Gnoblar colour

Hey all,
I have a natural fleshy colour to my ogres (bugmans glow, kislev flesh and reikland fleshshade) but cant think of a colour for my gnoblars that really works with the army in my mind so was hoping for suggestions?

I dont know why but i convinced myself not to use the same flesh shade, do you think i should?

Reddevil18

Well, technically, Gnoblars are actually greenskins (distant cousins of goblins), so having green skin with a bit of a stonier hue (to represent their semi-mountainous regions) could work.

Personally, I don't think they'd work with fleshtoned skin simply because in my mind I just don't picture that, but honestly they could almost have any skintone you want to give them.

Also, do you plan to have them stick out from the rest of the army, or blend in? Do you want them to blend into their terrain (ie their bases) or to stand out shiny and flashy? Lotsa stuff to consider.

Well, technically, Gnoblars are actually greenskins (distant cousins of goblins), so having green skin with a bit of a stonier hue (to represent their semi-mountainous regions) could work.

Personally, I don't think they'd work with fleshtoned skin simply because in my mind I just don't picture that, but honestly they could almost have any skintone you want to give them.

Also, do you plan to have them stick out from the rest of the army, or blend in? Do you want them to blend into their terrain (ie their bases) or to stand out shiny and flashy? Lotsa stuff to consider.

Just asking me those questions and mentioning stonier is making me think of a grey/blue skin tone to blend into my snow bases better. They are mainly scavengers in these mountains and blending will help there traps if i remember their fluff correctly. Am i correct in thinking that? 

Just asking me those questions and mentioning stonier is making me think of a grey/blue skin tone to blend into my snow bases better. They are mainly scavengers in these mountains and blending will help there traps if i remember their fluff correctly. Am i correct in thinking that? 

Definitely! Gnoblar Trappers are a part of the culture (it used to be a stand-alone unit, but is now an upgrade; nevertheless, it's still there!); so to have them naturally blend into their surroundings to help them with their trapping aspects would work well, IMHO!

Heck, if you even wanted to go over the top, you could paint them with a base skin color, but then give them "camo" face paint or something like that to help emphasize the "hide-and-trap" tactics of gnoblars. But either way, a blueish-gray tone could work, if that's the way you wanna go with it!

Try painting a couple, and posting some pics of your work. And if you don't like it, you can always paint over or use the diluted Simple Green mixture to remove the paint.

Just asking me those questions and mentioning stonier is making me think of a grey/blue skin tone to blend into my snow bases better. They are mainly scavengers in these mountains and blending will help there traps if i remember their fluff correctly. Am i correct in thinking that? 

Definitely! Gnoblar Trappers are a part of the culture (it used to be a stand-alone unit, but is now an upgrade; nevertheless, it's still there!); so to have them naturally blend into their surroundings to help them with their trapping aspects would work well, IMHO!

Heck, if you even wanted to go over the top, you could paint them with a base skin color, but then give them "camo" face paint or something like that to help emphasize the "hide-and-trap" tactics of gnoblars. But either way, a blueish-gray tone could work, if that's the way you wanna go with it!

Try painting a couple, and posting some pics of your work. And if you don't like it, you can always paint over or use the diluted Simple Green mixture to remove the paint.

I dont know when it will be as im painting up my leadies atm but ill post pics when i get round to them, nice idea with the cammo too
Im in the UK and we dont have simple green, any idea on our version of it?
Thanks for the advice

Dettol is the equivalent I believe, the brown stuff not the various sprays etc you can get now.

Fairy Power Spray works very well too, and neither will destroy plastic and can work on both metal and plastic and resin!

HG

Yes Dettol works well on plastic and metal but i tried it on finecast and it seems to make it go soft.
I soak the model for a few hours then take an old tooth brush and scrub away.

Use the brown dettol and dont forget to scrub the paint off in the dettol or it goes all sticky
TLK