North Star Unveil Monsters Hunting Through Frostgrave Ruins
October 18, 2019 by brennon
North Star Military Figures has been showing off some new monsters and creatures which will be finding their way to Frostgrave as part of their Perilous Dark Nickstarter coming soon. Leading the way we have some automatons and cunning villains.
Here we have the Ballista Construct on the left here, a large machine which has been crafted using magic and science as a guardian of some long-forgotten tomb. On the other side, we have Borock the Half-Minotaur Gnoll Leader who would work as an awesome leader for your force of grizzled Gnolls, scampering around in the ruins for trinkets and other curiosities.
I am always a fan of seeing more monsters and other creatures from North Star for Frostgrave as they are always nice and inventive. I love the idea of being able to dive deep into a game like Frostgrave and have this massive collection of oddities to choose from during games.
Hunting Hounds
As well as the monstrous creatures above there's also the pack of Chronohounds who are from the pages of Perilous Dark.
These warped hounds look like they will be quite the pain to fight and I love their weird mottled look. I think they would pop well with a base colour, wash and drybrush to pick out all of the details. Then, go in and paint their licking tongues, flashing teeth and piercing eyes.
This is a great looking set of miniatures and it will be neat to see what else is coming down the pipeline as part of the Nickstarter.
What do you think?
"...it will be neat to see what else is coming down the pipeline as part of the Nickstarter"
Those Chronohounds look really interesting. Useful for lots of things, my first thought was for Kings of War, then Saga with a bit of magic… even though I have never played Saga, I now think of Saga… I wonder who to blame for that?!?
Anyway, the half-minotaur is lovely as well, but the Ballista Construct is a bit too out there for me.
Oooh quite like the look of these (but then I’m a sucker for nearly all the Frostgrave minis), the Ballista construct I can see working with a brass/aged paintjob. There’s something old school about them, yet sculpted to modern standards. It’s the only fantasy collection I have at the moment and have enjoyed building up the collection over the years (it’s quite sizable now). But one thing I DO wish is that we see expansions using some of the existing minis (rather than a new range with each expansion that might only appear in a single scenario). But then Nick… Read more »
Fabulous figures. the wolf’s could be handy for many other game’s
BTW Nickstarter is up (order before 25th to get 4 free metal cloaks for your Wizbangs)
http://nstarmagazine.com/FROSTGRAVE_PERILOUS_DARK.htm
I do want to know where the Giant knight figure holding the bookcase came from, not sure if that’s been released yet (or is part of this particular Nickstarter). I also added the Fireforge Games Peasant Zomblies while I was at it as they have just hit Nick’s store as well 🙂
The construct is a figure from The Guild faction in the game Wildlands from Osprey Games. Their first miniature board game.
https://mustcontainminis.com/2018/12/miniatures-showcase-the-guild-in-wildlands-by-opsrey-games.html
The Half-Minotaurs really cool. Not sure about the automaton myself
I’m liking the half-mino. Hope I can get it without Kickstarter