Basing Goblins (and friends, and enemies).

 I haven't managed to do any painting for a while, but I have been focusing on basing, re-basing, and organising my collection. I have got to a point where I want to reorganise my collection, take stock of what I have, and aim to focus complete anything I require. 

All this is no mean feat as I do own quite a lot of miniatures, several thousand probably. It will involve a lot of basing, paint stripping, painting. Over the last few months, with the exception of a distracted foray into Rogue Trader Eldar, I have been basing a lot of my old Fantasy Tribes miniatures onto multi bases for the Midgard rules set, something I have yet to blog about.

Now as that nears it's completion it had got me thinking about how to organise my collection as a whole and I came up with the the following ideas that I would use organise everything. My Fantasy Tribes Great Goblins/Gnolls and Dwarfs, and some pre slotta miniatures would be organised for Midgard. My 3rd Edition Fantasy miniatures would be organised into armies consistent with the Warhammer Armies book. My 1980's Regiments of Renown shall be an independent project, with Regiments of 20, and the miniatures based individually. I have quite a lot of Chaos stuff as well, and they shall be organised via the Slaves to Darkness and Lost and the Damned books Daemon Army lists. In addition, I have a collection of non Chaos Daemons with which I shall construct an independent Daemon army (mainly Great Daemons and Gargoyles).  I will still have a Chaos Army constructed via Warhammer Armies book Chaos Army, and my pre slotta Chaos army via Midgard as well.  

Other than the main focus of 1980's Warhammer Fantasy, I still have my 4th Edition Chaos Dwarfs to finish off, and the Tomb Kings Army to re base (and a Bone Dragon to construct and paint). Then there's the 40k collections, which I am less concerned about at the moment, although it would be nice to re-visit the Chaos Legions at some point. Finally, I would like to look at doing a few historical projects, something which I have always wanted to do, but have always put off by never finding a good set of rules or being daunted by just getting started with uniforms or organising. 

Anyway, back to 3rd Edition Warhammer Fantasy. Where to start? Well Goblins of course! Now lets get the basing thing out of the way first. With the recent release of Warhammer The Old World, the basing size of infantry has increased to 25mm. Even in the 1980's some people preferred 25mm round bases for miniatures, and this has carried on ever since. I have always disliked 20mm bases. Many of the miniatures never really fitting on them, and ranking up some ranges was a nightmare ( Marauder Dark Elves!!). Also, I felt that may 1980's  miniatures are lovely, but squashing them into regiments with tiny bases meant that you never got to appreciate them. So I am basing all the infantry on 25mm square bases. By doing so I have found that I am acquiring a new found love and appreciation of the miniatures, and having more fun basing. I shall be adding shields to many of the miniatures at a later date. 

Enjoy :) 

Goblins!
This is just the start. I have a lot of goblins and I am looking forward to returning to paint them. I have based them with rocks on the base to suggest the Worlds Edge Mountains. I always think of Goblins up in the mountains, annoying Dwarfs.  

From left to right,C12 goblin Biglub, Oggbod Dogbreath from the MD6 Goblin Battle Chariot releases, and C12 Blodgutt.

C12 Leg Ripper, Dofblot ( this is the name listed for a Goblin which looks like him, but I am not convinced the listing is the correct goblin), and Blimblam Blimblamblamblom (I kid you not!). 

An unlisted Goblin (he's not from the MD6 Goblin Battle Chariot releases) Splat, and Hagbagg. 

Goblin archers. 

Bugshot, Blart, and Keen Eye. 

Mastog Underarm, Arag, Anseg Shortbow.

Bartog the Naff, Deddwud Fargo from the Goblin Battle Chariots, and Jonsog Moonhat. 

Two goblin fanatics, Haggrub Grinswathe and Bograt the Loon. 
I have based these on round bases the same size as the Goblin Fanatic template. 

C12 Bagblower, the Snotling Wizard (to be used as a Level 5 goblin Wizard), and the C21 Goblin Wolf Riders wolf Fang.

Pre slotta C20 Trolls. 
Davogrod Gutsucker, Skuttlescree Soresmeer, Rattlebones Bowlegs, and Shakined Bone Bender. I have and half dozen of these in the paint stripper queue, including the Hobol Firebreath and Grog Stuntycrusher. 

A pair of C09 Dark Elves. 
Morathar Manbane, and Crossbow. 

Imperial Dwarf Crossbowmen. 

 Dwarfs. 

More Dwarfs. 

Even more Dwarfs. 

Two Dwarf Command, and a Norse Dwarf (I think!). 

A mix of C15 Orcs, Orc Champions, and Orc Command.  

Ratnose Snotgurgle, the Goblin Wizard from the Goblin Battle Chariots mail order flyer. I mail ordered him at the time (1988) and he has been a Level 25 Goblin Wizard all these years! 

C28 Giant: Bottle Snortle. 

C28 Giant: Nine Fingers.

Trolls.

On the left the later C20 Warrior Troll  from 1987.
On the right is the Talisman Troll. I tried to position him so it looks like he is stepping off of the rocks. 

Some of my Regiments of Renown. I have all of the 1980's Regiments of Renown, and am only missing three of the miniatures, and in need of a few more troopers here and there, from the whole range. 

RR18 Eeza Ugezod's Mother Crushers. 

 RR4  Mengil Manhide's Dark Elves (version 2). 

RR6 Mad Mullah Aklan'd's Death Commandos. 

RR2 The Knights of Origo.
The musicians sword broke and so I replaced it with a thin piece plasti-card and drilled and pinned it in place of the original blade. 

RR17 Knights of the Cleansing Flame. 
The trooper miniatures are a pain as I have found that the spears can be very brittle if bent. I'm pleased to have an unbroken Standard Bearer, with the brazier top still attached though.

A few of my Slaves to Darkness Khornate Daemon Legion.
 There are a lot more in the paint stripper. I also have been basing my Slaaneshi, Nurgle, and Tzeentch Daemon Legions. 

All of my Chaos armies are based with spikes in the bases, made using cocktail sticks. The idea is that it is an extra spiky part of the Chaos Wastes or Daemonic Plains. Below (two down) is how the bases will look once painted. 

A (famous!?) Bloodletter  conversion. 

Chaos Familiar with the Chaos spiky base. This little chap is part of my 3rd Chaos Dwarf army, but more on that in another update. 

Next update will probably be more basing. I am very busy with a lot of non hobby stuff at the moment, and so basing and organising is an easy, relaxing thing to do. I've been spending a fortune on Milliput though!