Nearly there…
Nearly there with the militia.
I am a bit miffed that I forgot to check for mould lines on the older figures (aka the ones I built about 15 years ago). I decided to paint the hat and belt on the Liche a lot brighter than the dark ones on the other ones. It does seem to work so far. Still to wash and highlight as well as finish the red standard.
As an aside I managed to update my Ostarian flags. Both regimental and colonel’s.
Scalloway Fire festival last night.
This is a short time lapse of the procession going past.
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…..
These are taking forever…
they have a lot of open wounds etc that take a while to paint in. Same with the eyes 👀.
So far I have units of 8 with a Liche, and two standard bearers, the one with the red flag is based on Napoleonic Russian Militia who carried a religious standard rather than a regimental one.
As these are undead forces, an image of the Virgin Mary seemed a little inappropriate. I was going to come up with something myself then I came across a GW warrior of Chaos cloak which seemed to work. The second is a ragged flag or standard made out of Greenstuff which I rolled very thin then basically ripped/poked holes in it and wrapped it around the flagpole.
As a total aside I have redone the Ostarian flags and luckily my new Ultra fine Sharpies have arrived
This should make it a bit easier to add colours to the various designs.
Dave Graffam Model’s Rock!
I have had a pile of Dave’s card models for a while, so as I bought Frostgrave I thought it would be good to do up some more of the buildings. These will also work really well for my Flintloque games too.
I got mine from RPG Now, but the site below is Dave’s own
I ran a piece of acetate through my printer to get the leaded windows.
To be honest I messed up this kit a fair bit. I forgot to join the two walls together before I stuck them down, this meant that I have had to glue the boxes down onto the wall to support the the corner not to mention adding one to the wall. I will put one on the other wall to support the joint to the base too, because being the pillock that I am I cut of the base supports too!
All in all this is a really nice kit. I would advise actually reading the instructions which are very comprehensive, unlike me. I had forgotten to print them off and though how hard can it be – thereupon lies the problem :). I have a number of others to build so I will hopefully learn from my mistakes.
I can make my own ruined buildings out of blue foam etc, but with this costing $2.95 it doesn’t really seem worth it. I got another three ruined buildings in this purchase, one each with a number of skins so I can have quite a few buildings from the 4 sets.
I have a couple of these with accessible interiors as well as a number of others…http://www.davesgames.net/catalog-fantasy-accessible-interiors.htm
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.
A lot of highlights and shading tonight, which you can’t actually see in this photo ☹️ Trust me you can see it on the models.
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.
Bogenwald 