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Frostgrave

Frostgrave white gorilla

I have painted up a Reaper Bones Yeti Shredder to be used as a white gorilla in the game of Frostgrave. I found the mold lines very difficult to remove completely, but overall I like the quality of this miniature. This was the first time that I painted one of these plastic miniatures. They look and feel a bit weird at first, but they look great when painted up.

Reaper Bones yeti miniature painted for Frostgrave
Menacing yeti

I went for a warm palette of colors for this one so he wouldn’t blend in completely with the snow on the base. The base color is Vallejo Green Ochre and I highlighted up from there with som minor shading added as well. I try not to rely on drybrushing when painting fur because I think much of the definition of the miniature is lost with that approach. Instead I try to build up the highlights like I would do with any other surface so you are still able to pick out the muscles.

Reaper Bones yeti miniature painted for Frostgrave
Yeti

I went for a dark skin tone so it would contrast nicely with the fur. It also makes him resemble a gorilla more.

Reaper Bones yeti miniature painted for Frostgrave
Yeti

This is the very start of my bestiary for Frostgrave. Next, I will be working on some skeletons and zombies to give my necromancer some more enemies to fight.

Reaper Bones yeti miniature painted for Frostgrave
Wizard desperately fighting off a yeti

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Frostgrave

Frostgrave necromancer

I have started painting a warband for Frostgrave. A game I have long been intrigued by but am yet to play. For my wizard I have chosen to go with a necromancer since I have always loved painting undead.

Frostgrave necromancer miniature summoning a skeleton from the ground
Frostgrave Necromancer

I have tried to portray him as being physically weak but still powerful. My inspiration for him came partly from the old Mordheim necromancer miniature.

Frostgrave necromancer miniature with a severed head in his belt
Severed head

His apprentice is supposed to look slightly insane. His skin is pale and he brings his pet rat into battle.

Frostgrave necromancer apprentice miniature with open book
Frostgrave Necromancer Apprentice

He is known to talk to his rat and he treats him as his personal advisor.

Frostgrave necromancer apprentice miniature with pet rat on shoulder
Pet rat

You will need a zombie if you choose the Raise Zombie spell so I have created this miniature by combining parts from the Death Cultist’s sprue with the regular soldier’s sprue.

Zombie raised by a necromancer
Zombie

All miniatures are from North Star Military Figures and I find they are a real joy to assemble and paint. With all the sprues available there are endless possibilities.

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Blood Bowl

Blood Bowl Hobgoblin

There were never hobgoblins in 2nd edition Blood Bowl so you would have to use proxies if you wanted to use the chaos dwarf miniatures from that era with the current set of rules — or you could make your own Blood Bowl hobgoblin miniatures which is what I chose to do. I went with 1st edition orcs back when I did my chaos dwarfs, but I was never really satisfied with the faces. They still felt a little too orcish so I decided to try and sculpt my own hobgoblin faces.

hobgoblin miniature for chaos dwarf blood bowl team
Hobgoblin

I was aiming for a more oriental look for my Blood Bowl hobgoblin in line with the Citadel AD&D hobgoblins. So far I have done a couple, but I don’t know whether I’ll be doing more. It was a fun little project though.

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Blood Bowl

Glart Smashrip

I’ve decided to play underworld denizens in an upcoming one day Blood Bowl tournament. Only problem is that I don’t have a painted team. I have my skaven, but I don’t have enough goblins and I also want to use a the star players Glart Smashrip and Skitter Stab-Stab. Who can say no to an obese Strength 4 monster with claw and a backstabbing gutter runner?

Glart Smashrip

Forgeworld have released a version of Glart Smashrip, but it doesn’t really fit with the oldschool miniatures that I collect so I decided to sculpt my own version. The result can be seen here.

Glart Smashrip front view

I used the hands and feet from a lineman and the head from a kicker since those are the hardest parts to sculpt.

Glart Smashrip side view

I don’t have time to paint all the needed miniatures before the tournament so I will have to use what I have and the team will look somewhat eclectic. As long as there are no unpainted miniatures though I’m happy.

Glart Smashrip back view

I wanted to stay true to the original artwork, but I also wanted him to look a little more dynamic.

Glart Smashrip artwork
Glart Smashrip artwork

I studied images of sumo wrestlers and decided on a squatting pose. Below are some work in progress pictures.

work in progress
Work in progress
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Blood Bowl

Dark Elf Blood Bowl Blitzer 2

In 2015 my son was born. 2015 was also the last time I updated this blog. There has not been much painting since then, but I’m starting to feel the urge to produce something again.

Until that happens here is a blitzer I never got around to post back then.

Citadel Miniatures Dark Elf Blood Bowl Blitzer
Dark Elf Blitzer
Citadel Miniatures Dark Elf Blood Bowl Blitzer
Dark Elf Blitzer
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Blood Bowl

Blood Bowl Witch Elf

Witch elves are what makes dark elf teams so cool. They are expensive to hire and break easily, but the amount of damage they can do to your opponent’s team more than makes up for this.

Citadel Miniatures Dark Elf Blood Bowl Witch Elf
Witch Elf

From a modelling point of view they are really interesting too. I’ve always fancied Jes Goodwin’s Eldar harlequins and I wanted my witch elves to look something like that.

Citadel Miniatures Dark Elf Blood Bowl Witch Elf
Witch Elf

For a very long time I was struggling to find a combination of parts that I was satisfied with and I decided to scratch my first attempts. In the end I decided to use a Marauder witch elf combined with the legs of a female eldar harlequin. Since the face of the Marauder witch wasn’t exactly up to Jes Goodwin standards I also used the face mask of the harlequin.

Citadel Miniatures Dark Elf Blood Bowl Witch Elf
Witch Elf

The result is a witch elf in an attacking position which suits this kind of player well, I think.

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Blood Bowl

Dark Elf Blood Bowl Blitzer

Latest addition to the team is a blitzer. I wanted him to resemble the old starplayer Tuern Redvenom so I used his face mask, copied his thigh guards and combined them with the torso of one of the original blitzers.

Citadel Miniatures Dark Elf Blood Bowl Blitzer
Dark Elf Blitzer

I used this technique to create the thigh guards and it worked really well. The head and legs were donated by old wood elf wardancers.

Citadel Miniatures Dark Elf Blood Bowl Blitzer
Dark Elf Blitzer

I think he looks both meaner and more dynamic than the original blitzer models which is the way I like my dark elves.

Next up is a witch elf I have been working on for some time now.

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Blood Bowl

Dark Elf Blood Bowl Assassin

Next player up for my dark elf team is an assassin. The fact that this player can run around stabbing his opponents in the back without risking getting caught by the referee is enough to include one, but overall I don’t find this player very useful.

Citadel Miniatures Dark Elf Blood Bowl Assassin
Dark Elf Assassin

The assassin does provide for an interesting modelling project though and I had this idea in my head that I just had to try out. I ended up using the body of an elf wardancer called Eidyn because of the very cool fighting claw he has strapped to his right arm. The head was taken from an eldar scout wearing a scarf.

Detail
Dark Elf Assassin

I green stuffed the skull on the shoulder pad as well as the towel hanging from his waist. I chose to paint the base ring green. Green is normally reserved for blockers, but since dark elves don’t have any I figured that it would work as well as any other color.

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Blood Bowl

Dark Elf Blood Bowl Players

I’ve finally managed to finish a couple of the dark elves that I started working on last year. My plan is to do a complete “Jes Goodwin” dark elf team and this is of course just the start.

Citadel Miniatures Dark Elf Blood Bowl Runner
Dark Elf Runner

I ended up painting the runner’s mohawk in two tones to make him stand out on the board. After all he is the star of the team, sort of.

The lineman has had his head replaced with one of an eldar scout. The facial mask makes him look particularly sinister, I think.

Citadel Miniatures Dark Elf Blood Bowl Lineman
Dark Elf Lineman
The base rings were done using this technique.

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Blood Bowl

Blood Bowl Dwarf Coach

I painted up this dwarf coach many years ago. Originally I had ordered a dwarf siege gun with crew from Mail Order, but since the trollz sent me a miscast  gunner (with no flame) I decided to do something completely different with him and that’s how he ended up as a Blood Bowl coach.

Blood Bowl Dwarf Coach
Dwarf Coach

At the time I played one of the Madden NFL games and I stole this running play from one of the playbooks in the game. The blackboard itself is made from cardboard and matchsticks.