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..
 
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