Der Goblin Komme

I dunno if "der" is the correct article for Goblin (is goblin even goblin in German?), it's just for fun, like adding random umlauts to words (thanks Lemmy). Anyhow, my mobile is finally repaired, so we're back, and like the title may, or may not, say, "the goblin come".

The Grots are almost finished, but before I do more I need to put them on their base. Basically each base will have 5 Grots, since one group is piggy backing, it's only 4 sets of legs, but the other is a bit congested.

Grots

Denim and Leather

War Cry

Bull Horns and Pot Head (copper eventually)

Everything must have checkers.

So yeah, deciding who goes where is what's next. I also think that the denim jackets should have the clan/gang logo on the back, we'll see. I think before I move on and finish them these decisions need to be made as it will determine what areas need work. Having so many figures on one base kind of means that you need to think about the composition, placement and lighting of the final group, not just the individual pieces.

The other problem with these figures is that they are all looking down and posed in odd positions; the base is going to require lots of terrain bits so that they all face relatively level. What enemy could a Goblin possibly be looking down upon? Ants?

Tonight is the miniature painting social night at my local game store. Looking forward to that. I'll probably bring a new piece as this project has too much going on to cart it around.

Where Taxi Drivers Go

So I've been working on the Grots, but I haven't been updating because my phone is still broken (it's been two weeks), and it's by far the faster way to work up the latest. Anyhow, I was working on the Grots and I was thinking about the color schemes, and it really made me laugh.

Pupils

 I realized that the yellow combined with the black and white checkers, really reminds me of old taxis. That reminded me of the and old Seinfeld standup skit: "What's with the cabbies and the B-O?".

Taxi Driver?

I didn't think I had the skills to do the checkers thing, but then I had never really tried. Turns out I can do it! I started by painting 2 lines of  gray side by side, and then figured that this would be wide enough. It was.

More from Jerry "Are these shifts that long?" Bahahaha. Then it made me think, did Orcs and Grots evolve out of stinky cab drivers? In the 40th millennium the taxi shifts got so long that all the drivers turned green and lost it. They kept their love of yellow and checkers.

Fungus Brain with more pupils

Bahaha....

There will be more checkers here too.

 Now that I've probably insulted every type of job based off driving for money, I should point out that it's all Seinfeld's fault. I should also point out that thanks to Uber and Lyft, most stinky cabs no longer exist.

DMGWLFP..

Nudity Ahead

So... I found out that some friends at work are starting a D&D campaign, and one is playing a Tiefling. Having been a BONES 4 supporter I have no shortage of table-top quality miniatures, and after digging through my box of stuff, I found what I was looking for! Claire wanted her to be pink, with green hair and black eyes... (to keep it all PG you'll have to click the thing to see more)

Trouble Brewing

The Gorkamorka boys are "resting" so I can come back to them with fresh eyes and finish them off. While waiting to this to happen, I've started blocking out some of the Grots. I posted on this before, I think. I hope to put 4 on each base, to really give them a mob type of appearance.

Grots with Gunz

Trouble Brewing

NEW GALLERIES

Hopefully there is now a bar, somewhere above this writing here, with links to specific galleries. I"ll have to check that things are actually working but hopefully this will save people searching through random WIP posts when all they want to see are completed projects.

My goal is to try and get everything updated over the next two weeks. I need to sort and update my display boxes, and work on lighting for the high resolution photos. So it does involve more than click click click...



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