Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Ludmilla Farhazzi - Azur Wizard

One of the recent rebasing projects... 

My friend John picked up a copy of Frostrgrave Second Edition for me - as part of a bribe to paint some miniatures for him (including some Frostgrave miniatures). I have not played Frostgrave in ages. It's not that I stopped liking the game... I just... y'know... got distracted by other things (Vimy Project, which was pretty all-consuming for the better part of a year) and just haven't gotten back to it yet... In addition to doing some work on John's miniatures, I took a look at the rules, briefly, and tried to organize a couple warbands and started rebasing them in readiness for trying out the new edition... at some point... probably in the fall. 

I finished this first warband for Amanda as it only required rebasing (and a few touch-ups). I'm organizing another for myself, but it requires finishing up a few minis. I still have the Jade and Gold wizards that could go at anytime... and so many others that could be cobbled together.

I'm not sure exactly which type of wizard Ludmilla will be, I might just leave that to Amanda to figure out. I'm thinking she kind of looks like an Illusionist, though

Ludmilla Farhazzi - Azur Wizard - and her warband

Ludmilla Farhazzi (right) and her apprentice, Grace. (left).

Ivanka  and Ariana - the two "specialist" archers.

Jane and Bianca - Women-at-Arms

Mandy and Zora - Thieves

Belladonna and Kate - thugs

With these I was trying out my new cobblestone rollers from Green Stuff World. I was kind of still getting the hang of them with these... I like them. I might end up rebasing the other Frostgrave warbands similarly. I like being able to paint the names on the back of bases. 

Trying out a new (to me) camera, that is actually of an older generation of the one I was previously using. The older one had a scratch on the lens and always had a blurry spot right in the middle of the pictures and it was just too irritating... but I am loathe to look for new things - especially anything tech-related. Finnegan happened to get a gift card from his school for some sort of points accumulated over the last few years? Amanda used it to get him a new, FANCY camera - as he is taking a photography class in the fall and been talking about doing YouTube videos. So, I've got HIS hand-me-down camera (which he barely ever used. EVER. It's taking some getting used to, but it's nice to finally have clear photos again! 

I'm not sure when we'll ever get to playing Frostgrave... Maybe I'll get a campaign going in the fall... or, maybe I won't. I definitely want to play some Age of Sigmar soon and would very much like to get a Paths to Glory campaign going - that I hope will carry on into the fall! 

I also want to get my Soulbound game going with my out-of-town buddies - AND might even want to try getting a SECOND going, in person... 

So... not sure when Frostgrave might fit into that. Maybe it'll be a once-a-month thing...? 

Or a "Maybe-Next-Year" thing... 

9 comments:

  1. They turned out well. How terrain intensive is Frostgrave? The boy was interested in trying it, but not sure if we have the doings.

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    1. Thanks!

      It has been over five years since I've played and I haven't really read through the new rules. But, if I recall, you do want a fair bit of terrain, to break up sight-lines... but that being said, it's meant to be played on a very small board/table. One-on-One games can be played on a 2'x2' board - so you don't need a LOT to fill that size of battlefield!

      I did build a LOT of terrain, but I was planning for filling two 4'x4' tables to run two 4-player games in a larger campaigns I was hosting.

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  2. Nice looking frostgrave band,mine is made up of figures I painted in enamel in about 1980,some are better than others,I might clean the bases up and post them for a laugh!
    Best Iain

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    1. DO IT!!!!

      I occasionally find one of my old ones and show it to the kids (mostly to make them feel better about any paint jobs they've ever done!) I've stripped and repainted most of my really, REALLY old minis (at least the ones that I still have)

      I'm pretty sure there's a rule in Dragon Rampant about playing with minis pre-1980 painted in enamel paints - conferring some spectacular bonus!

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  3. Nice work on the Ludmilla and the whole band - the Blues Sisters? On a mission from goddess? ha ha
    The bases look good, too. If there are any flaws I can't see them.

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    1. Thanks!

      Blues Sisters on a mission from Goddess... that is brilliant! Amanda totally wouldn't get it. I'm not sure she's even seen the Blues Brothers.

      I was putting an awful lot of green stuff on the bases, and then having to carve off stuff that smooshed over the edge and then carve details into the side. You can get away with a LOT less than I was using on these and it ends up looking better and is much less work.

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  4. Tim,
    Now that's a great looking wizard! I also love the coloring of the staff of her apprentice.
    Neil

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    1. Oh, it's Ludmilla that has the staff - I guess I positioned them wrong in that photo... or... should have clarified it was Ludmilla (right) and apprentice, Grace (left)..

      Maybe I'll go change that now!

      Thanks!

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