Ben is back with a brand new look at this Gitmob Grots. Praise the sun! …Or chase it down and bully everyone along the way?!
I’m chugging through my latest Gloomspite Gitz subfaction!
It’s been a couple of years now since the Snarlfang Riders slobbered onto the scene. I know I’m not the only gitz fan who thought: “I’m not sure what to do with just a unit of these… but a whole army…” And so when the Gitmob box, and other accompanying kits were announced, there was no hesitation. I was going to collect and paint them. Don’t bother showing me the rules first! Give me Gitz on wolves!
Painting
After milling a few colors over in my head I ended up with blue-armored Gitz riding fiery yellow wolves. My first instinct was red armored gitz on darker wolves… but I already have an army planned in that theme.
I used mostly AK Acrylics for these, but I’ve also been using more contrast paints. I started the wolves with a white primer undercoat. Then I painted over the lower areas and faces with Iyanden Yellow. Then while the yellow was still wet; more contrast paint! Gryphound Orange was applied followed by Blood Angels Red to create a nice smooth transition from yellow lower-wolf up to red at the top.
It was easy enough to complete the fur by drybrushing AK Deep Orange and Scarlet Red over the contrast layer. The yellow was a little more difficult. The Iyanden didn’t always dry how I wanted and in many cases I had to layer some AK Deep Yellow back on over some thick spots. Fortunately its really easy to wet blend with contrast paint to get some nice shading going on with the Iyanden and Deep Yellow. Although yellow always takes a few coats to go on right. I also added a final layer of highlights by mixing a little AK Ivory with the Deep Yellow to get some areas to really pop.
The blue part of the armor was done with a base of AK Oxford, highlighted with Ak Grey Blue, with final highlights added by blending in increasing amounts of Ak Snow Blue using pure Snow Blue for some edge highlighting. I ended up using a thin glaze of Shyish Purple to shade the darkest parts off the armor and also to line any little cracks.
The brass parts were done with a base of AK Camoulflage Green which was highlighted with AK Ochre and shaded with AK Black Green. Final highlights of Ivory were added here as well to give that “metal” some real shine.
The leather also started with a base of AK Camoulflage but was highlighted with Ak Dark Sand and shaded with Reaper Imperial Purple.
The goblin skin was done with my favorite gob method: AK Frog Green shaded with AK Wine Red blended in for shading, and Ivory for highlights. I covered gob skin a little more in my article on painting a Rabble Rowza.
Droggz Da Sun Chompa
Droggz was actually the last of the models I painted. Decades ago I read in a White Dwarf that it can be helpful to save characters as a painting reward to break up the monotony of painting all those units. I decided on doing the checkers as a way to tie him back to all those cool classic GW goblins I grew up with. As I continue to build the army I may go back to some of the other models and try to add some back in where possible.
Snarlpack Cavalry
I decided I would definitely assemble the Snarlpack as one big unit. Only one unit of them can get First Strike from the Frazzleburned Scrap special rule per turn. Since this is the only good thing about them, why split them up? Additionally I’d much rather bring back 3 of them from the Gob Hole (Loonshrine) than 2.
Here’s a closeup of the leader plus two.
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…and a closer look at the other 3.
Sunsteala Wheelas
These seem like the best unit the Gitmob has to offer so I’m packing 8 of them in my final list. The big downside is you can’t bring them back through the Loonshrine.
I decided the wheela with the git hanging off the side must be the leader.
I love all the little touches like and I had a lot of fun painting the big crazy suns on the side NMM brass.
Before anyone comments – it didn’t escape my notice that the army rules are not exactly… awesome. But good news! I’m used to losing so I don’t really see it as a problem. The working plan is try to do as much damage as possible on the charge and stack up as many first strikes as possible. Who needs rend when you have first strike! And then those Doom Diver Catapults are no joke so if I bring a couple of them that should be all I really need right!
~Hope you enjoyed the article! How do you feel about fiery yellow-orange wolves? Have you ever dedicated yourself to painting a whole army just because you liked the models? Even if winning with said army looked like it would be nearly impossible. Hopefully I’ll finish these gitz up one of these days and then, either find out I was wrong about their rules, or savor any wins I manage to scrape out that much more.
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Ben Willimans is a Professional Painter and Columnist at Bell of Lost Souls. He has been involved in the hobby and art side of miniatures and the tabletop gaming industry for over 20 years. He has won multiple national painting awards.
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