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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Frostgrave => Topic started by: killshot on January 01, 2021, 11:00:20 PM
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Jacob has been haunted my the death of his children and grandchildren by the demon Annwn and has vowed to using his considerable powers to find the knowledge or weapons to exact his revenge no matter who or what gets in his way. Many have underestimated him, no more so than the wizard leader of a group cultist. After the leader was carried off by a demon summoned by Jacob the cultists pledged their servitude. Jacob has not learned names and cares not, they are simply means to an end.
Jacob and his apprentice
(https://i.imgur.com/Of4P4hV.jpg)
The cultists, including the Butcher.
(https://i.imgur.com/mBkDScW.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/L54Rqvc.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/xkNz765.jpg)
Starting 2021 with a new project for a new game for me. Maybe I should call it Earthgrave? All of my terrain isn’t snow covered so going with a grass filled base.
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I like your backstory. Nothing wrong with reskinning the game. Mine is set in Egyprian ruins, the lost city of Ennaktra, also known as the Sandgrave.
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I like your backstory. Nothing wrong with reskinning the game. Mine is set in Egyprian ruins, the lost city of Ennaktra, also known as the Sandgrave.
Thanks, that’s definitely an interesting setting as well. I’ll have to develop an idea for the city too. I was just happy to give my wizard a back story!
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Thanks, that’s definitely an interesting setting as well. I’ll have to develop an idea for the city too. I was just happy to give my wizard a back story!
That's what it's about, excercising your own creativity. We pay our money for the game, we get to di with it as we will. And the Rulesgiver seems to agree with that!
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:D fab stuff fo sho!!!
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These look fabulous!
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Great looking warband!
I play Frostgrave in a grassy table. I wanted more general terrain, then the frosty one. So I use it for Oathmark and Rangers of Shadow Deep also.
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Very nice, I like The Butcher in particular.
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I like a lot DARKEST DUNGEON eyes :-*
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Awesome! Great work on these.
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Awesome! Great work on these.
+1
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Very nice, I like The Butcher in particular.
I agree. I like the way that, even though he is not wearing his navy and white striped apron in the photo, it is perfectly clear which one of those friendly looking men is the butcher!
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That's what it's about, excercising your own creativity. We pay our money for the game, we get to di with it as we will. And the Rulesgiver seems to agree with that!
Agreed! I will continue to expand on the this setting and add some interesting terrain. I have some ideas floating and developing.
:D fab stuff fo sho!!!
Thanks!
These look fabulous!
Thank you!
Great looking warband!
I play Frostgrave in a grassy table. I wanted more general terrain, then the frosty one. So I use it for Oathmark and Rangers of Shadow Deep also.
Fantastic idea, I have been eyeing Rangers of Shadow Deep too.
Very nice, I like The Butcher in particular.
Thank you! He is my favorite henchmen I’ve completed so far.
I like a lot DARKEST DUNGEON eyes :-*
Thank you!
Awesome! Great work on these.
Thanks!
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Thank you +1!
I agree. I like the way that, even though he is not wearing his navy and white striped apron in the photo, it is perfectly clear which one of those friendly looking men is the butcher!
Thank you! I really liked the figure as I was putting it together and the name just developed as I painted it. He will need his own backstory soon.
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Those are great. Love the colour scheme.
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Two Elementalists
(https://i.imgur.com/Ulsl2hf.jpg)
More cultists completed
(https://i.imgur.com/8BoZZLq.jpg)
A group shot of all the cultists led by The Butcher
(https://i.imgur.com/FBHb6QT.jpg)
Those are great. Love the colour scheme.
Thank you!
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really look great. :-*
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Excellent job Killshot. The Frostgrave Cultists look fabulous. It’s a great set. I’ve had a lot of use out of it for Game of Thrones kitbashing purposes, and now I’m getting a lot more use out of it for Tolkien orc kitbashing. It’s the gift that keeps on giving :)
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Very nice work.
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really look great. :-*
Thank you!
Excellent job Killshot. The Frostgrave Cultists look fabulous. It’s a great set. I’ve had a lot of use out of it for Game of Thrones kitbashing purposes, and now I’m getting a lot more use out of it for Tolkien orc kitbashing. It’s the gift that keeps on giving :)
Thanks! I agree with you 100% about the cultist kits, it’s fantastic. I’m working with the human soldier kit and I am not a fan of it like I was the cultist.
Very nice work.
Thank you!
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A quick update with some Soldiers, a couple knights and some barbarians:
(https://i.imgur.com/sMrKEUQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/oHDuzsJ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/O8HgW7R.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/tCVo6Yd.jpg)
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Brilliant work :-*
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Brilliant work as usual mate. I particularly like The Butcher.
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Awesome!
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Excellent build and paintwork !
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Wow! Really nice painting - that green and white works really well :-*
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Nice painting.
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I really like your sharp and colorfull painting style !
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They are all very good. :)
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Bravo Sir!
Those Barbarians certainly look like they mean business!
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Brilliant work :-*
Thank you!
Brilliant work as usual mate. I particularly like The Butcher.
Thank you, I am particularly happy with how he turned out!
Awesome!
Thanks!
Excellent build and paintwork !
Thank you!
Wow! Really nice painting - that green and white works really well :-*
Thank you, they’re both colors from Reaper Miniatures’ paint line.
Nice painting.
Thanks!
I really like your sharp and colorfull painting style !
Thank you!
They are all very good. :)
Thanks!
Bravo Sir!
Those Barbarians certainly look like they mean business!
Thank you! The figures are really nice and it makes them a lot of fun to paint. I have some more on the painting table that are almost done.
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More barbarians! Another great kit! The barbarian “templar” is from the knight box with the special metal head that came with the barbarian sprue.
(https://i.imgur.com/8oWT70a.jpg)
A group shot of all of the completed barbarians so far:
(https://i.imgur.com/dFI4MZb.jpg)
And a better shot of the soldiers
(https://i.imgur.com/fpvbfbX.jpg)
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Those are great!
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8) way cool!!!
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These are some pretty good looking units!
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Very nice. I really enjoy the muted feeling scheme, especially of the barbarians.
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These are incredible savages! :o
I’m loving the choices of color scheme as well as whateve technique you are using. The recesses and shadows are so dark and rich, it almost looks like a modified black lining. Can you share your painting technique? Also what do you use for bases? Finally, does Frostgrave use this many barbarians? It almost looks like a horde better suited for Oathmark.
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Thanks everyone!
These are incredible savages! :o
I’m loving the choices of color scheme as well as whateve technique you are using. The recesses and shadows are so dark and rich, it almost looks like a modified black lining. Can you share your painting technique? Also what do you use for bases? Finally, does Frostgrave use this many barbarians? It almost looks like a horde better suited for Oathmark.
Thank you!
I block paint the figures and then wash them in agrax earth shade, then go back over with the base color, and then highlight.
The bases are the plastic bases that come with the figures. I glue the sand/saw dust onto the base, wash them with burnt umber craft paint, then heavy dry brush of agrellan earth, then dry brush with karak stone. I use green flock and static grass.
The base number of soldiers that a wizard can hire is 8 figures for game but they can be different between games. I just wanted enough painted to chose whatever I wanted or needed.
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wonderful.
your results make it clear (if that was necessary) that where I've gone wrong with washes is not being willing to go back and add the base colours again to raised areas, and then highlights.
You get beautiful results with that approach - although a good chunk of that will be your own skill with the brush I suspect.
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Thanks everyone!
Thank you!
I block paint the figures and then wash them in agrax earth shade, then go back over with the base color, and then highlight.
The bases are the plastic bases that come with the figures. I glue the sand/saw dust onto the base, wash them with burnt umber craft paint, then heavy dry brush of agrellan earth, then dry brush with karak stone. I use green flock and static grass.
The base number of soldiers that a wizard can hire is 8 figures for game but they can be different between games. I just wanted enough painted to chose whatever I wanted or needed.
Thanks for sharing.
I use a similar approach. Block paint, wash, reapply base colors. But I don’t also do highlights on top. I use the second application of the base color over the washed base color as the highlight. This saves me time, but Your results are more impressive. Also, I don’t wash Agrax over everything. I use different washes depending on the area, so riekland flesh over flesh, sepia over bone, nuln oil over metals, etc. Again, I’m liking your results of just agrax over everything. Definitely makes the flesh shadowing more defined.
Cheers!
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Great stuff :)
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wonderful.
your results make it clear (if that was necessary) that where I've gone wrong with washes is not being willing to go back and add the base colours again to raised areas, and then highlights.
You get beautiful results with that approach - although a good chunk of that will be your own skill with the brush I suspect.
I’ve been painting for a while, but I think you’ll be happier with your figures when you go back and highlight them.
Thanks for sharing.
I use a similar approach. Block paint, wash, reapply base colors. But I don’t also do highlights on top. I use the second application of the base color over the washed base color as the highlight. This saves me time, but Your results are more impressive. Also, I don’t wash Agrax over everything. I use different washes depending on the area, so riekland flesh over flesh, sepia over bone, nuln oil over metals, etc. Again, I’m liking your results of just agrax over everything. Definitely makes the flesh shadowing more defined.
Cheers!
Thank you!
I don’t always just use the agrax, I’ve just been doing it on these Frostgrave figures because they don’t have much armor. If there’s a lot of armor I’ll use the nuln as well and I’m currently trying out the Carrorburg Crimson was on some demons.
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Completed a handful of demons to test out color schemes and some ideas.
(https://i.imgur.com/qTKfHxA.jpg)
The wings are from the Bat Demon from Reaper Miniatures. They are the soft plastic and were really easy to cut out and shave with a knife. Not 100% sold on the black armor.
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black armour looks great to me - maybe a varnish if not used already?
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The black armour looks pretty good to me, although the gold and red demons do pop a little more.
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That armor looks fine to mee.
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8) way cool!!!
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The black armour looks pretty good to me, although the gold and red demons do pop a little more.
Thank you, I am more pleased with the results of the red and golden demons.
That armor looks fine to mee.
Thank you! I am overly critical of my own work. I think I can make the black armor look better!
8) way cool!!!
Thank you!
black armour looks great to me - maybe a varnish if not used already?
That’s a good idea, I will hit them with a gloss varnish and see if that helps.
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Goat-Kin from Crooked Dice Miniatures. Great figures and they’ll be used as Nullmen (Nullmans?) in Red King scenarios plus whatever else is needed.
(https://i.imgur.com/lJmIxy6.jpgQ)
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yep - they are great figures- and you've done a great job on them.
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These goat-kin look great as do your demons.
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:) they look fabtastic!!!
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Crooked Dice is one of those companies I keep meaning to get stuff from but haven't gotten around to it, those goat-kin and some of their other pulp horror figures are unique and well done. Your paint scheme looks good, as does everything else in this thread.