Goblobber

 The Goblobber

a not-so-good recast

Soooo - I got this on a trade for a few things and knew that it wasn't complete and missing a lot of things, such as the front panel, a few of the crew, the netted goblin ammunition, but I didn't mind until I received it in the post and after painting it a bit realised that the detail was kinda terrible, indicating a poor recast. Oh well. You can't win 'em all.

Ever since I was a kid and saw this in my local hobby shop in the fancy box, I marvelled at it, (alongside the orc man-mangler and the goblin lead-belcher),
and knew that I might never be able to afford it.
When the chance came along to acquire it (albeit incomplete), I thought, well, now is the time.

Although the models were poor and lacked detail of the original cast, I still appreciated what work must have gone into these sculpts, and to be honest, I wasn't really that disappointed compared to the joy of having something at least close to the original, and the quite liked the challenge of recreating the missing parts, such as the front wooden panel and the goblin heads and hand, requisitioned from gnoblar and snotling plastics.
The hammer weilder is actually another crossbow guy I had that was missing his crossbow, but I had the metal weapon sprue miner tools from '87 so I gave him the hammer. The Spotter I found in my collection already, but alas, he too was either a recast or had seen better days.

I have to admit, the true joy I found was with the chef.
Upon seeing him and his spit-roast on the original box, he was my favourite model in the entire Goblobber boxed set. Even though I made a very rough model of the missing spit and fireplace, putting superglue over the pig to give it a glistening shine, at least the chef was a good cast and now could cook alongside my oldest non-combat model - the curried oats chef.
I dare say the two of them shall expand their camp in the future.

Armitage - the Urinating Dwarf

 Armitage

the Urinating Dwarf

I think I picked up this guy along with some odds and bods belonging to the Goblobber, and I always wondered why he didn't have a weapon, (apart from the small dagger on his belt).

Leafing through the Citadel catalogue one day, I spied him and true to the stamp on the slotta, he was called Armitage. It wasn't till years later in the Oldhammer group that he was touted as being "the urinating dwarf", which totally made sense, due to his pose and the fact that his belt is undone.

Of course, once I knew this, I simply had to go that extra step and paint and cut a wire to act as the "urination" stream, because that Bugman's brew has to go somewhere after it has been drunk, right?

In my first attempt, (pictured below), I cut a piece of hobby wire, but it was too thick and made Armitage look like he was handling a firehose of custard rather than relieving himself.

To finish off the stream, I used superglue to give it a watery shine,

and continued it over the side of the base for giggles.

Skull Pass Thunderers

 Skull Pass Thunderers

Not the best sculpts, but certanly easy to speed paint and another unit done and dusted for the dwarf army.

Long Drong's Pirate Slayers

 Long Drong's Pirate Slayers

Had these pirates for some time as I traded them for Leopolds Leopard Company after a receiving them as a birthday gift from me mum.
I didn't really like the strangely orcish banner for the standard bearer, so I used the severed troll head from a Gotrek model (which made him look weird) and a spare flag from the bits box.
After musing with various pirate logos and the like, I decided to put a treasure map as the banner instead, as if Long Drong and his slayers were daring you to take it from them.

Years after initially badly painting these guys due to my failing close vision eyesight,
I managed to acquire a jewellers headset with a lamp and some new paints and brushes and finally finish them off with all the other slayers.

Finally now the pirate slayers can be united with the dwarven pirate wereshark hero
with an accidental cool water-seaside reflection on top of my new freezer.
Aaaarrrr!

The Slayer Throng

 The Slayer Throng

Ahh - finally the entire throng of Slayers are painted. Not saying there may be no more to join, but when I bought the Demonslayer way back in 1990 it all started from there and the dwarf army began. Once I finished Ungrim, well, the rest just had to be finished, and with some new paints and brushes and a bit of spare time, it had to be done.

It is kind of a relief and an achievement to have finally finished them all, as I started with only a small handful, which have always really fully represented dwarfs for me and the ferocity, determination and fighting prowess that they are known for. Slayers particularly with their berserk-like rage are for me the epitome of how dangerous a dwarf can become.

The command group were some of the first additions, with the second demonslayer a fair bit down the track, and the first handful were all still painted with enamels! After many years of travelling and sometimes tabletop time, a few touch ups with acrylics and washes were in order.

Wait a sec... Yep... there's one more. The fatty from 1990.
To the front line with ye!