Post by nord on Jul 23, 2019 18:28:39 GMT
Tales are for fairies and old wives, Sagas are heroic. Sagas about goblins are probably not quite so heroic, but my effort is definitely a saga and not a tale.
Goblins. And orcs. I always found them pretty stooopid if I am honest. I came into the hobby through a love of the Tolkien books, way before the film trilogy. So the idea in my head was of orcs being brutal, cruel, deformed maybe, but definitely not grinning monkeys or lumbering gorillas as WHFB portrayed them. I quite liked some of the goblin models, but they were never really my thing. Elves were for me (Tolkien), or Undead (Harryhausen), that's where my head was at back in the 90s.
Fast forward 25 years and I was feeling nostalgic for the good old days of fourth edition, my introduction to Warhammer. This was the boxset with elves and goblins. I have collected elves all this time, got hundreds of the damn things, some even painted. Still got my goblin archers too from the set, the gobbo spears I think I painted and then traded/sold them years ago. Anyway, I was flicking through the old White Dwarf collection (numbers 153 to around 170 specifically), rose tinted specs on, and it suddenly hit me. I could finally see the appeal of the greenksins. Yes, they were goofy, yes they were silly, and that was the whole point. I had this crazy idea to collect enough figures to refight the battles from that boxset.
Picture break before it gets too boring (who said "too late"?).
I set to with gusto, trawling ebay for the old stuff. I managed to pick up a couple of models, but the prices were pretty disheartening. I joined the FB trading group and got a few more models for decent prices, but still not enough for a game of WHFB. And then I discovered Knightmare Miniatures. The picture shows a unit of their black goblins, pretty big they are for goblins, but I like size variety. Sculpted by Kev Adams too (in the unlikely event you don't know who that is, he was the sculptor of the early 90's range of goblins).
I also picked up a shaman because it's such a cool model. And a couple of other things that are unpainted as yet.
And there's one final thing already painted before the Saga begins for real. This is a model I cannot remember where I got it. Maybe a mate down the club at the time gave it me, or maybe I picked it up in a job lot on ebay. No idea. I painted it years ago, it was sat on a square base in my cabinet for years. I liked it because it was a bit different to the usual goblin - it's got a moustache! Potentially the world's first hipster goblin. I decided it would make a nice addition to the force, rebased it on to a two pence coin, job done. Turns out it was a 1987 C12 goblin, sculpted either by one of the Perry twins or Kev Adams. The shield is obviously more recent.
And that's it for the already painted stuff. I am going to start painting them again in September, not sure I will have time before then. So just four units is my target, but that's fine. They are destined for games of Erewhon and five or six units is perfectly sufficient for a decent evening's game.
That's enough rambling for now I think.
Goblins. And orcs. I always found them pretty stooopid if I am honest. I came into the hobby through a love of the Tolkien books, way before the film trilogy. So the idea in my head was of orcs being brutal, cruel, deformed maybe, but definitely not grinning monkeys or lumbering gorillas as WHFB portrayed them. I quite liked some of the goblin models, but they were never really my thing. Elves were for me (Tolkien), or Undead (Harryhausen), that's where my head was at back in the 90s.
Fast forward 25 years and I was feeling nostalgic for the good old days of fourth edition, my introduction to Warhammer. This was the boxset with elves and goblins. I have collected elves all this time, got hundreds of the damn things, some even painted. Still got my goblin archers too from the set, the gobbo spears I think I painted and then traded/sold them years ago. Anyway, I was flicking through the old White Dwarf collection (numbers 153 to around 170 specifically), rose tinted specs on, and it suddenly hit me. I could finally see the appeal of the greenksins. Yes, they were goofy, yes they were silly, and that was the whole point. I had this crazy idea to collect enough figures to refight the battles from that boxset.
Picture break before it gets too boring (who said "too late"?).
I set to with gusto, trawling ebay for the old stuff. I managed to pick up a couple of models, but the prices were pretty disheartening. I joined the FB trading group and got a few more models for decent prices, but still not enough for a game of WHFB. And then I discovered Knightmare Miniatures. The picture shows a unit of their black goblins, pretty big they are for goblins, but I like size variety. Sculpted by Kev Adams too (in the unlikely event you don't know who that is, he was the sculptor of the early 90's range of goblins).
I also picked up a shaman because it's such a cool model. And a couple of other things that are unpainted as yet.
And there's one final thing already painted before the Saga begins for real. This is a model I cannot remember where I got it. Maybe a mate down the club at the time gave it me, or maybe I picked it up in a job lot on ebay. No idea. I painted it years ago, it was sat on a square base in my cabinet for years. I liked it because it was a bit different to the usual goblin - it's got a moustache! Potentially the world's first hipster goblin. I decided it would make a nice addition to the force, rebased it on to a two pence coin, job done. Turns out it was a 1987 C12 goblin, sculpted either by one of the Perry twins or Kev Adams. The shield is obviously more recent.
And that's it for the already painted stuff. I am going to start painting them again in September, not sure I will have time before then. So just four units is my target, but that's fine. They are destined for games of Erewhon and five or six units is perfectly sufficient for a decent evening's game.
That's enough rambling for now I think.
