Some miniatures for Song of Blades and Heroes (Frostgrave undead and construct)

[majorsmith]

Nice! I love that blue!

[Little Odo]

Ooh, now he looks really good. Great colour choice.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, both! I didn't get him finished last night in the end because it occurred to me that the weather would allow outdoor D&D today - and that required a swift switch from theatre of the mind to a miniatures-based session with Gulakeel, Lord of Manticores. In Friay's session, the party had just heard him calling to them in a little girl's voice as he crawled up the wall of the ruined tower in which they were resting. So, I got out the tin foil and the Fimo last night, then greenstuffed him in secret this morning and got him painted up in the early afternoon.

My son knocked the ruin together with cardboard and hot glue, and we were all set - and we even managed to squeeze in a two-hour game of The Battlefield before the D&D session began.

[swiftnick]

Jings what a beastie!

[Sunjester]

That critter looks really effective Well done!

[Little Odo]

Your beastie sculpting skills are amazing - good work!

[Cubs]

Loving the medieval stylie manticore.

[Chief Lackey Rich]

Loving the medieval stylie manticore.

Yeah, nice to see someone breaking with the bat-winged bolt-throwers D&D has convinced everyone are the norm.

[Seditiosus]

nice work. while the manticore is too much toy for me, I really enjoy the second kitbash on the beastmen, somehow it works really well. the orkoid(?) also looks pretty neat, good use of those old lizards!

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, all! And yes - the bestiary look was definitely the inspiration.

Here's a better shot that one of the players took during the session. The manticore lord did a lot of leaping about for tactical advantage during the encounter; this was just after he had jumped back up to hurl a dying NPC to the ground.

[Hobgoblin]

Here's the start of a devil for this week's bumper gaming session. We do short daily sessions over Zoom, but recently, we've been having live outdoor sessions at weekends. This time, Saturday's out, so we're doing a double on Sunday - which means more time to make monsters - and more effort concealing them from the in-house players!

Nothing - but nothing - beats tinfoil and Fimo for the speedy construction of cheap, crude and massive one-off monsters! I've made three radically different ones tonight.

[swiftnick]

How about a tutorial? I just cannot fathom how you produce sculpting like this based on tin foil!

[Hobgoblin]

Honestly, there's not much to it: just twisting together some shapes from foil and then slathering them in Fimo. Because Fimo takes just 20 minutes to bake, it's very easy and quick to add successive layers.

These shots might give a sense of the process (it's fairly erratic!).

[Hobgoblin]

These demons made their tabletop debut today.

Again, there's nothing much to them, and they don't really bear close inspection, but they were very quick to do. I did the foil and Fimo on Friday night, added the greenstuff early on Saturday morning (before my first pub lunch in 16 months and a 17-km walk!) and then painted them up last night and this morning.

[swiftnick]

Thanks, that is interesting to see. And wow it really is tinfoil. Very impressed with that.
That skull is downright weird, the lizard thing is creepy but that oriental dragon thing is totes amazeballs!