bun? CMOT Herda' is ready for war.

This chap has received a recent coat of paint. After having a model languish for almost a decade in primer, it always feels like a very special victory to actually slap paint on it. The horrified Snotling at the end of the stick is such a wonderful old school comical (and a bit sadistic) touch, I should've painted him years ago. As an aside, I can't rank him up in a unit. The Snotling spear sticks out over the base in front of it and pushes the Squig bouncing along to the side. I should've put him in an angular base, but I didn't. As I have too many Squig Herders anyway, I might as well leave him as he is.  

That Goblin King drunkenly leaning on his shield really works in this horde.

I had some doubts about rebasing the Goblin King (a 3D-print designed by Avatars of War). It was rather nicely integrated on its round base and I worried I would destroy the Goblins carrying his drunkenness on his shield. Luckily the transplant went off without a hitch. I opted to glue the Goblin crews to the bases of the Stone Throwers. It makes for a nicer looking diorama style model and by the time you need to rank crew up for a charge, you might as well rank the enemy against the Stone Thrower as there will be no one left standing after the first round of combat. 

Bare arsed and facing backwards, it's the Goblin way to go to war.

Warhammer the Old World has no rules for Skarsnik. He is a character that will appear about 300 years in the future from where the setting is. I decided to base him on a 50x50mm base so I can use him as a Goblin Boss on a Giant Cave Squig if I field him at all. I didn't want to keep him on his oval base as he would get lonely in the Goblin parts of the display cabinet. 

Since flocking the Snotling bases with PVA wasn’t an option, I decided to cheat and just add some tufts instead. 

The last bunch of holdouts in the cabinet were my two Snotling Pump Wagons, four bases of Snotlings, three Doom Diver Catapults (one of them truly ancient) and three Goblin Bolt Throwas as they are called now that we all know the tongue-in-cheek classic name for these war machines is considered very racist in the rebellious colonies on the other side of the pond. I was rather happy to discover that adding a big mushroom to the smaller ancient Doom Diver stopped it from looking completely swamped on his big base. I should also mention that I bought the one level pump wagon when the design was brand new (and the two level wasn't available yet). Over the decades it has been in service it has killed one (very unlucky) Dark Elf. I have been boasting about this ever since :D.

I have too many characters for my Goblin army. As an aside, If I copy/paste this sentence into any of my other armies, all I'd need to replace is the word Goblin :)

The last few models in this wave of the Green Tide are Goblin Characters. I've owned the banner bearer on the left in this picture for decades, and I'm very happy to have finally reapplied a bit of paint to him. The character in the center is one of the new line of GW Night Goblins. It has a large flowing cape that's held aloft by two floating Squigs. The model requires an oval base to keep everything within the plastic borders. 

I'm not quite ready for the Citadel sculpting team, but I'm quite chuffed at how my effort at making a new bottom cloak turned out.

Wishing to use him in Warhammer the Old World I squarely took a saw to his mantel, cutting off the lower part and replacing it with a green stuff cloak. I'm quite amazed at how this turned out, as my opinion of my green stuff skills is not that high. Painting him was a lot of fun and a curse at the same time. There's so much detail on modern models, every time you think you're done you spot another mushroom, skull or buckle in need of paint. 

More Goblin characters stand ready to almost fight before fleeing. 

The final two Goblins in this mix are both 3D-prints by Avatars of War. I like their towering size and bulk next to most GW Goblins. It really makes them stand out as Bosses (bigger is bossier). The dual flail wielder on the left was a bit of a troublemaker. First I snapped off his left flail by accident, only to snap of the one on the right while gluing the left one back in place. I finally decided to repose the flails slightly so I could glue the chains to the handles and glue the spiky bits to the handle as well. This makes the model rather more resistant to my irreverent handling of my own models :). 

With that I've finished off this wave of Greenskin pictures. Next up will most likely be even more green scum, although they just might have pointy ears, mohawks and an attitude. Let's see where whimsy takes me.