Loonboss Wins: a small Night Goblin buying dilemma
We had one of those very familiar hobby moments recently: this model looks amazing, but the longer we looked into it, the more practical questions started showing up.
Stas was browsing for a Night Goblin character and for a moment the temptation was very real. The old-school vibe of the Night Goblin Command Set is absolutely fantastic — one of those kits that immediately makes us want to start another greenskin project for no responsible reason.
Michał summed it up perfectly: the atmosphere is incredible. We also all have a soft spot for Night Goblins in general — the hoods, the squigs, the exaggerated little evil faces, the whole ridiculous-but-perfect aesthetic. It’s peak goblin energy.
But then came the catch: this is an Expert Kit, which in practice means resin. And resin always changes the conversation a bit.
It wasn’t really about being impossible to build — more that it’s a different kind of hobby effort. Different glue, more cleanup, more prep, and usually a bit more patience required before the model is actually ready to use. If you’ve mostly been assembling modern plastic kits, that shift can be a little rude.
So the initial excitement quickly turned into the classic question: do we want the cooler old-school sculpt badly enough to deal with resin, or do we want something easier to get and easier to work with?
In the end, Stas made the very sensible call and went for the Loonboss instead. As he pointed out, the Gloomspite Gitz range from Age of Sigmar is really very close to classic Night Goblins anyway, so it’s not exactly some tragic compromise. If anything, it’s a practical way to get the same vibe without signing up for an unnecessary resin side quest.
And of course there was also another model in the mix that caught the eye:
That said, not every goblin face is an automatic win. Michał, despite loving the whole Night Goblin style, declared that the Loonboss version with the crescent-moon face is deeply ugly — which, to be fair, is also a very goblin outcome. Sometimes a model is both perfect for the faction and aesthetically offensive at the same time.
The conversation didn’t end with the purchase itself, because right after that came the next hobby question: what do you actually do with bare metal later on? Prime it normally?
And yes — normally. Prime is prime. If the miniature is bare metal, just prime it as usual. If it was already primed and the goal is to switch to another primer colour, we’d generally just go primer over primer, assuming the existing layer is fine and not obscuring detail.
So this one ended in a very healthy place: no romantic suffering with an Expert Kit, no unnecessary pain, just a goblin boss that should be easier to get on the table.
Honestly, that still sounds like a win to us.