Some Loonies and their Giant Friend.

 

I've continued my quest to flesh out my Orcs and Goblins war host, giving me more options to field wacky and zany units on the field. With my recent completion of some Night Goblin Short Bow regiment being completed, I suddenly found myself with too few Fanatics to populate my regiments with. This is where these guys come in.

I initially was going to 3D print some fanatics to add to my force, but I remembered having bought a box of these guys a long time ago, and so I dug them out of the pile of shame and put them together, trying to make sure I used different heads to my three existing models that I painted a long time ago.

These three were painted using only Vallejo paints, in my mission to transition from using Army Painter paints to Vallejo, I found it worked quite well and while I'm still on the hunt for certain colours to match my previous colours, the Vallejo line more than makes up with excellent coverage.

This giant Mangler Squig duo was initially spray painted with Army Painter Dragon Red, which was well passed it's best before date. I didn't know spray cans had a shelf life, but when I sprayed the model, it came out reddish brown. I ended up base coating the whole model with Vallejo Model Flat Red, and dry brushing it with a mixture of yellow and Flat Red to highlight.

The goblins were painted the same way I painted my other goblins, with Vallejo Flat Green as the skin base, washed with GW Biel Tan wash. I've since begun using the GW washes for my shading purposes simply because I much prefer the paint pots. I've also noticed that the GW recipe doesn't stain as heavily as the Army Painter or Vallejo washes, so I'm able to retain more of the original colour, which goes great with fantasy models.

Till next time!