I’ve been spending a lot of time painting miniatures again. It’s been pretty therapeutic, and that has led me to actually finding a group of people I can game with occasionally without wanting to kill everyone. It’s been nice, and not something I realized I was missing so badly.
Sometimes, it’s nice to push little plastic monsters into other little plastic monsters and see what happens.
Frostgrave caught my eye about a year ago, mostly because it keeps being compared to Mordheim, the great-grandparent of fantasy skirmish wargames. After looking over the rules, I think Frostgrave might be the better game. The rules are less convoluted, yet there is still plenty of flavor and character packed into the rules.
So, I decided to paint up a warband. The first group I put together was a bunch of dwarves, centered around an Elemental wizard. I rounded up some cool minis, mostly from the Wizkids Deep Cuts line. But something happened:
I must have bought them a year ago and forgot about them when we moved. They are multi-piece models, and you can put a bunch of creepy little dudes together for about $35. So, the dwarves went onto the project shelf, and the hunt for proper wizards to lead the band began!
I found these Human Wizards in the Wizkids Pathfinder line, and figured I could do some customizing to make them a little less cheesecakey. I cut the heads off of both, sculpted some cowls with epoxysculpt, and added a couple of hooded heads from the cultists box. I’ll add some pics on the next post, but they look pretty cool.
Next up was the warband, I decided to go with a death cult to make things ominous. One PVC mini Barbarian from the Reaper Bones line joined seven cultists from the boxed set, and then it was paint time!
I went with reds, browns, and dark grays for this project. The initial colors were blocked in first, with some preliminary shading and highlighting. This was about four hours of work, and I was getting a little frustrated with the reds.
Night two, and I fixed the frustrating reds. The shading I had used was too heavy handed, and the highlights weren’t showing through well enough. I’m much happier now! Bases were textured with ground cork, and finishing details will start tomorrow. Hopefully, I’ll have my light box finished, and I can get some good detail shots of the finished figures!
What’s coming after that? Well, I need an ancient city to play on. And knowing the way my brain works, I won’t play until the terrain is done!
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