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Photos coming shortly (my table where I take photos is occupied with new cat food - I had a sick kitty, and he required a change in diet, which only came in 20kg bags of food).

I finished the two units of Greater-Goblin Skirmishers/Archers (I wish that Tom would make some proper Armored Archers).

And I have almost completed a unit of Wolf/Warg-Riders, and a unit of Medium Greater-Goblins.

The work on the miniatures is helping me to slowly recover painting skills that had laid dormant for a very long time.

In the process of working on the Wolf-Riders and Medium Greater-Goblins, I have hit upon a better means of doing the shields, so that they look more "Dark Ages."

I had a comment that too many of the shields looked "Egyptian" which caused me to have an apoplectic fit, of sorts.

I do not want to use the typical "Quartered Shield" pattern (where a round shield is painted two different colors in four quadrants). I just don't think that would work for Middle-earth or Goblins Specifically.

So... I have been looking at Mongol Artworks, and Rus Artworks. I can divide the artwork on the shield into opposing quadrants (so that a pattern is repeated in opposing quadrants, mimicking the quartered shields of the Dark Ages), and I can pull out the 20/0 brush, or Rapidiograph to produce nearly microscopic details and drawings.

The motifs I have chosen seem to work out well (Wolf, Crow, Vulture, Bat, Evil Cresent Moon. Rats, Skulls, snakes - although I think I need to make the snakes into more celtic knots than the zig-zag patterns I have been using). It is just that they are taking up too much of the shields with the 00 brush I have been using.

MB
P.S. Photos soon...