[MUSTER] Grotto Bogies of Sour Spike

Fimm McCool

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This is my collection of Snotlings as it stood a while back. It's grown since then but this gives a good enough idea of the army. In good Oldhammer fashion they're devided into units each with a renowned leader and nice bit o' fluff. Hopefully these will all get listed as I paint a unit a month for painting challenges. The army (so far) consists of:

Big Momma Ruby and retinue
Bilious Shroominox and the Wierdlings
Mikey's Pikeys
Ballbag's Obsessive Collective
Black Ernie MacSchmuk and the Creeplings
Captain Horation Muskrat and the Tipplers
Oddbog's Advance Party
Ahngous Moon's Brayfarts
Cowardly Phil's Stunty-Stickers
Muttlock Midge's Gnatbiterz
Lone Kai of the Foxes
Glumdud's Armoured Snots
Skullaxe Von Drool and the Psychos
Cleaver Dcik's Beefcakes
The Doom of Yuggoth
Wild Bill Squiggoth's Cave Squigglies
Rattshitt Morris
The Organised Rapis Deconstruction Brigade
Da Deff or Glory Cratermakerz
Rattbagg's Nippers
Da Amayzin Batboyz
Mopey, Glumbum and Sowertoof the trolls
F1GUS, F1GUY, F1GAL and F1GOID the pump wagons
and some more to come...
 

tancrede

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Man, you are really insane !! :grin:
I really hope to see this army finished at the end of the challenge...
 

Mostyn

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Heh, heh, I'm fairly sure society at large might judge men of a certain age giving names to little men in a poor light. As far as I'm concerned this blog makes you the coolest person I've never met. Can't wait to see this progress.

PS: Are there warmaster figures on the left?
 

Fimm McCool

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Yup, Warmaster Night Goblins. They're a part of this month's painting challenge- Black Ernie MacSchmuk and the Creeplings. Some lovely new figures have just arrived for that unit so once a package from Basement Dweller gets here work can recommence on them.

The rest are a crazy mix of snots, snorklings, orclings, chariot minis goblins, pendraken, familiars and anything else that fits roughly scalewise. Their matriarch is the colossal Big Momma Ruby who's a Scibor Uglyn Lovelord (awaiting surgery!).
 

Harry

Moderator
Nice collection.
Can you tell me (us) a bit more about the pumpkins.
Which of these pumpkin bits are bought and which home made/conversions?
 

Fimm McCool

Member
They're all bought at this point.

The big pumpkin monster (Django Lanthorn) is Reaper's Rotpatch Pumpkin Golem
The three pumpkin-headed short guys are Rackham Pixie Tricksters
The scarecrow pumpkin-headed guy is a Citadel Familiar
The gobliny creature bending over the pumpkin and showing her bum and one of the small pumpkins are Reaper Halloween Familiars
The other pumpkins are all Reaper
 

Fimm McCool

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Creepling fluff:

Deep though the caves inhabited by most Snotling tribes are, there are caverns deeper and darker still; fissures and grottos where the no breezes blow, the air is hot and stagnant and many of the passages are little more than half-flooded crevices. Even here there is life for it is in these dank recesses in the bowels of the earth that the Creeplings dwell. They are small even by Snotling standards, barely a foot high in most cases, and have an unnerving quality to them which makes anyone who encounters them shudder involuntarily and gives them their name. For those who know more about them the shudder may not be so involuntary, for the Creeplings have a reputation for being more wicked than their mainly benevolent larger kin, engaging in violence for sport and enjoying random acts of depravity. Fortunately they rarely come above ground since daylight hurts their eyes. The most experience a human is likely to have is if mining or caving too near their territory, when the Creeplings will make “knocking “ sounds to lead the humans away. Some humans have found richer seams of metals this way and so speak fondly of the ‘knockers’, whilst others have found themselves lost or trapped and claim they have been tricked by evil mine spirits.


Separated as they are from the bulk of Snotling-kind, the Creeplings have their own king. For as long as any of them can tell this has been Black Ernie MacShmuck. By all reckonings Black Ernie is now over a thousand years old, however he is no taller than an average Snotling. Some attribute this to the Creepling’s genetic shortness, useful for creeping through tight crevices. Those who are in the inner circles of Creepling hierarchy, however, know that although their king is Black Ernie, it is not often the same Black Ernie for more than a couple of years. Intrigue and assassination are rife amongst the Creepling clan and their king goes about cowled with his face hidden and rarely speaks.

Only two types of vegetation are to be found in the caverns of the Creeplings. The first is a virulent purple fungus which the Creeplings eat and use to dye their clothes. Many Snotlings blame this mushroom for the Creeplings’ unsavoury nature since a close cousin of it grows in the higher levels of the caves and is avoided at all costs being highly poisonous, even to Snots. The other plant is a curious type of gourd which produces an eerie phosphorescent glow. This is the only form of illumination in these deep places and the pumpkins are revered by the Creeplings who say that each pumpkin is connected to one single creeper which runs into the deepest, darkest part of the world. There lies the pumpkin king, Django Lanthorn, who watches over all Creepling kind. Should the realm of the Creeplings be threatened then Django Lanthorn would stir from his sleep and rise to the surface to defend his people. It is forbidden to cut a pumpkin from the creeper, but occasionally one will fall of its own volition. This is seen as a great omen and blessing by the Creeplings and the gourds are often carved into ornate masks or carried into battle as totems to secure victory.
 

Fimm McCool

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The Inner Geek":2wu5echx said:
They all look nice, but the pixie tricksters have infected me with want.

They do that. When a certain person on this forum mentioned them to me I suddenly HAD to have them as the centrepiece of the unit!
 

weazil

Moderator
My word - that's a lovely backstory for quite likely the most sinister snotlings I've ever come across. Nice work!
 

phreedh

Member
Bloody great stuff Fimm! You've done an outstanding job on everything, from bases and miniatures to the back story.
 

Fimm McCool

Member
This month's unit has been started today... not quite in time for bonfire night but the same month. The Rapid Organised Deconstruction Brigade, will have to find a better acronym for them! They specialise in blowing stuff up. Sadly they are going to the brush incomplete since I was outbid again on a snotling sawmaster which needs to lead this group of destructive runts.
 
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