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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Frostgrave => Topic started by: Grumpymoose on February 06, 2017, 07:37:46 PM
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Been a forum lurker for a few months, so I thought I'd post a couple of recently painted figures:
Don't look behind you! Cosca the mercenary captain in for a ghoulish surprise...
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Nice! Looks like he's got enough attitude to see off those ghouls...
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Marius Brandt and Deakin the apprentice.
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Inside the Mausoleum
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Demons come in S M and XL
My WIPs in the background (not quite sure why alignment is wonky??)
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I like your caster and apprentice - the red looks good.
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My Dark Ops mausoleum and graveyard. Snow and weathering to be complete.
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Inside the Mausoleum
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My wife is still wondering what happened to our toothbrush holder...
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Love the rusty gates especially. Super cool!
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Cheers - got to love rust effects paint. Makes a dodgy painter like me look half decent! More rusty railings and an old GW tower. Is the copper door keeping evil out, or keeping something bad inside?
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Very nice!
I didn't think to colour in the Celtic knot style motif on the tombstone - looks great. I like how you've distressed the bits with broken railings and such - bravo!
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8) looks great...very good job
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Time for a formal introduction:
Marius Brandt, 1st level Summoner, resident of the the old Griffin and Hound (Frostgrave base (inn plus kennel), hence +1 henchman, +1 warhound), Deakin his apprentice, and the newly hired Cosca the mercenary captain after Marius' first successful journey to Felstad
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Fletch, a former gamekeeper (or so he says)(archer), The ranger (a mysterious newcomer to the band, hasn't given her name yet, with some elven lineage down the line), and Geffen, retired from his majesty's army (archer)
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'Dog', Balch, a Felstad veteran (infantryman with +2 damage sword), and Voss (man at arms) a Steppe fighter who can make vodka from any root vegetable.
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Bugle the thief (running from crimes that he most certainly did commit), Old Clem who retired many many years ago and his 'son' Clem who was conceived and born whilst Old Clem was fighting the Orcs in the North. (Poor Clem is a bit slow, bears no resemblance to his 'father' and is none the wiser...)(both thugs)
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That band is shaping up nicely!
I like the unifying "red" theme - ties everything together.
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Looking really good! I like the backstory for each.
Do you usually have fairly open terrain for those archers? I had one archer last game and he barely ever had a decent shot the whole game due to scads and scads of terrain and intervening stuff.
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Wonderful painting and stories!
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Do you usually have fairly open terrain for those archers? I had one archer last game and he barely ever had a decent shot the whole game due to scads and scads of terrain and intervening stuff.
Thanks for the kind words. I'm used to painting 15mm, and this is my first time painting 28mm for over 20 years. I've used the archers to cover lines of sight, act as my reserve, and for hand to hand if necessary. Neither of them can hit a barn door though!
I mix up the terrain so some open areas/roads for interest.
The ranger has a name now (I couldn't think of one at the time). The warband can't pronounce her full name so call her Isha for short.
More DarkOps terrain on the workbench, plus the GW Numinous Occulum (which was a pig to put together but looks the part)
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Small amount of modelling time...
God I love the smell of laser cut mdf! Dark Ops buildings come with loads of extras too - walkways, ladders and so on :)
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Great work !
God I love the smell of laser cut mdf!
Ooooooh yeah....
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Man, that's a sweet piece of terrain. Numinous Occulum, huh? Impressive.
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Took advantage of the nicer weather by doing some priming and grey spray painting:
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:D lookin fab so far!
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Chance to do some painting, but still weathering etc to do. Happy with results so far but thinking about adding some subtle green mossy patches to stonework so they look less monochrome.
Columns made from wedding cake pillars and GW high elves. Statues come off the top so I can use them in scenarios
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I'd certainly give the bronze stuff a greeny-blue wash. The odd bit of green here and there would look quite good I think, though they look brilliant as they are!
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Cheers. Just been smudging the odd bit here and there. Looks much better, but does mean that I need to go back over my previous models to match them up :o The orb thingy needs a bit of Frostification. Then Woodlands Scenics snow ************
My Summoner used the Numinous Occulum to summon a major demon and got more than he bargained for...
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How did you find the GW Occulum fitted together ?
I got some of the Storm of Magic scenery pieces and they required a lot of work and green stuff to put together.
Nice Major Demon, by coincidence, in my last game, a wandering monster was rolled, at the same time as my furry feline fiend turned up...
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Looking even better. I second the need for some verdigris on the copper.
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How did you find the GW Occulum fitted together ?
I got some of the Storm of Magic scenery pieces and they required a lot of work and green stuff
Really poor fit to be honest. Got it as a present and happy with it overall and suits the Fostgrave theme. Some GW terrain is manufactured in China, and the plastic and moulding is softer. However still sold at GW premium price. The other Dark Ops buildings together came to the same price.
The copper is gold! - need to see how it weathers...
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Gold doesn't really weather, per se. It's pretty nonreactive. It'll collect dirt and stuff, so maybe a dark wash and that'd be it.
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Sounds like a good idea. Need to make it grubbier. Then onto the fun part of adding snow. Not much modelling time on a 'school' night so will have to wait for the weekend
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Finished terrain (need to add snow). Enjoy!
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Wow, that all looks great!
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Great looking table and scenery.
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Really nice table. I can't wait to start work on mine (waiting to move to a bigger house this summer)
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Brilliant!
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It turned out really well! Good job!
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Not a huge amount of painting time today. Says in the fluff about demons being 'extra planar creatures' so created some variety for my summoner. Sprayed white then messed about with some washes and a quick dry brush. Not bad IMO
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Not bad at all!
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Love the little serpent - who makes that?
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Love the little serpent - who makes that?
That's a Tim Prow mini from Diehard Miniatures. I think it was only available in a kickstarter I backed
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/diehardminiatures/diehard-miniatures-fantasy-miniatures
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Finally finished adding the 'frost' to Frostgrave.
Marius' Warband in a bit of a pickle (not actual gameplay ;) )
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Nice photography! Thanks.
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I concur - very nice!
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Looks fantastic! Where is that Dwarven construct from?
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Looks fantastic! Where is that Dwarven construct from?
Cheers.
It was going to be a part of my abandoned Kings of War dwarf army
https://www.alternative-armies.com/products/dh15-dwarf-runic-golem
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Some shots from the scenario:
A right old battle in the middle of the table - warband vs warband vs statues
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Marius and co getting the advantage of being high up. The archers between them hit precisely nothing and were targets for Furious Quill. How that spell annoys me
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Returned back to base with minimum casualties, 255xp, a couple of grimoires and 230 gp. 2 treasure token taken and a wandering wild dog dispatched. Happy days
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Looks amazing!
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Looks like a great game! (Furious quill is a bugger isn't it?)
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Very nice setting! What gaming mat is that?
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Mat a cheap purchase from Amazon. Thought the warband needed a base of operations when not treasure hunting. WIP with some stuff I had knocking about. Better way of displaying them when not in use.
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8) very very cool.
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Grumpy,
Nice set up.
Always wondered about running a raid on another wizard's base. Be an interesting scenario.
Knabe
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http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=97773.0;attach=58149;image
The guy with the axe in this pic, where is he from?
Grimm
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From a Diehard Miniatures kickstarter, by Tim Prow. He's a 'heroic scale' dwarf
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What a great base of Operation.
RMZ
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An overdue return - Playing Genie in a Bottle with new Ulterior Motives cards today. Table set up. Post AAR later!
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New additions 'Red' the Treasure Hunter and Marianne the Templar
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Wow! Great set up.
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The cards - I had Fate Dial. Justin Last Meal
The house rules we played were 6 turns max, treasure needing to be taken off in that time. Random monsters to arrive on Turn 1 on a 6, Turn 2 on a 5+ etc, resulting in the emergence of a snow leopard, imp and ghoul throughout the game
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Initial set up. Both wizard and apprentice successfully cast familiar before entering the city. Marius also brewed a potion of teleportation that he gives to the treasure hunter
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The site of the Fate Dial
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Ranger and Treasure Hunter take the scenic route to the central treasure
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Oops!
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Nearly there...
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Success! Rolled a 16 = 80xp
Mad final turn resulted in the Treasure Hunter nabbing the final treasure and teleporting out courtesy of her potion
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3 treasures taken, objective achieved. One archer skewered (but recovered)
All in all a successful return to the Frozen City.
Where next??? (WIP : 4 wedding cake pillars, 4 ping pong balls, 3 cake drums and a door knob...)
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Still an amazing set up there. Thanks for the inspiration.
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:o agreed...awesome . I really like the way the blue ish mat makes it pop. great set up!
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Cheers guys. Try to keep things easy. Amazing what an undercoat, sprays and a dry brush can achieve. Ulterior Motives strongly recommended to bring in that extra bit of RPG to the game.
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Looks great!
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So... What exactly was it for? Ancient celestial device or magical merry-go-round ;)
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Starfire Elementals
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Nice work on those :)
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On my things to do list...
New additions to the warband - Oathsworn monk, Northstar assassin.
Mantic Dragon for a scenario, and an Amera moulding stepped pyramid for some extra terrain.
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Better view of the assassin and monk
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Bit of an experiment with some stone effect spray to get a textured effect, oversprayed with sea grey and drybrushed. Might be worth doing if using foam board?
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Looks good!
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Bit of an experiment with some stone effect spray to get a textured effect, oversprayed with sea grey and drybrushed. Might be worth doing if using foam board?
Problem with the spray would be it would melt the foam in the foam board where it is exposed at the edges (been there !).
I use textured masonry paint instead on foam board, aND THEN SPRAY OVER THAN WHICH WORKS OK.
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Oh yes...
Good point :o
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oops sorry for the shouting.
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oops sorry for the shouting.
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THAT'S OK
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Following a successful trip to the races, treated myself to some more Dark Ops terrain.
WIP on the ruined tower - still to add snow and icicles.
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:o looks great...show us mo when tis dun!
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Cool terrain! I'm a bit worried though that "Tom's Dentist" got changed because of the "hacksaw". ;)
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Cool terrain! I'm a bit worried though that "Tom's Dentist" got changed because of the "hacksaw". ;)
lol lol lol
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New additions to the warband: Assassin, monk and barbarian. Currently nameless. Assassin and monk recruited, and dwarf barbarian waiting...
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8) way cool.
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Eye candy from our latest game. The revolving celestium required a lot of thinking, and the Starfire Elementals were deadly.
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For a change some deadly shooting. My archer rolled a natural 20 and killed stone dead the Demon Hunter. Then poor old Fletch subsequently died (failing the out of game survival roll) by the crossbowman.
Then my captain was knocked down with a natural 20 from their archer, but luckily survives for another adventure.
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Crappy photo, but on turn 2 the enemy warhound turned into a Greater Demon (Ulterior Motives), which my Summoner dispatched with aplomb. Planar Tear is an awesome spell when the opportunity arises.
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A successful adventure:
4 treasure tokens, including the scroll of Starfire Elemental.
Plus the opportunity to use my WIP Frostgrave warband board.
RIP Fletch the archer...
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Looking good ...
And a very lucrative adventure.
RMZ
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An overdue return to Felstad. Getting the board ready for tomorrow.
Playing the first scenario, with a few tweaks.
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Thats's a great lookng table. Welcomeback to the frozen city!
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:o awesome.
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Forgot to take photos, bar this one.
Instead of laying down treasure tokens we laid out trap doors which led to tombs which contained treasure (and a random undead). Never take on a frost a faith without a magic weapon... Fortunately a combination of summoned demons kept it occupied whilst my monk nabbed the treasure.
Played over 10 turns and both warbands came out with two treasure tokens.
No major casualties.