New arrivals

I bought these on ebay in the middle of last year. Picked them up from my parents' house at Christmas, and sharing them now. There are two sets, both forming part of Grenadier boxed sets released in the '80s.

The first batch is from the Goblin Warband by Nick Lund. Not sure of the release date. I have five of the original ten goblins.

Next up we have models from the Orc Battle Set. I have seven of the original twelve. A few of them have the heads of their weapons missing but that could be fun to fix.

Looking forward to painting all of these. They feel quite significant, being so old. Also, they have such character and are very different

 to my eye from, for example, Citadel models of the same type.

Current work

At the moment I'm working on three Oathmark goblins and an old Citadel squig.

After adding block colours I've gone back to desaturate the cartoonish colours, and add a little subtlety and highlight.

I wanted to go for an unconventional colouring. Rainbow/Mantis shrimp seemed beyond my skill, so I began again with plain blue, clashing with pinkish purple gums.