Once more into the Frozen City!

Now I’ve found all my stashed away boxes of miniatures and feel like im happy I can fulfill the bestiary tick list I’ll move on to the next step.

To be fair there aren’t many to undercoat but yes I do need to assemble and base coated some of the minis. I’ve also started painting some of the minis at my desk and need to finish them off with the bases. I think with these I’ll do the monsters with my das putty to build up thr bases, then sand, paint that gray and drybrush it and then clump some snow on the top. Ill try to keep them consistent. I have been eyeing up kraut covers mountain pass snow to do the bases, but I’ve come to decision that I should stay consistent and I could use the kraut cover on new warbands that I’ll make in the future. Maybe come the summer when all the bestiary creatures are complete.

A boy can dream.

Over the bank holiday weekend we had some nice weather and had a quiet day on the monday while the missus was in work and my boys played. I had chance to go out to my shed and pull out a box or 2 I knew was up there with the oldest miniatures in my frostgrave collection.

Going through the miniatures in the box alot are already undercoated which is a great help. I think alot of my issue was time was wanting to have all these miniatures ready to paint but never actually having that time to paint.

I organised what I wanted out of the box and what was unneeded for now, including putting ghost archipelago stuff back. God I love ghost archipelago too lol.

I know there is atleast another box of fantasy/frostgrave/ghost archipelago somewhere. Maybe I should organise the GA stuff altogether as well, so thats all in one place and the frostgrave is all in one place.

I started to list what I got and took a photo of the wandering monster table to have a basic list to hunt down things and tick them off.

Right let’s start at the beginning. A long time ago, when first edition came out, I really liked the idea of the game. Long time Elder scrolls player, the idea played into my love of skyrim. When the second expansion for frostgrave, into the breeding pits came out and I saw the beast crafter and all the gnolls i was absolutely Sold on the range. I bought in straight away! The gnolls plastic box was my first frostgrave plastics. Well I just kept up with the expansion books and miniature ranges where I could, buying, undercoating and then going in the pile of opportunity. I’d not only buy northstars miniatures, but miniatures from other ranges that played into my image of that Creature.
Second edition came out and I slowed down a bit. Other things were starting to draw my attention. Dreadball, burrows and Badgers and dead mans hand! Frostgrave went on the back burner and I’d grab a book when they came out read it and it would just go in my book case.
Spring clean seems like a good chance to pull out the boxes, its turns out many, of miniatures and terrain to go through and breath new life into. I’m thawing out the miniatures if you will ;).

My objective is to paint miniatures to atleast fill out the bestiary from the second edition rulebook. Army painter speed Paints will be a big help here i’m sure. But I want magic and whimsy where I can help it, in an already magical Felstad!

Next thing to do will actually pull out the boxes assign miniatures to a paint list made up of the bestiary/random creature from the 2nd Ed Rulebook. Maybe the basic requirements for each scenario also.

If I feel like im doing well I may keep going with other miniatures for other supplements of frostgrave or a new warband or 2 if I get totally caught up with the Project.