Koyote in Frostheim -SORRY- ALL PHOTOS PRIOR TO P.14 ARE INACCESSIBLE

[affun]

I figure that Pol is screaming for one of two reasons. Either he's celebrating his triumph over the trap or this pose is Pol a fraction of a second after he realized that he's triggered the trap and he's about to have a really bad day.

I know which interpretation I prefer 




Both are some nice conversions. Looking forward to seeing them with paint on.

[Malebolgia]

That Trap Expert is both brilliant and hilarious!
Can't wait to see that one painted.

[Dr Mathias]

I really like the painting style you have. Wonderful.

[Koyote]

My cobblestone textured sheets of styrene showed up in the mail today. The sheets are a bit more flexible than I wanted, but they should work well enough..

[Koyote]

Gnoblar Trapper (counts-as Trap Expert)

[Urquhart]

Excelent painting! 

[Big Frank]

Very nice

[Malebolgia]

Awesome

[jp1885]

What they said - very characterful and painted extremely well!

[MaleGriffin]

I absolutely love this thread! 

Very inspirational!

[Koyote]

Thanks for the kind words, everyone.

Frostgrave came and went pretty quickly at my FNGS, but time has passed and supplements have been added, so I think there's a good chance of resurrecting it. 

We are currently in the midst of a short Mordheim campaign.  Once the campaign ends, I think I can use it as a springboard for a Frostgrave campaign or at least making a few new converts.  Adapting a Mordheim warband to Frostgrave warband shouldn't be too hard, so long as one is pretty liberal with the counts-as rules. 

Below are some models that I'm working on for my Mordheim warband, two of which can be used in Frostgrave as well. The Averlander Captain (far left) is a converted standard bearer from FW's Manann's Blades Command kit.  In Frostheim, he'll make a good, unarmored or lightly armored Captain model.  His big pistol will be a counts-as crossbow.

The Road Warden is the Mordheim Reiklander Captain (foot & mounted).  I own the actual Road Warden models, but they are kinda boring. Plus, I've waited a long time for an excuse to paint the Reiklander Captain, who's an ugly fella, but has lots of character.  The Roadwarden infantry model can be used as a Frostheim Marksman.




Mounted miniatures are rarely sculpted holding reins, which has always kind of bugged me, so I made some using greenstuff.




Roadwarden

[Gabbi]

Wow, love the reins, great pose. how did you made them? It's plain greenstuff? I'm totally unable to work with gs with so little support.
Also, nice painting, of course.

[Koyote]

Wow, love the reins, great pose. how did you made them? It's plain greenstuff? I'm totally unable to work with gs with so little support.

When I'm finished working with GS I typically have a bit left over.  Rather than toss it, I roll it into a ball or a dowel, of varying sizes, and set it aside to cure. I use the cured GS shapes to serve as the foundation of other sculpting projects.

In this instance I started with a very thin dowel/snake of GS. I used a new xacto blade to slice down the length of the GS dowel/snake, flattening one side and then the opposite. The end result is a ribbon of GS, from which I cut the lengths of GS that I used as reins.  

I made the reins bend by drilling a hole through the model's hand. I stuck an end of the GS ribbon into the hole and glued it in place. This let me compress the GS slightly, creating the bend. Once I figured out how much bend I wanted and the length needed to reach the horse's neck, I trimmed the GS ribbon and glued the loose end of the reins to the side of the horse's neck. Voila!

[Koyote]

More new additions to my Mordheim/Frostheim warband(s).

I need all three of these my models for this week's campaign games, so over the long holiday weekend I painted em' up. I knocked them out pretty quick (for me), so they are pretty basic.

The Bergjaegers' heads are Lykan Tribal heads made by Mad Robot Miniatures.  Just a heads up.  Before you order the heads you should know that they are a tad big for Games Workshop heroic scaled models, so they are going to be far too big for Frostgrave plastics.

Bergjaeger (counts-as crossbowman), Bergjaeger (counts-as ranger), and Mountainguard (counts-as infantryman)

[Koyote]

Here's a couple of models that I'm working on. Both would make pretty good Captains.



My Frostheim table is coming along nicely, but I still need more buildings.  I have at least two of each of the ruined building kits that 4Ground makes, so to add a bit more variety to my board, I've purchased some of 4Ground's intact Mordanburg buildings. 

I created the discolored roof tiles and charred edges with a lighter -easy peasy.