Easy Mode Goblin Faces
How to make goblin faces really pop in about 8 minutes—teeth, gums, lips, and noses using just a busted up brush and basic techniques.
How to make goblin faces really pop in about 8 minutes—teeth, gums, lips, and noses using just a busted up brush and basic techniques.
Quick tutorial on my goblin skin recipe—Shamrock Green speed paint over yellow and black, finished with Scale Color highlights.
Painting mangler squigs, finishing up the goblin army, and discovering the Gardens of Hecati Kickstarter—plus committing to finish goblins by Friday no matter what.
Happy Halloween! Finished the goblin robes, committing to Warmachine as my main game, and planning to practice deployment and turn sequences daily.
Hunched over in ultimate goblin mode, rambling about the hobby pressure spiral—building armies you'll never paint, arbitrary deadlines, and plans for a purge.
Three methods for painting rust on 90 goblin spears—Dirty Down Rust, AK Interactive Rust Streaks, and the classic sponge technique. Plus why Dirty Down smells like pennies and cat piss.
The secret to contrast paints that nobody told me—use a synthetic brush! Thanks Jay for the tip that changed everything.
Goblin robe progress, contrast paint woes, and showing off my Menoth collection—including an insane deal from Frontline Gaming's commission studio.
After 12 different test goblins and shades of green, finally found one I love—Alizarin Green plus Lime Green doing all the work.
Fighting a virus, finding green I don't hate, and shamelessly stealing Quantic Color Studio's night goblin scheme. Who pins tiny arms but doesn't trim mold lines?
Ever forget how to paint in the middle of a project? Wrong ink, separating paint, cursed goblins—sometimes the win is just gluing a horn back on.
Airbrushing a Ninja-style preshade on 90 goblins—hex-lichen from below, purple ink, then white from above. Plus the squigs look amazing already.
New airbrush unboxing, priming 90+ models, and a secret project reveal—the Creos 771 is definitely the nicest airbrush I've ever used.
New Creos 771 airbrush unboxing, priming 180+ models in one session, and setting up for an insane painting sprint with 10 days to deadline.
Day 38, kids getting sick, almost didn't make a video—but I fixed my 3D printer by just showing up and doing the work. Reflashed the firmware and we're back in business.
Rebasing 60+ goblins, casting base molds, glazing tongues for 2 hours, and all the tedious progress that doesn't make for exciting video but gets the job done.
Goblins popping off bases, demon prince mold floating to the top, making my own music from a whistle and belly gut smacks. Tomorrow we finally paint.
Sleep-deprived dad energy: fixing toad molds, learning that participation isn't consumption, and discovering I glued figures to basing material instead of the actual bases.
Finally done building! 18 hours of tedious work later, all 90 goblins are assembled. Tomorrow the videos get cool again.
15 hours later, all 90 goblins are mold line free. I've dulled the back side of an X-Acto blade. This has been brutal.
Quick one tonight—discovered quick-release moisture traps exist after 10+ years of airbrushing. Mind blown, goblins ready for tomorrow.
12 hours into assembly with no visible progress—here's my tip for staying motivated: get quick wins to keep the momentum going.
Time travel attempt to build 40 night goblins—clip same parts from each sprue, pile by type, get that muscle memory. Five days to paint a full Warmachine army.
250 bases done with half a jar of homemade basing material—here's the palette knife technique that makes it fast.
250 bases in two hours with homemade basing material. Palette knife technique, finger cleaning, and the coffee grounds recipe.
When the airbrush is broken and you're stuck, pull out that 20-year-old goblin from storage. Don't let setbacks stop you from moving forward.