Civs Foray into Frostgrave

So ive not managed to get any quality hobby time but managed to sneak in some cutting and pasting so ive made my own spell cards to help during gameplay.

Ive also changed my mind on the warband, a few of the original models were a bit too barbarian and i felt others didnt fit the aesthetic so out they went.

I have ordered the frostgrave soldier box so i can make some thugs and thieves for my starter band. After seeing some painted versions and the utility of the set im sold on them more than the female box set.

Hopefully in Jan i will actually be a able to get a game but i can see life taking over.

So i scrapped together some spare models i had that seemed to fit the bill and theme of frostgrave. Most of the models are from a kickstarter i backed which i cannot for the life of me remember any details about. The rest are from hasslefree and are purchases i have made throughout the years becasue i thought the models looked cool.

The next steps with these guys is to snip them off their tabs and pin them to the bases i have created. I will probably look to get some other models as in the early stages you tend to rely on thugs and thieves and i am currently short of both. Its also a good excuse to get one of the frostgrave plastic boxes and see what i can make from them, i have my eye on the latest female only box to give some variation to the force.

I will be getting a list together before finalising my first warband so i dont spend loads of time painting up a mini only to use it once on the battlefield.

Im excited to get a game in just as a run through so i may end up just taking what i have and seeing how we get on.

For anyone who doesnt know Frostgrave is set in a cold, wintery ruined city. I wanted to capture this on the models basing (plus i love a good snow base).

I bought some rollers from greenstuff world a little while back, and whilst i had a chance to use the plank effect one on my royal marines i had yet to try out the cobblestone one i bought. I had also purchased the height adjusters for the rollers as this really helps get a consistent(ish) finish to the bases.

I bought some milliput to use as the basing material and started rolling. I first used water to stop the milliput sticking to the roller (being used to greenstuff i thought this was a good idea). It turns out this just makes it so much worse, DO NOT USE WATER!

After cleaning up the roller and washing off the sticky milliput i went the other way and put some talc powder over the roller and the milliput. This is the way i am going to keep doing this as it worked a charm. The overlap from pressing the milliput was sliced off using a sharp scalple which was also easier than i thought.

Using up all the milli put i had mixed i managed to get 17 bases covered (some not quite completely).  Im very pleased with the result and now i have the technique refined i can keep producing these bases or elements of on my other projects.

Once painted up i am going to add some snow effect to the bases to really tie them into the eternal city of winter that is frostgrave.