Tap's Rangers of Shadow Deep - Project Complete

[Spinal Tap]

I've painted the odd few Burrows and Badgers Miniatures over the past 18 months and received a bumper crop of them as one of my Christmas presents from my wife.

I have toyed with the idea of buying the rulebook too but already have quite a few small party skirmish games that I play with friends, and really I was looking for something with more of a few versus many vibe for playing solo anyway.

I also wanted something a bit less magic orientated than Frostgrave ( I already play this and have a few warbands) but with hefty chunk of suspending disbelief to allow for a world populated by anthropomorphic animals.

So off I went to look at Rangers of Shadow Deep, the much loved solo game by the author of Frostgrave, as the starting basis of my world.

The biggest hurdle I could see was that all the enemies I needed had to be based in the same animal populated world so I spent some time looking for how I could provide alternatives.

I think I've pretty much cracked using various Skaven, giant insects, spiders and grubs - with a bit of green stuff and imagination I reckon I can get a good force of evil together which will compliment the feel of the B and B figures.

Civilians will most likely also be from the Burrows and Badgers although I'm not fully decided on that yet.

Long term plans for these miniatures is to expand them into other solo games, especially the Perilous Dark scenarios of Frostgrave and Sellswords and Spellslingers.

I will be painting a large band of creatures, some will be selected for my initial party into the Shadow Deep, others held in reserve as my forces lose members or to make up parties for other adventures in the same universe.



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'Mad Jack' Brown  - Tracker
Captain Hacker - Rogue
Cecil Spiteclaw - Recruit

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Jennifer Prickles - Conjurer
Poppy Papovar - Arcanist


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Percy de Montfort - Templar
Abigail Whistler - Archer


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[Little Odo]

Great start to your warband's adventures in the Shadow Deep.

[SotF]

For the white rat with red eyes, you might want to consider getting some pink paint to dot the eye with, that tends to work really well for red eyes in making them look less flat there.

But I really like the looks of it.

[Spinal Tap]

For the white rat with red eyes, you might want to consider getting some pink paint to dot the eye with, that tends to work really well for red eyes in making them look less flat there.

But I really like the looks of it.

It does look a bit flat in that pic, here's a close up of his face which I think shows it better. Will definitely try red eye with a pink pupil next time to see how it goes.


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[SotF]

Yeah, that looks a lot better.

The first pick just reminded me of how hard it was to do the eyes for some of Reaper's Mouslings

For red eyes, I've found using a dark red and a more mid tone pink (specifically Reapers Gory Red and Breast Cancer Awareness Pink), adding a bit of white to the pink (about 50/50) for a further dot is great for a glowing red eye, with the red and pink being carefully worked in when thinned extremely far around the edges.

[Spinal Tap]

Archibald Spearbeak - Recruit/Man at Arms.

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[Grumpy Gnome]

Brilliant painting mate! You really bring the figures to life.

[Spinal Tap]

Thank you.

This project is going to be very slow as I'm keen to keep everything in the animal world and will be preparing for a scenario then playing it, one at a time.

Have 2 more animals to paint for the starting warband I've built and will be building/painting alternatives for Giant Rats and Zombies for the first mission.

[NotifyGrout]

Welp, my wife wants some now 

Well done!

[Golgotha]

They are very cute do like the close-up showing the red-eye.

[hallmarkFPS]

Very nice! Love your idea

[Spinal Tap]

Cheers guys.

NG, it just shows she has good taste.

[Spinal Tap]

So this river has forked slightly as I have now purchased the Burrows and Badgers book; it is wholly possible that some characters who appear here may wonder off into different rulesets at different times.

[Spinal Tap]

Reading the Rangers book suggested that my collection of 10 small fir trees might not be enough for some of the scenarios so I took at chance on a pack of 30 trees for £10.99 delivered from Amazon.

It's taken me about 6 hours in total to complete them and I think they look pretty good.

They do need sealing to stop the foliage dropping off and they don't come with the root sections as shown in the pics so took a bit longer to fix into place.

Pics show them on my new grass mat from Battle Systems - it's ok but I wish I spent a tenner more on a better one. This one is thin which I don't mind but won't lie flat which I do.

It arrived really tightly rolled and despite hanging in a steam room, weighting down flat and ironing for hours on end it still has a ripple effect which can leave figures and lighter terrain tipping sideways.

I think I'll just buy a better mat at some point and cut this one up to use as forested areas with a few trees on.


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[Little Odo]

They look very good for the price. What did you use as a sealant to stop the foliage from dropping off?