Cultists and broken down cart for Thaw of the Litch Lord.

Since I have gone a bit off plastics at the moment I have redone my cultists for Frostgrave.  I picked up nine temple guard models from Northstars ROSD line and they will work.  I tried a tutorial for the paint.  They are suppose to look patchy as paint was flecked onto them. 

 

 

The cart was made with some laser cut wheels, some match sticks and card.  All of the bits are from Tabletop Arts.  

Hope you like.

Terrain for the Orb scenario in Frostgrave

 Been playing with resin to make an orb for the Frostgrave 2E scenario "The Orb.  The orb its self was a super bouncy ball sprayed flat black with a GW flight stand stuck in it.  It was coated in UV sensitive resin and set for the glossy surface.  For the splash I used a tutorial off You Tube with a twist.  The gist of it is you take a tall thin bottle and place a plastic sandwich bag flat on the top.  Then you tape down the corners and tape down the edges so it looks like an inverted cone with curved ridges.  The twist is that I did not use regular resin but the UV so I did not have to wait for it to set.  

There are several videos but here is one as an example:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvss_fqjsh4

This was set in a foamex base, had the ball added and then set in resin tinted black with inks.  Lastly I used UV resin to build up the water on the outside of the splash.  Hope you like. 

I am hosting a game at the club Tuesday so I will get photos of that up once we play.

New Building for Frostgrave

 Here is my newest build completed.  All foamex construction with GSW brass letters and a mix of skulls.  

Painted with craft paints, loads of washes and some GW technicals and their normal paints.

Broken Pots

 Just a quick tutorial as it came up in a build.  

How to make broken clay pots.  

Take a resin or plastic pot, or a bead that you are using to simulate a pot and use insta-mold/blue stuff/omyaru to make a one sided mould of the top, bottom and a side.  

Use milliput/aves epoxy sculpt/magic sculpt to fill the mould and take a brush handle to push it to the sides and top of the mould.  

You want it thin on the sides but not too thin.  If the putty is slightly translucent when holding it up to a light it is too thin.  

 

Wait for the putty to set for 24 hours so it is completely cured.  De-mould and start clipping and cutting each piece.  Try to make it look like natural breaks and glue in place.  

I will probably superglue some broken egg shells on this pile too just to bulk out the broken pots.   

An Update with the finished product.  No egg shells added.

Frostgrave 2E

 

Tried out the new Frosgtrave 2E rules last night and it was a bloodbath.  We did two fresh level 0 warbands and went to town.  Played the Summoning Bell scenario on a 3X3 board.  Mechanically the rules were the same and it was an easy play.  The particulars were what caught us both out. 

 

I fielded an illusionist and added the spell blink to my arsenal.  It was cast five times between my wizards and only “worked” once.  The thief that it was cast on made his will roll and the spell had no effect. 

 

Between the first four randomly rolled monsters in the corners and the double random encounters almost every turn we ended up with the following monsters on the board:

4 snow trolls

4 Toads

4 wearwolves

2 armoured skeletons

2 skeletons

2 Snow Leopards

1 white gorilla

1 ghoul

Thankfully all the big stuff ended up coming from only two adjoining sides giving both of us a clear shot to get something off the board. 

 

I managed off with only one treasure, my apprentice and a wounded thief.  After the game my wizard ended up with a niggling injury so I have that to look forward to.  All of my other models came off fine.  I also missed my chance for my ulterior motive.  I opened the casket but was unable to spend the time to finish the conditions on the card.  I did kill the ghoul, two skeletons and a Snow Leopard.

 

Mark ended up stopping the bell , a troll helped him finish his ulterior motive by killing one of my models and he collected two treasures.  He only had two thieves make it off the board and his wizard earned twice the experience but also died for his troubles.  His apothecary ended up seriously injured and will not play the next game. 

 

All in all it was a fun if bloody game.  I would suggest that anyone looking to play this scenario get their wizards up a couple of levels prior to attempting it.  

 

On to some random photos with no descriptions. 

 

Boat Burial

 I have had this idea kicking around in my head for some time.  Built a simple boat, filled it up with bits and then built the hill from foam.  Foam stones, paint and flock finished it off. 

Blubber, Tusks and Spears

 Just finished my TT Combat Terrain Shield Maidens riding walruses.  I have to say they were fun. 

General

 

Unit Commander.  There is only one sculpt for the leaders walruses.

 

Standard Bearer.  I freehand painted a walrus skull.  Needles to say my freehand skills suck. 

 

Musician. 

 

Troops.  There are two walrus sculpts for the normal troops and three separate body tops for the riders.

 

 

Here is the unit shot in ranks. 

All in all I am quite happy with them and I am still tempted to do a full army but I probably will not as that kind of commitment to one project will exceed my attention span.