Frostgrave 10mm

Started by Arsenus, 09 January 2017, 09:34:13 AM

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19 July 2017, 09:22:25 AM #15 Last Edit: 19 July 2017, 10:00:45 AM by Arsenus
The warband range is great for my project! :)

Especially all the priests, druids and sorcerer stuff! :)
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fred.

This is a cool project.

Quote from: Arsenus on 19 July 2017, 09:22:25 AM
The warband range is great for my project! :)

Especially all the priests, druids and sorcerer stuff! :)

This is very true - good lateral thinking. The command packs will probably be good too.

As to ruined buildings - in 10mm these can be made very easily, you really just need a corner section, with a few bits of floor. Make them with different lengths of walls. You can put two close together and it looks like the ruins of a house. These can be made from cardboard, plastic card, foam board. You can print texture images from the internet to give a good appearance to the walls. And a few 3d bits, like window sills or roofing joists,  really lifts these simple models.
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Polystyrene packaging is also very handy for building ruins and debris etc. Bash it up a bit, make sure you don't use spray paint, you're good :D

Cracking plan on mini-FG btw!
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Quote from: fred. on 19 July 2017, 12:19:42 PM
This is a cool project.

This is very true - good lateral thinking. The command packs will probably be good too.

As to ruined buildings - in 10mm these can be made very easily, you really just need a corner section, with a few bits of floor. Make them with different lengths of walls. You can put two close together and it looks like the ruins of a house. These can be made from cardboard, plastic card, foam board. You can print texture images from the internet to give a good appearance to the walls. And a few 3d bits, like window sills or roofing joists,  really lifts these simple models.

Cool ideas!!

Thanks!
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Quote from: toxicpixie on 19 July 2017, 01:58:04 PM
Polystyrene packaging is also very handy for building ruins and debris etc. Bash it up a bit, make sure you don't use spray paint, you're good :D

Cracking plan on mini-FG btw!

Mouahaha! That would be more artistic this way! :D

Can't wait to receive my order to continue painting! :)
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O've bashed up a wide range of "I can't believe it's not packing materiel" scenery for our 28mm games for FG - cheap as chips, quick, looks acceptable - could be better if I wasn't always in a rush and also cack handed with terrain stuff.

Still, I'm with Gorshkov. If it's good enough to do the job then it's fine!
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Quote from: fred. on 19 July 2017, 12:19:42 PM
As to ruined buildings - in 10mm these can be made very easily, you really just need a corner section, with a few bits of floor. Make them with different lengths of walls. You can put two close together and it looks like the ruins of a house. These can be made from cardboard, plastic card, foam board. You can print texture images from the internet to give a good appearance to the walls. And a few 3d bits, like window sills or roofing joists,  really lifts these simple models.

Yes, you say that and it sounds so easy. But . . .

Every Mordheim campaign I've seen over the years has always floundered on the lack of scenery. Something about making ruined buildings (and making them look good!). And a proper Mordheim board needs a lot of buildings. I assume the same is true for Frostgrave?

And now having said that, I find myself planning a Mordheim board for 10mm gaming . . .

Cheers, Martyn
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Arsenus

I have just received my order! :)

Skeletons are almost already painted! ;)

And the ruins are on their way!

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toxicpixie

Spot on :)

Martyn - I bet in 10mm it's quicker and easier, tbh and you could get appropriate ruins very quickly. TBH the old polystyrene packing trick is a simple way to do it, especially as Felstad is a "classical" era (ish) city, frozen in ice then unthawed in sort of late dark age/early medieval (ish) from the art and figures (not there's anything to stop you playing "Mordheim-Grave" or "Jungle-Grave" or "Desert-Grave" as we've seen :D), so big cyclopean but damaged structures of unknown purpose are likely rife !

Arsenus, they're nice - one thing I'd suggest is lots of "half figure height to a bit taller" rubble and scatter to break up LoS in between (say a base 2-3-4"-ish with chucks of "masonry" or debris, you can probably knock up a shed load in an hour or two and it really helps stopping missile weapons and ranged spells dominating overly. Also two or three storey ruins are good to give lots of vertical movement and shooting and tactical thought.  Make players work three dimensionally, it'll really give them something to get stuck into ;)
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Quote from: toxicpixie on 24 July 2017, 11:52:11 AM
Spot on :)
Arsenus, they're nice - one thing I'd suggest is lots of "half figure height to a bit taller" rubble and scatter to break up LoS in between (say a base 2-3-4"-ish with chucks of "masonry" or debris, you can probably knock up a shed load in an hour or two and it really helps stopping missile weapons and ranged spells dominating overly. Also two or three storey ruins are good to give lots of vertical movement and shooting and tactical thought.  Make players work three dimensionally, it'll really give them something to get stuck into ;)

Oh yeah! I've begun to build taller buildings! :)
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toxicpixie

Superb, looking forward to seeing the end result!

I'd be tempted to keep inches and make it look better in scale, but going to CM's means a smaller play area needed (very handy) and much fewer buildings (really handy :D).
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Arsenus

Skeletons, Wraith and treasures tokens are done!

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Arsenus

Hello!

I have begun the wizards and some hecnhmen so stay tuned! :)
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