The goblin box set was the original intention of the Kickstarter. We initially decided to try and release a simple plastic box set of miniatures for roleplayers, wargamers and for us to play our skirmish game Underdeep. Over the course of a year this small project gained momentum and we decided to publish the rules and finally to add another race to the initial release... The Zombie Abominations.
Today I am going to show you the early concept art for the Goblin Box Set. We always wanted the set to be multi part and plastic and to be comparable in quality to the other leading manufacturers. We spent a lot of time trying to develop the goblins into a species that felt familiar but at the same time lacking the grins and big noses of the often stereotypical goblin.
I worked with Grigor, our artist, to develop a face that was full of malice and evil. We also wanted to link it to caverns and the dark and decided to give it a bat like feel with large ears and a bats snout. The artwork soon fell into place and we began to design the tribal/clanlike society in which the goblins live.
Below are some of the concept sketches for the goblins of the Goblin Boxed Set. I have also attached an image of one of the renders used to make the three up models which are in turn used to make the plastic tools to manufacture these miniatures.
The tolling costs are very expensive but it makes collecting these miniatures cheap and allows those wanting to field larger forces the ability to do so.
The boxed set will hold enough pieces to make 24 figures with either a mixture of spears, swords and shields and bows. The Kickstarter will also give us a two additional command miniatures if the first stretch goal is reached making the boxed set an impressive 26 miniatures.
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