Statues for Frostgrave

[Xintao]

In the Flea Market last Historicon I came across figures for LOTR Hex Combat game. They are very big figures and don't mix with other figures I have, but I thought I could make a statue out of them, I bought some. Here's what I did.





Wire cutters trim off the hex base


Spears from GW Skellies box


Plinths from Hunger Game figures


Rare Earth Magnets


MDF bases added for a little height, and ready for paint.


Six statues ready for the table


Fireforge and Frostgrave figures for scale


The statue can hop down off the plinth and kill the unwary

More pics and write up on my blog:
http://xinslair.blogspot.com/2016/02/statues-for-frostgrave.html

[Lamilvelo]

Great work!

[Gunbird]

Perfect Great use of models.

[Eric the Shed]

excellent

[tyrionhalfman]

Nice idea and well executed. Thanks for sharing

[Old Mr. Scratch]

I love the way they turned out. Awesome idea and paint job.

[dampfpanzerwagon]

They work well.

I'm sure I have some of these in my spares-box - So I might try copying the idea.

Tony

[Iamafish]

really good stuff

[beefcake]

Very nice. Have you thought about doing half buried ones?

[Ravendas]

I love how simple and how great the painting is. Dark grey base coat, lighter grey drybrush, voila you have a stone statue (I assume?)

The figures also seem perfect for it. Nice find!

[Xintao]

I love how simple and how great the painting is. Dark grey base coat, lighter grey drybrush, voila you have a stone statue (I assume?)

The figures also seem perfect for it. Nice find!

3 shades of grey.

Thanks!

[Ravendas]

3 shades of grey.

Thanks!

Oh, I see that now, it's more noticeable on the shields with the larger raised areas catching the brush strokes. It's such a nice effect. Now you've got me wondering which of my old models I can use as statues.

[Xintao]

Very nice. Have you thought about doing half buried ones?

No I hadn't, that's a great Idea. I do have one figure left over.

[TheMageKing]

Interesting... Minis a bit too "Big" for the scale seems like a great way to do statues.

Time to see if I have anything neat for this in those LotR Heroclix I picked up a while back...

[Nooblord]

Interesting... Minis a bit too "Big" for the scale seems like a great way to do statues.

Time to see if I have anything neat for this in those LotR Heroclix I picked up a while back...

This was another good reason for getting the Simba toy castle set when it was at clearance prices as it comes with 14 'large' figures 40mm or so in height (4 of them on horses). They all have enclosed helmets so should make good statues and large constructs too. One of the horses is in a leaping pose and that will I think make a pretty impressive statue. I'll put pics in my plog when I finally start to make some significant progress.