Frostgrave starting warbands are typically made up of a
Wizard who represents “You”, his Apprentice who offers more opportunity to
throw spells around each turn and a mixed assortment of mercenaries that you
buy with a gold coin allotment.
To battle my son’s Ratmen Necromancer warband, I decided to
go with the very opposite wizard type, a Thaumaturge who specializes in healing
majicks and the like. For my wizard mini, I went with my already painted-up (For
my rpg campaign) Druid. As his apprentice, I then decided to use my only other
druid mini shown below. He’s a metal Privateer Press sculpt, Potent Bradigus.
My son had the idea of painting him up with a completely different skin colour
to his master, I also added some black dots as a type of tattoo after seeing an
old black’n’white picture of a north African tribesman with similar markings.
Not sure I carried it off right though. With this fellow done, I now have a fully painted warband to play with!
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| I like this sculpt - all sorts of quiet intimidation about it. The "axe" parts to his staff are painted up as stone rather than steel. Seemed more druidish to me. |
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| Green cloak like all good druids should sport. Tried to give the shoulder pads a wood look, again to seem more "natural" than if he had metal. |
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| Wizard and Apprentice. I think they'll do just fine against those evil rats... should. |
My son also got a couple more of his own Skaven ratmen painted up - a thug and a man-at-arms. He only has to paint a Templar and a Ranger and he'll also be ready for play. Now I just have to get all my terrain painted too.... Ugh.
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| 1980's Jes Goodwin Skaven Slave and a more recent plastic Skaven Clanrat with a weapon switch. No idea why he needed one though. |
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| A long time ago in a country far, far away a much younger self felt a need to cut the tip from the Skaven slave model. I have no recollection as to why. My son though, was delighted to find this out and gleefully painted blood effects accordingly. |
After finishing up my Apprentice, I had more time last night so slapped some paint on this late 90's GW Daemonette. Just a cheeky grey primer, white drybrush and a load of successive washes to get a fair pastel effect. My son and wife think she looks creepy for some reason. I'll be using her as a "Medium Demon" for Frostgrave.
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| Unlike the original 80's sculpts, these girls were far more brutish in design to get them away from the very sexualised originals. Whilst I do like this version very much, the lithe originals and current versions fit the descriptions for these Slaaneshi daemons far better. |
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| This deadly young lady seems not to be lacking in rump. |
And last up, a real quick paintjob on a Reaper Bones animal companion sculpt. It is meant to be a hawk or some such, but I wanted it to represent a raven or crow instead so went with black. It'll do for both my rpg campaign and Frostgrave's new Lich King supplement that I bought for my Kindle to expand my mission selections and also check out the cool sounding campaign.
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| His head seems to blend in with his body in this photo. Not that there's much to see. |
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| "Nevermore" quoth another raven. Not this one, he prefers Dylan Thomas to Ed Poe. |
