You must gather your party before venturing forth... More additions to the warband!

Greetings all.

What started as a little side project has become really rather addictive now. That project is, of course, the mighty Frostgrave. A fantastically fun and ocassionally frustrating (D20s are the enemy) game. If you haven't already been bitten by the bug, I strongly suggest you give in and allow it to happen. You won't regret it.

As our campaign progresses, I find myself adding more and more soldiers to the warband. The life of a soldier in Frostgrave can be somewhat short, but fortunately gold can be plentiful at times, which helps to cover the frighteningly high level of deaths in the workplace for these poor fellows.

Joining my merry band this week are two treasure hunters, and an apothecary. As befits the theme of my warband, all three are made from old school chaos models. In this case, two more thugs and a sorcerer:

Hope you like em. Work on my C34 Elementals project is also coming along nicely, so should have some more of those to show in the next few days. In the meantime, comments are most welcome.

Citadel C34 Elementals

Greetings all.

Just a quickie today.

Now I'm not usually one for collecting entire ranges of models, though I know that's a pretty common thing to do among the Oldhammer lot. I tend to collect with a purpose (i.e. gaming), or just go with what I like the look of.

I haven't really changed my mind on that, but I've sort of accidentally collected most of a range, so now I'm working towards completing it, because why not? That said, I suppose it's not really a complete range, but a part of it... Ok I seem to be rambling. The moral of this story is that I've collected and painted several of the C34 Elementals, and now I've decided to do the rest! 

You might remember the following from previous posts:

Plague Elemental

Air Elemental

Earth Elemental

I've just painted this chap, the Water Elemental:

That leaves me with Fire, Life, and Death to do. They're such cool models, I thought why not? I'll take a decent group shot once I've got them all done.

I've got Fire and Death in the painting queue, but if anyone has a Life Elemental that they'd care to part with, give me a shout!

You must gather your party before venturing forth... The return!

Greetings all.

So this makes two posts this week, so I guess I'm on a roll!

I said a few weeks ago that I was done with my Frostgrave warband but as it turns out, I'm a notorious liar... Here are another six members of the (still growing) warband.

First up are two thieves. Even though I was happy with the thieves I painted before, it always bothered me that they were the only models in the warband NOT made from vintage chaos beauties. So because I'm the sort of obsessive weirdo that loses sleep over that kind of thing, I made two more:

I also needed some men-at-arms to protect my wizard a little better than the lowly thugs do:

Lastly I painted up a couple of infantrymen, pretty much because I wanted to:

Some Oldhammer stoics might be more than a little upset to see how much I mutilated a classic chaos thug to make the second of these two. And possibly even more so when they learn that no fewer than THREE thugs were harmed during the making of this conversion ;)

Anyway, hope you like em.

Back to blogging!

Oh wow it's been a while! I'll blame it on the standard excuses of real life, family, work, a lethargy curse placed on me by a witch in the woods. You know how it is.

However... Despite being mega lazy with blogging duties, I have actually been quite productive hobby wise. I'm still in need of a proper photo set up though, so I apologise for the shocking quality of what follows. Frostgrave is still very much the order of business at the moment, and I've been expanding my bestiary with a selection of old school citadel:

Old school vampire

Marauder dryad as a medium construct

Boar, snow leopard, and wolf

Ice toad and small construct

Imp and converted minor demon (Tzeentch flamer, Khorne bloodletter, and heresy ghoul king bits)

Heroquest giant rats

Columns for "The Complex Temple" (Frostgrave scenario)

And that brings me all up to date! Got a load more Frostgrave stuff on the table, but then it's back to good old daemons for a while.

Comments welcome!

You must gather your party before venturing forth... Warband complete!

Greetings all. 

This post is pretty long overdue, as I actually finished them off over a week ago. There doesn't seem to have been a great deal of interest in the Frostgrave project though. We'll see if that changes, as I intend to delve deeper into the game.

Despite arsing about with it for what feels like forever (but wasn't really that long to be fair), I've got my warband finished:

They're mostly made up of chaos thugs and led by a couple sorcerers, but I did include a couple of marauder wood elves that fit surprisingly well thematically.

I'm claiming that the warband is finished now, but if I'm being honest, it definitely isn't. I've still got a big pile of chaos thugs and warriors that would fit nicely, and there is plenty of room to upgrade or change soldiers as the campaign progresses.

Speaking of campaign games, my good buddy Alex and I will be beginning a fresh campaign tomorrow night, so I'll hopefully get some pics and words up following that.

In the meantime, comments are welcome!

Sowing Dragon's Teeth: Frostgrave skeletons

Greetings all.

Got some good work done this weekend on my growing Frostgrave bestiary. This time it's 10 skeletons for the mausoleum scenario:

An extremely quick and dirty job on these guys, but I'm happy with how they turned out for the amount of time I put into them. I picked up a bundle of them on eBay quite cheaply since they were in such poor condition. I managed to rescue most of them, and though they aren't quite perfect, they'll fill out the scenarios rather nicely.

Comments are welcome!

Night at the museum: Frostgrave Living Museum statues

Greetings all.

Another word light post today (though not as picture heavy this time). Still working my way through the Frostgrave project, and this week sees the completion of six statues for the Living Museum scenario:

I went with the old mono pose chaos warriors, as they're clearly perfect for this, and I could get them for next to nothing. I cleaned them up and stuck them on some round plinths. I was planning to paint them as stone statues originally, but I thought I'd try out the aged bronze look. It turned out pretty well and came together pretty quickly too, so I'm happy. A little snow on the plinths and they were good to go.

Next up: actually finish painting my warband!