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Jul. 30th, 2006 @ 03:16 pm nose goblins
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So, as mentioned before, i've started painting my minis again. I have one unit that is painted from before, two years ago i think.



I call these my "Night Smurfs". They are just night goblins, but i painted their skin blue instead of green just to be different. I was inspired by the realization that, being nasty little critters, with funny caps and a mushroom obsession, night goblins are basically just evil oversized smurfs. You may be able to tell that i put a bit more effort into the fanatics (the crazy guys with the huge flails) than the regular archers. This is because there are three of the one, and thirty of the other. I've got a standard, champion and musician i'm going to add to the unit, but other than that all the rest of my goblins will be normal green ones.

Currently, I'm trying to plow througha unit of old spearmen:


i'm not worried about making these guys very fancy looking. not only are they over a decade old, many of them have had the top half of their spears reattached, on account of when I put them together 12 years ago, and had them laid out on the floor, i fell backwards on top of them. Those things are pointy. A couple of them have shields glued to them already, which makes painting them annoying, and one poor bastard is just going to keep his terrible, patchy Testors enamel paint job. Serves him right. A few of these grots who have lost the top of their spears entirely, I am going to attempt some conversions on, to make a unit command. The most difficult will be making a musician.

At this point, i've gotten all of the bases green, and started working on the spears. I'm going to start doing tunics next, and i'm dabbling with the shields.

Once i get this unit done, my next project is a box of Wolfriders.
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From:[info]fooleh
Date: July 31st, 2006 01:03 am (UTC)

i hate to say it...

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but that actually seems kind of fun. i have no idea what's involved in playing the game, but the painting and what not could be kind of amusing.
Out of curiosity, say a pair of people wanted to give the game a try, are there "starter decks" as there were in magic?
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From:[info]nleavitt
Date: July 31st, 2006 01:24 am (UTC)

Re: i hate to say it...

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Well, in about forty days "Battle for Skull Pass", the 7th edition boxed game comes out. That'll be about $75 dollars, and has the rules, dice, templates, some scenery and two small forces of Dwarfs and Night Goblins.

Games Workshop has it's own stores here and there, not in Guelph of course, but in bigger cities, where you should be able to play a demo game. Better games stores might also have demo tables. There's a list of stores here

I have to tell you, though, this hobby is really damn expensive. Plastic regiment boxes run about $50. Actually, for someone not familiar, the GW website would be pretty informative ca.games-workshop.ca.
The online store there will show you the prices, and you can look at the different armies.

With the goblins i have now, and the ones in the new game box, and a $55 Giant, my army will be about 1500 points. While smaller games do get played, 2000 is a good sixed army. Goblins are low points-per-model, so the armies tend to be massive hordes, but just remember how much you can end up spending, Even if you pick an army thatuses more expensive units.

It does have it's moments, however. Painting is fun and relaxing, and it can be very satisfying to mass your hordes before you, or fire a cannon strait into the other guys hordes, or my personal favourite, toss a mushroom-crazed maniac with a rediculously huge flail into the other guys fancy, powerful knights, killing half of them and causing them to flee, ha ha, hahaha, BWAHAHAHAHA WAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!

ahem.

cough.

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