A Complete History of Grom, part 4

November.

Seems to be a busier month than most. What with people saving the planet with facial hair, and succumbing to their inner muse, it's a wonder that anyone gets anything done at all.

I'm not participating in either of these fine events, but November still caught up with me.

And when it did, it brought my old friend and yours, Real Life, with it. Real Life chastised me. He seemed concerned that I wasn't phoning or writing anymore. That I didn't want to hang out anymore. So he punched me in the nuts and told me to get my shit in order. He made me do work, and have to travel, and so forth. And he helped the cat get a bladder infection too. 'Cos he's a dick. Real Life, that is, not the cat.

Anyway, despite his best efforts, I've managed to finish painting a figure:

It's the very first Grom. That is, the pre-slotta one. This, then, brings to conclusion my complete history of Grom. Here's another shot, with all the Groms following in chronological order:

Grom the First (1st/2nd Ed)

Grom the Second (3rd Ed)

Grom the Third (4th Ed and current release)

Grom the Fourth (Custom)

Of course, if you're new to this thread, you'll note that Grom the Third comes with Grom the Fourth's chariot. I ended up making an even bigger Grom than Grom the Third, because...er...uh, well, you know. Just because.

Here's the boys together:

If you want to see more of the chariot, there's more in this thread.

Anyway, Real Life isn't finished with me yet and appears to want me to be his bitch for the rest of November. I'd expect this to be my only post this month. If you're lucky, I might scrape a Chaos post together for late November. Lotta bitching to do about Chaos.

Stupid Real Life.

A Complete History of Grom, part 3

Earlier, I had cheerfully posted that I had a complete history of Grom in figures, because I thought that I had the first release of the legendary beefcake. Then, more experienced collectors than myself pointed out that I had missed the all important pre-slotta release of Grom - the actual 1st edition figure.

So I just, you know, got one:

...''cos they're easy to find, and all that.

Indeed, I was very, very lucky, by the looks of things. Managed to get mine from a chap over in the States for less than £10 - including postage. This is one of the items I acquired when I was too ill to paint. Also, I now have complete Warhammer 2nd Edition ruleset. Not that we should lose focus here - this site remains very much about Warhammer 3rd Edition - but, 2nd ed might be quite useful for the scenarios like Terror of the Lichemaster and all that.

This, together with the discovery of Krell and the promise that I would finish 20 Undead by the end of July has thrown my painting plans into chaos. Simpy put, I must finish the Undead, because I said I would, and I have a feeling I'll then move onto Grom and finally close up with ol' Krell.

A Complete History of Grom, part 2

So, hot on the heels of another picture of some unpainted models, are some painted ones. Groms, to be precise. Three of them:

This is the custom Grom that I referred to earlier:

He still gets to use the original chariot from 4th edition, but I redid Grom and Niblit because I was preparing for 8th edition and a match up between Grom and Eltharion in the true historical fashion. That was before I realised that I couldn't disengage my brain for long enough to actually play a whole game through.

Given his size, he will probably serve as an Orc in my 3rd edition army. The three wolves is a bit weird - the Orcs & Goblins only make use of two wolf chariots (light chariots). The army book has a means to calculate the cost for a four wolf chariot (heavy chariot), which seems to suit the size of the model more (100mm x 80mm - the same as a unit of 20 elves in 5x4 formation).

Here are some other angles:

 

 

 

Basically, I've tried to model it so that it looks like he's swerving to avoid the wall on the base, hence the raised wheel.

This Grom has actually been taken from a squig hopper rider - I've sawed the rider off (he became Niblit) and I used the squig for Grom. This is the original:

Anyway, so that's the current, chariot mounted Grom. These are the actual, official Grom models, however:

Most people will recognise the one on the left - that's the 4th edition one that comes with the chariot above. But the one on the right - that's the original Grom from 1985. He was part of a Regiment of Renown - Grom's Goblin Guard. In that history, before Warhammer 4th edition...he had nothing to do with the Elves or Eltharion at all. And Middenheim was a Dwarf fortress.

I'm planning to use the two of them as, well, goblins, in my army. One of the things I noted with interest is that in Warhammer 3rd edition, the Chaos Ally Contingent allows players to take Chaos Goblins - that is, regular goblins with chaotic mutations. In another post I'll discuss how I'll be looking at that, but it did strike me that the 4th edition Grom (the fatter of the two) would make a lovely chaos goblin...

This is a picture of all of them lined up:

The camera struggled to focus here, so I took another with flash:

 Big, Bigger, Biggest.

A Complete History of Grom, part 1

So. Long time since I've posted anything. That's not because I've been idle, but rather, because I've just been too busy. Unfortunately, not with painting (well, as much as I'd like, anyway).

I've mentioned before that I've been looking at some Orcs & Goblins...well, my good friend eBay and myself have spent some quality time together, and I've managed to acquire a whole ton of figures. So...lots of paint stripping, cleaning and assembling has already been done, with lots more to do.

Interestingly, one of the little goblin figures I picked up in a junk lot happened to be the original Grom - from 1985. There I was, thinking I'd never see one of those, when lo, there it lay, discarded and forgotten.

So, that inspired me. I've recently made a custom Grom the Paunch before (funnily enough, in preparation of 8th edition and an Eltharion/Grom match-up...before I realised that 3rd ed was the way to go), so I had the original figure lying around.

These are the two next to each other:

Now I had actually meant to post this up a lot earlier than I have, so now that I've given you the picture of the two naked lead models, it's worth owning up that I've completed all of my Grom models, giving me three in all. Unfortunately, my camera batteries have all died (3 of them!), so you'll have to wait until tomorrow to see the finished article. I've also managed to complete 4 more skeletons.

So, I now have 7* painted figures for Warhammer 3rd edition. And they're not even in the same army. At this rate, I'll play my first game in November 2013...

*Technically speaking, the new fatter Grom is not a 3rd edition figure, but 4th edition, but I thought it would be lovely to include them both.