Goblin City Guard – Papercraft miniatures.

While working on STL miniatures i make a lot of drafts and sketches to help myself design and visualise the miniature, their pose, location f items etc. Many of these were discarded later during the sculpting but I thought they should not go to waste. They need just a little bit of cleanup and editing. Right?… Yeah it always take more work and longer time than it seems but anyway here comes 2d papercraft miniatures of the Goblin City Guard. Avialable on WargameVault to grace papercraft tabletop battlefields.

As an appendix to this set you will find a set of DIY papercraft bases to print and assemble in case you would not want to use 3rd party made plastic stands, or foamcore plates. Initially they were to be included in the set but I decided to leave them out so anyone could use them also for other things (such as Basing Codex Manesse Miniatures)

First set of Chronica Goblinorum miniatures are out of the workshop!

Five detailed goblin guardsmen are ready to be 3d printed and march through the tabletop battlefields to attest of supremacy of goblin military might. Up for grabs from Wargamevault.

Miniatures are designed for 28-32mm scale and were tested on Anycubic Photon mono 2k, on pretty much basic settings. I think they came up quite well, but you can judge it yourself on photos below.

And below speedpainted, to bring out the details and give them a little more character, bearing the colours of the butchers Guild of the City of Redwall.

Chronica Goblinorum Lore – Goblin city guard.

While preparing first set of miniatures – the Imperial goblin city guard, I thought that it may be a good time to write a little bit about their role and function in the setting at the same time kickstarting lore section of Chronica Goblinorum. So without further ado let me introduce you to the Goblin City Guard, read who they are here.

Goblin city watch – first CG miniature from concept to the tabletop.

Chronica Goblinorum was originally ment to be a fantasy gaming setting.The gentelman you can see above, a proud member of the goblin city watch is kind of proof of concept/ technology of bringing it to the tabletop.

His concept was inspired by an ages old drawing depicting a group of goblin city watchmen, that was the first spark from which the whole idea for this setting was born. Unfortunately i have lost the original sketch (pencil on cardboard) due to many life changes and only years later reconstructeed the leader of this group in a way you can see in upper left corner. (this new sketch is in itself fairly old already 🙂 ).

His armaments were based on equipment of XV century infantry from the collection of Museum of the Polish Army in Warsaw with shield based on XV century infantry pavise of the City of Wroclaw. His “fantasy” and “goblinoid” factors are both fairly low, so he would actually not stand out much a lot on a historical tabletop battlefield. (Extravagancy is a privilege of the nobles)

Anyway I found it only fitting so this particular guy was the first Chronica Goblinorum miniature to grace physical world.

The image above is an illustration of stages of the whole process, starting from general sketch, through 3d digital sculpt, test print and painted print.

The idea was to make miniatures that would be easy, fast and fun to paint and look good on the table, not necessarily posing a challenge for the painter should he/she not want it. This is why I tried to keep the detail, pronounced and upscaled. I must say that keeping it that way is not easy. When sculpting, it is very tempting to go into minute details ( I must get all the fabric folds by the belt right… oh wait, printed to scale it would be… lets count… 0,1mm???). Keeping the miniature simple yet still interesting is something I need to constantly remind myself, and something I’am still working on.

In the end i think I mostly managed that with this guy. Paintjob you se above is only most basic techniques i.e. zenithal + 2/3 layers of only vallejo inks. The exception of metal parts and obviously the shield, bearing the emblem of the reputable butchers guild, which was painted freehand.

Anyway I hope you like this little guy, as he is only first of many to come. At the moment I’am working on some of his coleagues, and when ready I intend to put them on wargamevault as 3D printable stl’s.