"28mm Goblin Riders With Spear" Topic

The Goblin faces appear to be GW-styled sculpts, similar to the Goblin sculpts from the MB Battle Masters game. I do not believe that these are from that game, however. The Wolves are not from that game, for sure -- I owned/painted/gamed with those Wolf Riders for many a year, and these are not them.

Are you basing your yellow skinned Goblins off of Gary Gygax's 1e AD&D Monster Manual descriptions of the various tribal skin colors? He listed them as: "…from yellow through dull orange to brick red in skin color." I painted my 240+ Goblins with brick red skin (Caesar 1/72 scale plastic Goblins, riding Prince August Fantasy molded Wolf castings -- the PA Goblin riders were notoriously difficult to get a good gravity casting from the molds -- I cut the Caesar Goblin figure's feet from their molded bases, and then I used E6000 Glue, and painter's tape to hold them in place, while the glue dried).

I also did the same thing, with some of my Caesar Goblins who appeared to be hurling Molotov Cocktails: I glued them to (OOP) Schleich Fruit Bat figures, creating Giant Bat Goblin Cavalry. They are not terribly combat effective on the war table, but they are a fun thing to game with.

Originally, I planned to have different tribes: yellow, orange and red skinned figures, but I remembered that they tend to appear in large numbers (up to 400), so I just went with keeping them all the same skin color, to represent such a horde of the creatures. Cheers!

The Battle Masters sculpts would have been plastic, right? These are metal, judging by the weight.

Are you basing your yellow skinned Goblins off of Gary Gygax's 1e AD&D Monster Manual descriptions of the various tribal skin colors?

No, from a friend's strong preference, years ago. He wasn't into AD&D, so I don't know how he came to his opinion…

Correct, MB's Battle Masters were all plastic figures. I don't know who sculpted them, but these look to be done by the same artist.

Regarding Goblin skin colors, other than green… I was very iffy on the brick red color (I cannot stand green Goblins! Yuck!). When I did my first figures with that color, I was pleasantly surprised. I really wish I could have yellow Goblins to represent different tribes, but I had to draw the line somewhere. My only issue with orange-skinned Goblins, is that my Hobgoblins are all orange-skins (with blue noses, of course). LOL! Probably best to have only brick red and yellow skinned Goblins in my armies. Cheers!