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"Your Friendly Neighbourhood..." - Grot Scuttlings

Grot Scuttlings infest the Silver Tower's dark depths.
They are wily and tribal, half-arachnid beings whose
poisons and webs are the bane of the unwary.

Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower





Hey gang, welcome to another Friday and to another Art of Caesura!

I know that I teased at the end of last week's post that I was going to talk about the tasting and judgement of my Night Watchman Porter. And while I did crack open my first bottle there on Tuesday, I also managed to get a good bit of painting done this past week. So, if it's all the same to you, I think I'm going to stick with minis for the next couple of weeks to keep up with the momentum of Silver Tower and then I can give my thorough thoughts on my Porter in a few weeks' time. 

I wanted to ease myself into Silver Tower painting, so I started with something familiar: Goblins (well, Grot Scuttlings to be pedantic). Coming from an Orcs and Goblins background (and anyone who's been there themselves knows that that's often a lot of night goblins!) I felt comfortable enough with these little guys. 


These poor little buggers haven't been getting a ton of love on the interwebs from people who think they look terrible. I guess I'm just biased towards anything even remotely green skinned, but I think they're fun. Sure not as drop-dead gorgeous as the Tzangors but better than the night goblins that came with The Battle of Skull Pass starter set. This will sound like a strange gripe, but I miss the talon-like fingernails that goblins used to have. They haven't had any fingernails since before Skull Pass - not even Skarsnik! At least these guys have toe-talons...and those weird T-rex arms...

Anyway I managed to get them all painted and finished the bases off too this week. Here are some close-ups. I had fun painting most of their little spiders different colours.

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I did a couple of them in brown just to...you know...jazz things up!

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The trickiest part was painting the webs on their sides. They're not quite as embossed as they look, so rather than cruising over them with the side of my brush I had to bust out ol' W&N 00 and grab them point on. 

Another fun thing was using Blood for the Blood God (likely my favourite paint) to give their eyes that deep glossy goblin-arachnoid look. 

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And here's a group shot of all the lads:

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In case you missed it here's how I did the bases

Well, I hope you enjoyed seeing my first brush strokes into Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower.

Take 'er easy and see you next week on The Art of Caesura!


Listening: Pork and Beans - Weezer (man, does that music video bring me back!)
Doing: Ocean swimming! (Just got a new wetsuit - and LOVING it!)
Drinking: My Nightwatchman Porter (more on this in a few weeks)


Next Week:
Lets light things up a little...

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