My Random stuff

No clue on Moonstone. Don't know the rules or anything. I just picked up some figures which looked nice ^_^
But I have briefly looked at it and you can make your own band from the figures as long as they are the same faction and instead of being points based, each side just picks the same number of figures from between 3 and 6 depending on the size of the game you want to play, but each character has there own character card saying the stats. However, the rules and cards can be just downloaded and printed off from their own website. Basically, they just charge for the figures. I did a brief bit the other day on my blog about the figures mostly.
 
not great photos but a WIP shot anyway..

from some left overs of a Skeleton Armies box set which had since a child really, I wanted to and finally got around to trying to complete the Chariot. First problem: Only one wheel. While doing a bit with this, I ending up with a half melted wheel.. so that's even worse.. So I designed a look-a-like 3D one but I'm useless at Organic shapes as I model the old fashion way, vertex by vertex. so send my more blocky version to a friend who has some plug-in stuff for making more organic distortion stuff, which I then printed with my FDM printer and they look pretty good. not a 100% copy of course, but more then useable replacement.

Next, only 1 wheel spike this was easy to deal with and while the tip is missing (which is fine) a resin copy works well for the other spike.
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Then, No horses. got a couple of horse bits but looking around for original plastic horses from the set.. yikes.. So I got a sprue from a Wargames Atlantic skeleton set as I'm quite happy with there skeletons as they are quite close to the old GW plastics. not perfect and weapons aren't great, but pretty nice. So that gave two nice horses with different poses for the front. Looking though Skeleton bits, missing heads mostly.. so again, WGA skeleton set.

As the scraps are mostly partly made up, found one which was in a good pose and with a bit of work adding bits, made a great .... okay mind blank on guy that steers the chariot. I'll add wire ropes a bit later after some paint work. For the guy on back, I was using the Armies box to make it like (but not the same) and I wanted a guy with a banner. It would make a nice piece.

Found a nice skeleton in partly made pose in my old bits but had a broken leg.. then I found a leg piece which was broken but in a different way, so I gave the posed skeleton a new lower leg. you think them old plastic skeletons were hard to put together at times? try replacing half a leg. Arm already had a shield but that was fine with me. I drilled the right hand for a banner pole. couldn't find what little wire I got left for poles so I used a paper clip as this is kinda a scrap project, using scraps I have laying around or can bash up. For the topper, after asking around, decided on this. Got a bone from a WGA (technically) animal bone set... some large animal from the size of that bone, and made a wire noose. It is probably for the best that I'm not good at tying a noose but it's more then good enough. I'll be sticking a pennant banner on the pole when that is done. right now, the banner pose isn't glued into the hand so I can see what angle I want but I got it about right.

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Debated on the base.. mostly, if you look, the horses are given based with Chariots, but the Chariots aren't.. I can see the reason but naw, wanted this as a piece so a bit of scrap wood from a left over laser cut project (If I have more then a set amount of the wood left spare, I keep it as scrap of course. needed to saw it a tiny bit but perfect size for a base. chariot is only tacked onto base and not connected to the horses yet but again, that'll be done later.

there is some damage to the chariot floor itself but that's fine.. It's skeletons, of course it's gonna be damaged (what animal did they get that rib cage from anyway?). probably check a couple of things then give it a primer before painting when I get around to that. nice little salvage project.
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Nicely done, I remember building one of those as a kid, Scythe blades broke off after a few days. ☹️ Is that the only chariot in your Undead or do you have any more?
 
while I do have some various figures, that's the only one I got ^_^ I don't really have an undead army and my speed and reason is kinda meaning I won't be doing a full blown undead army yet.

Also, I pinned the blades to make them stronger ^_^
 
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Quite late sculpts (1997, I think 1998 release) Gretchin. At this period, GW turned the Gretchin and Goblins into.. erm.. I'll kinda paraphrase Monty Python: "Are they too Jewish?" (I can go into a long bit on angular design and the middle eastern anatomy design but I'll leave that). Not as good as decent old Kev Adams Goblins with playful mischief of most mythological goblins (though goblin and Faeries were pretty much the same in some myths.. it's complex) so you don't get the large noses which are more replaced with the large sharp hook noses and much more spikey ears.. etc.. but I got these with a lot a while back and they are kinda fun. two of them using the same dollie which is pretty visible but still different enough.

While my Ork army is.. FAR FAR in the background (in fact.. completed models and not counting ones I did soo long ago they need stripping and redoing.. I now have 4 Gretchin and Makari.. Hey! 5 figures is good enough for a skirmish band eh? Oh and my Prototype Runtbot. If I knew how to play it and had people to play, maybe I got enough for a goblin Necromunda band.

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As my main orc's are Goff, I had to do these to match.. sigh.. goff's and checkers.. These were a quick paint job, in fact, 2 days to do them. that's quick for me. Basic scheme being Goff. Gretchin themselves being green Goff colours of Red, black and white, with each having atleast one piece of Checkers. Each of these had a star on them some place.. no clue when that became a thing, which is painted gold. was going to paint the stitches in the second ones cap and the first ones trousers but decided against that.. of course you would use black stitchers on black trousers and when they painted the hat, it was already stitched ^_^

Other then the stated Makari, my Gretchin are the 40K base set plastics ^_^ in fact, most of my Ork army is the 40K base set plastics. I'm not in the market really for any new figures yet (technically I got access to some kinda add-on set from much later.. blackreach or something which came with a bunch of later orks with a copter and stuff but.. not too keen on them really so not much chance of using them), though I do have a few other bits and pieces. which annoyingly includes only one stormboy with jumppack. anyway.. 4 Gretchin in 2 days, yay!
 
ManicMan said:
Each of these had a star on them some place.. no clue when that became a thing
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In 1998 with the release of "Digganob" , the expansion set for Gorkamorka that fetured a gang of 'Rebel Grots' whose icon was a red star.
That's the same year the Orks underwent the redesign you mention here:
ManicMan said:
At this period, GW turned the Gretchin and Goblins into.. erm.. Not as good as decent old Kev Adams Goblins
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The starting point of that dreadful development, the 'Ork Zero' of that was the release of 'Idol of Gork' for Warhammer one year earlier. The Orcs got a shaman, a regiment of big 'uns and boar riders all desgined by Brian Nelson. While the 'release wave' of Gorkamorka Orks was a bad copy of the old Adams boyz (don't know who did the copy, probably MOOOoorley), the Grots and special Orks released in Digganob were all Nelson designs. The modern design keeps his sharp features and snarling gorilla-like brutality.
You and I can both agree on the superiority of the Adams designs, though, methinks.
ManicMan said:
most of my Ork army is the 40K base set plastics. I'm not in the market really for any new figures yet
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If you are, hit me up, why don't you. I have my Ork project pretty much mapped out and find I have a bunch going spare
 
Thanks, I'll think about it in the future, but like I said, not too much looking right now.

I do have a couple of Gorkamorka plastics which are.. awful with them tiny plastic integral bases.. which are.. awful.
 
While planning out my ork warband, I initially wanted to use one of the tiny bases. Put an impressive nob on it and have him strike a defiant pose on the back of a warbike. I even magnetized the whole shebang so I could remove the nob and field him seperately.
That took fiddling around with the tiny base. And in the end I glued a different nob to my warbike and mounted the impressive nob on a proper base.
God I do not approve of those tiny bases.
Nor the Gorkamorka plastics.
Nor the Gorkamorka metals (weeell, except for the bionik bits)

Not to disparage the nice gretchin. I like the idea of stikbomb tops done up with those slashy hazard stripes, nice!
 
I think some of the plastics were reused cause I'm sure some of the bikes and stuff were used for Gorkamorka from the normal 40K range..

I remember when GM came out cause it looked an interesting source for some Ork stuff but never got it. a Couple of friends did play it a bit and... I'm not sure what version they played cause.. one used Ultra Marines.. in a Ork V Ork game? confuses me..
 
right.. I wanna get the Chariot primed ready for painting it in December, meanwhile.. I seam to have gotten myself into a set ¬_¬ a while back, I got and painted up Dead-Dead, C47 Skaven casualty figure which I don't think there were too many of them made.. or more, too many of them brought as I don't think it was a big seller.

well.. I seam to now have C09 Dark Elf casualty who doesn't seam to have a name, though they normally do.. So I'm kinda starting to want to collect some more C series casualty figures.. though I'm not sure it's a strong desire yet.. but trying to work out what they made in the c series.. So I might as well put a quick list here of what I know of.

* C08 - High Elf Casualty
* C09 - Dark Elf Casualty
* C10 - Siff - Half Orc Casualty
* C15 - Owd Glodger - Orc Casualty
* C18 - Night Horror Corpse
* C19 - Slain Zombie
* C26 - Sterben - Men-at-arms Casualty
* C34 - Dwarf Casualty [part of a Diorama Set]
* C34 - Sacrifice [not sure if this counts but the Sacrifice was a female corpse which was.. close enough as a Casualty]
* C46 - Town Folk Casualty
* C47 - Dead-Dead - Skaven Casualty

As you can see, that's a pretty small list and .. some weird omissions really. No goblin, Skeleton (though that wouldn't really be needed), Wood Elf, Slann, Lizardman, Chaos etc..

the C34 pair are kinda the odd ones out cause they were part of a diorama set so they are probably lower on the list but still, interesting which ones are missing. I don't think they really sold that well as out side of Diorama reasons, Casualties didn't have much need in a battle scale game. Just think, you need a casualty figure for each figure in your army.. yikes. With things link Mordheim being a skirmish game, they became more practical and more in use (never played so I don't know if it's something you HAVE to replace a dead figure with or what). I know some Casualty figures were kept in production longer then others and some could double up on different armies (Man-at-Arms could work for Britonnia & Empire.

Anyway... So about 11 figures, 2 down ^_^ I'll probably do a check a bit later for some prices of some.. Anyway.. Dark Elf is primed but I need to debate colours.. I'm not a big fan of Blue for Dark elves, and I don't want just normal flesh.. I got an idea but those dark elves were more the nicer ones compared to the light elves..

Turns out I'm missing one from that list 'Slain Skeleton', and I've got Sterben on his way as Foundary put him back in production this year ^_^
 
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Well, as maybe hinted above, I've now started a new little 'collection'.. Corpses! C-series Corpses.

While getting some other stuff, I ended up with a copy of the C09 Dark Elf Corpse and like with Dead-dead the Skaven C-series Corpse, I made it into a little 40mm diarama.
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Now.. I kinda realised I didn't know too much about Warhammer Dark Elves.. just that they were Elves turned to Chaos.. So I looked into 3ed Edition stuff. Elves which worship Khaine, the Murder God. Khaine also appears to either BE or be a 'manifestation' of Khorne, the Blood God.. Dark Elves don't seam to like it as they make a difference but still. So okay, thinking of colour scheme, Never sure about the 'official' scheme which seamed to be darks and purples.. but surely, Khaine (little seams known about him) but more so with his Khorne Connection, would have Red as a strong colour connected to him instead of Purple.. So I used Red as the main colour, but still gave a bit of purple as accenting, just more downplayed then alot appear to do. Also had the buckets and pads being Gold, another Khorne colour.

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Then there was a problem with Skin tone.. Never liked the bright pink, nor the blue of neither elves.. Kinda didn't want to do black but decided to do them dark skin in reference to the great Ps2 game 'Radiata Stories' which is a FANTASTIC and very in depth Fantasy action-adventure-roleplay game... which have way through the game splits into two main paths which makes the game very long as the two paths are quite different, and when you see they found 3 hours of removed cutscenes which are still in the game... you see how indepth the story and everything is.. and it's VERY much so (sigh.. an aisde, it is a fantastic game where you play a Human in the kingdom where there are basically the humans and the fairy folk, and the two don't really get on too well. The Fairy Folk mostly consist of the Dwarfs (short hairy miners and metal workers), the Light Elves (nasty 'holier then thou' winged elves), the Dark Elves (very friendly, technically created due to a mixture of Light Elf and Human mating), the Goblins (shortish pranksters who aren't really nasty but don't care when they go there mischief and games, and the Orcs (Big, brutes). the Goblins and Orcs are kinda sub-divided but that doesn't really matter too much here). and basically, the game deals with struggling relationship between the races, and then out and out war between the Humans and the Fairy Folk and possibly the end of the Human race. Due to event, half way through the game you can choose to side with the Humans, against the Women you love, or with the Fairy Folk (a traitor to your own species). Neither really is a happy outcome. Pretty much EVERY character in the game is recruitable to join your team at some point (though when on the Human Path, you can't have non-humans and when on the Fairy Path, you can't half humans (kinda).

Anyway.. Love the game, would love to do some miniatures as various characters. Back to this mini

After taking the Photos, I've noticed a couple of bits to touch up (and the face with the eye brows came out much worse then I though, so Gonna have to redo that. the Mushrooms on the base are a couple of resin ones I got with some other stuff.. Not sure where the rest of them are.. the Barrel section is part of a resin-miscast from a resin mould I got. the Miscast make it work well as a broken piece.

I have another Corpse on the go right now.. I have a post prepare for my blog which lists them and goes into detail of what I worked out are the 12 C series corpses (10 main-ish ones) but on the whole, these are ... kinda rare, some more common then others, and when you find them, people charge £30+ and that isn't gonna happen for most of them. I did, however, find the one I'm painting now is still in production ^_^

One thing annoying me is this guy had no name.. Just corpse or casualty... very Annoying. also.. damn that face.. really gonna have do more to this..
 
^_^ of course. Most corpses lose body heat.
Just wish the others were so pricy WHEN you can find them. the lesser two on my list have TONS of variants made so they are only rare cause they are old (one reason they are lesser on my list is that the C versions are just re-codings of an earlier model and not hard to kit bash if so wanted)
 
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