Statues

[Polkovnik]

I wanted some statues for Frostgrave and someone on here mentioned using chess pieces, so I thought I would look out for some appropriate ones on ebay. I found a few and ended up winning two auctions for chess sets - so I now have lots of statues. A few are not really appropriate (some of the bishops and castles) but most of them are ideal. One of the chess sets was a fantasy one with dragons, gargoyles, undead and wizards.

Here are some pictures of them:

Too many statues!


Gargoyles and evil wizard:


I made a plinth from styrofoam:




King & Queen:



What better scenario to play last week than the Living Museum, giving us a chance to use a few of them:








I have way more of these than I'll ever need so I've put a few on ebay (UK) - search for Frostgrave statues if you're interested.

[Urquhart]

Excelent idea!!! 

[archmage45]

I agree, very nice indeed! How much did you end up spending on them?

[Froggy the Great]

I highly approve!

[monkeylite]

Those are perfect. Istm it's better to have your statues a different scale to your figures.

[jp1885]

What a brilliant idea - and one very well executed!

[Mr Vampire]

Genius. I'm going hunting for cheap chessboards the next opportunity I get!

[Rhoderic]

Excellent idea. I far prefer statues that don't just look like wargaming miniatures that have been painted grey.

[Nooblord]

I use Loka pieces for my statues for similar reasons to the OP. I got a mixed handful of them for next to nothing and they are fine for my purposes though the ones in this thread look a bit better to me. Loka is a chess like game made by Mantic and the pieces are made of a fairly hard plastic.

[James Holloway]

Chess pieces are a splendid idea -- I have a bunch of those little historical figures you get in museum gift shops, but chess pieces seem more imposing.

[Drachenklinge]

What a great idea ... chess-pieces. Hilariously brilliant. Thanks a lot!!

And yours are well ... ahm ... stonified or ... stoned(?), sir. 

[Harry]

That is a great idea. I suspect I will be adding a few more statues to my city sometime soon.

[ElOrso]

Me too! I feel a bit silly for not thinking about it myself :-)

[tyrionhalfman]

Great idea with chess statues. Thanks for sharing

[Elbows]

Yep, consider that idea stolen.