It’s been a while. I’ve been swamped with work and only found time
to do some short paint sessions since the beginning of the month. Sadly this appears to continue at least for another few weeks, but I’ll probably be able to fit in some occasional painting. At least that’s what I hope. I have 18 eager snotlings awaiting my brush on the workbench, but more about them in a later post.
Here you see what I have almost finished. Five gobbos – the oldest is the little fella in the middle. A so-called Lesser Night Goblin sculpted by the Perry twins around 1983. I have quite a few of those in the leadpile and I for some reason really like these gnomish goblins. They are quite different from the Citadel goblins we came to know from the mid-80’s but their minute appearance certainly is charming and I would really like to do something more with these lesser goblins.
Then you see three goblins from around 1987. The one with the shield and the chap holding a spear are excellent sculpts while the one with the bow is suffering from some awkward details and a slightly, unintentionally deformed face. He looks good from a distance but the sculpting doesn’t really hold up to closer inspection.
Finally the one on the far right is a Crooked Claw Goblin. A decent mini, although the body perhaps is a bit too rotund or trunk-like, but nothing which should keep you from getting one yourself.
There is not much to say about the paintwork. The skin turned out slightly lighter than intended but that’s how it goes with my greenskins. They seem to end up a bit different each time, which is probably because I don’t really have a preferred method to do the green skin. I added some poppie-like flowers to two of the bases.
As you can see I still need to finish the bases but that’s the easy part and something which I even might do tonight.
Cheers
Shamutantis 
Great job on the skin tone.That Lesser Night Goblin is certainly a little chap, isn’t he? It’s not a range I’ve encountered before and I’m off to SOLegends to take a look at them.
Thanks Gareth! The lesser goblins are indeed very small – roughly the size of 3rd edition snotlings – if not slightly smaller. I find they have a very particular charm to them. I’m not sure why but I really like these small fellas and in my oldhammer universe the whole idea of having both goblins and lesser goblins is very much alive.