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"Sinister and Crazed" - Forge World Grot Shaman

Night Goblin Shamans are sinister and crazed individuals, 
due to their consumption of huge quantities 
of the powerfully hallucinogenic fungus 
for which the Night Goblins are renowned.



Greetings and Welcome to The Art of Caesura!

Today we're shifting gears from all of the Hellboy: The Board Game coverage that we've had in recent times. 


Like any good hobbiest, I have a ton of unpainted models lying around the place. Much of my unpainted collection is made up of Orcs and Goblins (my original love from Warhammer Fantasy, before I joined the Skyfleets of the Kharadron Overlords


As I said in my post about the new Contrast Paints (which, excitingly has now had well over 10 000 views!), I am looking forward to using these paints to get through my old Night Goblins (Moonclan Grots) from the Battle of Skull Pass box-set. At the time of painting the model the Contrast Paints had not quite been released yet.


I also wanted to get used to the idea of using the Contrast Paint style, so for this model I used the technical paint Nighthaunt Gloom for the magicy bits which works a little similar to the new Contrast Paints. Thus, as a goblin - and using a paint similar to the Contrast Paints - this Grot Shaman from Forge World ticked both of the boxes in preparation for painting one million (or about 73) Night Goblins. 


And now, just before we crack into the nitty-gritty of the painting, I just need to say: I LOVE THIS MODEL!! I have always loved this model, from the very first time I saw it! How hilarious, and thematic that a goblin is basically combusting in a mushrooom-induced explosion of magic! You can get a better view of the fully-assembled miniature below.


I started by painting the goblin as I normally would. For his skin, I started with an olive green (2:1 mix of Warboss Green and Steel Legion Drab), I highlighted first with pure Warboss Green and then a 2:1 mix of Warboss Green and Yriel Yellow. I finished the skin with a 1:1 mix of Warboss Green and Yriel yellow and then a wash of diluted Biel-Tan Green (1:1 Biel-Tan: Lahmian Medium).


I would usually leave details like his eyes for later, but anticipating that it might be a bit tricky to get in there once I'd attached the "moony-magic puke", I painted them Evil Sunz Scarlet with Yriel Yellow highlights. 


For his robes, I started with Abaddon Black and simply added more and more The Fang. The trick here was keeping the consistency nice and dilute for the first few layers (the wet palette really comes in handy for this kind of blending). 


Once I was using pure The Fang, I started adding White Scar with less medium added - this was mostly the very finest edge highlights on his robes. 


Then came the magic smoke. As I mentioned, I wanted to use Nighthaunt Gloom over a light basecoat for this to replicate a contrast-style approach. So, starting by painting the black-undercoated smoke bits white (this took far too many layers of White Scar - but I wanted a smooth, even coat) I then applied Nighthaunt Gloom to the whole thing. 


Had I thought about this fully before starting to paint the mini, I would have realized that this was a terrible idea for the look I was going for. I wanted to create the look that you can see in these finished pictures (i.e. lighter in the depths of the smoke and darker on the outsides) which is the exact opposite of what the Contrast Paints (and Nighthaunt Gloom) were designed to be used for!


These paints have been designed to flow into (and ergo be darker in) the deeper recesses and lighter on the superficial details. And it worked perfectly in that way - doh!


Anyway, so I picked a bad model to apply this technique, and ended up keeping the Nighthaunt Gloom as the mid-tone, painting White Scar into the recesses (another million layers) and The Fang + Stegadon Scale Green + Abaddon Black onto the outer surfaces.


Having salvaged the smoke effect, the rest of the model was the quirky details of his staff: the dwarven skull (with red beard) and amulet.


As I knew he would be, this was an awesome model to paint! My slight misadventure with my Contrast-style painting (totally my bad) created a fun little challenge of bringing it back to something I was happy with. 

In your zeal to clear all of your shelves of grey plastic, have you come across any old miniatures that you had forgotten about but are now going to paint? I'd love to hear about it!

See you next week on The Art of Caesura!


Listening: Berserker - Amon Amarth


Next Week:

Lots of squeaky voices...

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