Getting Moonstone to the table.

It has been a few weeks since we have had a chance to post to our project, and its already the end of spring. Work and a few other things have really worked against us as far as progress this year! We didn;t finish the Moonstone collection like we had hoped when we started, but we are going to push through and get them done anyway!

First of all, thanks to the guys for the golden button! To let Gerry and Ben know since they are curious, our name rally doesn’t have the most exciting background. It is from my 35lb half main coon cow cat named Shiro. He is huge, clumsy, and when he looks at you you can tell there is not much going on in his head. He snorts like a pig and look like a cow, so… PIGM00. The alternative was the Great Bovinicus, but that a little much probably.

Anyway, on to the minis that made the final cut and a few that we are working on.

A a few that we are not quite done with yet…

That is all we will able to get in this Spring Clean Challenge 2026, but we are already looking towards next year. Maybe we will be able to get more done like we did for our Judge Dredd collection. We are looking at Halo, Shatterpoint, We Played God, and a ton of Orks for various indies like Spave Gits. We don’t have a shortage of collections that need painted.

All of the entries were awesome this year, so great work from all. We really enjoy taking part in such a great community, even if we are more lurkers than active participants.

We will keep posting our Moonstone until we finish it all!

We are continuing to make progress through our Moonstonme collection for this years Spring Clean Challenge. This week I am going to share three newly completed minis from my half of the collection. Mrs. Pigmoo has not finished any in a while, but she is working on something like 14 at a time. When she does get them over the finish line she will quickly surpass my progress painting one at a time to completion.

I had a blast painting Viscount de Faulte, he was one I was looking forward to almost as much as Greymere. I went for a very similar look as the box art, but I am no competition painter. I am happy with the results though. I also hammered out Marley, The Duchess, and Viktor Petty, Graverobber.

I leaned into the fall colors and flock materials for the basing, going for a forest look. This has been a lot of fun becasue it is not something I do often., I am ussually painting sci fi and city rubble bases. I do really like how the Turquoise pieces add a Moonstone look to the bases too. I have been using it sparingly and using other basing materials to partially bury it or obscure it, except for Marly whos coffin looks to be bursting out of a Moonstone deposit.

That leaves twelve more from my half of the collection and the all of Mrs. Pigmoos in progress minis.

We still have quite a few we need to get done, but this challenge is a real boost to motivation. Since we tackled Judge Dredd last year we have picked up the habit of working together to try and knock out full games at a time. We have already started talking about whats next between Halo Flashpoint, We played God, and getting some odds and ends done for the upcoming Repent! ye foolish Gods.

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…