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"Mustering the Horde!" - Battle For Skull Pass Grots


Welcome, fellow hobby enthusiasts, to The Art of Caesura!

 Today we are both carrying on the goblin theme of last week's post and starting something new...

 As I've mentioned in recent times, I got the goblin-half of The Battle for Skull Pass when it first released in 2006 and have never got around to painting it. Well, with the release of Contrast Paints, all that is about to change!

Unfortunately, the only spanner in the works is that after pre-ordering them over a month ago, most of my Contrast Paints still haven't arrived yet! Apparently they're due to arrive late next week. My plan is to use Plaguebearer Green for their skin (with maybe a couple highlights on their faces and fists) and Black Templar for their robes (hopefully without highlights, but we'll see) over a Grey Seer undercoat. I'll still paint their weapons and details with "conventional" paints. Unperturbed, I began the daunting process of getting all 73 MINIATURES ready for painting. 

Usually, like any sane person, I would tackle a project like this in groups of 5 or 10, but with these I decided to go hog-wild and prep them all together! I don't know what came over me, must have been the heatwave we've had in Ireland!

 So I'm afraid my progress so far (while substantial) does not translate into the most riveting of blogging: cleaning moldlines on 73 miniatures - wait, this just in, it's actually 80 when I include the tied-up dwarf, weird totems and goblin teepee!


The ones in the inner bowl are finished...so the goal is to get them all into the inner bowl. I must admit, this wasn't as soul-destroying as I half expected it to be. Like I said, with the uncharacteristically nice weather we've been having in Ireland I sat out in the back yard with a cider and and audiobook and blasted through these in a few sessions. 

Getting closer...

Whew! Done!

This is after just one sitting!


I do plan to get some round slotta-bases of the appropriate sizes, but for now just needed to get them upright to spray. One step I forgot to photograph was washing them in soapy water (to get rid of years of built up dust and grime).


'Ere we go, the mustering of the hordes! The next step is the spray paint, but after that they might have to head to the back-burner until my Contrast Paints arrive. 


Listening: Sara Lee - The Kiltlifters
Reading: The Stranger - Camus
Drinking: Black Rock Stout - Dungarvan Brewing Company


Next Week:

Finish Him!
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