Oxford can keep its “Goblin mode” word-of-the-year—because for me it’s not a phase, it’s a full-time lifestyle. In this video I take my favourite thing in the hobby (painting goblins) and do the scariest possible move: I stop painting them the way I always do. No more comfy yellow-green skin, red mushrooms, and that familiar green-to-blue cloth fade I’ve leaned on for years. Instead, I paint the newest Rascal Town Goblin, RH-003 (a heavily armoured night goblin with a spiky club and an adorable little wizard frog), as a weird, spooky purple goblin—because it’s literally the opposite of goblin green and, weirdly, nobody seems to do it. To make it even more of a “break all the rules” moment, I go 100% Pro Acryl and I actively unlearn my old Citadel-system habits. I skip the all-over washes entirely, focus on smooth blends, controlled recess shading, and I even let some areas live without traditional edge highlights. My non-metallic armour starts off as boring grey sadness, so I rescue it with super thin experimental glazes (blue, purple, green) and punchy rusty orange streaks. Then I save the best for last: mushrooms—painted with fluorescent paints so they look normal in daylight, but turn into a secret rave under a black light.