Sunday, August 3, 2025

George's Bad Moonz, Wrap Up Post

Big Gobb was proud. Very proud.

After countless humiliating defeats he’d won a battle! Just like his father had won all those battles!

Close observers might have noted that Big Gobb was standing at the back, far from danger as his boyz charged the enemy lines. But there weren’t any close observers.

To celebrate his first victory, Big Gobb had raised a mighty banner as more and more boyz flocked to the WAAARGH!

Now Big Gobb and his big mob were ready to take on anyone and everyone. As they prepared to march into the galaxy in the hunt for glory, the boss took a moment to soak it all in.

He was a flash git. And he bloody loved it.


I’m chuffed to bits to have finished this challenge!

Bringing Big Gobb’s mob to life has been so much fun, and I’m delighted to finish a project that has been ongoing for 2.5 years! Having said that, there are plenty of orky models I had collected and still need to paint. Life, work etc. forced me to reduce my plans, but I was pleased to finally add a banner this month.

This is the first time that I’ve painted orcs and I’ve loved it. The Rogue Trader era originals are a joy (and let’s not forget that Hero Quest wizard!) and the recent sculpts from Old School Miniatures, Foundry, Ramshackle Games and Knightmare Miniatures blend in really nicely.

Bad Moonz are a great fit for me: bright colours and weird. I've found my clan!

Huge thanks to Byron and the tireless committee who keep this challenge going. And to the other challengers for the motivation and inspiring projects. So many glorious armies to enjoy!

But I don’t have too much time to enjoy the celebrations as I’m planning something pretty big for OWAC IX. It’s already time to get the modelling knife out!


Total Army Points:

Warboss: 90 points

Warboss’s Retinue (5 x Nobz, 5 x boyz): 310 points

2 x Weirdboyz: 100 points

1 x Mekaniak: 15 points

3 X drill bosses: 60 points

Big Mobb (10 x boyz): 280 points

1 x Rhino: 350 points

Total: 1,250 points


Big Gobb leads his big mob!


Big Gobb pictured moments before moving to the rear!

A Rogue Trader flash git!

Weird boy courtesy of Foundry!

Banner!!!

Another Rogue Trader flash git (thanks Jaako!)

A Knightmare Miniatures nob!

A Hero Quest wizard turned weird boy!

Big Gobb 'imself!

"C'mon!"
Another nob from Knightmare Miniatures

WAAARGH!!!

Björn Grendel's Unberogenes. Wrap-up

The army as a whole 

 
...ALL ROADS LEAD TO REIKDORF...

It's finally finished. 8 long months of preparation, construction, painting, stress... and it's done.
Now that we've reached the end, I can say it: this army is the first and only army I've ever finished!
Let me explain:
Of course, I've painted armies before, for myself or on commission, but for the first time a project meets my personal standards of completeness.

1- Planning on paper from the start.
Since I had to present the project at the end of December, this was the first time in my modeling life that I analyzed the models in my collection, decided what and how much to buy, and assembled the different units in an organized way before starting. Usually, like many of us, I buy what I like when I feel like it or what I need when I can, but not this time.

2- A playable army.
An important aspect, but equally difficult to achieve: a finished army is a playable army: therefore, with a minimum number of characters, basic regiments, etc., but also with some competitive units and some extras, such as the battle standard bearer and some pieces with an extra punch. I've often painted projects like this, especially on commission, but in my personal collection there are more loose pieces than organized armies. This is one of the few.

3- No backlog.
And here's the real news! Having planned everything in advance, squeezing every model and buying only the bare minimum, I find myself with NO extra unfinished models! Of course, this doesn't mean I don't have a pile of shame. On the contrary, my pile of shame is higher than ever. It just means I have nothing left to paint for this specific army. Not even a single humble warrior... even the leftover bitz are no more than a small handful.

4- The parts make the whole.
I've met some of the previous requirements before in my modeling life, especially when working on commission and painting the entire set, or when preparing an army for a battle, or maybe when you just buy a couple of boxes to start a new faction and finish them in one go... but this is truly the first time I've managed to meet all these requirements at once, and I did it FOR ME! It's an incredible, overwhelming feeling. Like when you finish a good book and you're left with that mixed feeling of satisfaction and emptiness... but you can't wait to read another. And I can't wait to start the next project, another army for the next OWAC!

Now I'll let the images do the talking, but first, one last fundamental consideration:
This project has another great record. It made me want to play again, and it also got my wife and children involved. We planned a table together, created some basic scenery elements, and even played a few introductory games. The family loved them and slowly started painting some miniatures themselves. I never thought this challenge would yield such incredible results. Most of the time, we played by splitting this single army in two, to play smaller battles with the new miniatures, and this forced me to tackle another BSB, and here it is.


Tried to match the first One in shapes and colors.

The base model is Valerie Duval from the old Warzone range, a model I found damaged beyond repair in a batch many years ago.
Pic for reference

Catachan arms slighty shaped.. fit and wonderful.

With a little putty work, I think she's more than fit to carry the army's secondary banner. She's super confident, tough, and fit, like a true Barbarian warrior should be.
Fierce and proud!

I love her, and she's turned out to be one of my favorite pieces. I'm not entirely happy with the freehand on the shield, but I decided to settle for it.

Now onto the beauty shots.







And some more...

The Hunt begins...

Chariots racing around the village

Björn and Dragor planning the next raid.

Redmane warband leaving the gates.

Björn's warband protecting the village from and orc raiding party.

The nobles speeding through the fields to join the Battle.

Orcs! The messenger brings word of the incoming invasion.

The outer outpost must be fitted for defense.

"Here you are!"

Queen Griselda, mother of Sigmar, praying to the Gods of Mankind 

Sigmar and Ravenna, back to back against the green tide.

Protecting Foamhenge from the ravaging orcs 


Points, let's talk about points:
As I said, I'm not at all familiar with the third edition rules (I'm a 5th edition guy), and I don't think I've fully grasped how to calculate points, especially for characters and the unit command group.
But here it is, as I thought at the end of December. The value is probably much higher than that (with the command groups and hero options), but it would probably also be illegal in the composition of individual units and the hero/core/special/rare ratios.

*) name (count as): equipment. Points

-----------Heroes and command: Total 467--------

1) barbarian leader (Chaos champion): 2 hand weapons, heavy armor. 130pt

2) barbarian leader (Chaos champion): two-handed weapon, heavy armor. 130pt

3) barbarian leader (Chaos champion): hand weapon, shield heavy armor. 129pt

4) barbarian banner bearer (chaos champion): hand weapon, army banner, heavy armor. 178pt

----------------Rank and files: Total 1106-----------------

1) barbarian warband (20 chaos thugs): 2 hand weapons, light armor. 180pt

2) barbarian warband (20 chaos thugs): hand weapon, shield, light armor. 180pt

3) barbarian cavalry (10 mounted chaos thugs): hand weapon, light armor, shield 180pt

4) 2 barbarian chariots (8 marauder horsemen with heavy armour ).  376pt
 

5) barbarian hunting party (10 chaos thugs): hand weapon, light armor, bow. 100pt

6) barbarian hunting party (10 chaos thugs): hand weapon, light armor, shields, javelines, (throwing axes).       100pt                          

Total.  1.573

I left out the second BSB, the warrior queen, and the additional plastic models, which weren't planned at the start of the project.
I would have liked to prepare some extras, some surprises, maybe a large monster or an additional unit, in this final month, but I didn't find anything I really liked, so I limited myself to making some new scenery elements. Over the last few months, I've built a more than decent collection, as you can see from the photos. In total, we have:
- a couple of new forest bases
- a village of huts and shacks
- a chief's longhouse
- a modular log fortress with a gate, walls, and towers
- an entire stone circle, more than properly named Foamhenge
- a rocky hill, the first of many
- and above all, a regulation-sized table to host our games in the studio.

That's all, I think. This time too, I got carried away by excessive verbosity. I'll definitely be back next year with a new, incredible project (but I don't know which one yet). In the meantime, keep painting.

 Stay true, stay oldschool.  🤘🏼

From this...
...to this!



Byron's Wrap up - Eälindor's Reaver Corps. (1969 pts)

At the end of each OWAC I try to spend the last month painting up an additional batch of stuff. So for this last month I have painted up a Crotalid Squad - Assault elves.

The unit is made up of a series of simple conversions. I used striking scorpions, wyches, and some dual-wielding RT eldar warriors. They have the usual conversions for the army - breathing tubes and helmet tassels. There are a few head swaps in the unit. Most of the close combat weapons were removed and models were given an assortment of eldar pistol weapons. 







In my head I imagine these guys flying around the battle field like Jango Fett  -pew pew pew and maybe stopping to grenade a tank or something

 




Points 
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor field, jump pack, laspistols, frag grenade x7 = 101.5 pts
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor field, jump pack, hand flamer, grenade, and chain sword = 17 pts

On to the final pics of the whole army






I now have a proper eldar pirate army to match my finished eldar pirate space fleet. 

The final points tally

I apologize for some of the redundancy of my points tally (especially the warriors). I just went through all of my old posts and copied and pasted all of my point value summaries. 

Leaders

Eälindor, Pelagarch - Eldar Major Hero w/ conversion field, mesh armor, power sword, las pistol, level 1 psyker abilities, 3 level 1 abilities, psi level 10 = 170.5 pts

Eledriel Dreamrain, Farseer - Eldar Minor hero w/ conversion field, power weapon, level 4 psyker abilities, 3 lvl 1 abilities, 3 lvl 2 abilities, 2 lvl 3 abilities, 2 lvl 4 abilities, psi level 35 = 260 pts

Garanferth Greyheart, Warlock - Eldar Minor hero w/ conversion field, power weapon, las pistol, level 2 psyker abilities, 3 lvl 1 abilities, 3 lvl 2 abilities, psi level 20 = 102.5 pts

Doldair, Skyraider Lochiarc - Champion w/ refractor field, mesh armor, power sword, las pistol  = 20 pts

Falcon Squad Lochiarch - Eldar Champion w/ mesh armor, refractor field, Chainsword and las pistol = 14.5 pts

Kelvandar Breezekin, Razor Wing Lochiarch - Eldar Champion w/ mesh armor, refractor field, jump pack, power sword and las pistol = 22 pts

Aedysseil, Warrior Squad Lochiarch - Eldar Champion w/ mesh armor, refractor field, power axe and las pistol = 19.5 pts

Anaflane StarRain, Warrior Squad Lochiarch - Eldar Champion w/ mesh armor, refractor field, shuriken catapult and las pistol =15.5 pts

Squads

Skyraiders
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, laspistol and flamer  x 1 = 13 pts
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, laspistol and meltagun = 18 pts
Jetbikes x3 = 330 pts

Warrior Squads
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and Las Cannons x 1 = 55.5 pts
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and shuriken catapults x 6 = 75 pts
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and lasguns x 1 = 12 pts
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and lasguns x 2 = 24 pts
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and Las Cannons x 3 = 166.5 pts
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and shuriken catapults x 4 = 50 pts
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and lasguns x 3 = 36 pts
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, and autogun x 1 = 12 pts

Falcon Squad
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, hand weapons and las pistols x 4 = 46 pts
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, hand weapons and las pistols x 2 = 23 pts

Razor Wings
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor field, jump pack, lasgun x1 = 14 pts
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, jump pack, heavy heavy bolters x 3 =  82.5 pts
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor fields, jump pack, heavy heavy bolters x 1 =  27.5 pts

Crotalid Squad
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor field, jump pack, laspistols, frag grenade x7 = 101.5 pts
Eldar w/ mesh armor, refractor field, jump pack, hand flamer, grenade, and chain sword = 17 pts

Support

Wave Serpent (grav attack tank, with increased capacity, swapped weapons for a single las cannon, -2 damage, and only a 6+ save.) = 240 pts 

Total: 1969 pts

Miscellaneous 

Cargo drone
Stevedores x5
Standard Bearers
Musician
A repaired copy of the Book of the Astronomican
A Ghostdragon for my Eldar Space Fleet

Regrets

I still have a handful of Eldar left unpainted:
A warrior squad with another pair of shouldered las cannons
the pickup truck
5 jetbikes
A wave dragon tank (3rd ed Dark Eldar Ravager mixed with an Epic Wave Serpent)
Maybe for another time?

What's next?

Next year's challenge is a goblin horde. I've been accumulating a horde of gribbly little goblins. My challenge to myself is to paint enough goblins to cover an entire shelf. We'll see. 

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