Lesser Goblins - The Bloody Fingers.

The battle had not gone to plan.

Nilbog had planned to lead his band to loot and fame. Nilbog had planned to time it just right and charge in just as the enemy were turning, to cut through the Orc line and take down the best pickings.

Nilbog's plan had never gone so wrong

The Orc line had broken under a furious Cavalry charge from armoured Knights and his band had been caught up in the rout, taken down by first the fleeing Orcs and then by the hooves and blades of the persuing Cavalry. Nilbog had escaped with his life and little else, his band scattered or worse and he had fled to lick his wounds as start again. 

Wandering into unknown territory he had come across the lands of the Severed Hand tribe Orcs and amongst them the lesser goblins of the Bloody Fingers. Nilbog began again and was soon leading the Bloody Fingers as he had led his last band, a mound of fingers at his hut door and a eager mob to lead to glory and loot!

Alternative Armies runs a free gift promotion each month with their orders and through that I acquired a small band of goblins, Nilbogs Backwoods Goblin band. 

Alternative Armies

They were added to my Goblinoid lead pile but with my ongoing Bloodbath at Orcs Drift project I had a flash of inspiration and dug them out. Paired up with an old citadel goblin standard bearer and a lesser goblin that had been shamefully bouncing round various boxes for far too many years they would be a lesser goblin uint to support by Severed Hand Orc tribe.

With the test figure done using the same style as their larger cousins I also settled on a name for them in line with the Severed Hands. Before they had banded together and joined with Nilbog these were the ones who would be sent out to collect the severed hand trophies for the Orcs. The bravest would join the fighting and started taking their own trophies, a finger rather than a whole hand  and  which often resulted in the Orcs complaining that there was bits missing from the hands. 

'Bloody Fingers?!' started out as a complaint but became the name of their little band.

With the first batch done I couldn't settle on a figure for Nilbog, there was no official designated figure and the citadel lesser goblin felt more like a 'lumbering' champion rather than the brains of the outfit so I ended up getting some more and building a centrepiece for the newly crowned boss.

 

The Bloody Fingers

Old World Army Challenge VI - Rank and File Orc Archers

April Entry for my Old World Army Challenge

 Old World Army Challenge

Old World Army Challenge VI - Rank and File Orc Grashak Kra and Hobhounds

February Entry for my Old World Army Challenge

 Old World Army Challenge

ASOIAF.House Greyjoy 2. Ironborn Trappers

 

My next Greyjoy unit on the painting table are the Ironborn Trappers. I really liked the sculpts with these, the spear and nets are an original variation you don't see that often outside the Roman Arena with the Retarius. 

The layers of plate and leather armour and scaled armour are also nice detail I always enjoy.

The paint scheme was the same as with the reavers but looking at the sculpts many had leather like collars or jackets with rougher texture which I tried to paint as if they were fish skin leather, linking with the more explicit fishing theme and adding a variation to mark them away from the Reavers.

Completed force so far

Alternatives to the Greyjoy banners for Activations

Old World Army Challenge VI - Rank and File Orc Spearmen

January Entry for my Old World Army Challenge:

 Old World Army Challenge

ASOIAF. House Greyjoy 1. Reavers

 

Approaching the figures I drew from the series and wanted to go for a more realistic weathered look but not full Grimdark. Looking at the series, the Greyjoys often appear far more blue than they actually are due to filters on screen

   

 

For the movement tray, I have seen some stunning versions with them made up as shore lines or waves but I decided to go for a more neutral look, one that would still work with the theme and colour scheme but wouldn't look jarringly out of place on a range of tables. I settled on a variation of my grey theme with a high shore/cliff top/stone harbour look with some sand and seaweed details.

gravel and bark chipping to add some texture

Even though there is a nice number of variations, I wanted to change it a bit more so swapped and repositioned some of the arms

First test Reaver.

I have extended the base all the way down rather than the usual black band so it blends in better when in the tray

First Greyjoy reavers completed

Zenith 2. Cat girl and the Lepard from Lime Street

 On a roll with my Zenith Superhero, I completed my next two costumed adventurers, Cat-Girl and the Leopard from Lime Street.

The figures were based on another of the sculpts from Attica Games, ManxCat, with Cat girl being reposed and a tail added while I added some extra base scenery so I could add a nod to his Lime Street sobriquet.

Attica Games

Original Cat Girl in Sally Comic

Cat Girl featured in Zenith 

Original Leopard from Lime Street from Buster Comic

The Leopard featured in Zenith