Educational Grots

 If only I could post about miniatures more often.

Unfortunately, I do not want every update to be about how I painted zero to six more Afghan tribesmen each week for the better part of a year. Whenever I take a week off from colonials to try something new or strange is generally when a post makes it here. Take these Grots for example. Three are my own and one is a newcomer. There is a fifth painted, but it was unavailable for photography on the day of the shoot. After my first greenskin I decided to teach two of my friends how to paint miniatures, and reasoning that a small figure with relatively simple sculpting and a conveniently low price would be a good starting point I chose to start them with a Grot. Plus, they both like goblins. I have a few takeaways:

-Painting in public at a game store results in lower quality miniatures, especially if you forget a painting cap to glue the figure to.

-If the disparity between two skin highlight colours is great, then a wider coverage of the highlight paint is preferable.

-Blood for the Blood God Technical Paint is very good for goggles.

For context, the Grot with the goggles is the one I did not paint. The difference in appearance between my first and later Grots I assume has to do with the time spent on each figure, and possibly a degradation in Vallejo Park Green after the initial use. I would still highly recommend teaching your friends to paint miniatures, even if they only end up doing it once it can be quite a fun outing.