Terrain: Carriage and Wagon

 Wagons add a lot of life to a any fantasy board - be it city of farmstead. I want to have lots of wagons and carts parked around my fantasy city when it's all done. 

I also want some colors on as much of my city as possible. So my wagons will all have some colors, besides just brown wood. First up is a nice big Reaper Bones wagon. It's a good chunky terrain, with room for miniatures in the back. 

I've painted it wooden brown, red outside with green wheels. The straw in the back is just yellow static grass added with a tiny bit of super glue. This is a really playable piece, adding height and cover for games. 

The farmer is a straight up Fireforge Miniatures angry peasant. A great kit for making a bunch of civilians for a game like Guilders: A Life In Shadows. 

The second is a carriage 3d printed by a friend. I found this one on thingeverse - it also has a detailed interior - but I haven't done anything for that. The inside will never really be used in my games anyway. 

There's a heist in Guilders named 'The Carriage', where that's the target. So I wanted on what was a bit more than a peasents wagon. I've painted it in the same colors as I've done my city guard - so it'll fit well with the city's king or nobles. 

For this build, it was the first time for my trying the speed paitn white - which I could not make work in any way. It just turned out grey for me. ... so in the end I ended up drybrushing whie on the roof. Will have to see if there's any tips for making the white speed paint work, I like speed paint for terrain. 

I will need to fix up some pole thing for pulling the cart and paint up a couple of horses for it. That comes later at some point. 

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Guilders: More Inn Patrons

Back when I started Guilders, I found and build all manner of various civilians. Old Reaper Bones minis, some 3d prints and a lot of kitbashing. A bunch of them were done with an inn / drinking theme. Let's check them out. 

First up is an excellent inn keeper miniature from Blacklist, I really like this miniature. It was a bit hard figuring out the whole apron design, what was what. Also painted up his wife, a reaper bones miniature. This was originally bought for bloodbowl as a bloodweiser babe.

The monk is a 3d print I was gifted as part of another order. The guy carrying a tray with mugs is a kit bash. Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago head, body and arms from Fireforge peasents and mugs from old GW dwarfs. 

I think the barrel and mug on his back is from an old bretonnia men-at-arms kits.

These drinking patron are mostly Fireforge peasents but with added GW dwarf mugs. The pipe smoke is a tiny bit of teddy bear stuffing. The huge guy on the right is a Dunkeldorf resin miniature, a promo for one of their campaigns. 

And here's my entire inn patrons setup. I've written blogs about the sitting miniatures and terrain as well. 

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Frostgrave: Necromancer Warband

 Back in the day, before Covid came back and closed everything again - I and two friends wanted to start a new FG campaign. As with all new campaign, I always do new models. This time I wanted to play a Necromancer - going in really heavy on summoning to build themed models for it all. 

The campaign never got started though and at this point I've moved on to a full focus on Guilders - A Life In Shadows! But the warband is nice and it's mostly based to fit use in other games as well. 

Full starting warband, after a few succesful spells. 

My apprentice on the left, an old metal GW chaos sorcerer. Painted a long time ago, just gave him a touch up and added some red runes to his skull mask and staff. On the right is a Massive Darkness wizard. I modded his staff with a cool skull and added some skulls to his belt. 

I really like the cyan bright eyes. 

Summon Animal - zombie bears

I love summon animal companion and the bear has a fantastic profile. I've painted up bears for multible warbands. These are Nolzur and Reaper Bones bear models. I chopped by pieces of plastic from them, and sculpted with greenstuff as wounded areas. Then added arrows sticking out from them.

Illusionary Soldier

I've had these gost for a long time. They're from some warhammer vampire spirit wagon thing. Cut the ghosts a bit shorter. They've been painted white, with a couple of blue wash layers. Can be used as ghost for anything, but I've chosen illusionary soldier - just to bring these. It's about enhancing the story of the 

Animate Construct

These have a very high casting number, but I wanted to bring gross constructs for the Necromancer. I've painted up two The Others demons and a Reaper Bones flesh golems. These are to be used as medium and large constructs - with a bit of luck. 

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Terrain: Storage Room

 After finishing some of my dungeon tiles, I had to get ready for some Rangers of Shadow Deep. For that I needed a storage room. 

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Storage room

For the storage room I've pulled out a lot of different terrain crate pieces. All manner of different boxes, crate, chests and food stuff. Some of these pieces I've made earlier for Frostgrave. It's cheap Renedra barrels, ebay wooden barrelse and other bits glued together. 

The cool barrel of sausages is from Dunkeldorf kickstarter. Some of these pieces will also be turned into a kitchen room at some point. 

Terrain: Torture Chamber

 After finishing some of my dungeon tiles, I had to get ready for some Rangers of Shadow Deep. For that I needed a torture chamber. 

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Torture Chamber

I went into the garage and dug out all manner of bit from my 'terrain crate' box - also having other kinds of bits. I gave a good amount of different torture chamber bits to use. Let's check them out.

A necromancer and a guard working at a table. Took one of my terrain crate tables and added bits from the bits box. A hand from a zombie kit, a bunch of knives from somewhere. There's a bag with a hand (think it's from FG cultists or Mantic zombies). Also used the doctors bag from Dunkeldorf and added a small candle, don't know where that is from.

A couple of reaper bones bits I got donated. Added a renedra base to the coal basket. The faun is from Admiralty Miniatures. 

An old HeroQuest bench, a prisoner from Terrain Crate and a Reaper Bones iron maiden. 

A couple more pieces from Reaper Bones. Painted up the bear trap to work in the torture chamber as well. The dwarven prisoner is from Admiralty Miniatures.

For this torture chamber and prison setup, I still need to build some cages. I think I'll be doing one and casting it a couple of times with plaster. 

RoSD - Villagers and survivors

For a lot of Rangers of Shadow Deep scenarios there's a possibility to rescue some villagers from evil. In out first scenario I didn't know, so we just a crew member from the Ghost Archipelago.

But I wanted to have some prober fantasy civilians to rescue. So here's four civilians who will often need saving from monsters.

I build the male farmers from Oathmark human soldiers. I found the two bodies with the least amount of metal studs on their armor and scraped them off with my hobby knife. Then picked out two heads without helmets - and they're pretty much perfect.

From the old (and otherwise terrible) GW zombie kit I took a pitchfork and a scythe. Job done.

From my regular hobby supplier King Games I found a bunch of different civilians. The one on the left I can't remember who made, it's a metal figure. The model on the right is a reaper bones miniature.

RoSD - New Ranger and companions

Played my first game of Ranger's Of Shadow Deep with my son. Being isolated at home, for at least 14 days during this COVID-19 crisis. My son really enjoyed the game and I decided to quickly build and paint some models for him.

My son picked out the models and bits himself, I build the miniatures. The paint scheme is made to fit my own Ranger and her companions.

For the first scenario we played, my son had recruitment points for 3 companions, so that's what we build.

Ranger Bottond the Black

My son picked out an Oathmark human body (with a cool ranger fitting cloak) and Frostgrave barbarian head. He wanted he leader to have a big two-handed axe for beheading all the evil monsters and picked out a GW high elf lord bit. The armored free arm is an old GW empire militia bit.

As his ranger found some healing herps in the first battle, it was important for my son that he had potions flasks in the belt. It's gunpowder canisters from old GW dwarfs. Lastly he got a small crossbow, for that free shot at the start, before getting into melee.

Man-at-Arms
This is an old metal GW dark elf assassin, he was missing his right arm when we found him. Ny son picked out a nice one handed axe for him and after looking at all the shields (there's so many in a bit box) - picked out this one. Glad he ended on this, as he was also considering a big chaos knight shield.

Archer
The archers had great succes in out first game, so he wanted an archer to support his ranger. The body is an Oathmark human and the head is from Frostgrave cultists. Simple model, only added a bowstring to the bow for the extra detail.

Recruit
Last is a Reaper Miniatures armored assassin. I got this model as a freebie from King Games once, so it's nice to put it on the table. Originally the model was armed with two knives, but that that's not a cool load out, he needed a sword. The sword fits perfectly and is from the Oathmark human kit.

Ghost Archipelago: Objectives

I love making treasure tokens! And I've made both frozen versions, dungeon versions and now for Ghost Archipelago.

I've had some nice resin and metal bits from Admiralty Miniatures for some time, decided to use those. The look sufficiently Indiana Jones for this game.

To bring out the pieces, I've put them all standing on a small rock. Adds some nice weight to the counter and makes them more visible. 'Who would leave their treasure on a rock?' - well.... Who would leave it one the floor of a jungle?

Besides the small treasure pieces, i've added finger nail gems and gold glitter.

A goblet of gold, coins and gems.

A crystal ball.

Two small god statues. A male and female god - the male one is probably a Chaos Dwarf icon.

A globe and a telescope - this is my favorite treasure tokens. It's just so fitting for a pirate crew to find something like this.

A bronze vase and some other treasure pieces.

A captains log, hopefully it contains clues to where one can find the Crystal Pool.

A small counter for the 'x marks the spot' scenario. Added a shovel and pick axe from Mantic's terrain crate, a skull and some recently dug earth.

Saurian eggs. These are simple, cheap polystyrene eggs found on ebay. They had a single layer of brown wash, to tone down the white. Super quick and very easy pieces to do. Used for the 'saurian breakfast' scenario.