A Small Force of Austrians For Sharp Practice

With the aim of playing a game with a close friend of mine I painted up some Napoleonic Austrians for Sharp Practice.  In addition to what I had already painted, I added 4 more Line Infantry, 2 NCOs, 1 Officer, 6 Skirmishing Jaegers and an Artillery Piece.  Of note the Artillery Piece was of poor casting quality from Perry Miniatures which is usually excellent.  I didnt put too much effort into the gun as a result.  All my Austrians are from Perry.  The plastics are brilliant.

I am most pleased with this little force and SP2 is a brilliant game! I have included some bonus pictures of our 2 games.

Frostgrave - Creating Felstad

I have been very busy 3D printing and painting terrain for Frostgrave.  The game is based around the Frozen City of Felstad which is in ruins and the snows have melted attracting adventurers.

All the images in this post contain 3D printed terrain and everything except the bases is printed.  I will start off with some post edited photos first to set the scene.

Cultists come running out of a Graveyard 

Frostgrave Cultists

Just some of my Frostgrave Cultists available 

Soldiers fighting their way through the Graveyard

A Witch and his Apprentice practicing the dark arts

... something disturbs them

The Witch Hunters Seek them out

Surrounded the fight is on

Zombies raising from their Graves

A necromancer in a wooded area raises some frozen corpses

All of the scenery is from Thingiverse or Printable Scenery.  The Graveyard is a particular favorite of mine.  All the Graveyard components are from Printable Scenery.  I used some left over plasticard for the path and used a tree and centre tombstone from Thingiverse.

The tombstone slides back revealing an underground Crypt... or dungeon

Ulvheim ruins available from Printable Scenery

Ruined Gothic Abby from Pritable Scenery.  I printed it in four pieces
 and in hindsight should of just printed it as one piece

CD Trees.  Better than throwing the CDs out I got some trees from Thingiverse
and mounted them to this now redundant technology

To cover the gap I immortalised some Warlord Games employees.  Each CD has a unique
quality control slip entombed in it

This is only the start for the terrain I am creating for Felstad.  Make sure to follow me on twitter for updates!

... and finally there is only Death in the Frozen City

Converting Frostgrave - Part 1 - Witch Hunters

Frostgrave is an excellent game and is my flavour of the month at the moment.  Northstar Military Figures produces some excellent plastic kits for the game. I have the Soldiers, Barbarians, Cultists and the Ghost Archipelago Crewmen Set.  These four boxes combined can make some interesting looking figures.  If rumour is correct, some Frostgrave Female Models are coming out some time soon!

I have a slight obsession with Witch Hunters, Demon Hunters, Vampire Hunters or well dressed 17th century adventurers.  I prefer the term Witch Hunter.  The names Solomon Kane and Van Helsing come to mind.  I really want some of my characters in Frostgrave to fit this look.  I wonder if we can even come up with a Witch Hunter Class?

My converted Frostgrave Witch Hunters

I wanted to keep these conversions using the Northstar Military Figures kits.  I did decide to add one part from a Games Workshop empire Militia Kits as a pistol fits the theme so well and there are now official Black Powder Rules for Frostgrave.  I did not use any parts from the Cultist Sprue however I did for some conversions which will be showcased in Part 2.

The list of components I used

Let it be known that I am not very good with Green Stuff!  I was happy with these guys once assembled.  Of note the Sprue Knoblets are just bits of the sprue frame cut to shape and carved to represent the wide brimmed hat.  I also filed down the Ghost Archipelago hat and added a sprue knoblet to it.  The witch hunter hats were the hardest part of this conversion.

They painted up a treat and I am most pleased with them

A Witch Hunter with Cross Bow and Torch

A Witch Hunter with Sword and Lantern

A Witch Hunter Pointing, you must point out the heretics