I probably should have been painting, or studying for my Emergency Vehicle Operator's Exam, but I spent some time this afternoon fixing up the blog. It was a total pain in the ass, but I think it looks better than it did before... The slideshow will be much cooler when I can get around to taking more pictures, so I'll have to get painting, and picture-ing.

(I figured last night that perhaps starting with the goods was the best plan, so there you go)

3 followers, I'm moving up in the world!

On to the Ogres, I dug a unit of 3 up the other day that I had started painting, and did a bit more work on them last night. I'm pretty happy, I think, with the rust on the metals. The skin needs some more work, to smooth it out some, and I think I might try some wet blending to make some of the shading (on both the skin and the pants) smoother.

This unit will be my compulsory unit of Bulls, and will be pretty plainly equipped-- As such, they don't quite have all the bells and whistles hanging off of them. Their plain-ness should serve to contrast them against the more elite units and characters that will be in the army.

Okay, back from the firehouse to do my followup post to the snotling pictures I showed you guys the other day.

First off, being a broke-ish student creates an interesting dynamic when paired with the Games Workshop hobby, what with constant price increases. So this, in addition to my other problem of being largely unable to work out how to approach the Chaos Dwarf army, I've elected to put that project on hiatus for the moment, and start anew:

Project Green will be my attempt to not only finish an army, but to do so as cheap as possible- I'm off to a good start, with 2 boxes worth of BFSP goblins at my disposal already, and my bounty from the IFL Swap Meet last weekend, which I came away from with some great bargains. A few other trades and such on WarSeer, and we're off!


*Disclaimer: I'm counting my expenditures from this point forward. Stuff I've had laying around prior to the project is being counted as free, essentially. It's cheating, I know.

The snotlings were a good unit to start with, so I've got a decent foothold on my painting technique for the army-- I just have to streamline my goblin "how-to" as much as possible for the long road ahead!

During my break in ambulance driving, I gave in to my urges and painted stuff for the Night Goblin army instead of the Chaos Dwarfs... and down the slippery slope we go



Just some Snotlings, so it's some pretty simple stuff. I'm really happy with the mushroom bits, and I think the basing came out alright overall. The models themselves aren't perfect, but for my first shot at greenskins in... well over 2 years, I'm pretty pleased.

Tomorrow I've got my Emergency Vehicle Operation Class from 0800-1700, and a shift at the firehouse right after that, so it'll be a while until I can do my followup post-- But my Sunday post will outline the details of Project Green: Night Goblins (On the Cheap!), my plans for it, and all that good stuff.

What exactly this means for the Chaos Dwarfs, I'm not entirely sure. Gaming-Wise, the CD's are a more competitive choice BY FAR. That said, I'm really not a competitive person, and I really prefer an army like the Goblins which is just about pure, unadulterated fun... Perhaps I'll see if I can switch for the escalation league

I just got off a 24 hour shift at the firehouse, so bear with me.

Saturday was the IFL's swap meet, and I got even MORE for the budding Night Goblin army... Off the top of my head, I came away with a pump wagon, 2 goblin spear chukkas, about 20 night goblins, a TON of snotlings, and some extra night goblin bits. Adding to my 70-some BFSP night goblins with spears, a bunch of bow gobbos (though I'm going to avoid the Fanatic Catapult Gunline list at all costs... so I probably won't use most of them), 4 Squigs, and the old Marauder Giant.

Long story short, I really want to do the NG army... not so much the CD army. Damn.

I knew something like this would come up at some point, and I know I need to finish the chaos dwarfs by March. It doesn't really feel like I have a choice in it (odd thing to say about painting toy soldiers)... I think the answer is to just buckle down and do a couple... that should help me motivate myself. I hope.

Probably what I'll do is continue working on the CD's, and use them to hone my painting/modeling skills... and sometime further down the line do a few test models for the goblins, with the aim of finding the perfect ratio between painting speed/ease of repetition and quality.

So, something's come up (as we all knew it would)-- Basically, it just so turns out that the only Emergency Vehicle Operator's course is in 2 weeks... So I'm going to have to somehow spend 10 hours behind the wheel of an ambulance within the next week.



Obviously, this isn't IDEAL for the army project, but I'll do my best to work around it and churn out a few more annihilators, and the beginnings of the warrior unit. Rock and roll.

Also, the IFL's swap meet in Woodbridge this weekend already looks like I'm going to be getting a TON of night goblins... New project on the horizon?

As promised, I've finally taken pictures of the Annihilators I've done already, and with them I pose a few questions, but first, pictures (something that there really aren't enough of on the blog)-

10 Annihilators- (Full unit will be 15... I have 2 more off-screen, so I have 3 left to do)


aaaaaand a close up on some of their ugly mugs


Now, my questions on the unit-
1- with the more Persian/Bighat theme in mind, should I keep the classic Red/Black color scheme, or switch to a patterned yellow/black?
2- should I keep the current dwarf sleeves, or switch to a baggier, poofier sleeve

(The guys in the center background)

I think that those two changes might add an interesting exotic quality to the army... though the poofiness will probably be a lot more work than would be worth it visually.

I guess the last question would be should I keep the faces open like they are now, or give them some cloth covering their face like they have in the movie. This would probably be a good deal of work, but it would definitely go a long way toward the exotic, sinister look I'm going for.

Stuff to think about!