You must gather your party before venturing forth... Part four

Greetings all.

Super quick post from me today, before I whizz off to have a cuppa with my nan (yes, really).

Finished up a couple archers and another imp for my Frostgrave warband:

These guys are unmodified chaos thug archers. They came out a little darker than expected, but I'm satisfied nonetheless. The imp is another chaos familiar.

This lot will be getting their second outing tonight, so I suspect I'll be reporting on that later in the week!

By way of a teaser, this little lot are in the painting queue:

Comments welcome as always!

All that glitters: Frostgrave treasure tokens

Greetings all.

Another Frostgrave themed post from me today (get used to them). I had a little bit of time to myself and managed to finish off these rather nice little treasure tokens:

I actually steered away from using glitter on these, although it seems pretty popular in the Frostgrave community. I think it can look good, but I just don't think it fits my style really. I did use some Tamiya clears to pick out the gemstones and make them 'pop' a little more.

I also used the Woodland Scenics snow for the first time (something of an experiment I suppose), and I'm rather pleased with how it turned out. Looking forward to using it on the rest of my Frostgrave bases now. Of course, that means I need to hurry the hell up and get the rest of my warband painted...

Comments are welcome!

Touch nothing but the lamp! Frostgrave genie...

Greetings all.

Just a quickie tonight. As a break from working on my warband, I did a quick and dirty paintjob on one of many (many, many) forthcoming Frostgrave creatures, the genie:

He's just an old air elemental who I liked the look of and thought would fit the part rather nicely. He's also got a buddy joining him soon (large construct/the Granite Golem):

He's another of the old elemental series, this time of the earth variety. I'm trying to avoid collecting the whole range, although they are rather nice... I also painted up the plague elemental a while back:

Anyway, that's all for now. Comments are welcome as ever!

You must gather your party before venturing forth... Part Three

Greetings all.

I haven't had much time for geek stuff over the last few days, but I did manage to get some more work done on my Frostgrave warband, and take some slightly better (though still woefully inadequate) pictures of them.

Here's the handsome bunch all together:

These guys make up about half of the warband I'm aiming for, though it does mean I'm getting there. Individual pics of each and then we'll call it a night.

First up, Sebassis Daemonclaw himself:

His apprentice, Skabb the Acolyte:

A summoned imp:

The faithful hound, Beezer:

A couple of thugs, Rivet and Mad Axe Martin:

And lastly a knight, Karg:

I had to name him Karg, as I couldn't help but be reminded of this fella from Masters of the Universe:

Well that's the last for now, hope you like em. Still gotta add some snow to their bases, but that's a job for further down the line.

You must gather your party before venturing forth... Part two!

Greetings all.

I had intended to write up a post much sooner, to fit in with my new "post more regularly" plan. Clearly that didn't work out so well, but I'll keep trying.

I've been feverishly working away on my little Frostgrave warband, and actually made some pretty good progress. The old chaos thug range is a bit of an odd one, but I've rather enjoyed painting them up. Here's the progress so far:

There are still some details to do on these guys, and I will be going all in and doing snow bases for them (not tried this before). I think what I'll do is do all the snow as a batch once I've got the whole warband painted, just to make sure I can keep it consistent. 

Also on the table are a bunch of skeletons and an air elemental (counting as a genie) for a couple of the scenario is from the rulebook:

Lastly, I picked up these very charming treasure chests from the equally charming Dice Bag Lady. Really great set of models these, and Annie was super helpful and speedy (check her out!).

That's it from me for now, hopefully more to come soon (sooner than last time...).

You must gather your party before venturing forth: Adventures in Frostgrave!

Greetings all.

In my quest to post a bit more frequently, I have some WIP stuff to show off, and a little update to go along with it.

Firstly, I'm now one of the ever-growing number of people to have fallen in love with Frostgrave! Very reasonably priced, low entry point, and a ruleset that is easy to pick up while still being difficult to master. It has a very old school D&D vibe to it (hence the title of this post; bonus points for those who get the reference). I've been thinking about it for a while, but I had my first game last night and I'm instantly hooked.

Given my interest in Realm of Chaos era Citadel goodies, it seemed only right to theme my warband in the same way. And so it was that the depraved summoner Sebassis Daemonclaw and his band were born:

Ive gone for a selection of Chaos thugs to fill out the warband, while Sebassis and his apprentice are Chaos sorcerers. The apprentice had the top of his staff chopped off (and saved for another conversion), and replaced with a green stuff orb. I like the subservient pose he's got, but I couldn't have him with a more impressive staff than his master. The rest of the warband are more or less stock, with a little chopping here and there. I think the knight, Vigo the Cruel, is an old Chaos Warrior, but not sure on the range (still Citadel though). He had a slung shield added to his back, so I could match the equipment for his type. 

I've got a pretty vast collection of daemonic gribblies to use for summoned creatures or random encounters, but that's for another day...

Comments welcome!

We captured it for Chaos: The whole rotten lot!

Greetings all.

Once again I've done that thing where I don't post for ages... I'm planning to get out of that bad habit, even if it means posting a lot more WIP stuff (which might go down well actually, we shall see).

Today I have a few completed bits to show you. I've finally finished off the cultists that I started over a year ago...

The final member of the Brotherhood of Forlorn Hope is their leader, "Flaky" Sal:

He's built from an old school Jes Goodwin Nurgle champion, with a small amount of conversion work. Firstly I needed him to carry an autopistol, so off came the sword to be replaced with a pistol from the excellent plastic cultist kit.

I also wanted him to be a bit less Nurgle, so removed the mark of Nurgle from his forehead, and did a little green stuff work to make him seem less decayed, but still degenerate.

Here he is leading the cult to glory in the eyes of the true gods:

Painting all these guys was a real grind tbh, but I'm really pleased with how they turned out, both in terms of conversion work, and painting. They'll mostly be used in 40k, but I suspect they'll find their way into a few games of Rogue Trader as generic mutants (or possibly with a backstory of their own actually).

As a reminder, I was originally inspired by this image of Chaos Cultists:

Definitely what they should be like in my opinion. 

Comments are most welcome!