Cuchulain's Escape From Goblin Town WIP

cuchulain84 · **Posted:** Sun Aug 04, 2013 8:09 pm

Hello and welcome to my attempt at painting the fantastic EFGT set. Feedback and tips very much welcomed!

So far I've painted up the all of the normal Goblins, the Goblin King, Goblin Captain and Grinnah.

The Goblin King with flash on.

The Goblin King with flash off.

Some Goblins.

I started with Rakarth Flesh followed with a Reikland Fleshshade wash, I then hilighted with Palid Wych Flesh and covered the warts and eyes with a little Crimson Carroburg.

What do you think?

Next on the painting table are the two wizards...

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:33 pm

A darker tone than I have seen for the goblins. I must admit that I like it.

ResurrectedBones · **Joined:** Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:50 pm **Posts:** 66

Gandlaf the Grey wrote:

A darker tone than I have seen for the goblins. I must admit that I like it.

Yeah, definitely a fan of the darker tones. Detail's fantastic on them!
I don't know why, but I particularly like their bases. Maybe it's the dirty look all around.

Sticky Fingersss · **Joined:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am **Posts:** 1776

I like the darker skin, it makes them feel far more dirty and goblin-like.

cuchulain84 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 7:49 am

Thanks guys! I looked around at a few tutorials before painting these to get an idea of how I wanted them. Most people go with a red wash and then highlight up but I liked the way reikland wash showed them a bit more brown as I felt it looked more like how they are in the film.

crixalis · **Joined:** Wed Mar 13, 2013 12:45 pm **Posts:** 170

Yeah, you've definitely managed to capture their dirty brown-ness from the film. Looks really nice, makes me want to re-assess my own goblin paint scheme, haha.

wiirgy · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 11:39 am

Looking good! I look forward to see how you handle the dwarfs! Try glazing the eyes with Bloodletter and then a little dot of black. Will make em look really good!

cuchulain84 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 2:24 pm

Fresh off the painting table, Radagast the Brown!

Great miniature with loads of detail and character. If plastic can look this good, why on earth do we need finecast?

For the paint scheme I pretty much followed a tutorial by 'mrwatchingpaintdry' on youtube. It was a bit vague at times so towards the end I just made do.

I didn't paint bird poo in his hair but I may go back to it if I find a good method

p.s Don't forget to clean up mold lines before painting, like I did... D'oh!

wiirgy · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 5:47 pm

Amazing Radagast! He is going to be the last figure I paint from EFGT (2 left Bofur, Radagast and 15 gobos)

Thao · **Joined:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:10 pm **Posts:** 179

Nice painting, I hope we see more from your work.

Dr Grant · **Joined:** Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:50 pm **Posts:** 1339

cuchulain84 wrote:

Great miniature with loads of detail and character. If plastic can look this good, why on earth do we need finecast?

I completely agree, I've just been cleaning up and assembling the 13 dwarves today and love the figures more and more as I spend time with them. The likenesses to the actors are staggering (esp. Dwalin, Balin, Thorin, Kili, Bifur and Nori) and the detail is simply amazing, I'd be more than happy with an all plastic range now.

Anyhoo, onto your minis - those goblins look absolutely fantastic!

I think the original Weta designs are pale white/cream like the GW paint scheme and it's the colour grading of the movie that gives them that muddy brown look but I far, far prefer this darker colour scheme and these are up there with the best Misty Mountians goblins I've seen.

I'll certainly be trying to emulate this colour scheme when I finally get around to my Goblin Town army (probably about this time next year sadly!).

Keep up the good work!

Gene Parmesan · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 10:27 pm

Good stuff, look forward to more.

cuchulain84 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 07, 2013 8:28 pm

Thanks again everyone.

Gandalf is now finished!

Despite looking quite simple I found him a little tricky to paint. Took me a few attempts to get the cloak highlights to work and I'm still not that happy with them, but never mind. My painting is improving and I'm sure this won't be the last Gandalf I paint.

Anyway I think he's good enough for now

Now, who to paint next...

army-of-the-dom · **Joined:** Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:06 pm **Posts:** 258

The radagast is amongst the best I have ever seen painted especially with the face, the face it so good it looks like a real person... Perfection

cuchulain84 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:02 pm

Dwalin is done! He painted up pretty quick and without too much trouble. He's pretty damn huge for a dwarf standing a head taller than many of his comrades and not all that far off the wizards. What a badass!

Undercoated

Basecoated

First stage of Highlights

Finished!

Close up

Ectreme close up

Sticky Fingersss · **Joined:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 11:20 am **Posts:** 1776

You've really captured his grittiness as a veteran fighter in his face.

cuchulain84 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:33 am

We're really motoring now, Ori and Oin are done!

Ori

Oin

Ori was lacking in detail a bit so was a tricky one to paint. Oin however was a real treat and I think it's one of my favourites so far.

VictoryGin · **Joined:** Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:05 am **Posts:** 189

Wow, just wow. I think Ori looks a bit dusty but the rest are all the best iterations I have seen of their respective modes. Dwalin and Radagast especially...

Good job, I hope I do half as good job on my EFGT!
VG

cuchulain84 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 09, 2013 4:15 pm

Thank you very much, VictoryGin, High praise indeed!

No updates this time (though Bombur is all but finished) but just wanted to say I had my first go of the game yesterday

The other-half kindly indulged me and we played the Wizards in the Dark scenario (the one that comes on the back of Radagast's stat sheet)

I took control of Gandalf and Radagast and she played as the mischeivous Goblins. We picked up the rules very quickly and had a really fun game with the Wizards having it all their own way at the start, succefully searching both platforms without too much trouble. But alas only 6" or so from escaping the board Radagast was overcome by the Goblin horde and fell and the mission was lost

Really impressed with the simplicity and ease of the ruleset and looking forward to playing again.

Now back to the painting table...

cuchulain84 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:25 pm

Bombur is complete! Pretty chuffed with him.

I have also finished Fili but he's not taking too kindly to the camera at the moment. Not sure if it's bad painting or bad photography yet...

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