Getting Moonstone to the table.

It has been almost impossible to find time to hobby lately, but we have made some slow progress. Even though the work has been glacial, we did buy yet more Moonstone to add to the project during a recent trip to Harrisburg. Can’t pass up the chance to pick up minis when the only store near you that sells them is 3 hours from home! Let take a look at what we got done.

Starting with the Goblin Airship, it is almost done. The airship itself is finished and I fininshed the base. I still need to join the two, but am waiting for the texture paste to dry so I can clear coat the base. I plan of using Matt spray, and don’t want to get overspray on the frog’s eyes gloss coat. I really enjoyed this mini, which is why  I took my time on it.

For the base, I used some slate that I collected from the bike trail and a variety of fall flock and leaves. I baked the slate at 212 degrees for an hour to make sure any passengers were taken care of  and seti it onto the base using Monument Hobbies texture paste. We also picked up a container of turquoise mother of pearl stone to use as moonstones on the base. This should be a massive upgrade from the painted cork stones that we previously used. I set a large one of these onto the center of the base and built up a rockface around it. I filled it up with an assortment of resin printed bits and basing materials.

While I was working on the airship, Mrs. PIGM00 was priming and basecoating her half of the collection and starting a dozen minis at a time. I also assembled the new figures and build their bases up using bricks, cardboard cobbles, and AK slate chunks.

Hopefully, we can find more time to work on this during the Sring Clean Challenge! Once I get the frog mated to his base I can finally start the mini that made me want to start painting Moonstone, Greymare!

Last year’s Spring Clean Challenge was great motivation for us to finally get my Judge Dredd collection painted and on the table. Mrs Pigmoo was nice enough to put many of her projects on hold and spend several months helping me finish one of my games. As much as I love painting Sci-fi, it’s only fair that we tackle a fantasy game that she wants to play this year. Looks like we are dusting off our Moonstone collection that has been sitting in our pile of shame for a while. We started working on this some time ago, and got sidetracked as other games and projects came up. This collection is not quite as big as last years at 52 miniatures. As we started working on this two weeks ago, we had a few finished, a few assembled, and most of them NIB. We spent a weekend snipping, cleaning, and assembling and are finally ready to start painting. Also, while on a day trip to Harrisburg for a St. Paddy’s Day concert, we found a awesome FLGS called Lazarus Games that’s sells Moonstone, so there is a good chance that the collection may continue to grow during the challenge!

We started with assembling and basing everything that we currently had. We wanted to base all of the minis similarly to tie the collection together, but opted not to 3D print them this year. We cut small irregular cobblestones out of Star Wars Shatterpoint boxes and used them along with scale model bricks and slate. We wanted to have some Moonstones on a few of the bases, so we painted a few pieces of fishtank gravel. We held it all together with some Vallejo texture paste. We were ready to prime and get started.

With everything built, cleaned, and based we can finally start painting! While Mrs Pigmoo is finishing a Space Gits  gang that she is close to finishing, I decided to start on the Goblin Airship.

I started with a black rattle can prime and followed up with a coat of Taupe airbrush primer to lighten the skin. I am using Army Painter Air colors for the base coats and a mix of AK 3rd Gen, Pro Acryl, and Army Painter Fanatic paints for the brush work.

Thats all the time I have for this long weekend, it is back to work unfortunately. Until next week…