Elbows' new Fantasy Thread

[Elbows]

I haven't, mainly because I really didn't enjoy Frostgrave. 

[Manchu]

Yeah, the basic mechanics are from FG. The major improvement (at least IMO) is that all your characters can develop, as opposed to just the Wizard and Apprentice (Heritor and Warden).

[The Bibliophile]

Can I ask who makes that great kraken model?

[**GS**]

Another game Suggestion:
Dragon Rampant or Songs of Blades and Heroes. Both excellent engines giving smooth gaming without having to look up rules in books too often.
I like those best für casual gaming and for presentations at fairs and conventions, too.

btw:
Your minis look fantastic!
Have to Paint my Massive Darkness Monsters, too!

[Elbows]

(blows dust off)

Been a while...been crushing other hobby projects (amassing obnoxiously large armies for 40K even though I don't play very often).  However, with a new abundance of free time (much to my chagrin) I will be renewing my efforts to develop a dungeon crawl to make use of my growing box of misfit toys.

To that end, I found a sprue of GW skeletons I'd quite forgotten I owned and slapped some together last night - to add to the lovely Underworld ones from the previous page.



I will be doing more fantasy minis over the next few months, excited to see what I have left hiding.

PS: Nothing like dip to show you the sprue joint you missed when cleaning minis...of course.

[Gallahad]

I love the colors on the Skeletons from the last couple pages. That blue really goes well with the yellowy white of the bones.

[Elbows]

Thanks, it was inspired by randomly buying the blue colour (oddly I think it's called "Dark Blue Pale" or something from Vallejo).  I agree it works a treat with the bronzes and bone colours. 

[gibby64]

Those turned out really well!

[beefcake]

Can I ask who makes that great kraken model?

It's from the Conan boardgame.

Loving these skeletons. I must get some more skeletons I feel I have an obligation to collect them considering they were my first WFB army.

[Elbows]

The Underworlds ones were top notch (in my opinion).  More ornate obviously, but sadly only seven isn't enough for a dungeon crawl encounter so I rounded it to 12 using the other ones.  I think I could figure out a couple more if I dug around on that sprue (I had previously used it for some other model stuff).

I got halfway through some goblins tonight but Christmas pudding they're tiny (Tre Manor reaper ones).  Not sure if I'll survive.  My eyesight isn't what it used to be.

[beefcake]

I have some Redbox Tre Manor goblins. They are super small. When I based them on 20mm bases they looked like GW goblins based on 25's (thinking scale wise compared to the base) Very nice goblins though and I actually like the titchyness of them. Makes them look more mischievous.
I might have to spring for those Underworld ones before they go OOP.

[Elbows]

I have the Underworlds Barbarian set inbound as well - got it with an eBay gift card, so a nice little set of minis for free!

[AKULA]

Lovely work on those skellies

 

[Elbows]

Tried six of the twelve (Tre Manor) Reaper Goblins I picked up.  Sadly when I bought them I didn't know how small they were...and my aren't good enough for this kind of thing.  I'll try to do the other six, but I'm really not feeling these guys - despite enjoying the aesthetic.

[Elbows]

The other six..and I enjoyed these even less (the archers being even smaller with more details).  I almost gave up on them, but now they're done and I can move on and forget about goblins for a bit.  These would have been marvelous had they been about 20-30% larger.  Tre Manor is a great sculptor but he doesn't sculpt to help the painter much!