From 40K to Role Play

Kitbashing Frostgrave & Wargames Atlantic plastic sprues. Trying to get a nice range of fantasy humanoids.

Trying to make some creepy mutant folk that live in a swamp. I really like how the Dwarf heads look on the Orc bodies.

Dwarf Light Infantry Head

Orc Infantry Body

Modified orc banner arm

Gnoll empty handed arm

Female soldier cloak

Kitbashing Frostgrave & Wargames Atlantic plastic sprues. Trying to get a nice range of fantasy humanoids.

Just did a simple weapon swap for this one.

Frostgrave female Barbarian with a male Barbarian hammer.

Design inspired by Aila from High Rollers – Aerois D&D campaign.

Kitbashing Frostgrave & Wargames Atlantic plastic sprues. Trying to get a nice range of fantasy humanoids.

Frostgrave male Barbarian with 2 snake-men weapons stuck together.

I was mostly just trying to make a ridiculous weapon for this (Skyrim) barbarian….

I got a bit carried away buying stuff for the humanoids.

North Star – single spures:
Crewmen
Snake-men
Frostgrave Gnolls
Frostgrave Soldiers (male)
Frostgrave Soldiers II (female)
Frostgrave Barbarian (male)
Frostgrave Barbarians II (female)
Dwarf Light Infantry
Orc Infantry

Wargames Atlantic – boxes:
Halfling Militia
Goblin Warband

I’ve been struggling to find time to get anything done.  So I decided to get some Army Painter Speedpaints.

First I found some minis to experiment on.

1. Primed Grey
2.  Coat of black/grey speedpaint
3. Drybrushed with white (cold grey white)
4. Did some metallics
5. Applied some speedpaints

I didn’t like the cold white under the speedpaints. I also needed to do lighter under painting for the flesh.

1. Lightened up the skin
2. Did warm pale yellow drybrushing
3. Re applied the speedpaints
4. Added some highlights on the orks fur

I think speedpaints could really help speed things up. Just need to get used to them first.

Well we finally found time to play the RPG with minis rather than Lego.

A brief summary events.

The 3 brave Adventurers arrived on the Isle of Doom. They followed a treasure map to where X marked the spot. Just to find a strange old man in a hut. The old man sent them off to help some people that were trying to head up a nearby river.

While travelling through a forest on the way to the river they encountered some zombies.

Ni called for her spirt cat to construct into a solid form created from soil, stone & wood of the forest.

Delilah started attacking from range by squirting high powered milk from her teats. (Because that’s sometimes what people want there character to be able to do!?)

Jon ran away and hid behind a rock.

The zombies staggered into melee range with the Adventurers. Combat ensued and the zombies were hacked to pieces.

The Adventurers fled as more zombies appeared from the trees.

Life has been getting in the way of hobbie time lately. So progress on the project has been slow.

I did however buy myself some Halflings & Goblins from Wargames Atlantic.

The plan is to give weapons from the Goblins to the Halflings. The weapons supplied with the Halflings don’t really suit the small skirmish battles I need them for.

I chopped the Halflings right hand off at the sleeve and stuck the Goblins weapon hand on.

The Goblin hands are a bit bigger but not too bad. The swords are also a little big.

The shield arms were a little bit more difficult due to the Halfling left arm options. Although the shields are a really good size.

After a couple of failed attempts I was able to construct some legs.

Now with the main frame done it’s time to gap fill and add all the details.

Using various bits I constructed the side saddle motorbike part of the walker. While trying to work out how to make the legs.

Surprisingly I couldn’t find an easy way to make complicated hydraulic style walker legs.