1980 Citadel Chaos Goblins Help needed on choosing a color scheme

[cucaiothegreat]

Hello everyone,
I have finally managed to find all the 10 miniatures in the Citadel range C27, dating back from the '80s.
Here's a picture taken from Citadel catalogues back from the era (from The Stuff of Legends website).

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These are quite small but surely unusual goblins, on integral bases. Everyone has one special characteristic that make it unique, and it will be very funny to paint them.
However, I have no idea about a color scheme. Any help / advice for me?
I would like to achieve an overall effect of affinity between all goblins, but leaving enough room to personalize each one individually.

Thanks in advance for any comment / suggestion.

 

[cassar]

The suggestions might be a little while in coming, the ones who would most benefit you in the advice stakes are probably all consumed with covetous jealousy at the moment. On serious note nice collection of vintage mini's. Sprocket, Skelettets, AndyG and 10ball would be very good at this type of mini (skell particulary), if they dont make an appearance i would pm them for advice....they are all very very good painters but dont tell em i said so, dont want their heads exploding

 

[cucaiothegreat]

nice collection of vintage mini's.

Thanks. It took me a lot of time, research and some money to get all the goblins without spending a little fortune.

 

[Broke n English]

Good shot collecting those little beggars,I've noticed them on Ebay lately The green skintones should serve well to tie them all together (obviously) then maybe a unifying colour on the clothing too, with all the wood and metal of the weapons possibly being similar they should look very unified by the end

 

[MightyChad]

Those are some very characterful gobbos, and they look like they would be a lot of fun to paint. I think, if it were me I would go with a more drab, naturall green and shade it using a range of cool colors, blues, purples. Then highlight using a light grey added to the base green. That will keep them looking more natural, IMO. You could even vary the base color a bit between the members of the group, so none are identical, but they wills till have the same range of colors to tie them together. Then using spot colors and similar clothing color could also bring them together. And use true metallics, and various colored washes to tint the metals and weather them up.

The other side would be to go all bright and clean with them, which I cannot help you with as I am not really that kind of painter.

 

[King Arthur]

Hello everyone,
I have finally managed to find all the 10 miniatures in the Citadel range C27, dating back from the '80s.
Here's a picture taken from Citadel catalogues back from the era (from The Stuff of Legends website).

View attachment 20212

These are quite small but surely unusual goblins, on integral bases. Everyone has one special characteristic that make it unique, and it will be very funny to paint them.
However, I have no idea about a color scheme. Any help / advice for me?
I would like to achieve an overall effect of affinity between all goblins, but leaving enough room to personalize each one individually.

Thanks in advance for any comment / suggestion.

Cucaiothegreat - I'm envious you have all 10, but congratulations :beerwave:

I'm a massive collector of vintage Citadel Miniatures, owing an Undead army and recently started adding an allied Chaos Contingent, of which these Chaos Goblins are part of! I have bids on 6 of them on ebay, so fingers crossed!

Anyway, as I too am collecting them, I'm curious to see if you have managed to paint any of the models yet?

Cheers

Gary

 

[cucaiothegreat]

Cucaiothegreat - I'm envious you have all 10, but congratulations :beerwave:

I'm a massive collector of vintage Citadel Miniatures, owing an Undead army and recently started adding an allied Chaos Contingent, of which these Chaos Goblins are part of! I have bids on 6 of them on ebay, so fingers crossed!

Anyway, as I too am collecting them, I'm curious to see if you have managed to paint any of the models yet?

Cheers

Gary

Hi Gary,
it took several months to assemble this small horde, and it is still unpainted, but I have received a PM today with some really interesting suggestions and I will give it a try.
Good luck for your eBay bids, which one you need to complete your collection? I have a couple of doubles that I may exchange. Send me a PM if your are interested.
Cheers