And now for something completely different...

I just watched Louise Sugden (I hope I wrote her name right) promote and paint her new Goblin. She has a Youtube channel called Rogue Hobbies, and her love for Goblins are even bigger than mine. So much so that she has started to make her own in a larger scale. This is her third figure in the series, and I already regret that I never ordered the first two (they are no longer available).

I discovered "Sugs" back in the days when she was part of the Games Workshop team, but like Duncan Rhodes and Chris Peach ("Peachy") she has since left Games Workshop and started her own channel. 

She has sort of a fresh look on minis and colors (she has some very cool swords on her Rainbow Warrior Space Marines) and I really like to watch her videos and hear her chat as she paints. 

I will never be able to paint half as good as her, but I will do my best to do this Goblin justice, and hopefully I will manage to paint it up in a nice way. 

If you like to watch her video, and maybe order something from her webshop, you can find the video HERE. The channel releases new Goblins from time to time and also have hoodies and tshirts (unfortionately they are not in my size, at least not yet) so I can't get those. But for now I got myself a goblin with some scenery, and I look forward to getting my package and start on this little Goblin adventure. And supporting Roughe Hobbies at the same time. 

I will show off the mini here once it arrives, and also show the progress once I start  to paint it. 

Warhammer 40K or really Neromunda this time

Since the last update I have built some Adeptus Arbites units for Necromunda, and maybe I can find a way to field them in 40K too. I am sort of blending the background for Necromunda and 40K as everything sort of happens in the same planetary system.

I have built two full units that are now ready for priming when the weather wil let me do that.

One unit is a Palanite Subjugator patrol with six figures armed with shields and five of them have guns while the last one has a weapon to blow open locked gates. I have another box of Subjugators to build, and I plan to build them with shields and clubs.

The other unit I have built is a Palanite Enforcer Patrol with 10 figures. 

I would love to have some transports to these units, but the special tansports the Arbites uses are no longer available to buy from Games Workshop, and they are quite special. The lore states that they use other vehicles that are still in the range, so I guess I will have to go with Rhinos or Chimeras for them.

I would like to have at least one more Enforcer unit, and there are a few other sets I would like to add. One of them is the new Palanite Enforcer Tauros Venator. That is a car with one driver and one gunner, and it is based on the car that the Elysian Drop troops had before the entire range was removed. The Venators are officially used to patrol the Ash Wastes.

Also I would love to have some Cyber Mastiffs for this army, as I feel that would work well with the Adptus Arbites look, but the only unit I have found that is on sale is a resin set with a psycher called Scrutinator-Primus Servalen. I will probably get that if it comes back in stock, but I don't feel I can have more than one of that unit and I would love more dogs than that.

The last unit I am thinking about is something called Enforcer "Sanctioner" Pattern Automatas. This is two "robots" with heavier weapons than the human Arbites. I am nor sure just how big they are, but from looking at them I think they might be about the size of the walkers the Imperial Guard use, maybe a little smaller.  I would like to have two of these units, so that I get four models in total.

Been building more Cities of Sigmar

Since the last update I have finished building the final 3 models of the Freeguild Command Corps, so it is now 6 figures (5 persons and a Gryph hound or something like that).

I have also built Pontifex Zenestra - Matriarch of the Great Wheel. This is a slightly bigger moel mounted on a cavalry base. I have not glued it on to the base though, as I think it will be easier if I prime it and do some painting on the underside of the model before I glue it down. This model consist of two men carrying a throne between them with the Pontifex sitting facing forward and a skeleton facing backwards. 

The last thing I have built since the last update is my first unit of Freeguild Steelhelms. This is 10 figures.

I wanted to take some time to talk about the new Cities of Sigmar range, as the unit of Steelhelms are the first real unit I have built with the new figures. 

It strikes me that the old Empire models were easier to modify compared to the new ones. On the old models you had legs that you glued to the torso at the hips, these new models have a leg and the back in one piece, and grooves made to fit the front of the torso down in the groin area. I must admit I have not tried to modify too much on this first box, but I would like to do so in the future to make the units look different and I am a little worried that this will be a lot harder when you need to find a front piece that both fit the sides as well as the protection covering the groin. But hopefully this will be easier than I expect. Guess I will find that out some weeks from now, as I need to order another Steelhelm unit before I can try this. 

Next unit up will be a unit called Freeguild Fusiliers, and then the Freeguild Marshal and Relic Envoy.

The Fusiliers are the gunners of the Infantry, and they have "hand cannons" and big shields. 

Also I have noticed that in the new edition of the codex the units are 10 man strong, not 20 like it could be on the old rules. It seems like the unit size now is what you get in a box.

I have just gotten the codex, so I will try to read up on it and do some unit planning this weekend as I have my dogs this week so there will not be much building this weekend.