Showcase: Squig Gobba

Showcase: Squig Gobba

Published 2023-08-06

Armies of Moonclan grots use Squig Gobbas as living artillery. The enormous fungoid beasts are prodded and poked until they regurgitate smaller squigs they have devoured, sending them flying into the ranks of the enemy to explode in clouds of acidic spores.

Miniature Review

This is my favorite squig miniature and was a birthday present from my wife! It's what first made me want to get the full Forgeworld set and it has so much character. The face of the Gobba Squig is great, and I love the expressions on all the smaller squigs faces getting spat out.

Not only is the Gobba Squig great though, it comes with many other grots and squigs that turns the miniature into more of a diorama. You've got one grot prepping a squig, another one being passed up and a third giving the Gobba a good poke to make it fire.

Painting Techniques (Squigs)

Squig Skin

Blood Angels Red
Flesh Tearers Red
Evil Sunz Scarlet
Wild Rider Red
Kislev Flesh

All highlights are applied as a glaze. I also used a 50:50 mix of Wild Rider Red and Kislev Flesh between using the pure colors to hep blend them.

Gums

Volupus Pink
Pink Horror
Kislev Flesh
Pink Horror
Pallid Wych Flesh

Pink horror is applied first, then a 50:50 mix of Pink Horror and Kislev Flesh, then a final 50:50 mix of Pink Horror and Pallid Wych Flesh.

Teeth & Spines

Aggaros Dunes
Agrax Earthshade
Rhinox Hide
Morghast Bone
Wraithbone
White Scar

Claws

Black Legion
Thunderhawk Blue
Russ Grey
Fenrisian Grey

Eyes

White Scar
Bad Moon Yellow
Nazdreg Yellow
White Scar
Abaddon Black

Steel

Iron Hands Steel
Agrax Earthshade
Grey Knights Steel
Stormhost Silver
Typhus Corrosion
Ryza Rust

I apply patches of Dirty Down Rust before applying the brighter Ryza Rust in smaller areas over the top.

Copper

Hashut Copper
Agrax Earthshade
Fulgurite Copper
Stormhost Silver
Nihilakh Oxide

Spit

Straken Green
White Scar
Ardcoat

I slowly added more and more White Scar into the green to highlight it. I then added a few coats of Ardcoat to make it look really slimy.

Painting Techniques (Grots)

Skin

Gutrippa Flesh
Biel Tan Green
Warboss Green
Orruk Flesh
Ogryn Camo
Skarsnik Green
Volupus Pink
Kislev Flesh

Volupus Pink is watered down and applied around the gums and face

Eyes

Blood Angels Red
Flesh Tearers Red
Flash Gitz Yellow
Phalanx Yellow

Cloak

Black Legion
Thunderhawk Blue
Russ Grey
Fenrisian Grey

Wood

Wyldwood
Steel Legion Drab
Tallarn Sand

Leather

Snakebite Leather
Agrax Earthshade
Skrag Brown

Rope

Aggaros Dunes
Agrax Earthshade
Rakarth Flesh
Morghast Bone

Steel

Iron Hands Steel
Agrax Earthshade
Grey Knights Steel
Stormhost Silver
Typhus Corrosion
Ryza Rust

I apply patches of Dirty Down Rust before applying the brighter Ryza Rust in smaller areas over the top.

Copper

Hashut Copper
Agrax Earthshade
Fulgurite Copper
Stormhost Silver
Nihilakh Oxide

Painting Techniques (Mushrooms)

Stems

Aggaros Dunes
Morghast Bone
Screaming Skull
Wraithbone

Purple

Luxion Purple
Genestealer Purple
Kakophoni Purple
Kislev Flesh

Red

Doomfire Magenta
Wild Rider Red
Pink Horror
Kislev Flesh

Blue

Pylar Glacier
Temple Guard Blue
Baharroth Blue

Base

I applied a mix of flocks, rocks, tufts, flowers and leaves grouped below by company:

Geek Gaming Scenics

Games Workshop

Army Painter

Gamers Grass

AK Interactive

Finally I painted the outside of the base.

Gore Grunta Fur
Rhinox Hide

Roundup

I think I've ended on my favorite for now so it's time to take a bit of a break from Squigs. I've loved how they've turned out and I'll have to get a photo of them all together at some point!

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