Building & Painting Frostgrave Gaming Terrain From Kromlech #FrostgraveWeekOTT
December 22, 2020 by dignity
The team show off how they got stuck into building and painting the Frostgrave tabletop gaming terrain from Kromlech so we can use it in our Let's Plays this week!
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We look at how we started to put the buildings together plus getting stuck into the painting of each of the Kromlech terrain pieces that we're using for specific scenarios.
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Are you going to take a shot at building this Kromlech terrain for your Frostgrave games?
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That’s some impressive builds and the spay on snow is really effective
Looks great, I’m really impressed by the detail on the silent tower. Seeing it put together before being primed really shows off the details.
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I think CoGs are automatically added to a pool but I may be wrong…. @avernos @brennon @lloyd ?
As @sundancer said – you’re automatically entered into the pool just by being a CoG Member who has commented.
ah … that’s cool (see what I did there?) 😀
Interesting to see the spray snow in action. I’ve always steered away from using snow effects on terrain because it limits the useability, but if this works and can be wipe-off, colour me interested.
PS: it really would be interesting to see whether the stuff *does* wipe off as expected!!
So many articles… which to comment on?! XD
all of them … 😀
I do like the Terrain. A little to much “graveyard” for my taste, tho. Maybe i just don’t understand enough of Frostgrave (and yes, i am aware its FrostGRAVE)
in this case it’s because one of the scenarios we played was set in a graveyard
Ahh, alright. I am curious, did you guys already try to remove the snow effect? And if not, do you plan a follow up? 🙂 Maybe even if its just a quick mention in one of the weekenders.
not yet, but when someone is back in the studio in January I’ll get them to give it a go
I’ve always been afraid of using snow effects on terrain and models, maybe I’ll finally try it out.
I never thought of the idea of using the spray on snow before. Wonderful idea.
That snow stuff sounds pretty good. I wonder if it can be preserved so its still prerry years later, and if so, can we get a Gerry (spray)Can?
Very impressive builds.
Impressive timing, I was looking at Kromlech earlier today, considering making a frostgrave table for next year. Thought the tower looked a bit less impressive than I’d like, but I can now see that I was very wrong about that…
Would spray can cream work?
yes, or spray cheese but then you would have yellow snow
The spray snow is a good idea, have to try it.
Great choice of pallet for these kits. I already did a load of bodged together terrain for this game, but the Kromlech scenario specific stuff looks great. Looking forward to the lets plays.
Great starting feature for this game, feel getting the terrain made really helps in the immersion on a game like this. Wintry terrain a lot less common.
I love the Kromlech kits for Frostgrave. This is the first I have been exposed to them. They are great. The battlefield is looking awesome and I love the Silent Tower and the way it will be adding multiple playing levels to the game. Keep up the great work (Color choice went the right direction, not all wizards like to live in emo grey, some love them some color).
Nice table so far! I love the difference when making frostgrave terrain compared to ‘normal’ games, it looks more realistic having loads on the table.
Good idea with the spray snow!
Terrain came out great, looking forward to seeing it in action.
How was it to put together?
I think the only disappointing thing about this Vlog was how high the Starship reference seemed to fly over Justins head 🙂
Justin did the big stuff, the ruins I built went together easily even the double walled stuff. They had offset mortice and tenon joints to help align the different walls correctly so it was easy going. I imagine the larger pieces were similar the main tower had 3 layers in places for depth otherwise business as usual
As usual: great pratical content! Keep it up!
On a side note, I have never played Frostgrave and am die hard fan of Mordheim. Are they any similar?
I’m in a similar spot Bighagar. I tracked down some games on Youtube and it seems like the two have a very similar feel but with some key differences. From what I’ve seen so far :
1. You only advance your wizard (and by extension their apprentice). All other troops are only “upgraded” by replacement with higher tier troops
2. There’s no requirement to drive off your opponents force (though you can)
3. Random unaligned monsters abound.
So far it seems like a really fun game. I’m looking forward to the rest of the week to learn more.
yeah pretty much Bali has it covered. The only important people in the warband that need to track their level are the casters, you can’t level up minions which may be a deal breaker to some.
However you can get magic items and equipment for your motley crew so there is some play there.
Scenarios are more important than kills and worth more XP, of course you can win the scenario by making sure there is no one left to oppose you
Wandering Monsters are fun 🙂
Thank you, bali.
Also, just saw the solo game from Justin.
Helped a lot.
Cheers
That terrain is tempting. And you can never have too many ruins to put on your table.
the town ruins and city ruin packs give an amazing amount of coverage
Liking the look of the table, am waiting to see if the snow spray does wipe off
That is some sweet terrain. Love the snow effect cheat.
Like that Silent Tower. Be great for RPG and skirmish… but it looks a pain to store due to the size.
Does the main tower break down in smaller pieces (separate floors)?
yep every floor of both towers breaks down and the stone archway that connects the two towers is modular and removalable. Only the tudor house is one piece and has to be stored as such… I assume, Justin built that so it came all glued together, but I think that’s right
Very nice.
Really nice looking table can’t wait to see some games.
That table looks great. Bet it will be fun to play on.
Yay its hairy an the pain the terrain looks fantastic Guys a fab video. P.S. Justin isn’t a pain Lol.
I’ve never really been a fan of MDF/HDF, mostly because of the painting. But that stuff works well.
Ever since I got my first 3d printer I have never looked back. I also went with the sandstone coloring on my buildings and it looks great.
Lovely terrain sets. Great for Oathmark as well
Where on cog discord do I put a nice comment about the lovely town Warren commissioned?
don’t need to, CoG entries are taken from here automatically 🙂
That is some nice terrain.
I didn’t even know Kromlech made terrain.
Wow that 3 tower kit is massive!
Will be looking very hard at those hdf building kits.
Amazing videos so far. That scenery looks fantastic.
The spray on snow looks very effective
Great film, really inspirational. I’m always a sucker for a snowy effect table.
Delighted to see the shout out to the Works stationary chain. When we were allowed out of the house, I could usually be found there on shopping trips trying to find stuff for a new project or even to bolster an old one. Card, matchsticks, paint and even plasticene and glue have come in handy from there over the years.
Good choice of sets to make up the table, looking forward to seeing a game or two played on it.
How long did it take 3 of you to pot the buildings together and paint everything?
Whatever else, for me Joseph A. McCullough has gotten one thing right with this game and that’s the setting. Snowy ruins are all good as far as i’m concerned.
Never played the game, but it sure looks sweet!
Great ideas, loving the snow!
Awesome builds. Love me some Frostgrave.
Very nice. I like the rolling city idea.
I might take a shot at building the terrain, but most likely I will use popsicle sticks and foam board to invent my own.
I love Frostgrave! There is so many resources and yet the game is still your world. Can’t wait for Stargrave!
Great game. I’m definitely gonna try spray on snow.
This will be an interesting week.
Super cool,I love the whole idea ???? about that table ?
I’ve always thought about trying out some snow effect stuff.
It comes out really well and I always wonder if I could do it justice..
Spray on snow looks great. Those resin pieces look quite bulky in a good way. Lots of other scatter terrain I’ve seen tends to be very small crates and barrels.
I really love the resin scatter from Kromlech I’ll definitely be adding some to my own collection
Mordheim takes a frozen holiday? Nah…. looks like a great change from the grimdark Old World. Now to count the chances to win a bundle of goodness.
One, one chance, ahahah. Two, two chances, ahahah. Three, three chances, ahahah **thunder rolls and lightning flashes with the final count**
I would have thought that Jerry-Bot would be taller.
I’d have to look at some way to hide those joins on the big towers. With the “official” dark stone paint scheme it kinda hides them (a bit), but with the red stone look those panels really stand out. Not sure what would be the best way to hide those joins, filler, tape, or a mix of tape and filler?
But that tower is SCARY big (you just don’t get the idea of scale from the webstore) 🙂
but then you wouldn’t be able to lift off sections if you filled the joins
It’s more the vertical joins that stand out than the ones for each floor…
It’s a pity as I’d already bought all the ruins sets from 4Ground for Frostgrave, if these had been available I’d have bought these (they are very nice). It’s just when you have a non ninety degree angle between two pieces that you get the visible join (not an issue with the 4Ground stuff as everything is ninety degree joins (but then it doesn’t look so nice).
Seen some REALLY nice work over on the Frostgrave FB page for these buildings (if you want to take a quick mooch over there), along with some airbrush work that’s really made things pop.
BTW the living museum set is also a really nice set to take a look at, not sure on the size/footprint on this set…it might end up as big as the towers you built. But there’s bits in that set that’s also going to be useful for building the terrain needed for the Maze of Malcor set. One other set of MDF that’s not out (but would be really useful) would be a load of straight floors for building up your traditional dungeon set up (as Into the Breeding Pits uses a lot of these for the scenarios in that book. Not found any that stand out to me so far (been using the card floors from Dungeon Saga), but if anyone knows of some?
Good stuff. I need to check out the Kromlech.. some nice terrain. Can’t wait for some actual Gameplay.
Really like the silent tower
Great table but i only have 2 things to add, mention. The pieces that are not ‘snow covered’ slightly detract from the table. I understand using what you have and not wanting to paint snow which you would have to repaint for other games but think that it would be more thematic if everything was snow covered.
The 2nd thing is the lack of rubble for the ruins. It was done for the 40k city and flames of war city ( maybe another system ) and there were some great blogs on how to make the rubble, bricks and wood planks. If some of that were put on the table, it would elevate it ( this would lead to another problem, snow on the rubble….)
Otherwise, a really great job with the painting and weathering, looks very good and ready to play on ( when the lockdown is over???)
had to be ready to play on before lockdown so we could do this week and as Justin mentioned we ran out of spray to do them all
The terrain looks awesome, but this seems rather involved if you need specific terrain for the missions.
I used the ttcombat buildings for my frostgrave table. I think the product line is called the savage domain. Lots of different heights and it can be made modular.
Frighting how es it would be to just give all my money to kromlech .stunned by the detail and size of kits.
This looks great. I’m sad that I really can’t build something like this living in a flat.
Loving the paint work and really good scenery there. I have always wondered about Frostgrave some people say it is similar to Necromunda because you build up your party. I like D&D but love the more action side of fantasy, so I think this could be the answer.
Those are some seriously nice buildings and I like the paintjob. I also appreciate you guys sharing the colours used.
The tower is an impressive looking kit and would work well for Mordhiem. I’ve not picked up a copy of 2nd Ed yet, though I probably will in the new year.
I’ve been wondering what the Krommlech buildings looked like, I’ve been tempted to pick them up since I saw them teased. Might start grabbing a few of the scenario pieces and the scatter sets here and there. I do like the idea of the fake snow, possibly may give it a whirl.
Watched this then started Googling Hallstadt images, because if you have to make a frozen city you might as well go all in.
Nicely done. I think the sandstone look helps it pop. I do however feel you need to get more snow-cans, some bits look odd otherwise. I’d definitely have Matt varnished everything first though!
I hadn’t finished painting them, definitely didn’t have the time to matt varnish them
This is some really nice terrain and this tower is huge it would make a table in it self.
The snowspray is interesting. I would also like to see if it comes of again.
Building terrain has been one of my favourite elements of Frostgrave over the years
I love the sandstone idea guys, and ye gads you nailed it!
Oh hey, I checked the kromlec site, wow that’s stuff is like 4Ground prices.
I can’t imagine adding shipping to Australia as well.
I’d get into this game, but it would just sit on my shelf like so many other systems I’m thrown money at =(
Lookin’ real good guys, it is nice to see a different take, definitely a tasty lookin’ contrast!
Love Frostgrave stuff! Please team up with terrain companies to build more terrain called for in the scenarios!
Nice starship reference
I’m currently building a ruined city covered in snow for Conquest (3D printing), and those Kromlech terrain would just fit on the table.
I like the idea of having a progressively unfolding terrain.
The silent tower is an immense kit…. My go to used to be 4ground for kits but have felt uncomfortable using them since the fabled realms debacle. Kromlech seems to be the way to go and those resin pieces look superb.
Brilliant scenarios! Nice to know they are available!
The spray on snow idea in good.
If you were looking to keep the snow finish could you spray varnish over the top to keep it in place?
Or are more traditional snow texture methods better for long term.
I have just recently purchased some of the dave graffam card buildings and have been printing out and building them. Wondering, if I was to add snow, which method would be best?
I had planned to do traditional snow effects but time ran out. I don’t think the spray can will work long term, it’s designed to be temporary so I’m not even sure you could seal it without it melting off
Love this terrain but I’m on a cereal box budget, unfortunately. They are some gorgeous kits though!
there’s an awful lot you can do with cardboard boxes, for over a decade most of my terrain came from such it’s amazing what you can do with it
Oh absolutely! Love the stuff.
Kromlech does some real good stuff. The ork stuff is great.
Is it just me, or does every time Gerry says “ruins” it sounds more like “runes”? ?
Nice idea with the snow spray, it’s really effective.
I’m always saying ruins I don’t know how you’re hearing runes, runes sounds nothing like ruins you’ve ruined it for me 😛
This is the first time I have seen any of the official terrain on a table. I had no idea how big that tower was until now. I like the colour scheme.
Cool table.
This game seems like a good excuse to 3d print some more buildings and ruins.
Wow!!! That ruined tower (or 2 towers + hamlet) is AMAZING and huge!!! Nice!
I do really like the look of the scatter terrain as well… for so many games that stuff is going to so useful; with or without the snow effects! Nice job!
Well done Gerry!
never considered spray on snow, now i will! good work gents.
And I play Frostgrave with cardboard boxes as houses and random pieces to stand in as trees or pillars!
Awwwwww, I wanted to see the Bell Tower.
you and me both, but fear not for it shall make a return in the new year for a big 3 player game assuming we can get it sorted
That is such a beautiful range of terrain. Not having had a chance to play yet, what is the recommend coverage for a standard table?
Wow. I had no idea these buildings were so big. I want them!
Interesting Build – a little snow powder goes a long way
not far enough *cries*
nice terrain, are they going to be using the northstar minis as well
yup
The Kromlech terrain looks nice, but due to limited space is unlikely to end up in my collection.
I do like the idea with the spray on snow though.
the terrain looks spiffing
Nice terrain
The terrain looks pretty fun. I like the idea of this giant frozen city.
Thanks for the inspiration. I just got the buildings and resin sets delivered in time for the holidays. Now I can get at it!
I totally love Frostgrave. Thank you for dedicating a full week to this game and for all the inspirations (without the perspirations)!
nice scenery
That Kromlech terrain looks awesome!
Love the sandstone idea it certainly looks good, might have to duplicate it.
I love how far Kromlech has come, from a resin parts and minis manufacturer to doing really awesome terrain and even historicals.
That looks amazing and well done Gerry
I’m not usually a fan of mdf terrain and think it looks flat. The resin touches do help
Just bought several of these earlier in the week, so lovely
Love the table ! And the snow effect is brilliant! I’m definitely going to use that. Well done boys!
amazing table
Gorgeous pieces and I like the warm color scheme against the cool colors of the mat. The towers connected by a bridge make a great central objective site.
I love the Kromlech/frostgrave belltower, a really smart bit of kit
I was kinda wary of the price of the tower, but sweet damn it’s massive. Think I’m gonna find that on my table in the next couple of months
I love that center piece. The amount of levels and gaming surface in and around it allow for so much tactical flexibility.
Would like to get started into Frostgrave.
The size and scale of the MDF tower is truly tremendous. On a mere 3×3 table no other terrain would be required, or even possible. I’m most impressed.
I’m going to assume Justin survived the wrath of John?
That tower is gorgeous
Really like those biuldings! Nice snow effect!
Absolutely love this terrain.
Impressive terrain.
Hmm, never really looked much into this game before, but it sure is tempting me now that I see more of it!
I love the look of the Kromlech terrain, and you guy`s have done a brilliant job with kits (fancy nipping over to the north west, and doing me one pretty please). Good idea with the spray snow, would never of thought of that myself. Pity about not getting the bell tower sorted, hope John did not get the hump about it lol. That three tower piece is fecking huge.
That terrain set looks really good.
Nice to see a company supporting the scenario specific terrain needs for the game
Great video. Have enough custom terrain and built terrain to make it work with some winter effects.
Love the non grey buildings. There’s some cities in England with that rich, red coloured stone – looks great.
the older I get the more I want to see tables with colour. bland boring tables simply suck
DOH! So wanted to see your Bell Tower! I got one when it came out but, still have to build it!
Love what you guys did and the Silent Tower kit is awesome!
Although pretty much all my terrain for Frostgrave is grey stone, i might go with another color, maybe like yours, just to mix things up a bit, although this will have to wait “till spring, i can’t prime inside my place and winter as settled…
Thanks for the vid guys!
Nice idea to go with a different colour this time. Looks great.
Excellent looking scenery. Really adds to the game
I didn’t know their was an official range of terrain and my isn’t it comprehensive! The scatter looks particularly useful in almost any context and the tower is massive. Size is always impressive when it comes to terrain, like so much else in life.
The terrain look amazing. Looks really cool in that tan colour!
That snow looks really good. Would like to see a follow up of removing it and see how it looks
I know the official products are in the 28mm gaming range but does anyone know if this is a scale agnostic system? Always wondering how much space a game would take up in storage when being introduced to it.
Nothing says Felstadt is northern city. For all intents and purposes it can as well have Middle Eastern architecture.
I have a serious MDF habit… this is painfully tempting…