Old School Goblin Goodies

 With a game against my friend Chris coming up next week I felt it was time to add a few more figures to my goblin army. We have settled on the 'Warlords of Erehwon (WoE)' as our set of rules and we have both been busy (in our slow way) adding to our 'Old School' armies. Chris is collecting very early slotta based Orcs (amongst other things) whilst my preference is for pre slotta figures and I am happily collecting dwarves and elves as well as my goblins. I just wish I could paint them as fast as I can buy them. 

The central figure of Kruk the Destroyer is not new but his four chunky bodyguard figures are.

 All Nick Lund sculpts from Chronicle or Grenadier? 

This is an old pre slotta Ral Partha goblin chariot, still available.

These little guys are also Ral Partha goblins I think. In WoE you can have goblin dervishes and these little guys are what I have decided to use. Wimpy but psychotic!

In WoE you can have a pack of Gobble Dogs but I use this wolf pack. Gobbledog sounds a bit daft to me. The wolves are not new but the goblin leader with a whip is. He is a citadel hobgoblin maybe? The wolves are from the 'Old Glory' fantasy range. 

Here is a real treat. My friend Alan that I gamed against whilst we were still at school in the 1970's recently gifted me his entire collection of over 650 figures, all painted in enamels and dating from around 1975 to 1985. The photo above shows the part of his collection that I have cherry picked for myself. The bulk of these are Skytrex/Age of Joman goblins, early sculpts by Bryan Ansell . These are quite crudely sculpted figures by today's standards but back in the day they were amongst my favourites and are full of character, leaping straight out of Mirkwood right at my imagination. They are out of production now but Alan also had a few of their elves and I have managed to acquire some of their dwarves which are currently in the post and on their way to me. These will all be stripped and given a fresh coat of paint eventually. 

The rest of Alan's collection is gradually being sorted into lots and sold with the money going to him. 

Anyone recognise this guy? This is Mund the Troll (in my little world). Back in my youth I had this exact same figure, a small troll from Heritage I believe. I have tried to paint him in the same colours that I painted the original back in the 70's. He was called Herman back then.  

One thing to note about my goblin army is it's many sources of figures. When we were first collecting, painting and playing with these figures we quite happily bought figures from as many ranges as we could. We were quite happy with this free form collecting back then so I happily embrace it again as I try to recapture the armies of my youth.