When I first put together my minis for Frostgrave, I was pretty lazy about the bases. I just did a solid gray paint over and called it a day. It was fine, but I always felt a bit meh about them.
Then I saw Ash's (@Achilles)
for the
Greenstuff World rollers and knew I had to upgrade my guys.
Here's what they looked like to start:
I didn't want to roll and mush on a lot to the bases so I actually used a cookie cutter to cut out the putty. I've done this a second time now and what I've started to settle in on is using the cutter to get a un-textured round and the doing the final roll onto the base directly. It works pretty well.
I just did a quick paint job on the bases themselves, sprayed with Krylon gray, washed with GW nuln oil, then painted over the stones using Dawnstone gray. One thing I am noticing is that my primer is a bit hydrophobic making the wash stage a bit obnoxious. Anyone have any tips for dealing with that?
Here's a bunch of the rebased minis. I managed to bust this out over the course of a week, which is good by my standards since I'm getting max 1-2 hours of hobby time a day (life with a small kid) :-)
I'm excited to field my rebased wizard and newly painted apprentice, Belmont and Gordon, members of the sigilist school. I want to try to take advantage of easy to write scrolls and powerful spells like strike dead and restore life. Should be fun
Here's a picture of "Kronk the Cold" a barbarian. Note: don't talk to him if you want mercy, he's chaotic neutral.
Here's a shot of my sigilist and what I think might be his starting group:
I have to say I LOVE these rollers. I bought the six pack of the rollers and have a pound of Super Sculpey ready for some other projects. I'm thinking I'll be able to make some nice terrain piece with it and some balsa :-D I'll share some pics when I get around to using it.