RoSD: The Discord Lockdown Cam Crew

[This blogpost was written long ago and never posted. It's from way back in Covid times.] 

... Covid lockdown was hard. Long and terrible. It's been absolutely killing my motivation for doing the miniature hobby, as it's the social aspect that motivates me. It's always the next game / play date that motivates me to actually do terrain building and painting. 

I tried the solo game / streaming thing to motivate myself, but it wasn't the same. So I decided to play a few games of RoSD with some friends from old. I play some PC games with them, but non of them are in the miniature hobby anymore. 

It worked well and was a nice day of gaming. We played through The Missing mission with some new Rangers. They made concepts and I picked out and painted some models to fit it. 

Macho 300 melee guy
"Make me a full testosterone warrior, like in 300!". Done. Build from a Oathmark human with some added GW marauder bits. This is a grizzled veteran fighter, seen enough combat to not care about apperances. 

Painted him in my city guard colors, so he can one day join a unit of spearmen in Oathmark.

A simple recruit made from a Perry Miniatures model with some bits. Also works as a puny city guardsman.

Classic ranger

Decided to build a more classic ranger for myself. Bow, two-handed sword on the back. Made from an Oathmark human and some different elf bits. 

My guy is also bringing a simple city guard, drafted from a nearby town to help the crew. Model is a Perry Miniature with oathmark goblin ax and GW elven shield. 

Arcane Crossbowman

"Build me an arcane crossbowman. A bit of magic, crossbow, ranger looking type. And his bodyguard psycho!" Made this dude from a Frostgrave cultist, GW elf head and some other bit box bits. 

The psycho bodyguard is a Frostgrave cultist head, added to an Oathmark goblin body and some GW lizardmen skink arms. 

Druid

"I want to be a nature loving, tree hugging druid". Made from Frostgrave female soldier with a bit of elven bits added and some cool forest base - don't know where that is from. 

Anyways the player decided to ditch this character just before the game and went with a classic barbarian instead. So picked out my savage from Ghost Archipelago for that. 

The games

Not gonna write any report on the games, it was great fun and the scenarios were hard enough to play through. But no focus on taking photos and such. So here's just a few quick shots from the games. 

You can find blog posts on most of the terrain here.

There's a lot of skirmish game lovers and solo players over at the Discord. Check out the server and the other SoMe through the Link Tree.

Terrain: Peacock Inn - interior

 For the game Guilders: A Life In Shadows there's a few scenarios, that require play inside buildings. I've covered the build of this huge tavern, based on a TTCombat Carnevale set before in this blog. And covering some of the bits and bobs painted for the interior in this blog. 

Now the entire thing is completed. Take a small trip through the build in this little video and read on for some words on how it's done. Most of the miniatures in there are from Dunkeldorf.

I 3d printed some flat doors found on thingiverse. Some of the prints failed, but since I don't like throwing suff out, it was easily fixed with some coffee stirrers. 

I've printed out some floor details, found online somewhere. I printed them on a3 paper, so they fit an entire floor with having to make some funky line-ups. 

I also found a bunch of pictures of carpets online, printed them out and glued them in place here and there. 

For the stairs, I printed some I also found online, and to save space on the top floor I simply added a wooden trapdoor in the floor, that saved me from cutting actual holes in the terrain - that would serve no practical purpose anyway. 

The walls are painted an off white that I mixed with cheap acryllics. It's painted on with a sponge, it adds a bit of a textured detail with the MDF shining through here and there. 

I added rooms to the floors using thick cardboard. The doors don't open, but that's not really a problem during gameplay. The wooden beans are used coffee stirrers glued in place, but they really break up that MDF look nicely.

Normally I've been opposed to gluing terrain in place inside buildings, not wanting to 'waste' painted interior. But these days, I glue terrain inside. It's just easier and with 3d printing and a ton of terrain crate - I'll never run out anyways. 

The top floor is a large suite, added some nicer looking interior details up here. Some a Dunkeldorf bits, some are from Mantic games. 

Full topdown look on the 1st floor, with two small common room and one room that's a bit more exclusive. 

This is the top floor suite, with one large room and a seperate sleeping chamber. 

If you like my stuff, please consider following some of the SoMe pages, it'll all help once Guilders is released and goign into sale. You can also pop into the Discord, it's a very good little community of supportive hobby people. It's all found through my LinkTree. 

Vikings: Berserkers

More info about the game and this project in his hub: Viking Mega Game 

A bunch of beserkers for my Viking Mega Game run at school. The berserkers are supposed to be some elite and rare troops. In the game the student teams had to build a huge temple before they could train berserkers.

The also needed the ressources:  Simple Weapons, Fur and Mead. 

Ressources are awarded by teachers, when students finish tasks, do good team work or similar. So it's instant motivation and rewards. They can also claim ressources from controling areas on the game board. Changes ressources into something else, if they have workshops, thralls, workers and farmers. 

I printed out and laminated a ton of ressource tokens, so there's much different for the teams to work for. It also encourages trading between the teams. 

  

In the victrix box there's some good bits to make beserkers, but not enough for all 6 teams. So I split up the various bits and then used greenstuff to maximize the bear pelts. Beserkers ought to have been nude, but I didn't have correct bodies. Also I gave them all two axes, to make them distinct from the huscarls with dane axes. Not going for full historical accuracy hear. 

Happy with the result.  I might consider, for berserkes in a future re-run, to invest in a bunch of Wargames Atlan

Here's the painted berserkers. 

Here's the finished green hird. I had a lot of different green paints in the collection, so there's many different tones of green on this team. As with all hirds, all the shield designs are different as well. Free variety in the army.

More info about the game and this project in his hub: Viking Mega Game

Guilders: A couple of civilians

 When putting together my new guild for Guilders 1.6, I also put together two other miniatures (before settling on which to use). These are from Dungeons and Lasers III: Woodhaven. Excellent miniatures once again, I'm very impressed with the sculpting. The connection points / mold lines) are so well hidden through design - it's really good. 

I've painted these with speed paint. Base coat brown from below, white from the top. A bit of wash here and there, then speed paint. 

A beggar missing a leg, for use as a potential scum, prisoner for The Hanged Man's Friend or just a civilian.

This civilian woman is really nice, I should have some chickens somewhere - so I might add some to her base at one point. I think this model has a nice pose and dynamic. It's a great civillian to add to the board. 

Guilders: A Life in Shadows is a 28mm skirmish campaign game. There's large TTRPG elements to the campaign part of the game. You play as thief guilds trying to make it in a big city. There's rules for civillians and guards, that the game controls based on player actions. 

You can find the beta rules (and a Lite version), starting warbands and similar stuff right here: Google Drive.

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Shadow Dragon - Onyx

 On the Discord we have quarterly hobby challenges. These are good fun hobby projects and a friednly competition. Themes are decided by members and so is the voting on entries. For this challenge we went for miniatures that are big compared to their scale. 

I've painted up a Dungeons and Lasers dragon - fairly big for the 28mm scale. 

This dragon miniature is painted like Onyx, the main character in a LitRPG book series by Lars Machmüller. I really enjoy the audiobooks, so I painted this up as a surprise gift for him. I also send along a ghost, that's a secondary character in the series. 

It's all painted with speed paints. 

Lars has been kind enough to read through Guilders a couple of times, picking up a ton of different errors in the manuscript. Check him out on Audible!