The Dogs - Spring Clean Challenge 2026
Goblinoid schiltrons, the bombard and catching up with basing
I got some paint onto the schiltrons. I love this little unit and am enjoying writing their background. It will be a bit silly and hopefully funny, like the old Priestly background content for Warhammer used to be.
Not a complicated paint job, just time consuming. They are excellent sculpts from Scotia Grendel which means there are loads of details to do. I stuck to a very simple scheme. Ruddy Fur for the goblinoid skin (I don’t like green as a skin colour), and then basic Speedpaints for the wood, leather, iron and brass. One schiltron has a red theme and the other is blue. They come with a pack of weapons to glue in that stick out a different angles. I decided to add some banners to this to enhance the mob effect. These were made from Greenstuff and thin brass rods. Colours were three layered acrylics.
- The red was painted with Flat Red, a touch of black and Cavalry Brown for the lowlight layer and then Flat Red mid tone and Flat Red with Vermilion for the highlight
- The blue was Flat Blue with a touch of black and The Darkness for the lowlight layer, Flat Blue for the mid tone and Flat Blue with a spot of Ashen Stone for the highlight.
The main banner had a LBMS 1/72nd scale greek hoplite shield transfer added. Some shields were done in plain black and plain white to keep them loosely connected to the unifying colours for the army.
The other painted units also had their bases finished. Goblin green edges to miniature and unit bases and the scatter and tufts added. Here are the Wardances finished:
Also finished by completing the basing was an old Citadel Miniatures bombard. This was from the C22 Imperial Bombards code which featured a small and large bombard with crew sculpted by the Perrys. Amazingly these miniatures are still available. Bryan Ansell took them with him to Foundry Miniatures and like a lot of the Fantasy but actually War of the Roses stuff they did you can still get them from Wargames Foundry. The chap with his hands over his ears is a cracking sculpt and very typical of the Perrys’ early Citadel output.
They were painted along with my Saga English but at the last minute not included with that army as I was gifting it. A few final highlights here and there but basically just as they arrived from the earlier project.
