Citadel LotR - Durbûrz, the Goblin King of Moria and his Shamans

[scipio.au 1370]

Some more newish stuff. These three are the top end of the Moria Goblin Army I've painted up for LotR SBG and KoW (and WotR if I ever actually play it). Durbûrz, the Goblin King of Moria will lead the forces until Golfimbal on Foot and Mounted are finished, and no doubt sometimes even then.

 

 

I experimented a little using some Seraphim Sepia wash on his armour to try and give it a "gold" feel, as befits a king. It didn't exactly work for gold, but I didn't want a shiny, nice, bright gold anyway. Still, it looks decent anyway on him, and different enough from the standard muddy-steel look. The rock he's perched on was also the impetus that led to adding bits of slate onto all of the "leader" models in the Goblin army, including all of those Captains I finished recently.

 

 

These two were a nice surprise. I thought I had some shamans, somewhere but couldn't for the life of me find them. I gave up and grudgingly resolved to buy some at some stage, and then lucked out and found these guys, along with a bunch of unpainted Gundabad Blackshields. Since I've got two of the same sculpts here, I added some colour to distinguish the two by glazing their armour plates with Army Painter red and green washes. These, as with the sepia washed armour on the King kept the palette within the one chosen for the army while giving both models a bit of individuality.

 

 

I still need to buy Drûzhag, The Beastcaller and possibly the Moria Goblin Commanders set for the alternate Shaman model and the Drummers. Aside from those, the Blackshields and the more exciting and exotic models like Trolls, Wargs and the like, it'll just be the 11 sprues of plastic Moria Goblins and I'm done. 132 models. Bleugh. I see some dead-eyed batch painting in my future.

 

[Jasonator 29612]

Nice control on your colors.

I really like how you blended them  !

The basing is excellent !

Congrats !!

[Thes Hunter 43784]

Looking good! Like the contrast of the red tabards with the goblin skin.

[Chaoswolf 115647]

Great job on them!! I like the subtle differences on each shaman to make them look more individual.

[Glitterwolf 204910]

Creepy greens, good!!!

[tiniest rhombus 17670]

Awesome! I like everything about them. :-)

[jdizzy001 6218]

Looks great. Shamans make life miserable for the good player. durburz needs another special rule to be really worth his points, in my opinion. His 12" courage is great, I just wish he had some special combat bonus. Profiles aside, those be some great minis!

[scipio.au 1370]

Thanks! Durbûrz also works pretty well as a model for any kind of generic hero as well.