Reaper Bones Goblins

With the massive box that was Bones 4, I got a bunch of goblins. Now, I've already painted a bunch of Reaper Bones goblins, and a bunch before that, but these are new sculpts, and I wanted something relatively easy to work on, so.... goblins. 

 As usual,  I started by washing the minis in warm soapy water with my hobby tooth brush. Unlike most of the time though, I didn't glue the minis to their own bases, but instead I hot glued them to some craft sticks. Since I'm working on only 4 sculpts (out of 6) and 4 of each of the sculpts, I wanted to make assembly line work of them. 

An additional difference this time is that I didn't use my usual brown liner on these guys. I've been watching Anne Forester on Reaper, and she doesn't with her bones minis, so I wanted to give it a try.

If you look closely, you'll notice that there's a single white goblin among the grey goblins. That's because these minis first came out in Bones 3 where I got one of each sculpt, and then you get a ton (4 each) more in Bones 4. 

Each of the goblins on the sticks is going to get a bit of some color to help them look different from one another. I used yellow, green, red, and blue. It maybe isn't the most realistic, but when using them on the table it's easy to say "the green gobbo with the 2 handed sword" or "the red sword and board goblin"

For skin, I decided to go with Reaper's Goblin skin paint, and used a bit of Ogre skin for highlight. Now, I did my pathfinder goblins in green, but for my regular D&D goblins, I really do prefer the more orange type color. Plus they go well with the blueish orcs I tend to paint.  

Going in I used ebony flesh on most of the leather bits and the wooden parts. I highlighted some of them with ruddy flesh. I used linen white and holly red on the eyes, and blade steel on the weapons and metallic armor bits.

Then it was time for basing! I popped each goblin off the craft stick, and super glued them onto Reaper's 1" RPG bases. I really like the straight sides of these, as they're so much easier to grab on the table. The slanted ones encourage mini grabbing, and I like to avoid that. 

Then I used my dried coffee to add texture and smooth out the transition between the integrated base and the black base. 

I dry brushed the coffee with ruddy flesh, and then a blend of ruddy flesh and linen white.  Then I added spots of my flock mix, leaving good bits of the coffee ground cover showing.

And there are my goblins! They're okay, but I was really unhappy with my choice to not line the minis. Not getting the skin coverage, and the easy black lining that comes with a good brown liner base was just frustrating. For the remaining goblins, I'm going to line them, but I don't know when it is I'll be getting to them. 

Next up on my paint tray are some sci-fi minis, as well as some treasure tokens. Plus I still need to finish Father Christmas...