I got some heads on these chaps last night. The old GW makes it a right bugger to mix and match. The Mordheim figures have a flat head connection whereas the zombies have a bump and hollow connection. After much swearing 🤬I added a little ball of Milliput onto the neck and left it overnight to dry (sadly I had run out of Greenstuff). This morning I superglued all the bits together.

These will become savant zombie Militia.

Sadly the Peppa Pig jumping pigs 🐖 is no more 🐷🐷🐷

Another unit ready to start…

I was having a mooch through my box of plastics and came across a couple or Mordheim gangs.

The human gang will become another unit of militia, more recently dead ones, but a lot are armed with firearms (obviously traders looking to make their fortunes in the Witchlands).

The second gang I found were the original Skaven. These two had lost their tails and it made me wonder if it would be possible to make them some kind of ghoul or other weird denizen of the Witchlands.

I will see what happens when I stick a zombie head on them…..

Yippee, some painting done tonight.

I managed a little bit more on these tonight. Half Blood Prince watched too.

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.

I got a little bit further on these…

They are lovely figures to paint. Still a ways to go, the blue needs highlighting as well as shading as does the hair on the front two. We are having a family Harry Potter DVD session every evening so this has reduced my painting time, 2 down 5 to go 👍

Daytime painting is curtailed due to shed building.

Lots to paint.

To avoid complaints from the kids I am painting the Ferach as well as the dwarves and Trollkin so that there can be no accusations of favouritism on whose gift got painted first.

They are a bit further on now, but we’re just back from Jumanji which we all loved. Down side was running over a sheep on the way to the cinema. Daft thing suddenly leapt out in front of the car when we were on an icy road ☹️

I ordered a double sided mat

Mel the terrain tutor did one of his sessions on the different types of gaming mats available. This is something I had been considering for a long time. My biggest problem was I wanted to run games set in both the desert and in more temperate climes. I didn’t want to buy one of each, plus what were they like, which Company was best? Luckily Mel’s vid helped loads. I was able to see which companies there were and what they were like. In the end I went for a GAMEMAT.eu as these were selling double sided ones. My conundrum of wanting both desert and grass was solved.

The mat itself is exactly what I wanted in that the images are generic enough to work in a variety of scales. The figure on the mat is a 28mm Ostarian.

All in all I am very happy with what I have.

Yey for dismounted cavalry…. this is one set of figures I really wanted. Luckily I got them for Christmas from one of the kids.

They have come from the Lady Wintermore’s Fangs set. It is the job of these veteran troopers of the guard cavalry to extricate their trapped officers from the vampire’s trap.

I basically have the full set apart from one figure…the Count Wintermore. I had already painted up lady Wintermore in the Purple as well as the zombie infantry

My daughter and I strengthened the tree and put it on a base. We decided we needed some rocks so I hunted out my Woodland Scenics rock moulds and we shoved the spare home made clay into them to test it out. The spare clay filled up both moulds so we have a lot of them.

It worked sort of. Biggest problem was the drying time. The stuff in the air formed a crust pretty quickly, but this stopped the rest from drying out. I dusted the moulds with corn flour (corn starch) to act as a mould release and it worked in a fashion.

My daughter is happy enough with the results, so in that respect it is a win. I don’t think it will be particularly useful for wargaming terrain, but we will see how it paints up.