Author Topic: Tyrion's take on Frostgrave (Read 9366 times)

tyrionhalfman · « **Reply #30 on:** 12 November 2015, 07:42:32 PM »

Frozen Frostgrave part 2

We were able to make some progress with my daughter’s Frozen warband after receiving the guards heads from Perry miniatures.

It turned out they looked ridiculously small on the Wargames Factory viking bodies we had made up as the guards.

So some new guards were made.

They are Perry Napoleonic British Riflemen bodies, arms and backpacks, with Frostgrave hands and Perry Austrian heads. The first attempt at guards have been finished off with other heads and will hopefully find employment with another warband as thugs.

Having seen how well these turned out we decided she needed a more impressive looking Hans to lead them. So a new one was made.

We used the officer body from the Perry Austrians, with the right sword arm removed and Frostgrave arms added, and a barehead from my bits box. We are much happier with this upright pose. The former Hans has been recruited as an infantryman in another warband.

While in a building mood we made another couple of guards, a man at arms and a crossbowman.

The man at arms has an Austrian body, head and arms, with a hand swap to use the discarded sword hand from the officer’s body. He has a Frostgrave shield on his back.

The crossbowman has a rifleman body and arms with Frostgrave hands attached (some minor surgery, frustrations and glued fingers involved) and an Austrian head.

Next just for fun and because I just can’t seem to say no to my daughter and like a challenge I decided to make another couple of additions which I hope to get painted in time for Christmas.

They are seated and mounted versions of kristof the tracker shown in part 1.

Major surgery was involved for the seated mini, converted from a Wargames Factory Persian. It was my first attempt at a seated figure, done in the same style as a tutorial I once saw for making Viking rowers. Basically chopped at the waist and knees, parts shaved off and put back together in the required position and gaps filled with putty.

The mounted mini is a converted Wargames Factory Celt. All have Frostgrave arms and heads. The sleigh is a plastic Frozen toy that fits the scale lovely.

I decided that he may need a companion while patrolling in his sleigh so set about removing the plastic integral base from under one of her crossbowmen.

I have put a pin through his foot so that he can alternate between sleigh and a plastic base for regular game play.

Thanks for looking
Tyrion

monkeylite · « **Reply #31 on:** 12 November 2015, 09:38:04 PM »

Wow. Brilliantly imaginative warband. That's what happens when you don't know what you *should* be doing with those plastics.

LordOdo · « **Reply #32 on:** 12 November 2015, 10:08:32 PM »

Your daughter has a very sweet daddy!

tyrionhalfman · « **Reply #33 on:** 13 November 2015, 06:29:27 AM »

Thanks for your comments

jp1885 · « **Reply #34 on:** 13 November 2015, 02:03:58 PM »

Fantastic work - what a great idea to use a Frozen theme! (Got me thinking too...)

Daniel36 · « **Reply #35 on:** 13 November 2015, 06:14:39 PM »

The sled is nothing short of epic! Great job!!

tyrionhalfman · « **Reply #36 on:** 14 November 2015, 07:15:36 AM »

Thanks for the comments. It was the sight of the Northstar fantasy young fire elementalists http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=7556 that got her really interested in gaming with me. Since then she's really gotten in to it. She's surprised me with how well she's done with picking up the rules and coming up with new ideas.

Mo! · « **Reply #37 on:** 14 November 2015, 08:06:51 AM »

Wow awesome warband! So sweet you get your kid to play with you!

tyrionhalfman · « **Reply #38 on:** 20 August 2016, 11:39:45 PM »

Long time with no updates. Still no painted minis to show yet. I have been doing more modelling and kitbashing, this time with Cultists, Necromancers and Undead.