More Ruins in the Frozen City

So another piece of ruin for the Frozen City.

 Like the previous one, this is built from two pieces from the Renedra Ruins Frame C and a Products for Wargamers Scatter Terrain laser cut MDF base.

 Two pieces were assembled, and then alternate end blocks were cut out so the two pieces interlocked.

An Oathmark Human Infantry figure for scale.

Frostgrave Wizards II

The Frostgrave Wizards II box set allows the building of eight female wizards for use in Frostgrave or other fantasy games.

 The box contains two identical sprues. Each sprue has four different bodies and an assortment of heads and arms. There are a number of additional items such as flasks, pouches and books, plus a rat, cat and bird as familiars.

Frostgrave Knights

Together with the release of Frostgrave Second Edition, North Star has released a box set of ten plastic multi-part knights. The box has the new Second Edition logo.

 Unlike the previous Soldier box sets, this box will only build ten figures. The box contains two sprues. Each sprue has five more obviously armoured bodies and a wide assortment of heads.

 There are a range of hand weapons plus two handed weapons (including a flail), one bow and two crossbow.

And, most important of all, a rubber chicken.

Oathmark Gnolls

I bought a set of Frostgrave Gnolls when they first came out, assembled a few and put them away again.

When I bought Oathmark, I was interested in adding a non-human army in plastic, and something a bit different from the usual elves, dwarfs, goblins and orcs.

You may look in vain for the army lists for Gnolls in Oathmark - until there is an official list, I am using the Orc list from the rulebook.

 The box contains four sprues, each sprue having five different bodies.

Each sprue has four hand weapons (two axes, a morning star and a sword), three two handed weapons (sword, axe and spear), two bows and one crossbow.

There are ten different heads, some wearing hoods.

Two ranks of Gnolls with Hand Weapons (the shields will be added after painting.

I added some green stuff to bulk up the neck and bed the head to the body better.

One rank of archers

Forces list

Type	Ranks
Gnoll Soldier	6
Gnoll Archer	1
Gnoll Linebreaker	1

Oathmark Elf Light Infantry

As mentioned earlier, I recently received an order from North Star. This included the Oathmark Elf Light Infantry.

 There are six identical sprues, each sprue having five different bodies and enough arms to build all archers or all sword and shield.

 There are fifteen heads, five each of bare headed, hooded and helmeted.

 The Elf Light Infantry sprue will build either Elf Rangers or Elf Pathguard.

I built the first two sprues as Rangers, which point up at nearly half the number of points of a minimum army.

 They are in a Renedra Oathmark sabot base.

My starter army can be built from just one box of Elf Light Infantry.

For the shootiest version, four ranks of Elf Rangers eats most of the points (they are very points hungry).

This does leave (almost) two sprues left over.

As an alternative, you can swap one rank of Rangers for Pathguard and buy a level one Spell Caster.

Here is my spell caster built from one of the Elf Light Infantry with a couple of additions from the Frostgrave Wizards's sprue.

The whole lot needs proper basing before being painted.

Desirable Property - Medium Dacha

At SELWG 2019 I ordered a couple of the Sarissa Precision Russian village houses.

The Russian Village House #1 is slightly larger than the Russian Village House #2 in the previous post.

The kit comes as two sheets of laser cut MDF and one sheet of laser cut greybeard, plus instructions.

Once again, as this was going to be a "modern" dacha, I plated over the roof with plain plastic card, and then added ribs from plastic strip. This roofing style is similar to the dacha in the photograph here. It also covered up the gap where the chimney should have gone.

I probably should have increased the overhang a bit to hide the double thickness roof.

The walls are painted Citadel Zandri Dust (spray can). The roof is Army Painter Chaotic Red (spray can again). The window frames and door frames are Army painter Skeleton Bone. The door is Army Painter Oak.

It needs weathering.

 Sarissa Precision Picket Fence (27mm tall) provides some cover.

Desirable Property - Small Dacha

As discussed earlier, I was looking for some suitable buildings for Zona Alfa and noticed some photographs of dacha I took a number of years ago.

Sarissa Precision do a range of 28mm scale Russian buildings, one of which is a Russian Village House #2.

The kit comes as two sheets of MDF and a small sheet of laser cut greyboard.

For the modern look I was after, and because one of the occasional rules on Dacha is the absence of permanent permanent heating, I used Slater's Corrugated Iron embossed plastic sheet over the supplied MDF roof (skipping the chimney components).

The dacha I saw tended to be pastel coloured, unfortunately the Vallejo grey blue has turned out a bit bright

There are some areas that need retouching, and the whole thing needs to be weathered.

Not Colours 2020 - part one

What with "One thing or the Other", Colours (along with a lot of other things) has been cancelled.

Having been inspired by my recent purchase of Oathmark and the release of Frostgrave II (though that is a story for another day), I put in an order to North Star for a quantity of Oathmark and Frostgrave goodies (plus lots of bases).

 As I have posted previously, I am basing my human sized Oathmark and Frostgrave figures on Renedra round bases (they are nicer for skirmish games). Oathmark works on 25mm square bases with five figures per rank.

Renedra have two sets of "sabot" bases for 25mm round figure bases, one of two ranks (ten figures) and one of four ranks (twenty figures)

 You get two sprues (four sabot bases) per pack.

Even the Gnolls (probably the most unruly of the Frostgrave figures) sit nicely in the sabot base (even if the "officer" is slightly out of position on the overhead view).