It has been a while…

Sadly life got in the way of painting pretty much anything. Family things, building the hay shed etc all took their toll on the painting side of things. Tonight will be no exception … Harry Potter – Half Blood prince. Luckily my wife got a daylight bulb Ledgle Neck LED Reading Lamp. It sits around one’s neck and has 4 LED’s. It isn’t brilliant in terms of casting a shadow, but it means I can paint and watch the DVD at the same time.

Well I bit the bullet and bought Frostgrave. To begin with we are going to use what we have figure wise. I have plastic Perry Hundred Years’ War French and English infantry, not to mention bucket loads of LOTR figures.

I bought the boar….well because I wanted a boar. I have hundreds of GW giant plastic rats from hero quest or whichever one had the plastic rats and bats. The boar will come in handy for a nice little boar hunt game.

So here is my first mess around with my warband/retinue.

1 x warhound: (proxy at the moment) I have some nice Celtic war hounds about somewhere.

2 x thugs: Uruk without shield

1 x thief: Uruk without shield and missing a sword (I might give him a torch) – I do happen to have a pile of LOTR halflings too 🙂

2 x archers: Rohirrim

1 x infantry: Rohirrim

1 x man at arms: Rohirrim

Wizard… Gandalf from the fellowship set…. really torn here as I don’t want to split him from the others in the set.

I also have the plastic Gandalf from the Hobbit, but again he is part of the whole set of figures.

Oooooh just thought…. I have a Celtic Druid who might want to leave cold and wet Britannia\Gaul and go to freezing cold Frostgrave. Come to think of it, my Gauls could become Barbarians. I have suddenly come to the conclusion that I am hoarding far too much stuff. As an example I also have the hero’s of Helm’s Deep sitting there.

I still haven’t got round to choosing a school of magic yet.

My eldest daughter has decided to use these as her Witch and apprentice.

We will remove them from these bases and rebase them onto the same base as the rest of the troops.