Frostgrave, Halo Ground Command and other tabletop minis

[quozl]

Originally Posted by TREX

Thanks hahma ill be printing and laminating those later today. Did they have any for monster units as well?

Yep, also on boardgamegeek.com

[Hahma]

I decided to try to get one of my daughters to give Frostgrave a try, she's more likely than her twin to try new things. I figured it would easiest to just pick a wizard type for her, and split the warband figures I have painted between us. Since she loves bears, I gave her the Witch class because it has a spell called Animal Companion that you attempt before a game, to see if you can bring in a bear, wolf, snow leopard or ice toad. It basically becomes part of your warband for that game. I let her choose the other 2 Witch spells she wanted to start with also, and she chose Curse and Fog. I had chosen her out of school spells to make it easier for her, and chose Leap from Summoner, Bone Dart from Necromancer, Telekenesis from Enchanter, Heal from Thaumaturge and Push from Sigilist.

For mine, I figured I'd create a new one and not use the Illusionist I have already. So I chose the Elementalist, with it's Elemental Bolt, Elemental Shield and Wall spells. Out of school spells are Fleet Feet from Chromancer, Enchant Weapon from Enchanter, Raise Zombie from Necromancer, Imp from Summoner and Heal from Thaumaturge.

We each have an apprentice which knows our spells but has a -2 to each cast roll attempt, as well as having less Will,Shoot, and Health stats.

For the rest of our warbands, Morgan will have a Thief (20), Thug (20), Archer (50), Crossbowman (50), Treasure Hunter (80) and Man at Arms (80), for 300 gold. I have a Thief (20), Thug (20), Archer (50), Crossbowman (50), Infantryman (50) and Ranger (100), for 290 gold.

I set up the table on my new mat, with the terrain I have painted so far, as well as some Heroscape trees. Since the mat is 4x4 and the play area is 3x3, I didn't have anything right near the edges, which also helps keep it busier in the actual play area. This is key since I don't have much terrain like my friend Chis does, though when he places his his next order at 4Ground games, I have some cool pre-painted ruins and other bits as part of that order. He's just waiting for them to get their new Japanese thatched roof buildings in before he places the order.

Anyway, here are a couple of pictures of the layout. Morgan isn't feeling good tonight, we are going to a BBQ at my sister's tomorrow, and I'm going to Chicago on Monday to play The Walking Dead miniatures game, so I told Morgan that we'll just leave it setup and whenever we get to it, it's fine. It's in the basement, so I can leave it setup pretty much as long as I like.

[keglo]

@Hahma

That table is looking sweet. Looking forward to hearing how that game goes.

[TREX]

I finished up my first Fisher price conversion that I initially made for Heroscape:
I added a bunch of debris and a bunch of accenting and changed it up. It also has the capability to allow heroscape ladders to be hooked in. I also made a small set of scatter terrain to get my frostgrave terrain collection together. Also threw in a templar and a wizard from the reaper bones line that I painted for scale.

[TREX]

I'm afraid the pics don't quite do em justice.

[A3n]

@TREX you gotta spread these things out a bit. I still can't rep you yet.

Amazing work!

[Hahma]

@TREX

Very awesome work there! Lots of possibilities with that. Crossbowman manning the turret and covering most of the table on overwatch, use of Teleport spell to get a treasure up there. Push spell to push someone off the top and causing massive damage. I also love the scatter terrain barrels, are those from a kit, or do they sell them at a craft store unpainted?

I'm with A3n, wish I could rep you for that.

[Tornado]

Holy crap, this is awesome!
What was the original piece, FP castle?

Where do the ladders go? How do you get to the top?

[keglo]

@TREX

That is awesome! Now I'll be constantly looking through thrift stores and garage sales for toy castles. I love the way it turned out.

I too was going to ask about the barrels.

[Tornado]

Hobby Lobby?

[TREX]

Originally Posted by Tornado

Hobby Lobby?

Yeah. Thats where you can get the barrels. The barrels also have a little flocking and a touch of spanish moss. They are accented with chunks of insulation foam pebbles and sand all glued on. Also bits of popsicle stick broken and put on there. The bases really turned out. That stuff ismy composite cardboard that I cut with the scroll saw and made the cracks indented with my woodburner chisel bit. Glad you guys like this stuff. Im just getting started. I have another one of those castles that im going to do up differently. Ill post a side by side so you guys can tell how much work went into it. Good luck on finding the old fisher price stuff. Ive had all these sets since I was about 8 years old. Ill also be converting a fp pirate island and a fp sherwood forest. I have a dozen other things in the works also. Do yourselves a favor and check out DM Craft on youtube by dm scotty. Hes got hundreds of awesome cheap tutorials.

[Tornado]

Hobby Lobby has lots of cool items for terrain in the wood section. They also have something like Garden Friends that has faerie garden items with some really cool walls, bridges, buildings ect.