2025 Updates

I am really terrible about updating this damn thing. 

 After having wrapped up DMing a 2+ years long D&D Campaign in May, I am taking a breaking from Dungeon Mastering and just going to enjoy the rest of the year being a player. 

 Since my last post, I am still working on my Project '93 Orcs and Goblins.

 I finally finished painting up Grom the Paunch and several other units.

 I even took them to a Warhammer TOW Tourney at Gigabytes Cafe back in March where I went 1-2 but had a blast. I got to meet a lot of great people and the tourney organizer Jamie was a gem. Sadly these were the last Warhammer games I got to play for several months.

So what am I doing now? I decided to game master a Warhammer Narrative Campaign at my FLGS, Level Up (Duluth Store)

Why? because I am a masochist or that is what my wife tells me.

The campaign will be three linked scenarios that tell the story of a Vampire Pirate Captain and his exploits in the Black Gulf. 

Each scenario will be a multiplayer game were a group of players will each be leading a small task force sent to stop the Captain. 

 I will be running the NPC force and the random monsters.

 I have got seven people signed up and I am working on hard on terrain and painting. 

Wish Me Luck!!! 

 

 

Project '93 - Goblin Chariots Construction

 Grom the Paunch and his Chariot Escort

I unpacked and cleaned the Chieftain Grom's Goblin War Chariot (1993)

 

I also unpacked and cleaned a Goblin Wolf Chariot (1998) and Goblin Wolf Chariot (2024)

 

Both of the Goblin Wolf Chariots were the same exact models, the old difference was in the banners that came with the model.

Once every thing was sanded, cleaned and assembled, time to prime.

 I primed the riders black, the chariot white, the wolves light gray and the base brown.

Next step painting this bad mamma jamma!

Project '93 - Cheiftan Grom's Goblin War Chariot

 Grom the Paunch

Long ago I saved up enough money and purchased back in the late 90's. I was so happy to get it and put it together and slapped some paint on it. I don't remember what happened to it, did i trade it or did it get lost in the many moves I went through. I can;t remember.

Six years ago I was do some horse trading and managed to score a new NIB Grom and his chariot.

I have been holding off on putting it together until I got my custom ordered three wolf chariot base,

Now that I have it, let the assemble begin.

 Misc Stuff

I had two Orc Bullys from my Rock Lobber and Bolt thrower, but they did not have shields. I finally went through my bit box and found some appropriate shields for them. 

Project '93 - Night Goblin Command Squads and Full Units

 Night Goblin Commands

Trying to find vintage Night Goblin Command Figures turned out to be too expensive and quite frankly not needed as I had a ton of these figure from the Battle of Skull Pass sets I bought.

So I painted up to for the 32 archers that came with the 4th Edition Starter set.

 

 Completed Units

So I finally put all of the figures together and I got 2 units worth.

15 Archers

3 Command figures

2 Night Goblin Shamans

Project '93 - More Gobbos

It has been a minute since my last post, life got busy and my painting has slowed down.

I have completed the artillery and some command squad models for my spearmen,

Currently working on Four Trolls and a number of Night Goblin Command Models, Shamans, Netters and Clubbers.

Project '93 - The Beginning

 Hello Internet,

So after some thought, I have decided to blow the dust off of this old blog and start posting again.

It has recently come to my attention that 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of my introduction to Warhammer Fantasy Battle and fantasy wargaming. 

Last year I had found some old monopose plastic goblins and I decided to try painting them using newer paints, techniques and tools. They came out really well.

Now I am thinking of re-building and painting one of my very first armies, Orcs & Goblins.

Back in 1993, I was just a poor kid living on the eastside of Atlanta. My family was poor and we had little money growing up. If it was not food or clothing, it was a luxury and if I wanted it I had to go and work to earn it. 

I remember seeing the 4th edition starter box at a local gaming store and I started saving my money. It took a while but I finally got enough money scrapped together and I was able to being it home.

Back then I knew next to nothing about modelling outside of the snap-rite model kits I got as gifts.

I did not know about priming, scraping, acrylic paints, basing or flocking.. 

I started off with Testors gloss enamels and brushes. 

Needless to say my early armies looked terrible, but I had a lot of fun painting them and playing the game. 

Over the next three decades my painting and modelling skills have gotten a lot better, but sadly over the years I had to trade and sell a lot of my older WHFB miniatures. I eventually stopped playing WHFB around 2008. WHFB kind of died in Atlanta and there was no place to find new players or places to play.

Over the last five years I have been picking up the random Oldhammer Orc & Goblin miniature here and there.

I realize I have enough miniatures, I can actually rebuild my very first army with some enhancements.

I am basing these on their original 20mm bases and not for the upcoming relaunch of WHFB The Warhammer: The Old World.

I have a large collection of wood elves I plan on basing for that game. 

The Plan

Phase 1 - Collecting and Building the Original Models from the Box Set 

• 32 Goblin Spearmen
• 32 Goblin Archers.

Phase 2 - Collect and Build the actual models for the cardboard pieces from the Box Set

• Orc lord/shaman on Wyvern - Have my eye on one, never owned this one
• Goblin Wolf Chariot - 
• I never could find one of these in 1993, 
• I ended up with the Grom the Paunch miniature which I have acquired NIB recently
• Orc Stone Thrower - Acquired

Phase 3 - Collect and Build additional units to add to the army. (I actually have most of this already)

• 7th Ed Goblin Spider Riders
• 4th Ed Goblin Wolf Riders
• 4th Ed Goblin Doom Diver
• 4th Ed Orc Warriors
• 4th Ed Orc Archers
• 4th Ed Black Orc Warriors
• 4th Ed Goblin Lunatics
• 4th-7th Ed Trolls