Moonstone – Grimmleigh's Lab

Moonstone Miniatures Game: Claudia Duvel

My strategy for finishing up Moonstone miniatures is starting to pay off! It feels good to get an actual set of minis knocked out, now I have one less to paint! Here’s Claudia Duvel from the Masquerade box set:

She’s a fun character, I feel like she’s the muscle that backs up the menace and machinations of the Duchess and Creep!

In the Moonstone lore, Claudia is a highwaywoman, but with a heart of gold. She’s known to be a genteel conversationalist, and won’t take riches from her prey at a level that would leave them desitute!

She also refuses to take money or possessions of the working class, which I love. In the lore entry I found on Claudia, she even went so far as to dance with a gentleman who’s wife had been unable to do so since she was suffering from gout!

I absolutely love what a little bit of established lore and fluff can do to make a game setting feel more lived in! With that, The Masquerade is a wrap! On to a farting dog and a quick trip to goblin town!

Miniatures, Workbench

Moonstone Miniatures Game: The Duchess

Time for an update on my Moonstone back log, and perhaps the beginning of a fresh strategy to get these done!

In the past, I’ve just put together whatever I had in front of me, and set out painting that backlog without any real strategy. That has led me to feeling like I’ll never finish any of these collections, since there’s simply so many figures, and I’m doing a terrible job of not buying more!

So, I’ll be taking them on by boxed set, and since the last Moonstone mini I finished was the Creep from the Masquerade box, I figured I would follow up with Duchess, and eventually Claudia Duvel. That should at least help me feel like I’m making some progress as I check off each box completed!

The Duchess is a really fun mini, and challenged me to try some new approaches to color. I wanted to go super bright on everything, but she’s also pretty sinister, so I needed to go bright and sinister, which I’m hoping I pulled off!

Here she is with Creep, looking like they’re ready to poison some canape at the next Grand Ball! Claudia is already on the paint table, so I should have her up soon!

The Masquerade Troop box is available online directly here, but you could be a real champ and order it from your local game store!

Miniatures

Moonstone Miniatures Game: Creep

Sadly, I knew I was pretty much doomed the second I laid eyes on my fist Moonstone miniature a few years back. There is a irreverent streak that runs about a mile wide in the sculpts, and everything about them just screams for me to paint them. Paint them ALL.

Creep isn’t the first Moonstone mini that I painted, but he’ll be the first I’m posting here. He’s part of the Human Dominion range, and exudes a really fun menace. I can’t wait to paint more, hahaha!

Moonstone minis are made of a fine cast resin, and hold detail pretty well. There is a fare amount of flash on some models, and others hardly any, which I find typical of resin models. It’s easy to lose track of the details when painting, especially when your eyes are starting to fail like mine are. I found keeping the Moonstone website open to the mini I’m painting helps make sure I’m not missing something!

I printed the mushrooms on my Saturn, and went with some bold fluorescents on them to bring out the bright colors on the mini. It’s a fantasy world, it’s okay to go big and bright!

Next up for my Moonstone collection will be Doug the Flatulent, who is a farting pug with a goblin on his back. Yes, it’s that amazing!