Ah, Fräulein Gretchin – 40K
My 40K Ork force is mostly just a mixture of unpainted models and some old painted stuff, with some that I’m not gonna strip as they weren’t painted by me and I got quite a few of the same model in need to painting anyway. and it’s not a focus or anything right now.
Out of what I have painted up and is complete.. I have Makari, the Gretchin Standard bearer of Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka of the Goffs. I thought I had a photo of him but I don’t.. So I took one.
I did this a couple of years back and it was my first go at cotton printed banners, so I didn’t get the print settings right, so it’s pretty faded looking. I should have turned up the amount of ink. I might redo the banner at some point, Not sure. Also… looks like I might have lost a bit of paint on his right boot.. that needs a touch up ^_^;
Anyway, with a small job lot, I got 4 3ed Gretchin which I painted up over a couple of days (which is quick for me) and kinda make a little 5 man warband.
These sculpts are from 97, though I believe they were first released in 1998 and while I’m not 100%, I’m gonna say Colin Dixon. Sadly, they use the.. erm.. ethnic style Goblins and Gretchin took around the turn of the century but are okay sculpts none the less.
With how the release was done, it’s tricky to say which set these first were made for as the original appearance of these dollies were later added to with others using the same dollies and recorded numbers.. since Citadel had a thing in the past where you could order even out of production metals from the back catalogue if they had the moulds still (mostly they did), then it’s annoying how they kept re-coding them at times, which would make it harder to do so.. anyway.. The first one also had a couple of versions with the weapons swapped around and an exposed face. As my Ork army is a Goff one, I gave these Goff colours, which made Black, White and Red, with the checkers pattern.. always annoying that. So the First one has the checks on his neckerchief.
The Second and third are the same dollie and the first has the checkers on his hat and the second on some cloth wrapped on his autocannon. The fourth has it in the less visible place, an armband.
While there is a bit of fuss in places, it’s added detail more then over detail and these are pretty nice gretchin models.
Makari’s boss and a Dreadnought have both been sitting half painted for some time so god knows when I’ll get around to them and I got a bunch more Goffs and Gretchin to paint, as well as a couple of vehicles but I got things further up the list to get painted, mostly on my Skaven as I got some new figures so I can almost complete my Stormvermin unit (I’m basically 2 figures short for that when I paint the new ones), as well as some more for my first Slave unit, which include some non-skaven figures, some customised figures too.