Painted these a few months ago, maybe longer. I think they’re coming out a little more purple in the photo than they really are, the squigs that is, and the highlights on the goblins don’t really show, a pity really as thats probably the best aspect. I mixed a little yellow in with the green which I’ve seen others do and it really sets the model off. At least it works quite well on the comical goblins.
Also painted up is “the chase” a vignette of three models chasing each other.
All the squigs and herders were resin. This was my first foray into Games Workshop resin. The detail is great however the bubbles and mould lines were pretty disappointing. The mould lines were difficult to remove but the bubbles in the fine details are even more difficult to rectify. I guess it’s what you should suspect with resin but it’s quite frustrating when you pay the kind of money GW ask.
Painting Squigs and Goblins together should really be done while watching Ghost busters…. I can’t think why .. it just seems right somehow….
Top job painting these… I understand the mold lines issue… I’ll cover that in my later articals.. but I have trouble wth second hand minis primed over un cleaned models… my best friend is a small broken off olaf blade piece clamped in the cheap as blade holder from warehouse stationary.. I think I gave you one …. but scrape scrape and scrape some more is all you can do… and we still miss some… sheesh.
In future don’t pocket dead grass right next to bright living grass.. it just looks out of place. Or maybe make the green ones very small to look like minor regrowth. Thats why my FOW bases a mono green… the contrast are very hard to get right. Look at model railroad articals.. it’s a science and art to get flock grass colour right.
Yep that’s what I still use for scraping mould lines, thanks again by the way. It does the job as you say but it can leave a little to be desired, not the fault of the knife though. I guess it’s the fact that they were pretty heavy that I found disappointing. I’m used to GW plastics which are pretty tidy with respect to the mould lines and they clean easy compared to the resin, which is hard and brittle in comparison.
I disagree, I think there are plenty of examples of those to colours intermixed.
Tussock in the Catlins
http://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/91008/123830761/stock-photo-tussock-grass-at-slope-point-catlins-southland-new-zealand-focus-is-on-the-front-123830761.jpg
Dead grass in Geelong
http://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/common/public/images/inpage/cowiescreek15.jpg
Or this even
http://previews.123rf.com/images/marilyna/marilyna0606/marilyna060600025/452077-Clumps-of-dried-long-grasses-amongst-shoots-of-new-grass–Stock-Photo.jpg
Admittedly I probably didn’t execute particularly well on those squigs, bases were really too small for it.