tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44713740896642514392024-03-06T00:41:05.595+00:00Greenstuff GretchinOne little greenskin working with greenstuffGretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-66627763102360138682019-07-15T02:42:00.000+01:002019-07-15T02:43:09.051+01:00The Best Fantasy Series You've Never Read....<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...and probably never heard of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recently I've been trying to become more socially active, to try and push back against the blockades that my poor mental health has put in place over the years and left me as near a hermit for practically half a decade. This means over the last two months I've been attending weekly D&D sessions organised by a local 'Guild' and a monthly creative writing group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both of these have motivated me in reading various articles, blog posts and other such media from various fantasy authors on the subjects of writing, worldbuilding and other internalised finesses (for example I recently looked in-depth into Sanderson's Laws of Magic on his own blog). A lot of these authors refer back to their own work and the works of other authors (often these overlap a lot when you read the different articles and blog posts back-to-back) when giving instances and examples that fit the points they're trying to make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, across all the articles, blog posts and even recommendation lists of fantasy series, one name has never come up, which I think is a shame: Cecilia Dart-Thornton. I discovered her first series of books (The Bitterbynde Trilogy) in 2004 in a case of sad serendipity. I was looking for a new series of books to read and found this trilogy going really cheap in a chain bookstore. The blurb on the back described a world and style of writing so different to anything I'd read before and I knew there and then that I had to, figuratively, devour this trilogy. Yet this isn't the series I want to focus on in this post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before moving onto her second (and so far, final) series of books, I'll describe a little more about the author herself. Australia born, she seems to have slipped under the radar when it comes to being a public figure despite her books receiving great reviews and making it onto a few bestseller lists, and after her second series of books were published, she all but disappeared; falling silent for nigh on a decade aside from a few short stories and articles published in magazines. Nevertheless, she is a consummate student of British folklore and that reflects deeply in the worlds she built in her novels, so if we are left with only these two series to her name, then they are, by sheer weight of grandeur, her magnum opus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That would have been an excellent line to end on, however, I've yet to get to her second series of books. These hold a special significance to me as I again discovered them quite by accident. I had been made street-homeless for the second time and my access to new literature was restricted to what I could borrow from the city library. Again, I was looking for something new to escape into and there, settled betwixt other volumes was the first book of the Crowthisle Chronicles; The Iron Tree. Despite my bleak situation, I was overjoyed by this thin, angel-fingered ray of light and in between dragging myself out of the pit I had foolishly found myself in (it was a hard road, but I did get there in the end) I quickly devoured it, followed by The Well of Tears, Weatherwitch and Fallowblade. Much like her previous series, the Crowthistle Chronicles had threads of folklore expertly woven into the tapestry of her world, from mythical creatures to the use of ancient Brythonic languages. Dart-Thornton had taken what she had learned from writing the Bitterbynde trilogy and refined it tenfold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Crowthistle Chronicles stands as one of the best fantasy series I've ever read, so much so that it made me cry frequently, more so than any other novel or collection thereof I've read since. Its breathtaking scope is worthy of the title 'epic fantasy' and its ending left me with that hollow ache of a much-enjoyed series finishing but leaving behind a craving for more. I urge everyone who reads this to please consider my words and give the Crowthistle Chronicles a chance, you won't be disappointed.</span><br />
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Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-70814079276191666342019-04-20T19:42:00.000+01:002019-04-20T19:42:10.322+01:00The Unwitting Pawns of Chaos<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following on from some recent great news on behalf of a friend, I have restarted in earnest a project that I had left by the wayside for a time (mostly due to being distracted by other shiny things and mental health issues) so that we might meet on the field of battle for a spectacular clash of awesome miniatures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, so I've been recently working on a small mortal contingent of my larger army (which will be using unit rules from the Chaos Grand Alliance lists) and have been mulling over the various background points for them. Given the general theme of my army, I had it in mind that the aesthetics for my mortals would be Brythonic from around 400AD (although my Chaos Lady mounted on a Llamhigyn Y Dwr is based on a 12th Century Welsh heroine) however, I didn't want them to have overtly blatant worship of the Ruinous Powers worn openly upon the miniatures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the Dark Age of Sigmar group was started on Facebook, it's chief aim was to explore those corners of the Mortal Realms not yet fleshed out in canon and to ask the question; what became of those mortals who had to survive during the Age of Chaos? The Age of Chaos lasted for centuries, with some areas more affected than others, and some lands saw vicious wars between the hordes of Chaos and the beleaguered mortal warriors before the hordes moved on to other battlefields. Of course, all this changed when the gates of Azyr reopened and the Age of Sigmar began as his chosen warriors, the Stormcast, began to 'liberate' those lands under the sway of Chaos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This particular event put me in mind of several historical instances where Christians attempted to do the same, by coercion or force of arms (the Crusades and the Post-Christianity Roman era), and 'liberate' the indigenous populous from their 'heathen ways' and supplant their 'old religion'. It made me rethink the nature of worshipping the Ruinous Powers; that whilst some would give in body and soul to full devotion (such as the Bloodreavers and Kairic Acolytes), for others, perhaps in a region less riven with the corrupting influence of Chaos, the worship of the Ruinous Powers is reduced to folk-beliefs and superstitions, with the populous wholly ignorant about the true nature of Chaos or from where the roots of their 'old religion' spring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This then could open up an interesting contrast on the field of battle, wherein the shining Stormcast are no longer the benevolent liberators, but rather a malevolent invading force bent on subjugating a mortal populous (who really don't know any better) and enforcing a change in worship to Sigmar. A rather delicious shade of grey, no?</span><br />
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Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-73236476624587693632018-05-11T03:33:00.001+01:002018-05-11T03:39:57.804+01:00+ Inload: Wandering off the Map +<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The City was in turmoil. In the past week, the so-called ‘loyalists’
to the newly incumbent ‘Sun King’ and the partisans of the deposed and renegade
Houses had readily begun to tear the city apart. This was not the glorious war
as seen on the battlefields of far-flung worlds, these were down and dirty
skirmishes, sporadic and sudden whirlwinds of violence that culminated in the
dying bleeding out in the shit and the mud. Buildings were looted and ravaged
wholesale by fire so that many streets were now choked with smoke and the acrid
tang of burning wood. An early autumn was already fraying the edges of summer,
with the haruspices and meteorologicii predicting a bitter winter; if the fighting
didn’t stop soon, the cold will claim the lives of those without shelter. Assuming
the war or the eventual plague and famine didn’t first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Baskerville leant with his back against the wall, glaring
sideways into the street below through the dirt-obscured first-floor window.
Thankfully, the soldiers from either coalition had yet to grace this particular
borough, but they were so close now he could hear the clash and crack of their
weapons from a few streets away. He cleared his throat gently, if just to
remind his companion that he was still there and murmured, “We should have left
this world weeks ago.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“You know full well we couldn’t,” his companion countered in
a tired feminine voice, “we were sent here to catalogue the bloodlines for the
Mistress. If we had left before it was complete then all those months of research
would have been in vain.”</span></div>
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supplanted, by an outsider no less, would make all our research null anyway.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sister Martinsthorpe sighed, conceding the point, “caught
between a bulkhead and the void.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Baskerville shifted slightly as the sound of a blackpowder
rifle firing reverberated too close to their refuge, his burgundy leather
stillsuit almost blending into the wooden beams behind him. An ornate laslock
pistol was in his hands in an instant. Their refuge in question was an
abandoned single-storey shop belonging to what they had guessed was a cartographer.
The owner’s study on the first floor, where they were currently sheltered, was
in complete disarray; finished and half-completed maps covered nigh on every
available surface. Some of the smaller ones were rolled into pigeonholes, the
larger ones crammed into upright stands. Some detailed only the districts of
The City, others represented whole swathes of Cepheus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“Here in this building, or here on Cepheus?” Martinsthorpe
enquired sardonically, as she sifted through some of the more manageably-sized
maps at the drawing desk. The sudden sounds of running and shouting from
outside drew Baskerville’s attention away from her for a moment. The evening
was drawing in, casting the study in a dull orange hue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“Both. That red ‘X’ I put on the door will only deter
looters for so long.” He finally stated. “Maybe we can last another night here,
but then we will have to move on.”<br />
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“Move onto where!?” Martinsthorpe hissed sternly, slamming a fist down to
punctuate her words. “With the only port offworld currently prohibiting egress,
we’re stuck here. And with the war escalating, I doubt there will be anywhere
safe left in The City before long. Plus our coffers have practically dwindled
to nothing and since some of the Houses have been ousted, it’s becoming more
dangerous to be an offworlder amongst the locals.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“The only solution I can conceive of is to lie low until
this sorry affair concludes,” she continued undeterred. “That’s not so much an
issue for me as there are a few convents on the far boarders of The City, but
they would not admit men under any circumstances.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“I’ll be fine,” he said reassuringly. “I can disappear into
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“You’ll have to try and stay out of the city, Stretton,”
Martinsthorpe stated firmly. “Our Mistress was insistent upon being clandestine
and it’d be far too easy to get caught up in these events. Find somewhere
remote to sit this out, somewhere like….” She paused and shuffled through the
maps again. “….ah, Cauldshollow, a small fishing village it seems, a few miles
south of the Gerasene Caldera…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Baskerville noticed Martinsthorpe had drifted off again into
thoughtful silence and raised an eyebrow as she shot up off her chair and
stalked over to the solitary bookcase that groaned under the weight of several
heavy encyclopaedic tomes. She selected one from the middle and returned to her
seat, flicking through a number of pages before settling one and reading aloud;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">“The Gerasene Caldera measures thirty miles in diameter and
has been dormant for over eight-thousand years, yes, this could work,” Martinsthorpe
muttered to herself before slamming the book closed with a muted thump. “Stretton,
I need you to be at Cauldshollow within three months and wait for the falling
star; I’m bringing our Mistress to Cepheus.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The tools I use to sculpt ruffs are; A single-edged sculpting blade (GW make their own, but this one is from a set bought at Hobbycraft about ten years ago and the head is about a third smaller than GW's). A scalpel with an unnotched blade (mine is a Swann-Morton, but any scalpel with a straight-edge should be fine). Finally, a cone-headed silicone sculpting tool in a 0.5cm nib (I picked these up in a set of five for a few quid on eBay and they are magic as they have more give on them than their metal counterparts allowing for a 'softer/smoother' sculpt), but if you don't have one, it's not a vital necessity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lately, I've been using an amalgam of greenstuff and Milliput (sculpts like greenstuff, but cures rock hard like Milliput). Don't worry if you don't have Milliput to hand, you can just use greenstuff with the same effect. If you fancy trying your hand at Milliput for the first time when trying this, a note of caution; <b>Milliput is an IRRITANT, when handling it in its raw form (before it has cured fully), ensure that you wash your hands thoroughly afterwards. Do NOT touch any 'soft' body part (eyes, lips, tongue, armpits, genitals, butt crevice) before you have washed your hands. Do NOT eat the Milliput in it's raw form. Keep away from children.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Firstly, make four equal sized balls of the epoxy (yellow and blue for greenstuff, yellow and grey for Milliput). Mix them together separately and roll them into two roughly equal tubes. Leave them to settle for a minute or two before twining them and mixing them together (you may want a little water to lubricate this part) until you get a uniform pale green. Leave it to settle for a further twenty minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Prepare your helpless victim (freshly decapitated before preparing the putty). I drilled a hole though roughly the centre of where I plan to pin the head to. I always superglue bits together, even if they're plastic as I find it less messy than poly cement (that's just a personal preference). However, it is worth marking the centerpoint and you'll see why in a moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Roll your putty out into a short, fat sausage and then wrap it around in a small doughnut, using the drill point as a central marker. Using your sculpting tool, square off the doughnut, so that it looks more like a Polo Mint, making sure the inner circle is also squared off and roughly equal around. Let it settle for five minutes or so, so that it can retain it's shape a little better. For the next part, I used my cone-headed silicone tool, but feel free to improvise. Gently push the putty towards the center, leaving a little of the edge remaining, until you have create a small concave bowl, with the pin hole as the center. Again, leave it to settle for about five minutes.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">From this point onwards, the only tool I used was the scalpel, but feel free to improvise as needs must. Using the scalpel, gently mark out the four compass point to the center. You don't need to push hard, you don't need to reach the bottom like you're cutting cheese, you just need to gently score the surface, pushing very lightly towards the center-mark. Then follow onto scoring the center of each quarter. Then scoring the center of each segment again. And again, scoring the center of each segment for the final time, until you're left with what looks like an upside-down mushroom. Some of you may not feel comfortable with the final round of scoring, don't worry, it doesn't need to be perfect.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Next, you will want to push at the edges of your mushroom with your scalpel, using the scoring on top as a guide. These will form the top-down ripples for your ruff. You will want them to join up with the scoring on top, but not all the way to the bottom (see photo). Repeat this all the way around the ruff, tidying up where you see necessary. This final part is the most tricky of the lot, as you need to score the bottom-up ripples of the ruff. Repeat the procedure as before but inversely (so start marking at the bottom to near the top - see photo). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AOS28 - Finish building and painting my Huntsman crew for a game in the future. Convert and paint up a warband for Shadespire. </span><br />
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<br />Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-64377328368570566832017-11-07T13:27:00.000+00:002017-11-07T13:27:55.627+00:00The Iron Sleet Invitational - Take Two<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I managed to get four of my squaddies ready for the Iron Sleet Invitational, but I was delayed with the officer for lack of a torso. Anyway, I was kindly given a week to finish him and retake the photos for the Sleeters big reveal. Despite a couple of modelling dead-ends and a minor design shuffle, I got him finished in record time (well, a personal best anyway).</span><br />
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So it is that the Albion IV 'Iron' Corps, 27th (Mercia) Division, 94th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Y Company march to war in the Thorn Moons. As one of the first field armies of the Imperial Crusade into the Crataegus Fragmentum, they were also one of the first to make planetfall into the meatgrinder. These five represent perhaps the last of the Albion IV, cut off from their own, they can only hope to regroup with a friendly force before they're all lost.....</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><i>The city of </i><span style="color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><i>Götterdämmerung</i></span><i>
in the Realm of Ulgu has more than its share of dangers. Those who live out
their lives within its walls enjoy more security than those without, providing
they know how to ward their homes against the dead and daemonic, stay out of certain
neighborhoods, and are careful not to anger the alchemist who lives next door.
Of course, every day pallid bards spin tales about those unfortunates who made
that one mistake every living thing is supposed to be allowed and wound up on a
slab in the city morgue. If they are lucky, the coroner won’t turn out to be a closet
necromancer who’d have them shambling around, preying on the living, until the
city watchmen get around to brutally putting them to rest once and for all. If
they are unlucky, their relatives saved a few coins by slapping them in the
ground at a poorly guarded cemetery, where they’d stay until a resurrectionist
dug them up for parts or auction the body to the highest (and often the most unsavoury)
bidder….and this was all before the coming of the braying hordes of the ruinous
powers.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><i>Within a day, everything changed. It
started with long-hidden cults, worshipping both the long-forgotten gods of
Order and Chaos, tearing at each other in the streets of the city. Next thing
you knew, you couldn’t throw a dead cultist without hitting a minor civil war
in progress. But it wasn’t a war for territory — no, this was a fight for the
very souls of the populous. Before long, the howling armies of Chaos were
battering against the city walls. That wasn’t the worst of it. Mortals didn’t
fight this war </i></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><i>alone. Dark things that legends spoke of
only in hushed whispers could be seen from the battlements, a soldier might find
his comrade suddenly possessed whilst in combat and aberrant creatures of pure
nightmare ambulated over the hills on a multitude of twisted limbs. The ruling
guilds, fearing the worst, fled through the realmgate in the centre of the city
before it fell silent, leaving the rest of Gotterdammerung to their fates and
without leadership.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><i>As swiftly as it began, it was over.
There was no winner and it is likely the battle simply moved on to another
field, somewhere else, but given that one moment the siege raged on all around
them and then the enemy seemingly disappeared the next, the populous were given
to believe the (now popular) myth that the shadows of Ulgu simply devoured them.
Whilst some of the city lay in ruins, Gotterdammerung had largely weathered the
ferocious storm but was forever changed. Those non-mortal entities who survived
faded into the shadowed alleyways of the city, maybe waiting for the day when
the ruinous powers were in ascendant again. With the loss of the ruling guilds,
the remaining senior officers gathered an ad hoc martial council, imposing strict
curfews and began the laborious task of rebuilding the shattered quarters of
the city.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><i>The biggest change was in the shadow-wolds
beyond the city walls. The flora and fauna that had always thrived there increased
in number during the war and with the corrupting influence of the chaotic
hordes became something altogether more dangerous. With the standing militia of
Gotterdammerung refusing to leave the city walls to keep them in check anymore,
those who do venture out of the city — by choice or misfortune — face the
perils at their own risk. Even before the coming of Chaos, navigable roads were
few and far between as much of the shadow-wolds could not be charted due to the
constantly shifting landscape. It doesn’t help either that the wilderness
beyond the city walls (as does Gotterdammerung itself) exists in a perpetual
twilight, choked by thick fog which appears to be more shadow than mist. More than
a few travellers have found themselves arriving at their destinations far
sooner than they’d planned, having wandered through an umbral-cantrip, or never
arriving at all, doomed to an eternity of wandering adrift upon unfamiliar
tracts. All that most of the populous can hope is to hide in the relative
safety of the city and hope its fortifications are strong enough to keep the
creatures out. As the years rolled on, some people liked to pretend that the
unnatural, the cursed, and the damned don’t really exist. That they were
exaggerations of history or the products of hysteria. But the truth is that
things other than human have always been a part of Gotterdammerung, only more visible
at certain times than others.</i></span></div>
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than before and the populous are forced to become self-sufficient or starve. Massive
allotments were tilled around the city on the grounds of buildings that were
razed during the war. Similarly, gargantuan abattoirs were constructed to both
breed and slaughter livestock. Anyone caught poaching or tampering with either
of these receives an automatic sentence of death. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><i>However, after centuries of interminable
silence, the city’s realmgate suddenly reactivated and from it strode forth
giants in shining armour haloed in a blue-white light. They weren’t welcomed
with awe but rather deep suspicion and the Martial Court of Gotterdammerung
were largely disinterested in a return to the worship of Sigmar (indeed, even
today, Stormcast are a rare sight on the streets of Gotterdammerung). The
traders that followed were perhaps more accepted if not, at least, appreciated
and these days Gotterdammerung relies heavily on the trade that comes through
the realmgate. Indeed, such is the greed of the city now after so long under
the sufferance of relative poverty that rarely is anyone turned away; all are
neither welcome nor unwelcome in Gotterdammerung, regardless of their racial
characteristics or backgrounds (real or falsified), but all are carefully
surveilled by the city watchmen and the paranoid inhabitants. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><i>Today, Gotterdammerung’s inhabitants can
be divided into three broad categories: those who can pass for human, those who
can’t, and those of the shadow-wolds beyond the city wall. The first broadly covers
aelves, duardin and anything else that looks near-Human (or can make itself
look that way). Even soulblight vampires and necromancers (often fleeing from
the despotic regime of Nagash in Shyish to the only other realm they can
survive permanently in). These find it easiest to coexist with humans in the
city, can move about with a degree of freedom and, in some places, have gained
a measure of acceptance. This won’t save them from being hunted down by the
city watch (or the dreaded Judexi of Sigmar) though, if enough deaths are
traced to their door or they flagrantly break any one of Gotterdammerung’s many
(and sometimes bizarre) laws. </i></span></div>
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because of how they look, stand out in a crowd. Prejudice and fear (most of it justified)
keeps them in the shadows - should they care. While some aren’t completely inhuman,
such as Orruks (and other Greenskins), Sylvaneth and Ogors, they’re often
considered to be entirely uncivilised and prone to unpredictable behaviour
which makes them dangerous neighbours. Their natures make them often appear utterly
outlandish to the normally distrusting residents (although most cannot tell the
differences between a Dryad and a Daemon) and have come to be regarded in most districts
of Gotterdammerung as undesirables. Perhaps the most dangerous are those grotesque
creatures that have either never been mortal or are simply too freakish to be believed
to exist (who hasn’t heard the lunatic tales of rats the size of men?), that
skulk and stalk in the darkest corners of the city.</i></span></div>
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is rarely peaceful on darkened streets of the city, and any sense of security
is tenable at best. Cults of all kinds are on the rise again, doomsayers cry of
grim omens, the lunatic and demented grow in number daily, the dead rarely
remain where they’re left, skirmishes and riots breakout on regular occasions and
denizens who have long survived in the shadows are drawn out by the smell of spilt
blood. The Martial Court try to keep the lid on as the body count goes up but now,
more than ever, those who can handle a blade or bow, incant protective wards,
sling fireballs from thin air or simply pound an enemy into gristle with their
bare hands are in demand. The Martial Court, city watch, and innumerable businesses
are all hiring skilled freelancers to take on jobs that need doing. For
somebody who knows their way around a fight or a grimoire, the only thing
easier to find than employment these days is a quick death….<br />
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But as the common proverb in Gotterdammerung goes; the shadows consume all
without distinction.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you who have been playing pen and paper RPG's for a while may notice that some of my inspiration for Gotterdammerung has come from a very old RPG done by West End Games called Bloodshadows. I didn't want to make a carbon copy of Mordheim, but rather something equally bleak yet with a little more frenzied life in it.<br /><br />Recently, whilst browsing through my local charity bookshop, I found a simply delicious artbook for a 2015 Playstation game called Bloodborne (at a very cheap price) which instantly got the imagination ablaze. The pictures I've included here are ones I've managed to find from the internet, but I do urge you to look for the book yourself; its full of rich concept work - perfectly fertile ground for conversions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br />Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-61447588230544448632017-08-21T18:53:00.001+01:002017-08-21T18:54:03.318+01:00The Dark Imperium Hath Noticed Armageddon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-90914919335191817082017-08-11T22:00:00.000+01:002017-08-11T22:00:07.753+01:00Mor Deythan<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><div style="text-align: center;">
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ever watchful</div>
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ever patient</div>
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too late</div>
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that tears</div>
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whet with retribution</div>
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Desolate wake, inconsolable</div>
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Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-91943223085628865922017-07-25T18:29:00.000+01:002017-07-25T18:29:02.169+01:00Grime Lights - A Prequel<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some time ago (this time last year as it happens), I titillated audiences with a tiny teasing of world building.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well, okay, I faffed about with some background ideas (see: <a href="http://greenstuff-gretchin.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/grime-lights-ordo-nemuritorus.html" target="_blank">Ordo Nemuritorus</a>) that never truly came to fruition and no one really noticed....<br /><br />Since then I made up this little warband of 'less martial' figures who then sat on the top of my bureau to gather dust and cobwebs (literally), whilst I worked on other projects (my Elven Exiles are growing apace).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've always been meaning to properly build up the world of Pūrvachāti much in the same way as I did with Lychgate last year. In fact, the roots of Pūrvachāti started out quite a few years ago, beginning with my love of the ancient ruins of India and Thailand and their contrast with the more contemporary structures seen in the countries' today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Originally, I intended to paint these guys in very subdued colours in a similar palette to the Dutch Masters. However, now I'm more leaning towards something more impressionistic, something of a grubby riot of colours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I don't believe in the existence<br />Of mercy's guiding hand<br />Not with all that I have witnessed<br />I cannot understand<br />Forever burdened with the knowledge<br />That I could have been so much more<br />When the truth is hard to suffer<br />I knew this all before<br /><br />There is no comfort in faith<br />The Heavens still will fall<br />A thousand towers rise before me<br />And I cannot climb them all<br />There is no kind of joy in this<br />There is no time that it can heal<br />When emptiness and shadows bliss<br />There is nothing left to feel<br /><br />I have not abandoned hope<br />Though I know there's nothing more<br />Tired and alone<br />You forget what you have hoped for</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I will walk this ground forever<br />And stand guard against your name<br />I will give all that I can offer<br />I will shoulder all the blame<br />I am sentry to you now<br />All your hopes and all your dreams<br />I will hold you to the light<br />That's what forever means<br /><br />I was never what you wanted<br />I could never, never please<br />I swallowed all our sorrow<br />In the midst of my disease<br />All my fortunes, all my gains<br />All the battles I have won<br />Now collapsing like the rain<br />I stand alone your only son</span></div>
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Take solace in these words<br />
Take notice of this place<br />
Hollow whispers that they are<br />
Like the wind upon my face<br />
Sing softly in my ear<br />
And look at me with wonder<br />
I will try to ease your fear<br />
As the darkness pulls you under<br />
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I will walk this ground forever<br />
And stand guard against your name<br />
I will give all that I can offer<br />
I will shoulder all the blame<br />
I am sentry to you now<br />
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<br />Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-63212872047618402242017-06-15T04:49:00.000+01:002017-06-15T04:50:55.050+01:00Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hi, I'm Gretchin and I'm a Sword Art Online-aholic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Actually, anyone that knows me will tell you that I am very fond of anime, but SAO is very much a favourite. It's not the best anime by a long stretch and many of its critics will cite that it's commercialised tripe, that it's a very prosaic concept, that Reki Kawahara's other work (Accel World) is better, that Log Horizon is better, but I love it. I even have my own steel-replica Elucidator, collect the light novels and my Elven Exiles are all based on SAO characters (as they appear in ALO).<br /><br />Yeah, I know, I need help.</span></div>
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Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-52241102231329699112017-05-26T14:15:00.001+01:002017-05-26T16:04:20.013+01:00Ennui and on Matters Alien<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, lately I've been doing nothing. Well, maybe not 'nothing', but aside from listlessly pottering about on some commissions and slowly working on two miniatures for the Oldhammer Legacy project, I really haven't had the inspiration or motivation to engage in the hobby. The recent inclemently humid weather hasn't helped either.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />(This is the point where my diatribe rambles off on tangents that will come together in the end)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />When I entered secondary school, I was lucky enough to find a very old and seldom used computer set-up in a dusty corner of the library that had since been supplanted by a shiny new bank of Windows 95 PCs. It had a black-and-green monochrome interface and a very basic word processor program. I spent many a breaktime on that computer, typing out little bits of fiction (whatever ideas came into my head) and letting my creativity run riot. I remember these were absolutely terrible and prosaic, but they were my first steps.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Four years later, when I moved out of my parents house and into my first bedsit, I was kindly donated a long obsolete Windows 3.2 PC set-up and spent many an evening with the television quietly muttering in the background, tapping out short story after short story (sadly all lost now). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I was first introduced to the shadowy organisation of the Inquisition in Ian Watson's Inquisition War trilogy (Boxtree edition) and in the very hot month of May in 2001, I was one of the first to pick up my copy of Inquisitor (the book and figures pack - the one that came with Covenant and Preacher Yosef)... since then I've created so many Inquisitors, belonging to many different Ordos and adhering to many different philosophies... but never one belonging to the Ordo Xenos.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I can't really lay my finger onto why this might be, but if pushed, I'd have to say that I find the Ordo Xenos less interesting than their adversaries. Sure, they can use xenos weaponry, but they're less hazardous or damning than daemon weapons and their characters just seemed less 'complicated' than their Malleus and Hereticus colleagues. Heck, even Eisenhorn and Ravenor, despite belonging to the Ordo Xenos, didn't seem to do much alien hunting in their stories.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />When Shadow Wars: Armageddon was announced, the knee-jerk cynic in me instantly came to the conclusion that GW had been lazy in rereleasing (essentially) Necromunda but without producing any new models. However, that voice was swiftly silenced as I came to the realisation that GW had actually released a skirmish game that anyone with a 40k army already could join in with.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Since then, I've seen some very funky warbands being built, especially those made by Oldhammerers using RT era miniatures. I've also been reintroducing myself to the Alien universe in preparation for the new film, so when GW released PDFs for the other 40k factions, naturally I drafted up a tyranids warband (just waiting on miniatures). I also glanced at the Inquisition PDF too (which I believe was published later) and pretty much dismissed it because it focused solely on the Ordo Xenos, but it bubbled away regardless in the back of my mind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Almost a decade ago now, I and a friend on the Conclave (back when the board was still black-and-green monochrome) concocted a grand IC xenos conspiracy story that sadly never came to fruition as it became a little too convoluted and we both had very busy real lives. Anyway, in this grand conspiracy, my characters were operating as the antagonists, but a few days ago, it got me thinking about what it would be like to be on the other side of that curtain and the first seeds of a protagonist were planted....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />So what has this got to do with anything at all? In a round about way, I guess it means I'm currently designing my first Ordo Xenos inquisitor. I'm downscaling the original conspiracy to something less complicated (seriously, you'd have to a mind like Alpharius to join the dots of the original), working on character background and finding a suitable miniature....</span><br />
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Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-33484216309667678802017-03-25T15:39:00.001+00:002017-03-25T15:39:23.307+00:00Prototype Avalonnian Knight<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The general background is still being sketched out, so it's just pictures for now. He stands a little shy shorter than the Stormcast. Hope he passes muster in this new Age of Sigmar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rise of the witch hunter in the Mortal Realms came out of necessity at the beginning of the Age of Chaos when the isolated settlements of man needed champions armed with both the knowledge and weapons to fight the dark forces of the ruinous powers. Indeed, the term ‘witch hunter’ has become something of a misnomer considering their foes include not only witches, but also the predations of daemons, cultists, rat men, the various forms of the undead and a thousand other cthonic entities that have risen in the apocalypse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Actually I can't, because this harkens back to the misty age of 1983, some months before I was born when the Manchester store first opened it's doors and they give away this very cute little miniature to celebrate: a unique Broo variant for Runequest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Some six years later, being a very precocious child obsessed with mythology (mostly Greek at that point), I was given my first 'choose your own adventure' book entitled; Steeleye and the Lost Magic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now this gem of a book was filled with some rather macabre and dark illustrations that may well have sparked my first interest in the larger fantasy genre. However, despite the years that have passed, this particular illustration has stayed with me.</span></div>
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<br />Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-34941723766468404632017-02-17T02:29:00.000+00:002017-02-17T02:29:30.096+00:00Minimalism in AoS28<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, so perhaps I should start by explaining a little on what AoS28 is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Instead of the art/music movement popular in the 20th Century, what I mean by minimalism is rather the characters in the Mortal Realms that represent the 'Man on the Clapham Omnibus'. Now, the Blanchesque aesthetic, especially in miniatures, normally includes loading characters up with all sorts of trinkets, gewgaws, furs and such, treading that fine line between what is artistic and what is overloading. But what about turning that philosophy on it's head?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That is what I mean by minimalism, the dichotomy of the heroic in the simplistic. Compared the grand armies fighting on the front line, in these forgotten corners that the AoS28 ethos espouses, the lowly spearman would become the mightiest of heroes, defending the boarders of their besieged little niche. Essentially, with minimalism, I ask how would I (or anyone living an 'ordinary' life) fare should the forces of Chaos suddenly rampage about my doorstep? What kind of weapons could I find in my own home? What kind of armour, if any?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">With minimalism in mind, gone are the mightiest heroes to be replaced by Fred Bloggs armed with a kitchen knife tied to a broom handle. Gone are powerful archmages to be replaced with Jane Doe the hedge witch and her bag of petty magicks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>On a nameless world, far flung from the decaying bosom of
the Imperium, the man waited at an ancient wooden escritoire. Hunched over,
with frayed quill in wrinkled claw, he scratched out his final repose to the
dim light of a single guttering candle. His chamber was small, barely ten paces
across each way, with a bare-bones billet alongside one wall and the
aforementioned desk with accompanying chair. The open maw of a pipe set into
the floor served as his latrine. Piled in one corner, empty and half-empty ration-cans
putrefied, adding an underlining tang of rot to the stench of sweated sheets
and the stink of his own unwashed body.</i></span></span></div>
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long ago sealed shut with oxidised rust. Many years ago, this had been a safe
haven, deep underground and well stocked with provisions and water. He had
survived for nearly a decade by carefully portioning, eating a single can but
once a week. But now the food had run out, and the thousands of kilo-tonnes of
earth and stone above his head had become an oppressive weight.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>He had been a large man once. Corpulent, with greasy rolls
of flab sagging from a poorly built frame like semi-molten wax. Now he had been
reduced to little more than an emaciated skeleton, his formerly opulent robes
now rags stained variously in foetid greys and browns from his bodily
excretions. It had been a folly to run here, he had realised some years ago
when escape had proven impossible, to live but a little longer. This hadn’t
been a penance for his crimes, but rather a long, drawn out death sentence that
he had imposed upon himself. His safe haven was, in fact, a tomb disguised by
his hubris.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>His rations had run out a month ago, and after a fortnight,
he had taken to consuming his own excrement for sustenance, to eke out a little
more string of his miserable existence. But this was not out of desperation to
live, but rather spite against those he had wronged. For they did not forgive
and they did not forget.</i></span></span></div>
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have long left in this world, yet his mind was already little more than the
tattered remnants of the proud man he was, insanity having taken root some
years before his body had started to fail. So now, his final testament was
little more than illegible scratches on the labels from his tins, his inkwell
long since dried to blackened flakes.</i></span></span></div>
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a familiar, yet dreadful carrion reek, palpable yet subtle, entered his
nostrils. He did not need to turn around for he knew what would be waiting
behind him.</i></span></span></div>
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vanished and the man risked a tentative look over his bony shoulder and took in
the absence of the room. Nothing had changed; had he just been speaking to
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waste any energy to take his life. Better to leave him here to perish in
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-65990227759888126382017-01-22T11:45:00.000+00:002017-01-22T11:45:50.236+00:00Green Fingers and Chainaxes<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carrying on from The Green Death post earlier, I've been beavering away at this little warband for about a week, determined to create a small host of characters that were simple to build with only a little greenstuff intervention.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most of these characters (with the exception of Quayle) have gone through a number of rethinks on particular parts, but I'm rather pleased with how they've turned out (especially the Argyraspides).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inquisitor Dimmock (name pending) still needs a little work, adding extra trinkets, tokens, gewgaws and fetishes, so I will be rooting through my bits box before painting her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I've said, I'm rather pleased with how he eventually turned out, using an old plastic Goliath that I was donated by a friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quayle was actually made for a different project idea I had several months ago, but was discarded. I'm really looking forward to trying out some new painting techniques on him, more specifically, painting his blades to look like pink/yellow coral.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I was drawn to the idea of including a couple of bizarre lumberjack-warrior monks. Indeed there is a rather nice quote in which the term 'lumberjack' is first used:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>"my misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps useful, race of mortals called LUMBERJACKS, whom, however, I would name the Cossack's of Upper Canada, who, having been reared among the oaks and pines of the wild forest, have never been subjected to the salutary restraint of laws."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyway, looking forward to getting these guys painted and maybe even get a game in (if I'm lucky)!</span></div>
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Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-12739218386910432732017-01-19T01:43:00.000+00:002017-01-19T01:43:13.620+00:00The Green Death*
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Have you ever seen a face in the skin of a tree that looks
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>It was on Vertellus, a relatively new world in the bosom of
the Imperium. For its first settlers, it had been paradise; a goldilocks planet
hidden away like a diamond in the rough. For six hundred years, the serfs of
mankind had toiled away on its surface, growing crops from its soil, building
cities from its stones. It had been so productive for six centuries before it
had abruptly fallen silent. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I was still an Interrogator in the service of my late
master, Inquisitor Boym Khirurg, when he had directed us to Vertellus and to
his fate.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>He dispatched an entire company of Argyraspides, battled
hardened warriors armed and armoured with the best wargear our Imperial artificers
can forge, and they made planetfall without incident in the capital city of
Dilmun. For a day and a night, they searched amongst the buildings and
structures only to discover the entire metropolis seemingly abandoned.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Just before dawn on the second day, our warriors fell
silent too.</i></span></span></div>
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man, preferring to take the fight to the enemy (his ruthless pogroms against
the alien threat during his years of service in the Inquisition remain, to this
day, required reading material for acolytes in the Ordo Xenos). Within an hour,
we were aboard a second lander, surrounded by my master’s personal guard,
prepared to meet this unseen adversary with a wrathful arsenal.</i></span></span></div>
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biologis-friars and their misshapen servitors reading free of airborne taint or
corruption, my master instructed the ship in orbit to transmit an Inquisitorial
Quarantine edict to the sector Ordos. Nevertheless, Dilmun was as quiet as the
grave and of the two hundred Argyraspides, there was no trace.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>For half the day, any explanation eluded us, yet we
remained in a tight knit group as we searched, prepared to repel any external
force with righteous prejudice.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I could not fathom what I was seeing at first; they looked
human but all vestiges of humanity had been stripped away. Verdant green veins
snaked beneath their almost translucent skin. They groaned deep within their
throats like the sound of trees creaking in the wind. Some were in various
states of undress whilst others were completely naked. Some were wearing the
armour of the Argyraspides.</i></span></span></div>
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ferocious abandon, but we were equally quick in our response. The gunfire barrage
was deafening, hammering into the tainted flesh of our attackers and felling
many. Some burst apart like ripe fruit, spraying great gouts of white fluid
tinged with green. A few of the forerunners had made it past the curtain of
projectiles and were met in close combat with the rending bite of chainswords….</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>My master and I watched in horror as we witnessed the
resultant effect of when this white-green blood fell upon the bare flesh of our
own warriors. Corruption rooted almost instantly, their bodies racked with
paroxysms as the infection raced through their bloodstreams. Even the combat
servitors were not immune; their bionics and implanted weaponry falling off
them like dead leaves to be replaced with prehensile vine-like structures as
anything mechanical was rejected.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Faced with such abhorrence, my master ordered a withdrawal
back to the lander, commanding that our flamer units maintain a wall between us
and them. However, our attempts at departure was met with an even more fierce
resistance and to my shame, with our craft in sight, my master fell to them.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>They had taken to using the buildings against us: as hard cover
and for something much more atrocious. They scaled the walls like creepers
before hurling themselves off to burst upon the ground at the impact, scattering
their hideous corruption like profane grenades. My master was struck before I
could shield him by a minuscule drop that landed upon his wrinkled cheek. Just
a drop.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>He threw to me his treasured power sword with shaking hands
and collapsed to his knees. He spoke no words, but his eyes gave me his last
command as the perfidious rot began to spread across his flesh. I did my duty
and granted him the Emperor’s mercy with a gliding sweep of his power sword. The
remaining yards to the lander I fought with tears in my eyes.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Of the seventy-two members of my master’s personal retinue
to have made planetfall, only a score of us returned to the ship without taint.
I was inconsolable with grief for the fortnight in transit back to the sector
Ordos. I would have declared exterminatus on Vertellus but, whilst I have the
fire of vengeance in my heart, I had not the authority to do so.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>In my master’s posthumous testament, he had urged the
sector Ordos to grant me full inquisitorial status due to my exemplary
three-decade service under his tutelage. Within a week, in a solemn and quiet
ceremony, I was bestowed my rank and sigil: my first declaration was the death
of Vertellus.</i></span></span></div>
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edict exterminatus on that planet had never reached any recipients, yet it
remained under quarantine. I suspected that a greater authority within the
sector Ordos had somehow buried my edict, but any subsequent investigations or
protestations I made came to naught.</i></span></span></div>
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I have become tempered with experience, I still have the occasional nightmares
about Vertellus that wake me from my sleep. So, when I heard about the recent
events on Terra regarding a ‘green mechanicum’, that world was the first that
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Vertellus had been monitored continuously from orbit. Sixty years ago, they had
instructed survey teams back down onto the planet and do you know what they
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discovered what had happened to the original inhabitants, to those creatures
that my master and I had faced that night. They had taken root and joined the
trees of the world’s forests, with bulbous white-green fruit hanging heavy from
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*Title shamelessly taken from the Doctor Who serial</span><b></b>Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-2514276125105000602016-12-14T13:55:00.000+00:002016-12-14T14:02:59.084+00:00John Blanche's Pyratii of the Voodoo Forest<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Blanche has been busy working on some world building of his own devising, wholly separate from anything GW related. Some of you may have heard talks of the Voodoo Forest; on here, on personal sites such as Iron Sleet who work (and have worked) closely with Mr Blanche on numerous projects in the past, which started somewhat with this first artwork piece:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>The Voodoo forest is a vast malignant woodland of twisted trees seemingly without boarder and within its darkened boughs and mangled roots dwell the most harrowing and unwholesome of creatures only conjured in the most macabre of nightmares. Only the very desperate, insane or those aligned in unnatural pacts with its denizens dare to make the perilous journey through the Voodoo Forest by foot.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Many choose to pay the, often exorbitant, fees for the relative safety of riding the aerial ley lines and trade winds on airships; baroque galleons constructed from sturdy lighter-than-air woods. This choice, however, is not entirely without danger; for trading vessels and passenger ships are not the only ones to sail the skies....</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>The dread pyratii often prey upon these ships, as selachii prey upon shoals of wyrdfische, the scarred and blackened hulls of their ships plunging forth without warning from cloud cover to descend upon the unwary and ill-prepared. Some are unscrupulous reavers interested only in what they can pillage, others are quirky freebooters with their own peculiar set of codes and moral, but the most feared are those that revel in the thrill of the hunt and the sport of bloodshed.....</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lately, Mr Blanche has been producing individual pieces based upon well-known naval personnel from both classical literature and historical reference transposed to his setting in the Voodoo Forest.</span><br />
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<br />Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-82393107993631101492016-12-04T20:40:00.000+00:002016-12-04T20:40:20.464+00:00Outgard - The Necromancer<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was the third and final piece inspired by the Outgard project, sadly my time was waylaid lately, so I only got to finish building him after the event. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm also running a little competition; if you're the first to guess/find out who was my inspiration for the visuals of my Necromancer, then you get a 28mm sculpt/conversion made by me. Answers below in the comments box please.</span></div>
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<br />Gretchinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04749813427652886687noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4471374089664251439.post-52175111525147819952016-11-29T20:07:00.002+00:002016-11-29T20:07:29.996+00:00Random sketches<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trying out sketching things; thought I'd start with the reclusive, rattie obsessed Inquisitrix idea I've been playing with, who I envisaged kind of like Madame Web.</span><br />
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