More Barbarians!

Inspired by the tiger riding chap in the last post I dug out these old Chaos Marauders from Games Workshop from the lead mountain. I'd picked them up cheap from ebay last year, not sure with what in mind (probably Frostgrave). 

I've always liked Dave Andrews' sculpts (his medieval swiss that foundry make are fantastic), they aren't always the best proportioned (big hands!) but they always paint up well and are full of character

I'm on the lookout for some more of these now - or the Bearmen of Urslo from the Dogs of War range, which match up nicely. Drop me a comment below if you've got some. 

Here's a group shot of the barabarians so far. Evil Big Boris from Heresy Miniatures has photobombed the picture - he was painted a while ago and has been based up to match. 

Barbarian on Sabertooth Snow Tiger

Last week Kevin Dallimore posted up a picture of this figure he'd painted on the Steve Dean Painting forum and I knew I had to have a go at the same, so I promptly put in an order to Folorn Hope Games and with a couple of days he was primed and ready to go.

I decided to go with tiger stripes rather than leopard spots as I did a snow leopard for Frostgrave last year. I'm pleased with the result, I can't stress enough how useful having some pictures of snow tigers on my phone in front of me was while I did it.

In the end I probably rushed him a little, but I'm pleased with the result. I had a rummage in the lead mountain as well and dug out some old Chaos Marauders (the Dave Andrews sculpts) and intend to paint up a small unit of them to go with him, the makings of a Dragon Rampant or God of Battles force I think! 

Thaw of the Lich Lord Part 1

We kicked off our Lich Lord campaign at the ELMs Club last Thusday. I took a Necromancer with an apprentice, 2 archers, a tracker, a thief, a warhound and a man at arms. I managed to summon a snow leopard before the game as an animal companion as well.

The first scenario involves an eclipse with LOS shortening until turn 5 when there is a magical burst and then LOS increases again.

We played about 7 turns, I managed to escape with 3 treasures, Steve got 5 (!) and John only 1. Highlights included my snow leopard stalking around the table and eating a magically buffed treasure hunter and John leaping various summoned creatures at Steve.

After the game I suffered no injuries, picked up a book of bones and 2 Planes walk grimoires, meaning I can learn one, flog the other and purchase myself something expensive, tempted by a barbarian or an apothecary.

Looking forward to the next one anyway!

Ghoul King

I picked up this chap up from Cavalier Books last week with the aim of using him in both Age of Sigmar and Frostgrave. I picked up a box of mantic ghouls at the same time that I intend to paint to match.













I've based him to match the undead knights from the last post, using a Renedra gravestone clipped down to look a bit more rustic.

More Frostgrave

I played another game of Frostgrave at the ELMS club this week. It was a bit of a refresher for some of the players at the club and an introduction for the others.


It ended up being a very bloody 3 all draw, with my poor tracker being taken out carrying a treasure with one move to the edge of the table!

We played using John's "Jenga-grave" terrain, which he created using some knock-off jenga blocks, wooden building blocks and some textured spray - simple and effective!

I've also started using instagram. You can follow me at KevMoon5566 for blurry phone pictures of what I'm up to!

Frostgrave in 2016

Tonight was the first game of the year down at the ELMS club in Leeds.

We went for a 3-way game of Frostgrave to remind ourselves of the rules before we have a taster session for others at the club who want to try it and before we begin playing through the liche lord book.

 I took along a brand new warband with a Necromancer, apprentice, ranger, tracker, thief, two thugs and a warhound. I also managed to summon a boar that I'd just finished painting.

We played the worm hunt scenario, the worm remained particularly shy until popping up with one treasure unclaimed before promtly being clubbed to death by my opponents warbands!

Highlights included casting beauty on my heart holding necromancer, numerous elemental walls and some terrible dice rolling.

I managed to get away with four treasures out of the 9 so I'm claiming a win! It was a fun game, as all our frostgrave games tend to be. 

Frostgrave Treasure Tokens

Three new frostgrave treasure tokens. 

These are from the lich lord supplement. I shall be using them with my necromancer no doubt.

Frostgrave Golem and Casualties

My regular opponent Rob and I have just started playing the 3 game Frostgrave campaign which came free with the Nickstarter North Star Figures put out earlier this year.

For the first scenario you require some casualty figures to search so I knocked together these pretty quickly from some left over ancients casualties from Wargames Foundry. I tried to make them look as if they'd be out in the snow for a while, I'm not sure its worked perfectly but I only wanted them for the one game so I didn't want to spend a lot of time on them.

The second and third scenarios require a granite golem to be wandering around causing mayhem. A quick rummage through the lead mountain produced this chap. 

I can't for the life of me remember where I got him (although the company did make a treeman and some jungle goblins I seem to remember). I've got another one with a rock over his head which I might paint up if the mood takes me. Painting him was a straightforward drybrush job really - nothing special. 

Pics from the first game will no doubt be up on the ELMS club facebook later this week: ELMS Club

Frostgrave Elementalists

We've played a few games of Frostgrave now down at the ELMS club in Leeds and its going down really well with more and more players showing interest.

So far I've been using a necromancer but I've just switched to a new warband led by an elementalist. She didn't have a great first game but I'm sure she'll improve.

The figures themselves are from North Star Figures, the apprentice (on the right) is unchanged whereas the wizard (on the left) has had a head swap with a Wargames Foundry nymph and a bit of putty work to blend in the hair and give her a bit more of a chest. I'm really pleased with the conversion, its not something I do a lot of and I think its come out pretty well.