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Offline Stroezie

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Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« on: February 02, 2019, 07:49:42 PM »
Now that I've finally got some free time again I've decided to start a game with my 10 year old daughter.

She regularly plays boardgames with us and enjoys things like Zombieside and Mice and Mystics so I think she should have no problem with a co-op miniatures game.

As she really likes the story element of these games I wanted something with a simple but sturdy camaign system

So, after shopping around a bit, I decided we'll give Rangers of Shadowdeep a try.

I have just recieved the print on demand copy of the rules and we'll be statting out our rangers and their companions over the next week.

This thread will mainly be for the painting and sculpting of the minis we'll need and for any terrain pieces I need to build for the different scenarios included in the book.

I'll do my best to share some in game pictures with maybe a broad overview of what happened but don't expect to much because I still suck at AAR's.

Ok, that's enough chatter for now on with the pictures!!!

So first up our as yet unnamed rangers



Some possible companions and npc's (?)





And the first of my own sculpts for this project...



The painted spider was a proof of concept and now I can get on with the sculpting of the rest of the giant spiders we'll need for scenario 2.

And lastly a sneek peak at the setup for the first scenario.



Well that's it for now.

Cheers,

Stroezie.

Online Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2019, 01:22:33 PM »
Nice figures and setup.

Offline Ockman

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2019, 02:24:19 PM »
Great stuff, friend!

Really good to see you back again!

Offline jp1885

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2019, 04:19:13 PM »
Nice work - the colours on those minis really make them pop!

Offline Chillyray

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2019, 03:40:32 PM »
What a lot of great work. I am hoping to get Shadows book soon. Joseph A Mc Cullough is such an imaginative guy. Paint all the minis has a great interview with him.

Offline Stroezie

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2019, 07:25:28 PM »
Ok so I guess it's about time I did a little update on this project.
I've mainly been painting mini's as the various orders I placed come in and am in the process of gathering the supplies for the terrain I plan to build.
While waiting for the first of my new minis to arrive I managed to finish the spider sculpts



Now, even though I ordered some giant flies of of Ali Express, I also went ahead and tried my hand at creating something a bit more fantastical looking.
So I give you my attempt at a classic D&D monster the Stirge (not really sure I really want to make 19 more of these though)



Next up the first of my new figures to arrive from Alternative Armies,
To start with that all time dungeon crawl classic giant rats




One of the senario's has the rangers fighting some animated plant vines so I thought: "Killer Man Eating Plants!"



They are a bit on the whimsical side with quite a heavy "little shop of horrors" vibe but seeing as I'm looking to play RoSD with my 10 year old daughter I think that's actually a good thing.

And the last for now a sand worm which I decided to paint purple in honor of the classic D&D creature.



I've also made a list of the terrain pieces I still need to make so hopefully I'll be able to share some of that with you in the near future.

Cheers,
Stroezie.


Offline Ockman

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2019, 07:49:55 PM »
Excellent additions, Stroezie! Great work!

Offline DivisMal

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2019, 04:18:31 AM »
Fabulous! And I hope your daughter enjoys it and comes over to the dark side!

Is the amazon in the first picture from Lone Gunman?

Offline Stroezie

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2019, 02:17:08 PM »
Now that the summer holidays are nearing the end I've finally got some hobby time again.

So how did I spend these precious moments?

Well, I painted some Crom's Anvil tribal warriors to serve as leaders for my Copplestone Picts.

I will be using these in stead of the Gnolls some of the missions call for.



 I also wanted some treasure/clue markers like the Frostgrave ones  from Northstar.

I couldn't really find anything that hit the mark in 15mm so I decided to sculpt some myself.



And, as I seemed to be on a roll, I decided to tackle the spider cocoons for the second part of the first mission too.



Next I think I'm going to try my hand at sculpting some casualty markers and I have based and basecoated the zombies and survivors so they are ready for painting to.

Things are finally moving again, hopefully I'll have more things so share with you soon.

Cheers,

Stroezie.

Offline Ockman

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2019, 08:04:55 PM »
Wow, everything looks ace!

Offline Stroezie

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2019, 07:18:26 AM »
Like I said I seem to be on a roll.

Lets hope I keep on rolling.😎

Here are the survivors.

They are from Ral Partha, lovely models, so full of character.

I can see so many uses for them, survivors, angry villagers/lynch mob, down on their luck bandits...




"Don't you think all zombies kind of all look alike ?"

I was never a fan of the whole zombie trope and would have preferred to have swapped them out for maybe some kind of humanoid spider hybrid (in ROSD the giant spiders bite turns people into zombies) but well ... meh...

So I speed painted these, not the best paintjob ever, but for tabletop they'll do.



 And of course all that rotting flesh starts attracting flies doesn't it!

Some cheap chinese plastic flies which I simply based and then could not resist touching up the badly painted eyes.



That's it for now.

Sculpting the five casualty markers is probably going to take me a bit longer, though I may cop out and just chop up some extra minis I have lying around and use those to make them instead.



Cheers,

Stroezie

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2019, 12:37:14 PM »
Brilliant thread. Love the miniatures and scenery. Well played indeed
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Offline Kublaibenzine

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2019, 08:02:53 AM »
Great post. I am dying to try this game out but need to find the time and some fellow players. Also kudos on the fun sculpts and paint jobs, really a fun project!
JP

Offline LiamFrostfang

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2019, 09:09:59 AM »
 8) way cool stuff!!!

Offline Bloggard

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Re: Stroezie's Rangers of Shadowdeep.
« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2019, 11:15:59 AM »
Great post. I am dying to try this game out but need to find the time and some fellow players. Also kudos on the fun sculpts and paint jobs, really a fun project!
JP

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