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

[DivisMal]

The idea is great and the effect just stunning! They do look evil!

[Vladimir Raukov]

Those colours pop wonderfully against the buildings.

[Basementboy]

I know it's been said already but that is a gorgeous colour scheme! Love them, really cool looking warband

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, guys!

Here's an old Minifigs pig-faced orc, painted in a semi-comic-book style with very heavy blacklining in ink. I think this might be the way to get the best out of the lovely old Minfigs ranges, as they have quite scant and shallow detail. As soon as I started inking this fellow's face, he started to look a lot more evil.

I really like these old, slightly naive miniatures, especially for RPGs, so I'm going to try to paint up a whole load in this style. This guy's not quite finished - he needs some touching up on his gambeson (or is it a coat of plates?) and possibly a sigil of some sort on his chest and backplates. But I'm quite pleased with him so far.

[beefcake]

Nice work on the armor. Looks great.

[Pattus Magnus]

There is a lot more detail there than I would have guessed from looking at pics online of unpainted examples. Your version turned out great!

[DivisMal]

Stunning! It’s a joy to see you give these oldtimers a new life! The model looks cool and I fully agree, the naivety of those times is severely missed.

[Sunjester]

Very nice, I had a bunch of those back in the late 70s, sadly long since gone now!

[DeafNala]

He is a charming little fellow. VERY NICELY DONE!

[ced1106]

Did you pick up the solo Sellswords and Spellslingers? $8 for the rules and ten scenarios. Character progression. Same designer as SOBH.

What's interesting (and chaotic!) is that, instead of setting up your opponent's forces and using AI, the event cards just spawn them semi-randomly, as well as from behind a bush or tree near your characters! A bear popped out of a bush and nearly eviscerated by wizard that way! I think this is a good solo mechanic, as it prevents the player from the usual outguessing an AI that sets up on the other side of the board. OTOH, It's random and brutal! (: I might use LOS and a direction die and/or unrevealed markers if I get around to ripping off S&S's ideas. (:

You can finish a scenario quickly, so I finished it in a week. Reviews say you need many multiples of a single type of miniature, but I didn't particularly run into that problem. For some reason, the scenarios *aren't* ordered by difficulty, so review the intros to make sure you play from Easy to Hard. Fireball is OP and you want to cap how much you can modify the activation roll or you'll get too many turns and the bad guys not enough for a challenge.

[Burgundavia]

Did you pick up the solo Sellswords and Spellslingers? $8 for the rules and ten scenarios. Character progression. Same designer as SOBH.

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Fireball is OP and you want to cap how much you can modify the activation roll or you'll get too many turns and the bad guys not enough for a challenge.

Agree, Fireball is OP - the most OP spell in the game. And seconded on Sellswords - it is a lot of fun. I've been slowly rewriting large bits of the game that the author has released through his patreon.

[Hobgoblin]

Thanks, all! Here's the first miniature I've painted in what seems like aeons: an orc boar rider from Celtic Miniatures:

[tikitang]

That is an amazing sculpt and a tremendous paint job to boot!

[DivisMal]

Saw this on IG. 👍 Nice.
Do you own a 3D printer now?

[Kanto]

Nice painting on the orc, especially skintones look great. And sculpt definitely has that old school vibe and charm to it (at first I thought it was from Knightmare). Man, with all the 3D sculptors out there supply for this kind of oldhammer stuff is just booming. Haven't really been keeping up with 3D sculpting side of that scene but if this is an example of what there is on offer I may have to start now.