[MK] Start of a Frostgrave warband

[Magos Kasen]

Hi there folks, joined a little while ago and thought I'd better say something My painting and gaming tends to be super diverse and sporadic, so this thread may wax and wane as my interests move to new genres, but for now at least I'm gearing up for the arrival of Frostgrave, which looks like being all kinds of awesome fun! So in preparation, I've painted a few old Reaper Bones I had lying around. No real plan for them, may or may not use them, but they were a fun distraction for a few evenings. Bones plastic is still the most awful material to paint on, but these turned out halfway decent I think. I've also since these photos were taken gotten around to basing them with snow bases befitting the setting.

[nic-e]

I picked up that same wizard from orcs nest the other day for frostgrave, yours is looking great!

[deathjester25]

They do look very nice. I agree painting bones sucks. I backed to first kickstarter and ended up giving them all to my son to play with.  Still love reaper though

[bandit86]

Very Cool (the girl is one of my Favs from Reaper)

[Ivan DBA]

Great painting, and good choice of colors too.  The patina on the fountain is excellent.

I'm actually painting that same wizard as a fire Elementalist for Frostgrave.

[Jiron]

As keen player of Pathfinder RPG, I'm glad this wizard is so popular. He is an iconic image of wizard in the Pathfinder RPG.

[Gutbukkit]

A great start to your warband. I look forward to what you have coming next.

[carlos13th]

I really.like.the colour scheme you are using

[Magos Kasen]

Thanks so much for all the kind words people Not a whole lot of progress, although I have a couple more wizards lined up ready to paint in anticipation of my book arriving. In the meantime, here's a barbarian. There aren't enough ethnically diverse barbarians in the world. No need for them all to be hulking vikings.

Painting is super sloppy, still a lot I need to go back and finish

And here's a link to my blog, if anyone wants to see non-frostgrave models. Just started some AoS chaos

http://nsevenswords.blogspot.com.au/



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[Magos Kasen]

Just a quick update. Not much to show, been painting other projects, and slowly assembling some of my lovely plastic frostgrave troops. Great kit. Hoping to be able to have a game next weekend, scrambling to get together enough terrain in time. Here is some pics of what I currently have finished. Pretty rough and ready paintjobs. The snow looks better in real life, very icy, like melting slush. I want the city to look like it's thawing after a long freeze, rather than just being heavily coated with fresh snow.

Sorry for the dodgy photos, got a snow table top but it isn't set up yet.






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[joe5mc]

Terrific slush effect!

[Magos Kasen]

Thanks Joe! Much appreciated.

Anyway, my thread was all the way back on page 9 So I figured I better resurrect it since I've been doing a ton of frostgrave hobbying lately. I'm bad at remembering to take photos, so here's just a single workbench pic of two small pieces of terrain I've finished - there are quite a few larger buildings in progress. I'm super happy with them, they've turned out very well and cost almost nothing to make. I've gone heavy on the snow effect because, to me, the fluff of Frostgrave, barebones as it is, is one of the best things. With so many people (understandably) playing temperategrave, I wanted to really capture the feel of a deep frozen city.



Lots more to come, including warband soldiers and more terrain

PS, in the background you can see the start of my first barrow complex - it'll count as a mausoleum for that scenario. I eventually want to make two or three, but they're taking a lot of work.

[Mahwell skel]

What a great idea using a cork tile to make stones. I have been debating how best to do that for ages, thanks.

[Polkovnik]

That snow is fantastic. The most real looking snow I've seen. What did you use to make it ?

[Awesomeshotdude]

Great looking stonework and terrain pieces, Magos. I'm very much looking forward to seeing the one in the background completed, it looks very interesting!