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[MamaGeek]

A couple years ago I won a GW Mines of Moria box set at Games Day Baltimore. Aside from a couple of the Fellowship figures, I hadn't touched the minis until recently, when I painted the Cave Troll, and now the horde of 24 goblins. They're for tabletop use, and let's face it, when you sit down in front of 24 figures at once, they are not going to get the attention that a single miniature will get, so they're not painted to my usual standards. For a speed paint, though, I think they're not half bad, especially since the primer went totally fuzzy on me. (Again, I was not about strip 24 goblins, so I left them that way.)

Their armor is painted dark gray, shaded black, with white highlights (some brighter than others). A few have helmets, spear points, swords. Those got a coat of metallic paint, and a shading of black. I think there are 6 or 8 with shields. Those are painted like the armor, but each also has a different geometric pattern or design in red on it.

All in all, they turned out far less saturated in color than I had intended, but I can live with it.

Total time = ~19 hours (about 47 minutes per goblin)

[chaosscorpion]

Looks good MamaGeek, I'd like to see such a nice array of goblins before our party. The painters in our group are good but the most any of us own of a particular fig is probably, 5. If we gathered figs from everyone we might make 20.

[ObsidianCrane]

Ooh that reminds me to speed paint my Orcs and Goblins as well.

From what I can see on my phone these look great for speed paints. :)

[MamaGeek]

Thanks! And sorry for the horrible photos. I don't know why they came out so badly.

[buglips*the*goblin]

That's a fine horde of goblins, and I ought to know good-looking goblins when I see 'em.

[Metalchaos]

Wow, you were fast on these ones, great job. They will look frenetic on the game table.

[Baphomet69]

Those are awesome! As much as I despise GW, I do love their LotR stuff.

Mind telling us what colors you used for the skin?

[MamaGeek]

Those are awesome! As much as I despise GW, I do love their LotR stuff.

Mind telling us what colors you used for the skin?

Um...green? :)

I mixed some yellow and blue and white for the base coat, and used yellow and white to highlight, and violet and black to shade.

[TaleSpinner]

Awesome. They look really good and would be very daunting on a game table. I may have to pick your brian about speed painting when I tackle my Reptus horde.

[joshuaslater]

Cohesive horde of well painted gobbos. Nice work!

[MamaGeek]

Awesome. They look really good and would be very daunting on a game table. I may have to pick your brian about speed painting when I tackle my Reptus horde.

There's really not much to it. You have to go at at assembly-line style. Base coat all the skin on all the models. Highlight all the skin. Shade all the skin. etc. It's very tedious, but eventually it gets done.

[Baphomet69]

The last couple years almost all the painting I've done has been 15mm armies (WWII, Civil War and now Napoleonics). It never even occurred to me that it could translate to 28mm... Booyah!

[Baphomet69]

And yeah, I realize how intelligent that makes me sound, but when I focus, I FOCUS.

[buglips*the*goblin]

Um...green? :)

I mixed some yellow and blue and white for the base coat, and used yellow and white to highlight, and violet and black to shade.

Violet to shade green?

Interesting . . . I'm going to steal that for my next batch of gobblers.

[MamaGeek]

Violet to shade green?

Interesting . . . I'm going to steal that for my next batch of gobblers.

Oh, yeah. I always use the base color's compliment to shade. Trick of the trade!