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I'm looking to put together an army of Goblins for Kings of War. My idea is that they're using whatever fabric they can find, armour pieces and such. They have to look like a bunch of rag tag goblins who use battle standards as cloaks along side animal hide and anything else they can find. I'm planning to make the skin an unified colour scheme across the whole army but I'm wondering if any one else has tips on keeping them unified.

keep the base in the same style across the whole army.

you can get away with alot of different paint jobs aslong as the bases are the same.

Bases really do go a long way, but if there is a common detail across many models, you might consider keeping them the same.

A ragtag group that all wear the same coloured arm band, for example, helps to identify the group. Or the same colour hats. Keeping the metal bits on the weapons the same, or using the same colours for wooden shafts on spears, or the same colour on tassels.

I’d say a common base with at least one prominent detail kept similar would do for an army like goblins. Shields all painted the same colour would help, too.

Bases for sure.

another option is battle face paints and markings.

give em all highlander blue face paint and on any available shield use the same painted icons.

Bases and using (relatively) the same colour palette across the whole force goes a long way.

One method you could use which is quick and easy is to simply use a unified palette...while not using it in a uniform sense.

I did something like this for my Chaos cultists. I took a palette of maybe 8-10 colours and used the same colours on all of the miniatures, but in different areas. This ends up with a "cohesive" but "ragtag" effect on the colourisation of the unit. I'd line up my ten figures or whatever, pour out some of colour one, and pick up each model in turn: Pants on this guy, shirt on this dude, mask on this guy, backpack on this guy, boots on this guy, etc.

Then pick another colour and repeat the process.

Samples:

KoW encourages multibasing so there will be 5 cavalry models and 10-20 infantry on a base. I want to build a display board where each unit's mini diorama slots together into a bigger picture.

Bases as mentioned, and a "coherent pallete" of up to 8 colours (maybe even less) are a good start. So are tattoos...

But also worth considering is the sort of marking a band like this might use......

For example blue paint on their right fist.

A footprint "icon" somewhere on each model.

A shield design maybe, the shields can all be different but add a unifying emblem.

It's pretty easy to make a "ribbon" that each model could have around it's weapon hilt out of green stuff and paint them all the same colour.

Rik

A Spot Color helps.
All my death is different, some are bones, some are ghosts, some are covered in metal, but they always have red on them somehow.