Finishing the Daemon Prince and Mail Day

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Welcome to the Hobby Nomicon. Today I got some cool new mail and we finished up our entry for Children of Gomb—the sculpting part. I still need to paint him, but that’s probably tomorrow.

Sculpting the Blind Helmet

To get started, I took the head we cast and filed it down with my X-Acto knife. I shaved it all down because the first time I tried to put green stuff over it, the cheek stuck out too far.

I’m playing with my new sculpting tools—not all of them came in yet, but this pack of little rubber-tipped ones did. My goal here is to gap-fill the space between the head and neck, then create a piece of metal that looks like it’s been roughly forged and bolted onto this guy’s head.

I’m using Iron Jaws from Age of Sigmar as inspiration—how their armor is very pitted and indented. I’m using different-sized metal balls to get different texture effects. In my head, I’m thinking of hammers hitting it—very rough forged metal. Then I’m putting in holes for rivets or nails. Imagine they beat this sheet metal around the face to make them blind, then came back with iron nails and just hammered them in.

I rolled up some balls of green stuff, popped them into the holes, and used the tools to get those rounded edges. The whole time, I’m literally thinking of this as a blacksmith hammer pounding.

The Finished Result

I think we might be done with this guy. I wanted to keep going and add more to his back, but I think I’d just mess it up. The helmet is a metal plate they bolted over his face to make him blind—one of the abilities the Children of Gomb faction has in the Hobgoblin rulebook. I thought it would be pretty flavorful.

It looks pretty crazy from the side. Very excited to get some paint on it because I think that’s going to make it look even better. I’ll probably try to cast the head again now that I’ve gap-filled it, though with the nose gone there’s an overhang that might make it hard to pop out of the mold.

Mail Day: Smash Rash Miniatures

Time to check the mail. Always a good day when you get a package from Smash Rash. We got the official Smash Rash miniatures—love these creepy little guys. These obviously hand-sculpted metal miniatures are incredible. The shield details, the weird little characters—I need a game to play with all these weird miniatures.

And the newest Miscast metals—I absolutely love these models. Both of them are very cool. Got to keep the collection complete. That’s an early birthday present to myself.

Finding the Right Game

I need a game to play with all these cool miniatures. Is it Forbidden Psalm? Is it Mordheim? Am I going to build a weird Mordheim table? Is it Turnip 28? I need to look into that. I need a cool game—if I can play it solo, even better.

I’ve also kickstarted the most recent Gardens of Hecate and got the full thing, which should ship next month. I’m going to have a lot of these hand-sculpted, grassroots-style miniatures—that’s really all I want to paint anymore. When I look at even the Warmachine stuff, I don’t want to paint that. I definitely don’t want to paint Games Workshop stuff.

There are also some guys who play Midgard during lunch on Mondays that I could join. And I’m definitely going to use Hobgoblin rules to play with my old Warhammer Fantasy armies since that’s rank and flank with solo rules.

What’s Next

I’m really trying to finish up current projects so I can start the next chapter of Hobby Nomicon and get back into painting. No more Kingdom Death on this channel—I’ll do one more video to announce when the other channel is ready. I’m looking for new games to try, and I’m excited about the direction things are heading. Thanks for watching. See you tomorrow.