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Happy Monday chaps and chapettes, it has been a while but I have some updates for you :-) I have been busily basecoating and shading my Frostgrave warband since my last post – I was racing to get them somewhat ready for the table-top, but I had nothing complete to share with you as a result. Happily, that process was finished on Friday, and I got a couple of minis properly finished over the weekend.
First up is my Shaman apprentice – Cadillac (again, the name is ‘borrowed’ from the Amtrak Wars series):
I have to say, Caddy is one of my favourite conversions – the composition is very pleasing, and I’m really chuffed with how he turned out. I used the same colours for his warpaint as I did for his teacher Mr Snow.
Secondly we have my Barbarian – Steel-Eye:
I’m less pleased with this guy if I’m honest – the pose isn’t quite ‘there’ in my opinion, but he’ll do the job. I introduced some blue into Steel-Eye’s warpaint… in fact, I am thinking of using the colour to identify the different classes… As the preeminent warrior, this guy got some fairly extensive warpaint, but the thugs will probably be lower key. Plenty of blood spatter going on here as well – I reckon that huge chainsword would make quite a mess… ;-)
Oh, and here’s a group shot to date:
…and that’s as much as I have managed to do so far – comments and feedback are always welcome and gratefully received :-) The rest of the warband just need highlights and detail, so I should be getting through them at a fairly rapid pace from here on in… I’ll keep you posted!
It’s really brilliant, I love everything about this band. EVERYTHING !
Thanks JB :-)
Outstanding work, man! These guys look fantastic, right down to their bases!
Thanks mate, glad you like :-)
Brilliant!
Thanks Warbs! :-)
Cool as always.
What is FrostTrader? I guess you’ve mentioned it already but I forgot.
Thanks mate – FrostTrader isn’t anything other than a mix of Frostgrave and Rogue Trader… which is exactly how I aim to use them ;-)
Is Frostgrave a minatures range or a game? I’m not familiar with it.
Ahh, sorry mate, I misunderstood :-) Frostgrave is a newish fantasy skirmish game – they do have a range of minis, but the big selling point is that you can use whatever fantasy models you have to hand… trouble is, I don’t have any fantasy stuff at all, and I don’t really feel that drawn on the genre – hence the idea of doing a warband that works in sci-fi as well as fantasy. Hope that helps :-)
Thanks buddy! :)
Loving Caddie – especially the tattoos on his arms and the leopard skin tabard. Think you might be being a bit hard on poor Steel-Eye though, he’s solid (admittedly not as nice as Caddie but then Caddie is a bit special). Might be better if Steel-Eye’s sword was resting on the ground – maybe have something sticking off the base that he can be resting the end of the blade on?
That’s a good point mate – that is what has been bugging me! It is that arm and sword that is the problem, but thankfully, he isn’t a complete duffer. :-)
Good shout on the sword idea though, and it should be doable without ruining anything. I’ll have to circle back and do that once the set is finished… thanks mate! :-)
Glad I could help :-)
Fantastic man. I’m really digging the blue warpaint. It’s a good blue. Your paint work is some of the best I’ve seen. So much detail and perfect lines. Keep up the good work and don’t make me wait so long for each post dammit! Patience is NOT a strong point of mine haha. I’m learning though.
Thanks dude, that is very kind of you to say, (though you should probably look around the interwebz a bit more if mine is some of the best you’ve seen!)
Be at peace Brother – all the donkey work is done on this project so I’ll be getting through the rest of the group at a good pace now… you can expect another update before the weekend! :-)
I’ll hold you to it mate ; )
Super cool stuff! Caddy’s staff is perfect, I love it!
Also love the print on his loin cloth, very oldschool-cool!
:-) Thanks dude – Caddilac just seemed to come together really nicely tbh, staff included!