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very nice work on the bearers.
as much as i like seeing them in a gooey, drippy scheme, this metallic look is rather unique and cool looking.

however, im not a big fan of the letter. to me, the red is a bit too bright. the sword is great tho

Could you skip a step by using a metalic red paint instead of silver with red over it? Getting a metalic red or red pearlesent paint should give a similar look for the undercoat.

Well I'm back to painting (or at least what I've done in the last 6 weeks).

Apart from having no time thanks to work, dakka and a baby I have just finished assembling my 2250 NG army.

Ran its first test yesterday vs the new lizardmen, wining 1st and 2nd turn, well balanced 3rd and 4th turn, then Skarsnik failed 4 leadership rolls in a row and ran off the table and a regular stegadon with no crew and 1 wound managed to clean up around 1000 points of the army all by itself. Very depressing.

Fanatics should not die if they touch a hill (who wrote that slowed rule) and giants die to saurus with spears. :(

On the bright side 6 spear chukkas terrify opponents with monsters.

To the pics.

5 more NGs with short bows.

And another 5...

Spear Chukka crew batch painting.

And the next lot...

So where to next?

Well I'm currently working on the last 3 crew, and have just started on 2 shamen today for the tournament this weekend.

The BAs I've been working on, I discovered a brutally quick but effective way to paint them so am going back over the models I had painted earlier (that were sending me nuts with the amount of layers and detail.

I'll be heading off on rural rotation in 10 weeks so need to start looking at what I want to paint in the 4 weeks I'm away, last time I painted 60% of a Lizardmen army, this time it will be a heap of NGs, BAs and Lizardmen...

So it has been 3 weeks since the last entry, I've assembled my current 2250 point army and have used it in a tournament with great fun.

Great thing about Night Goblins is that no one (including yourself) expect you to win so there is very little pressure.

I went:
New Lizardmen with 2 EOG!!! Draw
Daemons: Draw
Dwarves: Minor Loss
DEs (with 40 shades): Minor loss
Empire all cav + stank: Massacre win, 3 models off a tabling.

To the minis.

The crew of the bolt throwers (I took new photos of the crew but realised I already had some up so I'll just put up the new ones not yet up here:

My 2 shamen...
To help work out who is who in terms of gear they are carrying they have been dubbed 'Pot' (because he carries a pot), and 'Snot' (Because he has a snotling on his head)

The little waagh is a great spell list, but you need to throw 3 dice at each spell to pretty much assure that you'll get it off.

Same techniques as the rest of the army but more complicated scheme around the hood.

From the side:

The rear:

The other side:

Also have completed the squig hopper unit.

Decided to use red as the colour for the squigs to tie them into the red weapons of the rest of the army, and used crenelations for the hood.

The red is x2 layers blood red, devlan mud and then rehighlight blood red.

Beware their wooden swords!

The unit as a whole on my tablecloth...

I think they work well as a unit.

On to the BSB.

I needed a conversion to get max points for painting at tourneys.

The tee-pee from the BFSFP box set was not being used, and neither was this unit so I chopped them up and attatched them

I went with a dirty white moon as the army has white as the contrasting colour (along with red) and white moons will be on shields.

A higher angle.

Not happy with the large squig eye, but I followed the molding.

Your cheerleaders. They arouse me.

From the side.

Also not all characters are on 2 layers of cork, for 6mm rather than the 1 layer that I have used for the rest of the army.

From the rear.

I had to cut off the top of his hood off and added greenstuff for the point jutting out from under the 'standard'

I was originally going to paint the standard metallic, but there would be no wat he could ever lift it. So I imagine it is wood and straw inside...

The other side.

Now onto this week's project.

My 1st O&G giant.

I love the giant models, and as hoplessly random as they are I love giants in WHFB.

So conversions are in order to help them stand out...

First off what are they best known for?
Jumping up and down and falling down.

So as my skills at converting ar not up to jump up and down which will require extensive cutting and greenstuffing I went with falling down.

So how would he fall down?

I looked in my bits box and had the sqaushed goblin and the NG that has been splatted by the cannonball in BFSFP box. So I cut out the cannon ball and embedded the NG in the cork on the base and the heel fitted perfectly in the hole with a little filler greenstuff.

I then tilted the model back, as if he was slipping on a banana peel (or in this case a NG) and greenstuffed under the feet to fill the holes.
Positioning of the arms to show a lack of balance and I ended up with (about 48 hours ago)....

The greenstuff under the foot.

A good shot of the NG being trod on. They have even helpfully moddled in drag marks on the model which will help with the story.

Also I made sur the stuff he is carrying is pointing straight down towards the ground, helping to make him fall.

Front and above.

The rear