hi
this is my first WIP thread ever, and its for my first ever goblin army
so without further ado heres my first captain, there will be 2 more to follow when i get time,

and after some smoothing and such

finally
a basic S'n'S to show how they should look ( hopefuly a little better)


so what do you think, pretty basic i know but im quite happy so far

shall do 2 more captains and a shaman i hope

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"they have a cave troll"
worst thing to say as the bride enters the church!

Welcome to the WIP community It's my favourite section of the one ring forum. I think the basic colours on the goblins look good. Can you take some photos from side on so we can get a better look at the models?

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"...that there's some good in this world Mr Frodo - and it's worth fighting for."

i can... once they are painter a bit more, the captains just undercoated and my camera sucks for black.

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"they have a cave troll"
worst thing to say as the bride enters the church!

Very nice!
We probably all have tons of Goblins, but in all those years none ever wrote an article about converting tyhe standard plastic Goblins...

Love it how you decided to make your own captain!

And welcome to the WIP-section!

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my conversions come from necesity i survive nearly all on second hand models, excluding occaisional heros ( my eomer arrived yesterday sooooo happy) so i couldnt justify buying one of the captains models.

the plastic conversions are tricky as they are very cramped models, but i managed it ok.

anyone got any recomendations for what the shaman should look like, im thinking swapping a bow for a staff/spear
then adding something to the firing hand or replacing it,
am really stuck for ideas on that one though

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"they have a cave troll"
worst thing to say as the bride enters the church!

I agree swapping the bow for a staff is a good idea for a shaman - the other hand is tricky. Which bowman pose are you wanting to convert? Maybe they could be holding a skull/head or something on a 'rope'. You could get a skull from a bits pack or chop a head off another model (I guess preferably a head of a human or dwarf etc). This would look imposing and spooky, but might be a pain to do.

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"...that there's some good in this world Mr Frodo - and it's worth fighting for."

I've found in my plastic orc conversions that cutting the whole arm of at the shoulder and replacing it with another works wonders. Cut the arm off a sword wielding goblin and glue it onto your shaman.

I really like the conversion on your captain.

Rob

id never really thought of doing a whole arm swap,
the start pose will be from one of the 'just fired' goblins with the least armour
hmmm, i like the idea of giving him a head or a skull, or a dwarf head with a crown, which would add to his magic,
who wouldnt be struck motionless by the sight of a long dead kings head?!
hmmm my project has now got a direction!

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"they have a cave troll"
worst thing to say as the bride enters the church!

i'd like that idea of conversion, i'm converting goblins myself. and if i can help you with some inspiration check out my photo album.
i cant wait to see more goblin conversions.