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 - 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 - Taking Stock Part 2

I held off on posting this as I was waiting for a few parcels to be delivered. 

Back to the 90's

So next in my pile of 90's goodness are 23 Orc Mono-Pose Warriors and Archers

I now also have the seven missing goblin spearmen to fill our the original 32 and replace a couple of damaged ones.

I also have gotten an late 80's early  90's Orc Spear Chukka with 2/3 of original crew

And that about does it for most of my Pre-2000 miniatures.

Newer Stuff

Now over the years I did acquire 2 complete Battle for Skull Pass Set

With these two sets, it gives me:

• 80 Night Goblin Spearmen
• 40 Night Goblin Archers
• 20 Forest Goblin Spider Riders
• 4 Night Goblin characters (Big Boss and Shaman)
• 2 Troll (+2 more I picked up off of flea bay)
• 2 Goblin Shaman Tents (Great for Baggage if I play 3rd Ed)
• misc scenery items

The only thing I am now missing to make this army complete is:

• A orc on a wyvern
• A proper goblin chariot (I have a line on one of these)
• Command Team for Orc Warriors and Orc Archers.

These things are things I think I can wait on for a bit as I work my way through what I already have.

What about all of those dwarves?

Those two box sets also come with a boat load of dwarves also.

• 24 Dwarf Warriors
• 20 Dwarf Thunderers
• 16 Dwarf Miners
• 2 Dwarf Cannon with crew
• 4 Dwarf characters (Thane and Dragon Slayer)

So I already own 3,500 to 4,500 points worth of dwarves, most of which (85%) is pre-2000's era models.

I have come to the decision I am going to have two separate dwarven armies. One Pre-2000 and one Post-2000, with the Post 2000 one is to be based on 25mm bases so I can run it with the Warhammer The Old World and for Dragon Rampant.

A project for much later

Next Step

Now that I got a good idea of what I got, I now need to clean up my painting desk. That means I need to finish up all of the models that are currently in a WIP state.

Then I need to start stripping some of the goblins I got that were pre-painted.

These are from miniature kits I got from Reaper Miniature's Kickstarter(s) that I am working on for my D&D Campaigns and Convention Games.

• The Charnal Pit of the Ghoul Queen
• The Tree of Woe
• The Bridge Troll's Toll 
• Shadows of Ravenhome

I am almost done with these and then it is off to gobbo town.

Cheers everyone!

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