Some More Goblins Based!

I love my Orcs and Goblins army but this is the Greatest of All Time.

I just got a bunch more kitbash material this last week for the bits boxes!! Including this bag of metal riders!

Look at this Mordheim Warband waiting to be given lore!

The finished mammoth is so good!!

Chaos War Mammoth warshrine conversion

Today is a little different, I want to talk about the secondary market. Because some friends of mine on discord were astonished at how much my empire units new in box cost and I want to elaborate more on making the best use of kits. Consider this part two of hobbying while being cheap and neurodivergent.

You should have a healthy bits box at all times. You can have several of them. There are a lot of eBay listings for just piles of bits and unfinished minis that you can use to make bespoke Warhammer minis out of just spare parts from multiple kits. Kitbashing is not a revelation, it even predates wargames as it’s a carry over from model railroad hobbyists. But you should buy listings of random bits because you can get some fantastic parts from kits you weren’t thinking of getting for incredible prices.

The re release of these old Warhammer kits comes with a lot of great bits for conversions, I think they really are worth more than people are thinking they are!

The main thing I want to talk about though is how to exploit the chud cycle to maximize your hobby hauls. I won’t get super political in this post because it’s not really what it’s about. But there is a cycle where really negative dudes get into the hobby through a video game like space marine 2 or a lore channel and buy a lot of minis. Then they get upset about how modern games workshop, a multi billion dollar company, has gone woke or whatever. Then they go farther back into earlier editions to try to escape whatever it is they don’t like, only to find that the satire is stronger the farther back they go. A lot of these guys putt around for a while and then give up and sell their armies for really cheap on eBay and Facebook marketplace. A lot of them are willing to haggle.

That isn’t political, it’s economical.

Neither is the satisfaction I get when these guys tell me I don’t belong in the hobby and I show them my armies I’ve painted over almost 30 years.

Take advantage of the deals!

The big Forge World Night Goblin units! The Colossal Squig, and the Squig Globba!

I’m glad I got all of my really awesome forge world models, I had a feeling they might be leaving the store for at least a while, I hope they come back because I think new fans would love painting them because they really are fun to paint. I’ll show my other three big ones soon!

Various Reaper Miniatures frost giants for use in my Warriors of Chaos army.

i have faith that one day someone is going to make an anime about girls who play tabletop wargames with all the standard tropes and intensity of a high school sports anime

Skarsnik and Gobbla with retinue! 98 goblins including 3 fanatics, plus two squigs makes 100 units.

This can be broken up into multiple units of 20 which is why there are so many command units in there!

a stampede of hogs and their hoggy riders! which ones smell worse?

I’m building up to it, getting ready for my contest entry. But this is someone else’s kitbash. It came in those bags of loose minis and bits I bought off eBay. It was a really good idea so I went for it when I painted it.