I started this project early last year, getting models ready for what I thought would be an easier process, and launching on Oct 1, 2024. My backlog of already finished content went fast, and I often found myself getting models done the day before they needed to post.
I didn’t like this, as I found the earlier models were more creative and IMO better quality. So I made a decision to pad the docket with lots of spear, bow and 1h gobbos, and this allowed me blocks of time to work on the cave spider riding night gobbos, the wolf rat riders, and many other “interesting” groups.
As I finish the “official” 365 days of this self set challenge, I will be taking a break from this army for a little bit, but I don’t plan on stopping work on it. I still have a lot of content to do, and I hope with the more relaxed schedule to get my hobby area cleaned up, my 3D printer back in operation and would like to print out some of the models I finished and paint them up.
So don’t worry, The Great Year of Greenskins is done, but I am not.
Our Final Greenskin STL of the week is going to be some examples of what I think are the best Greenskin modelers out there, and links to their shop pages on MyMini Factory.
Ok, first up, you are not going to beat the folks at Avatars of War for fantasy orcs and goblins (and many other races as well). Not only are they super detailed, and filled with greenskin goodness, but many of their kits are multipart, allowing you to mix and match to really make a custom army. If I had wanted a orc or non regular gobbo army, I could easily have purchased their current lineup and called it a day.
Next up, is another creator who lives and breathes Greenskins every day. Mr Modulork tends more toward the scifi Ork and Grot, but has also dabbled in more primitive versions, and a ton of pieces can be used for both. I have done several kitbashes that have used his hands, weapons and heads, and his squigs featured heavily in my project.
Adamant’s Arsenal was another creator I used extensively, especially for sleeved arms. lower body/legs, and some of the torsos. The Crafty Creeper kit was $20.00 that kept giving, and giving. Definitely check them out, especially as goblins are not their focus, and they have so many multipart kits that you can use and reuse for your kitbashes. They also have a scifi add on for the Crafty Creepers (image on right) for even more variants.
Highland Miniatures is another great source of greenskins, especially if you want proxies for goblins, spider riders, wolfriders, war machines and baseline/iron/savage orcs. Their Swamp Goblins where something I initially bought, but I wanted taller, leaner bodies (more like Total Warhammer) so I pivoted away, but there are a lot of parts that ended up in the mix.
Similarly, I had picked up the Midnight Goblins pack from Titanforge, before deciding I wanted a different silhouette profile. I used several of the scarf heads as the basis for further kitbashed heads, and their wolf rats and warmachine parts were extensively used and/or edited. They seem like a quality studio, so I suggest following them closely.
The Black Horde line from The Beholder Miniatures is probably the last major source of purchased STLs that I used. I especially used heads and portions of the robed bodies to give more variety, and the leaner forms were great for shamans or other specialists. I went a different direction with my netters, but had initially planned on using some of theirs’s as the basis.
And lastly, I used a lot of free stls and small purchase stls (especially bags, cups, mushrooms, skulls) to give way, way to much detail to each gobbo, and I will pay for it when I print and get to painting. The elephant in the room for many of the free stls, is that some of them were later yanked for being to close to official content, so I made a lot of efforts to smooth out the details and/or merge with other sources to reduce their similarity.
This section is now much longer that the official summary, but I hope you find it of use.
The Daily Assassin 
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