Painted: Moria Goblins

 A couple days back I posted the goblins on which I tested different greens for skintone. One of those greens was Malignant Green, a colour I thought was ideal for my vision of the goblins infesting Moria. As I already had 11 of them laying around, assembled about 20 years ago, most of them primed and  ready to go, I decided to jump in and paint them to see if my idea looked good on an actual model.

The answer is: I really like the outcome and if I get a general for these menace, I fully intend to play at least one game with them. I still have 24 of them on sprue, so there's a good chance that these sculpts will appear here at least twice more.

Some might wonder, why 11, when there are 12 on the sprue? The answer is: one got lost in the 20 years between me assembling it and actually getting to want to paint it. I have also lost one WFB orc boy and now I want to think that they eloped together to live a happy greenskin life, even if by doing this they were condemned to live either as grey plastic or just primed black.

If you like what you see, here is the recipe:

1. Usual slapchop underpainting was applied
2. Malignant Green was used for the skin
3. Blood Red was used for the rags they are wearing
4. Ratling Grime was applied on their hair
5. Wyldwood was used for the wood elements on the models that have them
6. Snakebite Leather was used for the quivers on archers
7. Skeleton Horde was used for the arrow fletchings
8. Black Templar was used for the non-metallic parts of the gloves and boots
9. Leadbelcher was used for the metals
10. Black Templar was applied on the armour to make it look like a metallic black
11. Leadbelcher was applied to the armour as a drybrush to highlight it
12. Agrax Earthshade was applied to to the chainmail and weapons
13. Ushabti Bone was used on the teeth and  eyes
14. As for the bases: Lunar Desert + Agrax Earthshade + Ash Grey drybrush (any light grey should do)

There are some gaps in the bases... at first I attempted to fill them with the Lunar Desert paste, but then I decided that fiddling with it is not worth the effort. Some little goblin feet were also dirtied with the paste, but it does not look that bad from a distance.

Merry Christmas!