Frostgrave Warband

Finally got back to Frostgrave. This enchanter was primed and screamed out to be painted.

Looking forward to the Apprentice model next.

Enjoyed painting this guy.

The warband is complete. ?

Glad I got back to this project and am calling it done. I may revisit as I add any creatures from the bestiary or if I finally get a game played. ?

Thanks to everyone who liked the idea, skills and tuition buttons throughout the project. It’s much appreciated.

I won a copy of Frostgrave 2nd edition, Red king expansion and a box of Cultists. (Thank you Beasts of War!?!!!)

I also got a copy of the rules as my only Christmas present this year… so i can sell one on ebay and buy a box of the red king demons to play the Red King out properly. (and buy some string) … 🙂

I looked at the in-game warband cost of specialists and some of the changes to the spells and realised that my Enchanter warband will need some changes to field them and I wanted to revisit some of the paint jobs too.

I hadn’t intended to use the animate construct spell, because it didn’t gaurentee that you would actually get a construct, your opponent’s wizard might take a spell to turn your construct against you, and if you did get a lucky roll and generate a construct it would likely replace a thug you paid for; plus a Small Construct looked worse stats-wise than a thug.

Now I look again and this lack of a construct seems a waste. If you pick an enchanter I think you have to want to enchant a construct and have that wade into play. Now the Small Construct has a +1 fight skill it didn’t have before. I got a really cool book monster that can be a Medium Construct from Black Cat Bases. Thugs and thieves being free to field gives me potentially two or three more dwarves to build and paint as options, but the specialists I painted originally cost too much to field in the first game of a campaign as is.

My Small Construct was a fun challenge to build from my bits box.

She was kitbashed from…

Body: Japanese Bolt Action tank exhaust systems stuck together. Left over from Chi-Ha kit.

Victrix Viking cloak on the back and Northstar Gnoll shield on the front.

Arms and legs: Mantic Games Dwarf battle hammers cut down. GW beastmen spearhead behind head and on left hand… Mantic Games Ghoul claw hand as the right hand.

Head: Oathmark Human helmet.

Looking forward to getting some paint on these. The book golem is actually just the shop picture from their site and my one has the mouth open with a book mark / book tassle tongue.

Loin is a thief dwarf from the Oathmark Dwarf kits.

Heavy Inf. Dwarf body and Light Inf. Dwarf head and arms; the left arm is a shield arm and the right arm had an open hand. I found what I think is a Mantic dwarf sword, cut it down and placed it as a knife in the open right hand.

Black Cat Bases is a small site, with a small range, but this book golem is great.

Painted in a variety of GW base and Contrast paints, hit with Agrax and then light drybrushed with zandri dust for waethering and then a very light drybrush of grey seer as a lazy highlight.