Freedom!

Well, sort of.

Yesterday was the final day of the hobby challenge I've been taking part in down at the Oxford Games Workshop. It was good fun, with some great games played and it's really got my interest in Fantasy going again. Unfortunately I didn't quite finish painting the Ogres but to be honest it didn't matter all that much. However I have very much enjoyed painting and using them in games, so will undoubtedly add to the army as time goes by. This won't impact on my Orcs & Goblins as I'll be painting the Ogres on a 'one box at a time' basis. If anything, it should give me a break now and then from painting green. So much green! Plus it gives me a chance to use my Slaughtermaster again!

Not sure he's a messy enough eater...

So while some of the Ogres will be painted here and there, for now it's back to my goblins! My painting strategy for these guys is pretty simple. Paint 5 standard Night Goblins and then do something a bit more fun, like a character or a couple of Squig Hoppers. This is the progress on the first 5 so far:

The two on the left are done for the most part, although a bit of extra highlighting might be done at some point. Hopefully I'll get these 5 done early this week and then I can move on to a character. I've already started a bit of progress on my Battle Standard Bearer. His banner isn't overly impressive (at least not by Orc standards) but it'll do the job until his banner inevitably gets dwarfed by the one I have for my Orcs and his gets assimilated into a unit of Night Goblins. Until then, he will hold his banner high and proud before running away at the first sign of trouble in true Goblin fashion!

Drawing inspiration from Fed's (Kenti) story of his army, I will also attempt a brief story about my own at some point. How impressive it'll be I don't know, but it'll still be fun to write a story in Goblin speak!