Frostgrave characters

I've managed to complete a couple of Frostgrave figures: a generic build from the excellent plastic Frostgrave Soldiers box (the first one they put out), and a metal Cult Barbarian. You can create an amazing variety of charcters from the plastic box set, and as a bonus, you can use them with the other plastic boxes to give you even more options. I can't say enough about how much I like the Frostgrave line.

Soldier:

Cult Barbarian:

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LotR: Saruman

Time for another GW Lord of the Rings fig. This time it's everybody's favorite corrupted wizard - Saruman! Not the most dynamic sculpt, but I like it nonetheless. The Perry twins have produced some great figs in their time, and this line is among their best. It's unfortunate that the metals are out of production (and that I'm still missing a few of them!).

Projects for this weekend include finishing up a couple of Frostgrave figs and a few others that I have to just paint the metals on (and a classic Umber Hulk retouch-up). I may also paint up a D&D plastics Dire Wolf fig that I recently picked up, if I have the time.


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15mm Super Apes!!!

I used to dabble in sculpting, and a few years ago, I sculpted up a 15mm ape. I showed it to Scott - he liked it, and asked me if I could sculpt up a couple others. I did, and here is the result. I tried to make each one a little different from the other, and gave them each a similar belt to hopefully tie them all together, and make them look more "comic book like," if you will. One also got power gloves (the Orangutan). I finally got around to basing them (they've been patined for quite awhile now). The figures were actually produced as masters, but never made it into production. If only Julius Schwartz was still around...

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Frostgrave Large Construct!

Northstar's Frostgrave line of miniatures has been producing some of the best (and most reasonably-priced) fantasy miniatures available anywhere. The plastics are simply amazing, and the metals are equally good. You can use them for just about anything you want - role-playing, skirmish (they'd be great for Mordheim) and mass battles. I highly recommend any of their plastic miniature box sets. I've started several plastics, but I finally finished the Large Construct, which is metal. Super easy and fun to paint. It's a great fig!

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LoTR

While I try and get my digital camera figured out for proper pics of some newly painted mini's, I thought that I'd post a couple of pics from one of my favorite lines of miniatures - GW's Lord of the Rings. In my opinion, they are the best looking and sculpted Elves and Dwarves available. I love the vast majority of the entire line (though there are some duds, I admit), and I have most of them (naturally, the majority are unpainted). First up is Legolas -  his base is finished in an old style, which I soon changed in favor of other methods, but I still think it looks alright. Anyway, great sculpt!

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Rattle them Bones!

Thought that I'd post a great Reaper Bones fig - the Bugbear! I'm on the fence about Bones' smaller figures (due to loss of detail and the elasticity of the plastic), but I simply love their larger ones. There's not much loss of detail from the metal figs, and if you drop them, they won't chip or break!

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Rising like a Phoenix (or a zombie…)

Hey all! No, it's not Scott - it's his buddy Jan (posting as "Skip"), carrying on the hi-jacking of this site (with Scott's approval, of course). I always enjoyed reading Scott's posts, and think that it would be nice to at least keep the spirit of this blog alive. I plan on posting at least once per week, and will focus on miniatures. I've recently begun painting mini's again after about a three-year hiatus (more or less). I've got some cool things in the can already, and lots of projects in the pipeline.

I'll start off with some previously painted Superfigs (my two favorites): Ape Ace! and The Battlin' Belgian!

Hope you like them!

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