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 lone dirty dog wrote:
I liked both versions of the wings set up, but I have to say the Dracula version was my favourite.

As for the saddle I have a couple of ideas, one you could use a coffin lid cut in half for the back of the saddle seat as a back rest or even a broken gravestone.

Secondly as for the reins maybe chains connected by piercings to the squig skin, gives it a more evil feel hope this helps some and it looks great so far.

thanks dirty dog

I liked dracula alot myself. I wanted to save it for a vargulf count as that will be pretty much same as this but without a rider. maybe bits of hair, not sure

I like your idea for a coffin saddle thing. This guy is for my squig cult-goblin army, but I do have an undead night goblin army as well, and plan on doing a vargulf up similarly. I may reserve the coffin idea for a larger mount, such as a zombie dragon or terrogheist ?


I think I will end up going route of piercings in sides of squigs mouth like a primitive bit/champ or whatever for a horse. Would also not make it appear to have an empty "seat" if I wanted to use this guy as a count as vargulf for my undead NG's in mean time (or a 2nd once i sculpt other)

skyfi wrote:

 Sageheart wrote:
That is looking good!

some comments though:
I don't like the way he is moving forward, seems silly and off to me, maybe re-position him slightly on the base?

I also think the tower/goblin base on top of him should be larger and more elborate with various levels, maybe some little spots on his sides, more similar to the one on the spider set, this one seems to small to me, but it might just be the angle that the camera shows it.

All in All though Awesome stuff here!! Love the ideas, and it is coming out in the correct directions!




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Just noticed the Pump Wagon........SO COOL

Thank you very much for the kind words! His position isn't my absolute favorite but, I had to make some concessions. The framework of his lower leg isn't strong enough to support te entire model in case of a fall I'm afraid. So I wanted to connect I base at 2 locations which meant having him rest on central rock that has brass pipe in it. I didn't want the support to show huh meant lettin him sit on the rock.

Once I established that was the "plan" I decided to try to make it look like he was stomping around a bit? I think I mah need to make claws on that foot larger and maybe curled a little?

Maybe that would help translate stomping better?

In any even, hopefully squig narok #2 will have a better pose.
I think I may make him crouching ready to jump?


The framework up top is a little larger than pics show. Should shoot it from above tonight. I had considered addin a walk way around perimeter of the fence like the arachnarok has but I wasn't sure
If it would make it look like he was wearing a big hat. Especially if I use the BFsp tent up top as a catch web shrine... I mean at first I was on board with giant squig with giant wooden wizard hat but.. Didnt like idea of it in practice

Thanks again for comments on pump wagon, since then I have added pirate hats to all those gits!

That aould help show the trampling effect, maybe some messed up tree next to him or something to further show the destruction he has left in his path? It could also be the gravel under him which i assume is helping hold the model up, it looks weird so close to his belly there, its still a wonderful model, just something

Jumping would be pretty awesome, but may have balance problems there as well? Maybe try to help him stand up with some sort of framework that goes towards his back and acts as a balancing mechanism for the model?
I like the idea of the walk way around the model, but yea it may look like a big hat which would be goofy, if you don't make it so clean cut so to speak and perfectly around the model then it could work, stagger it maybe with litle towers and such, or make it curve downward as a way off the model?

the Wyvern is crazy cool
I like the version you chose for the wings, its more dramatic, really digging it.

I would do a saddle, something with a fence would be nice, maybe a little bin in the back to stock up on battlefield trophies. Do you know what rider you will be using?



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Also undead goblins.....awesome...can we see those as well?

 Sageheart wrote:

skyfi wrote:

 Sageheart wrote:
That is looking good!

some comments though:
I don't like the way he is moving forward, seems silly and off to me, maybe re-position him slightly on the base?

I also think the tower/goblin base on top of him should be larger and more elborate with various levels, maybe some little spots on his sides, more similar to the one on the spider set, this one seems to small to me, but it might just be the angle that the camera shows it.

All in All though Awesome stuff here!! Love the ideas, and it is coming out in the correct directions!




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Just noticed the Pump Wagon........SO COOL

Thank you very much for the kind words! His position isn't my absolute favorite but, I had to make some concessions. The framework of his lower leg isn't strong enough to support te entire model in case of a fall I'm afraid. So I wanted to connect I base at 2 locations which meant having him rest on central rock that has brass pipe in it. I didn't want the support to show huh meant lettin him sit on the rock.

Once I established that was the "plan" I decided to try to make it look like he was stomping around a bit? I think I mah need to make claws on that foot larger and maybe curled a little?

Maybe that would help translate stomping better?

In any even, hopefully squig narok #2 will have a better pose.
I think I may make him crouching ready to jump?


The framework up top is a little larger than pics show. Should shoot it from above tonight. I had considered addin a walk way around perimeter of the fence like the arachnarok has but I wasn't sure
If it would make it look like he was wearing a big hat. Especially if I use the BFsp tent up top as a catch web shrine... I mean at first I was on board with giant squig with giant wooden wizard hat but.. Didnt like idea of it in practice

Thanks again for comments on pump wagon, since then I have added pirate hats to all those gits!

That aould help show the trampling effect, maybe some messed up tree next to him or something to further show the destruction he has left in his path? It could also be the gravel under him which i assume is helping hold the model up, it looks weird so close to his belly there, its still a wonderful model, just something

Jumping would be pretty awesome, but may have balance problems there as well? Maybe try to help him stand up with some sort of framework that goes towards his back and acts as a balancing mechanism for the model?
I like the idea of the walk way around the model, but yea it may look like a big hat which would be goofy, if you don't make it so clean cut so to speak and perfectly around the model then it could work, stagger it maybe with litle towers and such, or make it curve downward as a way off the model?

the Wyvern is crazy cool
I like the version you chose for the wings, its more dramatic, really digging it.

I would do a saddle, something with a fence would be nice, maybe a little bin in the back to stock up on battlefield trophies. Do you know what rider you will be using?



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Also undead goblins.....awesome...can we see those as well?

I actually added some curvature to his toe nails on foot in air, and it seemed to make him look a bit more trampling... but Eh.. really actually not liking way his foot in air is looking ... may lob his toes off and start over!

Yes I had to insert a brass rod into rocks under his belly to help support model because was afraid the weight of it would cause a fracture in the lone leg on ground if it got hit hard enough/dropped

I wasn't crazy about it, but concessions had to be made... next one will hopefully make me ashamed of this one!

I think that making the pathway around top spotty in areas is a very good way to break up the continuous lines that may deceive people into thinking hes wearing a hat?



Thank you for the compliments, I really appreciate them.

I am happy I put the wings where I did, mainly because I was gonna be annoyed to sculpt that CUTE LIL FACE, then cover it up with some fugly undead wing from GW jokes jokes

I am planning on putting a goblin up on top of it. possibly one in the picture with the dracula pose. the BFSP warboss with the squig in his hand? It will play as a orc warboss on wyvern... I had considered making me a savage looking goblin shaman... if i wanted a savage orc shaman on wyvern.. going to magnetize rider so can remove him easily. will probably also use this wyvern as a vargulf in my undead goblin army so don't want him to have a rider then


which leads me to probably sticking with chains/reigns/ropes etc... really wanna do the fence... maybe still will... idk!


Have to finish up some mycetic spore comissions before I probably get to work on wyvern or spider-squig #2. Have 8 spores to make!

back onto the rider... I have some old night goblins with whips that are to be mounted on something or another, from the late 80's.. could modify one but so old looking not what i want my boss to look like ya know??




I will try and get some shots of undead gobbos this weekend. haven't messed with em in a while now. they are all still WIP but ya know! could do an army shot at least!

Great work! Keep it up!

Thanks BG. I have managed to get 3 night goblin chariots built this week. working on churning out unit fillers right now... have a 5000 point game coming up and I don't have enough goblins! lol

I also need to make FIVE colossal squigs for this scenario... I may sell these off as I seriously doubt I will freaking need that many. heh who knows.

I think I may post up a picture of the 5000 ... it takes up like 60" x 12" of bookshelf I think? lol... and thats without the 5 collosal squigs! Hopefully can get some updates soon. Been really busy working on other peoples 40k ork commisions and tyranid mycetic spore sculpts. realized I dropped off like 4 of the spores without even taking a photo of them >.< lol

Been slackin, here's some updates. Will try and get pics of army, up to about 12k of night goblin bases stuff. Mwahahaha



For now here is the second squig narok. I like it alot better than first: have 4 more skinned like him in different poses already. Will do something similar for colossal squigs







Worried over time he may bend over. Used a cost hanger super glued into a snug hole with green stuff around it then milliput leg on... Wire was hot glued into a styrofoam ball..


Magnetized howda so gonna remove it for over night just in case, migh build a little cottage he's stepping on to support him?

Just paranoid. The ones that don't have how dad (collosal swuigs) won't e near as wavy. They were fine with weight of putty just not all that framing/models.. Gotta finish his foot and eyebrows /mouth still any who



Finished wyvvern, need to paint it,, used games day Orc warboss as rider and build up a oil derick lookig thing leadin up to a picket fence crowd
Nest for a goblin boss to ride, the Orc,
While the Orc rides the squigvern.

Also made a mushroom cloud miscast unit killer and need to finish it up. Also did a floating island above a witches cauldron with an energy field type of magical jail cell around a chaos dwarf lord and a fanatic sneakkn up on em. Figured would work well in tamurkhan campaign

My pics are always sideways, so will get new ones to post

Squigs are the cheese man, I love them. You're doing a great job so far on everything as well, keep it up. I've also started work on a big ass squig in my blog,it's a counts as megadread

Thank you very muh Kc. I have been watchin your progress actually! Haven't checked in since the long weekend though, could o multiplied by now eh?

I need to beef legs up on this guy do eyebrows/mouth/foot and finish skin in a couple patches, after that done!

Onto the next.... 3 aracks! Then I have 5 collosal squigs to do!

They really should sell arack bases cheaper than 5$ each! Need me a multipack.

Hopefully have some more photos later today unless I get sidetracked playin against chaos dwarves tonight

so time for a major update here we go, pardon all the pictures but I really hoped they may be beneficial to those on the fence about sculpting. I was really hesitant to start because of perceived difficulties, and I'm just a dumb guy from oklahoma, and if I can do this, I'm sure you can 1 up me!

first squignarok #2 with howda removed still needs bulking out of leg in air, and claws/teeth then done. i bulked out bottom leg and gave him bigger eyebrows over his eyelids




count as giants


they are a bout a half inch short of proper giant height but will be correct once I add some night goblins riding them. Need to come up with suitably giant things for them to be doing. One I am trying to make look like hes jumping up and down, 1 running, and the other I was going to attach a fanatic style ball and chain to his ankle on ground like those old toys kids had? you like jumped rope and it counted it, it was like a foot-hoola hoop or something? anyway, one of those + a fanatic ball and chain is what this will guy for his club thumps

start of a squig breaking up to the surface to eat some goblins from the caves below



just a unit filler (25 models worth!)

here is another unit filler, this one is a floating island suspended by the magic brewing in a cauldron below. need to give it goblins on perimeter, and a shaman casting something too. The fumes are intended to have formed a magical "cage" keeping the chaos dwarf lord imprisoned. I will probably add a shaman with a hand shaped spell effect "hand of gorking" the fanatic into the cell with his unsuspecting victim

I only actually made this because I "captured" this lord in the last game vs. my friends chaos dwarves. He had capability of capturing an old OOP squig if he won the game. I felt this was a suitable use of his model.





yet another unit filler (12,000 points of squig cult guys, i have 610 bodies to paint, don't bust my marbles for using filler)

this one is a horrible miscast



sculpt is still rough, needs more bump clouds and jut outs, maybe bits of goblin flying out here and there?

i was going to paint it in yellow/orange/with black on outside like a realistic explosion, but a friend suggested to do it in greens/purples/blues all mystical looking? need ideas on how to achieve this


here is my general orc warboss ona wyvern



he is magnetized to the saddle, when i put him on a 25mm base he just is perched up on a stack of rocks.. but need to weight base as the leaning tower of goblin causes constant fall overs.

wings are from crypt horror box, orc is gamesday 07 i think, and goblin is avatars of war

i made squignarok #1 receive some new lips and tail, and cleaned up some of the connections at his ankles



call this guy squignarok #3



he will get a long tail I'm thinking

mangler squig




still WIP obviously

squig narok #4



he is having his leg broken by a fanatic that will be removable from his base in event i need extra fanatic

had a shot of his face, but was sideways

also had photos of squig narok #5, but sideways again. not alot to see on him fortunately



anywho, I intend to do 6 squignaroks, and 12 collosal squigs.. so need to order me some more arack bases its looking like... I might need more than 12 collossal, might call it 14.. Lord.


still need to photo my squig chariots for army update, and build 3 more. Not to mention need another rock lobba, and 7 pump wagons/1 more giant...


need is a funny word right?

2500 army shot, with close ups of arack 1 blocked in pre wash/needs alot still, wyvern at 60-70% done, and FW squig gobba behind that. Spots on big mushrooms are roughly painted as I haven't tidied crap up. Most was done yesterday. Also worked on pump wagon in foreground and FW shaman in one of those blocks

Can I see more of that blue guy please? He looks awesome.

Love the update, was happy to see you've still been working. Everything is coming out wonderfully, love the red for the squig-dragon, and the gamesday (i think it is 07, i have same model) is perfect for that character.

I personally love unit fillers, the ones you are making are really really cool!
I'd go blues and greens for explosion, unsure exactly how to do it, i'd treat it like real explosion but use greens at center, and blues on edges.

 Sageheart wrote:
Can I see more of that blue guy please? He looks awesome.

Love the update, was happy to see you've still been working. Everything is coming out wonderfully, love the red for the squig-dragon, and the gamesday (i think it is 07, i have same model) is perfect for that character.

I personally love unit fillers, the ones you are making are really really cool!
I'd go blues and greens for explosion, unsure exactly how to do it, i'd treat it like real explosion but use greens at center, and blues on edges.

Thanks alot! sure! i'll get some more photos after work this evening if I can. The woman is going out of town for business with her dad next week so will probably hit it hard then!

I love the gamesday boss, and though he suited the dragon well. Now I need another warboss is problem, on foot, to lead the army. I can dismount the one from wyvern and he has a little rock on a 25mm base to chill out on when his mount dies, but.. no clue what orc model to use. Gonna dig through my orc stuff and see what I can come up with.

Again, thank you! I think unit fillers are a great and often overlooked opportunity to save $$$, time, and bring a lot of character to your army. Win all around! I have many more I want to do, seeing as I'm hoping to get 12,000 points of my squig cult painted before too long.... I'm nuts! I know. my hands hurt just thinking about it... I figure unit fillers will save me a tremendous amount of time and money, and I doubt people will fault me for using them seeing as I have like 700 goblins in my core alone... and if they do, they can play with somebody else, because I don't give 2

yeah i'm thinking blue and green and purple now? i did the spell effects on fw shaman blue and then glazed it, and it looked great, and hit it with a purple wash while glaze still wet which detracted from its look a bit I think, so going to revisit it.


got a great idea for 2nd pump wagon, going to make front of it look like a shark, similiar to my warboss biker/nob biker on previous pages, but have the jaw of shark (which composes front of ship) "pump" open and close, to gobble up prey. Maybe have a cage "belly" inside the ship full of childrens or something?

I was reading some of tamurkhan and saw stories of how much night goblins like stealing children.. So wanted to model that somehow, and need to find some models for childrens too if anyone knows of any

thought of also setting up a fake "fun house" type of wall prop like the houses in blazing saddles is what popped in my head, but any stage scenery ya know.. and having a set of stairs kids being led up that goes to a door that falls into a giant squigs mouth? or a cage or something)

could have the goblin "crew" out front dressed up poorly trying to herd the kids that way?

thought of even just doing "SAFE THIS WAY ----->" pointing to door, and having goblins chasing/herding kids into that faux "safe house" which leads to a cleverly disguised giant squigs?



figured base the thing on an arack base and count it as one, seems proper.. squig hiding in a fake building or whatever, right?

yeah..700gobbos is a lot...I don't see why anyone would mind the use of rank fillers. I agree with you, they save money, and look cool so win win.

I really like the idea of a fun house lol, that seems like a very interesting and funny model to make that would prob be lot of fun. Maybe make it candy house haha, they have to make sure the squig doesn't eat it.

Another idea that came into my head would be to have a squig herd unit where instead of squigs you have children with a piper guy/gobbo in front leading them astray.

 Sageheart wrote:
yeah..700gobbos is a lot...I don't see why anyone would mind the use of rank fillers. I agree with you, they save money, and look cool so win win.

I really like the idea of a fun house lol, that seems like a very interesting and funny model to make that would prob be lot of fun. Maybe make it candy house haha, they have to make sure the squig doesn't eat it.

Another idea that came into my head would be to have a squig herd unit where instead of squigs you have children with a piper guy/gobbo in front leading them astray.

Thanks a lot sage! You'd be surprised at the attitudes some people have about fillers. drives me bonkers. if i had money for a rolls royce, i wouldn't cheap out on my toy soldiers (hell even then I probably still would. I'm really cheap), but seeing as I'm not that well off, I'd rather save for a rainy day than spend a bunch of extra money to appease some potential opponent.


I like the idea of the piper! hehe might have to make a big unit filler with a goblin with bag pipes leading a trail of squigs astray!

the house being made of candy made me lol pretty good. got a visual of a gingerbread house with a big ass bite taken out of it. I had planned on doing some mushroom fillers that had big bites taken out of them, but hadn't thought of applying that to the house!

Mangler Squig Sculpt #1 complete (well this wasn't the first one I started, I have several half finished ones, before picking this one out to finish first as he was my favorite.

what do you guys think? goblin boss there for scale

been painting a lot lately, got the arack with the dwarf on a fishing pole started, half blocked in most colors on 100 or so goblins, as well as done the blending on skin on about 35, starting to do robe highlights now, but getting bored so primed the mangler white last night and may paint on him some to do something new.


I'm thinking orange?


Also, he reminds me of this guy:

so I got some paint on this guy!

Here he is, just needs the eyes done (taking suggestions!)

I tried doing blue cat eyes and failed horribly and blacked them out to start over. heh

Maybe leave them black, paint two gem like reflections of white in the corners and gloss them with varnish so they look shiny.

 Moltar wrote:
Maybe leave them black, paint two gem like reflections of white in the corners and gloss them with varnish so they look shiny.

well if Moltar says to do it.... Not sure what other choice I have!

Thanks for the input mate!

skyfi wrote:


well if Moltar says to do it.... Not sure what other choice I have!

Thanks for the input mate!

I would not keep that as any kind of motto to go by! No tellin' where you'll end up.

Happy to assist if I can.

 Moltar wrote:

skyfi wrote:


well if Moltar says to do it.... Not sure what other choice I have!

Thanks for the input mate!

I would not keep that as any kind of motto to go by! No tellin' where you'll end up.

Happy to assist if I can.

coast to coast perhaps?


Ok, no more jokes from me!

So awesome

Thats a freak of nature and it needs a leash

No seriously cool, but have you considered giving it a more reptile eye look.

Thanks alot fellas! Appreciate the compliments! My buddy sent me a text with a really similar picture dirty dog! Lol. Toss up between trying my hand at reptilian eyes, or maybe shark eyes?

Took a pic of my 10k list for upcoming game so I can visually see where I'm at on progress cause only a couple weeks left!

Figured I would throw this up here!



18k per side. In pic only 15k. A friend showed up who also plays night goblins and we invited him to join us as the warriors player had enough to cover the 3000 the fellow goblin had.

In reserves I had a 50/20 herd 4 managers 5 wagons, and 10 free collossal squigs per the scenario rules. All reserve stuff was outflanking.
1 arack. My allies had a couple Vlocks of 30 orcs, 2 aracks, and some spider riders. The NG player didn't get into game late so entered on reserves with those units

Was a great time. We lost by a margin of 12%! Was a blast. Makes me want to get everything all finished

That was a pretty epic game. You and Rob should have done a Batrep.

My favorite part was all the Colossals chargings the Chaos Dwarf artillery line.

Post more Sky!

 Thunderfrog wrote:
That was a pretty epic game. You and Rob should have done a Batrep.

My favorite part was all the Colossals chargings the Chaos Dwarf artillery line.

Post more Sky!

those colossal squigs were the biggest let down! lol just died left and right to those chaos attacks!

artillery was by far the MVP, well.. maybe the 31 fanatics actually!

I don't know what I was thinking when looking back at deployment, I probably shouldn't of had a pre game beer. lol



Playing the game was a feat in of itself. I cannot image a batrep lol. Maybe next time an observer will want to cause we didn't even get to finish game in time because theres just so damn much to do! lol




I have been working hard on getting everyone's gak done for slobberknocker so I can finish my own stuff! Been finiging my list a lot. Want to be competitive for the tourney but actually have fun, and gun lines are nooooo fun to play for me :(

Hopefully I will get to posting some pics of what I have been working on lately. Real life is kicking the gak out of me so I haven't been logging the progress of my army very much.

Hoping to go to the gamestore tomorrow for a bit and play a couple games with the current incarnation of my list and see how it fares. If you are around, feel free to put a boot in my ass and make me go home crying!

It's just Tomb Kings.

They aren't very scary to gobbos I don't think! That said, I think one of us is supposed to play with that guy from Kansas.

 Thunderfrog wrote:
It's just Tomb Kings.

They aren't very scary to gobbos I don't think! That said, I think one of us is supposed to play with that guy from Kansas.

Well my gobbos had a minor loss vs Quato last week when I had my big monsters ( before be added spawns and prince)... And saw how bad that went a few times.. Maybe ill be a better match up.

The guy from Kansas said he may have wife aggro so not sure if he's coming up or not

some works in progress. Pump wagons! have a 3rd not pictured that isn't as far along. One or two of them will have magnetized muzzles covering their mouths (where you can see teeth still) probably made to look like they are made of wood scraps nailed together, with chains that wrap around back of squig. Purpose being I can't afford spiky roller upgrades on all of the squigs. So I figure a muzzle was a good way to indicate the wagons are only STR4 and not STR5 like a normal squig.





buddy at the game store liked my squig unit filler and commissioned me to make this and a couple of GW-style manglers on 40mm bases to go with it that I still need to take pics of

It's really cool to see all those models in one game! How long did it take to play??

On unit fillers, I always thought it breaks away from the dullness of some of the units. I don't really have any since I tend to start new armies before i finished my first XD but I've always loved them when see others with them. They can be really creative stuff.

My brother just started playing and has a sizable lizardman force so i might just have to retake up fantasy and start an army again, seeing all your models does inspire me.

Keep up the great work!