Kings of War: Otters and Goblins

I decided on a simple colour scheme, given that I have to paint 160 rank and file goblins before I even get to the specialist units

I started with much darker basecoats for the skin and clothes. I don’t normally bother with that much layering , but I really liked how my Idols of Torment figures turned out. I’m pretty average when it comes to miniature paint, but I usually come out happy enough with the results.

I basically aim to use the colours shown above along with a metallic , a rust effect and a lighter blue for skin highlights

Having added the basecoats for the skin and cloth,  I painted the weapons and any metallic parts, firstly with the rust effect, then the oily steel  and then gave the metal a coat of nuln oil. As the miniatures are not based I am going to be handling them a fair bit as they don’t stay blu-tacked to the lolly sticks too well. To protect them, I gave them a blast of matt varnish, I wanted to get then nuln oil on before this so it worked better.

I was pretty pleased with the results….just another 11 bases to fill.

So Black Friday saw Kings of War jump into the front of the queue with some massive discounts at mighty lancer games. Up until this point all I had was the free set of rules and a plan to get correct sized movement trays, magnetise them and use my existing round based miniatures to fill them up.

As soon as the first sets arrived I set about getting them assembled and primed, I picked a goblin army, but there was an £85 two player starter set going for £40 with gobbos v ratkin , may have bought 2. The ambush sets were going for £20 so I bought those too

I plan to create a frosty themed army, so blue skinned goblins with dirty red-orange cloth, rusty weapons and armour. I aim to use as few colours as possible to simplify the painting process.