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Bedtime Warband

Getting beyond the naff stage..

These are starting to come together.

Really just a highlight on the rank and file to do and a beard on one of the archers. Still got a fair bit to do on the mage and apprentice. To be honest I am quite pleased with how the colours have worked.

Speaking of colours. I decided to keep some paint at work and some at home, however for some reason I kept most of the metallics at home and the bone type colours at work. Methinks I failed a bit there. As they were mainly base coated at work I wanted to use the same colours to sort out any glitches with the magic users. Once they are tidied up I will give them a wash like the rank and file and take it from there.

I must also remember to finish of Wuffles …

This dog has more piercings than is good for him.

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Evening Warband

Slapped some more paint on.

An hour to go before I get my eldest from Drama.

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More colours added and they now even more at the naff stage. I am hoping that once they have a wash and a highlight they will look better 🙂

Onto the hair next …..

 

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Lunchtime Warband

I managed to get a bit of paint on these:

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I am going for a limited palette for the rank and file the blue will only appear on the wizards and a bit on the Man at arms to show his superior status.

The lamellar armour for the lower class of troops will be boiled leather whereas the man at arms will be some form of metal not sure whether to do him bronze or iron???

These are still at the yucky stage…. neither one thing or another. My plan is to blast on with them tonight whilst my daughter is at her drama session. Two and a half hours painting time.

We shall see how we get on.

 

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Frostgrave Warband

My Frostgrave Wizards….

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I had a hunt about for various wizards or proxy types to act as my mage and apprentice for Frostgrave. I had found my druid and dog handler from Warlord’s Celtic range. But they weren’t really right

I suddenly remembered I had the Mantic Games Dungeon Saga: The Dwarf King’s Quest.

I knew it had a wizard in it so that would work with maybe a Gandalf figure, however when I opened the box I realised I also had a metal Mortibris. I suddenly had both Wizard and Apprentice.

Although Mortibris is a Necromancer, I am going to use him as something different in my games probably a Thaumaturge:

Thamaturges draw their magical powers from positive energy. Most, though not all, believe this energy comes from some form of deity. These wizards are healers and protectors, who often spend as much time on good works as they do on the study of magic. Thamaturges rarely openly carry any weapon other than a staff and some find even that a bit aggressive. This is not to say that Thamaturges are pacifists, they just prefer to not rely on obvious displays of force. In appearance, they tend to wear plain, simple robes, usually of a light colour. They tend to favour hoods over hats, and wood and leather over gold and silk. 

Ironically, they are directly opposed to the Necromancy school of magic.

The way spells work is that, I can choose three spells from my school of magic.

Banish, Blinding light, Circle of Protection, Dispel, Heal, Miraculous cure, Restore Life, Shield

One spell from each of the aligned schools of magic. (Soothsayer, Sigilist, Illusionist) These are at +2 difficulty.

The final two spells must come from the neutral schools; each must come from a different school. (Elementalist, Witch, Chronomancer, Summoner, Enchanter) These are at +4 difficulty.

The different schools of magic and spells are seen below.

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My war band is as follows

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Thaumaturge

Apprentice:        200 points

Man at arms:     80 points (GW Rohan royal guard)

Infantryman:     50 points (GW Rohan foot soldier)

Archer x 2:           100 points (GW Rohan archer)

Thief:                    20 points (GW Uruk without a sword or shield – he may become a halfling)

Thug x 2:              40 points (GW Uruk with swords, without shields)

War hound:        20 points       (GW  Mordheim War hound )

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Ruins

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This is another Cardstock building from Dave Graffam. I still have to edge it in a grey Sharpie. Sitting elsewhere is another one with a different stone pattern on the outside and bleached wood on the inside. It also has a chimney 🙂

I was about to go out and get MDF ruins and indeed bought a Black Ops mdf building as a starter. however I have come tho the conclusion.

Firstly the card is a whole lot cheaper. I got the above for $3.95, However it has multiple layers so the cost of 3.95 can get me at least 4 different models. Basically it gives me this amount of variation:

  • Stone walls
  • Wood walls (exterior and/or interior)
  • Stone corners
  • Stone foundation
  • Brick walls
  • Plaster walls
  • Beams
  • Several window and door positions
  • Flagstone floor
  • Stone floor
  • Wood floor
  • 4 layers of debris
  • 2 chimney positions (or none at all)

Now to be fair, I have to factor in print costs, which I am frankly not sure about. But I have found a quote from Ryman for 86p per colour sheet on 160gsm card. So for the building above £3.44 multiplied by 4 will give me a total cost of £17.66 including purchase of the pdf.

Now my dark ops mdf ruin is £16.00 plus £3.50 postage. I still have to build and paint it.

An equivalent sized ruin from Dave is 5 sheets with roughly the same purchase cost.

The MDF is a lot more sturdy, but both it and the card can warp if they get damp, and both don’t do very well if they are dropped and stood on ….I know from experience.

I have however cardstock buildings that are over 10 years old.

Dark ops mdf is really good as they design their pieces to avoid any of the gaps in the walls and roofs where the bits fit together. And to be honest their walls are a bit better in scale.

This is one of my earlier ones:

Three sheets of card from what I remember.

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Frostgrave Boar

Well I bought this, basically because I liked it.

I have numerous GW giant rats, so in reality  I bought the set for the boar alone. A mighty fine boar he is.

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The one thing I was a bit surprised about was the amount of flash and metal venting on the pieces. I had already started to clean up the boar but hadn’t got round to the  rats. On the upside the vents mean that they are good casts.

The boar will be used for various roles, but one of the ones I will look at is a boar hunt. This is a big beastie  so is a scary thing to hunt.

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Updated Ostarian Colours

I decided to do a bit of colouring at coffee break, it was either that or scream and shout and start flinging things about the office….. I am calm, I am calm, I am calm……..

 

Anyway I decided to have a mess about with the Ostarian flags. The way the original triangles were coloured black and white caused a few problems, although not insurmountable they were still a niggle.

This is the updated result. I am not quite sure Which I like the best?

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The top is the original and the bottom the updated one.

I will have to have a fiddle around with some more colour combinations to work out which I like the best.

 

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Ostarian Colours – Coloured

My ultra thin Sharpies are used…..

I eventually got round to playing around with a regimental and colonel’s colours.

It took a bit of trial and effort to get the correct combination. some looked wrong, other colours just disappeared next to the black as seen below. I am using Sharpies to colour them as this speeds up the job no end.

What I might do once they are finished is to copy them and see what they look like on a colour printer.

 

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Speedy Ghouls

I found these earlier…

So I repainted them. I was intending to be in bed early tonight….that plan failed. The reason for painting them? I was going to sell them and they looked really naff in their chipped basecoat!

I decided to mess around with some blood effects I went for a more dried look, but I think it needs highlighting up a bit

They basically started out like this… evidently 15 years rolling around in a box did them no good. Not to mention…what flesh base colour was that? They look jaundiced, well I suppose a life of living in graveyards and not getting many green vegetables will take its toll.

Thinking back I vaguely remember actually gaming with these in my Vampire gang for Mordheim. Apart from the bases I kind of thought they were finished at the time.😱😱😱

This is where I think finding old figures is handy. Even though this was a speedy job to get them into a game it really does show how far I have come. There is no attempt at shading, highlighting or pretty much anything else apart from flesh, bone coloured bone, pink tongue, a grey loincloth and a black dot for the eyes. I did however paint the edge of their bases!

Now to be honest the mark 2 paint job is far from perfect and in a strange way was a speed job too. I might get another flesh glaze on them and see how that looks.

I think it is down to the if I could improve one thing – what would it be?

I painted them with these two brushes… One has a bend and the other doesn’t have a point

I have a whole host of new brushes never out of their packets, just too lazy to walk to the other end of the house to find them.

I really need to sort out a way to take better photos….

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Bedtime Undead Finished

Well almost….. As one lot is finished another lot is started.

I got these based up tonight, Although the Witch-lands are a frozen Hell; my lot have been sent south to attack the borderlands. Therefore no ice and snow….

As the lot above are finished, I decided that I had better make a start on another ten. These are better armed than those above with the majority having firearms.

The big thing is an old Ral Partha figure that has become either a statue or Golem.