For this year’s Orktoberfest, I decided to finally get to painting my hand sculpted goblin or baby orc miniature. I made it nearly 10 years ago out of a piece of wire and Miliput. I wanted it to be a berserk baby orc, if that makes any sense. Later, I thought it could be used as a goblin assassin or fanatic or even a baby troll. Anyway, it’s the first miniature I’ve sculpted myself completely from scratch! After all this time sitting in my miniatures cabinet, I decided that now is the time to put paint on it.
Besides painting another green skin for #orctober, I want to use this opportunity to introduce you to a new activity within our hobby: miniature sculpting and casting! Something I want to explore more in depth in the coming future.
Also, I wanted to test my newly purchased Army Painter Warpaints Fantatic starter set. Can they become my new go-to paints, replacing my Vallejo range? Let’s find out!
Preparation
At the time, I sculpted this little dude, I added some sort of collar and a ring on his back to insert a piece of “rope” at a later stage. I never did it it. Up until now, when I added a piece of miniature chain. Superglue holds it in place.
Next, I primed it grey.
Skin
Now for the fun part: green skin!
I mixed up a purple and base coated the entire creature.
Next, I over brushed a dark green, leaving purple only in the deepest recesses.
After that has dried, I applied my first lighter green highlight.
Then, I blended the highlights with the darker green over brush underneath, using a mix of both colors. This nicely smoothes the transitions.
A goblin green was added as further highlight to a smaller area exposed to an imaginary light source shining from an angle above.
Next, I added a bright green yellow to the mix and further highlighted the exposed skin.
Finally, I used yellow green to highlight only the most prominent dots on the mini like the face and the knuckles.
With that, the skin is done!
Thus, I, for once, didn’t use any washes.
Metal
I base coated all the metal bits with Army Painter’s Plate Mail Metal.
After that has dried, I added a black wash, and later some highlights with a light silver.
Fur and ropes
For the fur, I simply referred to Duncan Rhodes’ easy to follow tutorial:
And here’s the result:
For the rope belt. I went for a beige base coat and a brownish wash, followed by light beige highlights.
Eyes and mouth
As a final step, I painted the mouth and the little dude’s eyes.
For the mouth and the tongue, I mixed a purple using red and blue. Then, I highlighted everything with white. A red wash tied everything together.
For the eyes, just follow these steps, using a very fine brush:
- base coat red
- yellow dot in the middle
- smaller black dot on yellow
- very, very fine white dot on top of black dot
Now the creature was ready to be based.
Actually I nearly forgot to paint the nails. just use beige followed by a brown wash.
Base
I leave this step up to you. Since there was already some flock on the base, I decided to go with it. Consequently, I painted it brown, followed by a beige and subsequent white dry brush. A brown wash and a black base rim rounded everything off.
I simply added some patches of static grass and flock to the base using PVA glue.
Leave it to dry, matte seal it and enjoy!
Besides having having been painting my sculpted goblin miniature, I’m also working on my 3D-printed Grom with his chariot by Avatars of War for our Maughtrond Passion Project.
Stay tuned for more on this topic and admire David’s revamping of an old GW Goblin.
Happy Orktoberfest!
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